refs/reftable: print errors on compaction failure

When git-pack-refs(1) fails in the reftable backend we end up printing no error message at all, leaving the caller puzzled as to why compaction has failed. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Patrick Steinhardt committed Mar 25, 2024 at 11:02 UTC 4ccf7060d8d0a3c08d1fb03b038a164eb4913d02
2 files changed +17 -1
refs/reftable-backend.c
+5 -1
@@ -1221,8 +1221,12 @@ static int reftable_be_pack_refs(struct ref_store *ref_store,
1221 stack = refs->main_stack;
1222
1223 ret = reftable_stack_compact_all(stack, NULL);
1224 - if (ret)
1224 + if (ret < 0) {
1225 + ret = error(_("unable to compact stack: %s"),
1226 + reftable_error_str(ret));
1227 goto out;
1228 + }
1229 +
1230 ret = reftable_stack_clean(stack);
1231 if (ret)
1232 goto out;
t/t0610-reftable-basics.sh
+12
@@ -375,6 +375,18 @@ test_expect_success 'pack-refs: compacts tables' '
375 test_line_count = 1 repo/.git/reftable/tables.list
376 '
377
378 +test_expect_success 'pack-refs: compaction raises locking errors' '
379 + test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
380 + git init repo &&
381 + test_commit -C repo A &&
382 + touch repo/.git/reftable/tables.list.lock &&
383 + cat >expect <<-EOF &&
384 + error: unable to compact stack: data is locked
385 + EOF
386 + test_must_fail git -C repo pack-refs 2>err &&
387 + test_cmp expect err
388 +'
389 +
390 test_expect_success 'pack-refs: prunes stale tables' '
391 test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
392 git init repo &&