repo: add the field objects.format

The flag `--show-object-format` from git-rev-parse is used for retrieving the object storage format. This way, it is used for querying repository metadata, fitting in the purpose of git-repo-info. Add a new field `objects.format` to the git-repo-info subcommand containing that information. Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Lucas Seiki Oshiro committed Sep 4, 2025 at 10:40 UTC c2e3713334aa822683f046bbad7905ec8510d38b
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Documentation/git-repo.adoc
+3
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ values that they return:
55 `layout.shallow`::
56 `true` if this is a shallow repository, otherwise `false`.
57
58 +`object.format`::
59 + The object format (hash algorithm) used in the repository.
60 +
61 `references.format`::
62 The reference storage format. The valid values are:
63 +
builtin/repo.c
+7
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ static int get_layout_shallow(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf)
38 return 0;
39 }
40
41 +static int get_object_format(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf)
42 +{
43 + strbuf_addstr(buf, repo->hash_algo->name);
44 + return 0;
45 +}
46 +
47 static int get_references_format(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf)
48 {
49 strbuf_addstr(buf,
@@ -49,6 +55,7 @@ static int get_references_format(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf)
55 static const struct field repo_info_fields[] = {
56 { "layout.bare", get_layout_bare },
57 { "layout.shallow", get_layout_shallow },
58 + { "object.format", get_object_format },
59 { "references.format", get_references_format },
60 };
61
t/t1900-repo.sh
+6
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ test_expect_success 'setup remote' '
63 test_repo_info 'shallow repository = true is retrieved correctly' \
64 'git clone --depth 1 "file://$PWD/remote"' 'shallow' 'layout.shallow' 'true'
65
66 +test_repo_info 'object.format = sha1 is retrieved correctly' \
67 + 'git init --object-format=sha1' 'sha1' 'object.format' 'sha1'
68 +
69 +test_repo_info 'object.format = sha256 is retrieved correctly' \
70 + 'git init --object-format=sha256' 'sha256' 'object.format' 'sha256'
71 +
72 test_expect_success 'values returned in order requested' '
73 cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
74 layout.bare=false