git: Shell out to ‘git gc’ when necessary.

Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65720>.

This fixes a bug whereby libgit2-managed checkouts would keep growing as
we fetch.

* guix/git.scm (packs-in-git-repository, maybe-run-git-gc): New
procedures.
(update-cached-checkout): Use it.
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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2017, 2020 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2018-2022 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2018-2023 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2021 Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
;;; Copyright © 2021 Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2022 Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
#:use-module (guix cache)
#:use-module (gcrypt hash)
#:use-module ((guix build utils)
#:select (mkdir-p delete-file-recursively))
#:select (mkdir-p delete-file-recursively invoke/quiet))
#:use-module (guix store)
#:use-module (guix utils)
#:use-module (guix records)
@ -38,8 +38,9 @@
#:use-module (guix gexp)
#:autoload (guix git-download)
(git-reference-url git-reference-commit git-reference-recursive?)
#:autoload (guix config) (%git)
#:use-module (guix sets)
#:use-module ((guix diagnostics) #:select (leave warning))
#:use-module ((guix diagnostics) #:select (leave warning info))
#:use-module (guix progress)
#:autoload (guix swh) (swh-download commit-id?)
#:use-module (rnrs bytevectors)
@ -430,6 +431,35 @@ could not be fetched from Software Heritage~%")
(rename-file directory trashed)
(delete-file-recursively trashed)))
(define (packs-in-git-repository directory)
"Return the number of pack files under DIRECTORY, a Git checkout."
(catch 'system-error
(lambda ()
(let ((directory (opendir (in-vicinity directory ".git/objects/pack"))))
(let loop ((count 0))
(match (readdir directory)
((? eof-object?)
(closedir directory)
count)
(str
(loop (if (string-suffix? ".pack" str)
(+ 1 count)
count)))))))
(const 0)))
(define (maybe-run-git-gc directory)
"Run 'git gc' in DIRECTORY if needed."
;; XXX: As of libgit2 1.3.x (used by Guile-Git), there's no support for GC.
;; Each time a checkout is pulled, a new pack is created, which eventually
;; takes up a lot of space (lots of small, poorly-compressed packs). As a
;; workaround, shell out to 'git gc' when the number of packs in a
;; repository has become "too large", potentially wasting a lot of space.
;; See <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65720>.
(when (> (packs-in-git-repository directory) 25)
(info (G_ "compressing cached Git repository at '~a'...~%")
directory)
(invoke/quiet %git "-C" directory "gc")))
(define* (update-cached-checkout url
#:key
(ref '())
@ -517,6 +547,9 @@ it unchanged."
seconds seconds
nanoseconds nanoseconds))))
;; Run 'git gc' if needed.
(maybe-run-git-gc cache-directory)
;; When CACHE-DIRECTORY is a sub-directory of the default cache
;; directory, remove expired checkouts that are next to it.
(let ((parent (dirname cache-directory)))