index-pack: clarify the breached limit

vtbassmatt · gitster · commit 0cf5fbc2e4ee · 2022-02-23T17:41:10.000-08:00
As a small courtesy to users, report what limit was breached. This
is especially useful when a push exceeds a server-defined limit, since
the user is unlikely to have configured the limit (their host did).
Also demonstrate the human-readable message in a test.

Helped-by: Taylor Blau &lt;me@ttaylorr.com&gt;
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee &lt;derrickstolee@github.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Cooper &lt;vtbassmatt@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/builtin/index-pack.c b/builtin/index-pack.c
@@ -323,8 +323,12 @@ static void use(int bytes)
 	if (signed_add_overflows(consumed_bytes, bytes))
 		die(_("pack too large for current definition of off_t"));
 	consumed_bytes += bytes;
-	if (max_input_size && consumed_bytes > max_input_size)
-		die(_("pack exceeds maximum allowed size"));
+	if (max_input_size && consumed_bytes > max_input_size) {
+		struct strbuf size_limit = STRBUF_INIT;
+		strbuf_humanise_bytes(&size_limit, max_input_size);
+		die(_("pack exceeds maximum allowed size (%s)"),
+		    size_limit.buf);
+	}
 }
 
 static const char *open_pack_file(const char *pack_name)
diff --git a/t/t5302-pack-index.sh b/t/t5302-pack-index.sh
@@ -284,4 +284,12 @@ test_expect_success 'index-pack -v --stdin produces progress for both phases' '
 	test_i18ngrep "Resolving deltas" err
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'too-large packs report the breach' '
+	pack=$(git pack-objects --all pack </dev/null) &&
+	sz="$(test_file_size pack-$pack.pack)" &&
+	test "$sz" -gt 20 &&
+	test_must_fail git index-pack --max-input-size=20 pack-$pack.pack 2>err &&
+	grep "maximum allowed size (20 bytes)" err
+'
+
 test_done
