merge-recursive: When we detect we can skip an update, actually skip it

diff --git a/pack-refs.c b/pack-refs.c
index 7f43f8ac3398fb2dbe393f08811989b0a8d4e2dd..1290570260d184b9c94fdab62650d6e474b365b4 100644 (file)
--- a/pack-refs.c
+++ b/pack-refs.c
@@ -60,6 +60,37 @@ static int handle_one_ref(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1,
        return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Remove empty parents, but spare refs/ and immediate subdirs.
+ * Note: munges *name.
+ */
+static void try_remove_empty_parents(char *name)
+{
+       char *p, *q;
+       int i;
+       p = name;
+       for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { /* refs/{heads,tags,...}/ */
+               while (*p && *p != '/')
+                       p++;
+               /* tolerate duplicate slashes; see check_ref_format() */
+               while (*p == '/')
+                       p++;
+       }
+       for (q = p; *q; q++)
+               ;
+       while (1) {
+               while (q > p && *q != '/')
+                       q--;
+               while (q > p && *(q-1) == '/')
+                       q--;
+               if (q == p)
+                       break;
+               *q = '\0';
+               if (rmdir(git_path("%s", name)))
+                       break;
+       }
+}
+
 /* make sure nobody touched the ref, and unlink */
 static void prune_ref(struct ref_to_prune *r)
 {
@@ -68,6 +99,7 @@ static void prune_ref(struct ref_to_prune *r)
        if (lock) {
                unlink_or_warn(git_path("%s", r->name));
                unlock_ref(lock);
+               try_remove_empty_parents(r->name);
        }
 }