builtin/fsck: don't check alternates with "--no-full"
According to git-fsck(1), the "--full" option behaves in the following
way:
Check not just objects in GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY ($GIT_DIR/objects), but
also the ones found in alternate object pools listed in
GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES or $GIT_DIR/objects/info/alternates,
and in packed Git archives found in $GIT_DIR/objects/pack and
corresponding pack subdirectories in alternate object pools.
So ultimately, it is supposed to control two things: (1) whether we only
check the main object directory, and (2) whether we check packfiles.
In its current state though, the flag only controls whether we check
packfiles or not, and if so we verify packfiles of all attached sources.
But we also have checks for loose objects in git-fsck(1), and here we
unconditionally check them in all sources.
The flag is arguably conflating two unrelated concerns with one another,
and it really should be split up into two flags: one that controls how
thorough we want to check individual sources, and one that controls
which sources we want to check in the first place. So ideally, we would
have:
- "--include-alternates": check all sources, not only the local one.
- "--include-optimized-objects": check not only loose objects, but
also those that have been packed. Note that we explicitly don't say
"--include-packed-objects" here to be more backend-agnostic.
- "--full": implies both of the above flags.
This feels out of scope for this series though. So for now, simply fix
the code by honoring locality of the sources for loose objects.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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