sha1_file: squelch "packfile cannot be accessed" warnings

When we find an object in a packfile index, we make sure we
can still open the packfile itself (or that it is already
open), as it might have been deleted by a simultaneous
repack. If we can't access the packfile, we print a warning
for the user and tell the caller that we don't have the
object (we can then look in other packfiles, or find a loose
version, before giving up).

The warning we print to the user isn't really accomplishing
anything, and it is potentially confusing to users. In the
normal case, it is complete noise; we find the object
elsewhere, and the user does not have to care that we racily
saw a packfile index that became stale. It didn't affect the
operation at all.

A possibly more interesting case is when we later can't find
the object, and report failure to the user. In this case the
warning could be considered a clue toward that ultimate
failure. But it's not really a useful clue in practice. We
wouldn't even print it consistently (since we are racing
with another process, we might not even see the .idx file,
or we might win the race and open the packfile, completing
the operation).

This patch drops the warning entirely (not only from the
fill_pack_entry site, but also from an identical use in
pack-objects). If we did find the warning interesting in the
error case, we could stuff it away and reveal it to the user
when we later die() due to the broken object. But that
complexity just isn't worth it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index de36c60ca..8861b88be 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -960,10 +960,8 @@ static int want_object_in_pack(const unsigned char *sha1,
 		off_t offset = find_pack_entry_one(sha1, p);
 		if (offset) {
 			if (!*found_pack) {
-				if (!is_pack_valid(p)) {
-					warning("packfile %s cannot be accessed", p->pack_name);
+				if (!is_pack_valid(p))
 					continue;
-				}
 				*found_offset = offset;
 				*found_pack = p;
 			}