Support for new option 'GIT_OPT_DISABLE_PACK_KEEP_FILE_CHECKS' to skip checking for '.keep' files

pygit2/settings.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 from _pygit2 import GIT_OPT_ENABLE_CACHING
 from _pygit2 import GIT_OPT_SET_CACHE_MAX_SIZE
 from _pygit2 import GIT_OPT_SET_SSL_CERT_LOCATIONS
+from _pygit2 import GIT_OPT_DISABLE_PACK_KEEP_FILE_CHECKS
 
 from .errors import GitError
 
@@ -166,3 +167,14 @@ def set_ssl_cert_locations(self, ssl_cert_file, ssl_cert_dir):
         option(GIT_OPT_SET_SSL_CERT_LOCATIONS, ssl_cert_file, ssl_cert_dir)
         self._ssl_cert_file = ssl_cert_file
         self._ssl_cert_dir = ssl_cert_dir
+
+    def disable_pack_keep_file_check(self, value=True):
+        """Disable check to existence of '.keep'
+
+        Situations were retaining pack files is not required, we can
+        avoid the check for files that convey the intent to retain pack
+        files during GC. This is aimed to improve performance accessing
+        repositories over network filesystems
+        """
+        return option(GIT_OPT_DISABLE_PACK_KEEP_FILE_CHECKS, value)
+

src/options.c

@@ -311,6 +311,24 @@ option(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
             Py_RETURN_NONE;
         }
 
+        case GIT_OPT_DISABLE_PACK_KEEP_FILE_CHECKS:
+        {
+            PyObject *py_flag;
+            py_flag = PyTuple_GetItem(args, 1);
+
+            if (!PyBool_Check(py_flag))
+                return Error_type_error("flag should be boolean, got %.200s",
+                                        py_flag);
+
+            error = git_libgit2_opts(GIT_OPT_DISABLE_PACK_KEEP_FILE_CHECKS,
+                                     (Py_True == py_flag));
+
+            if (error < 0)
+                return Error_set(error);
+
+            Py_RETURN_NONE;
+        }
+
         // Not implemented
         case GIT_OPT_GET_TEMPLATE_PATH:
         case GIT_OPT_SET_TEMPLATE_PATH:
@@ -326,7 +344,6 @@ option(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
             Py_INCREF(Py_NotImplemented);
             return Py_NotImplemented;
         }
-
     }
 
     PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "unknown/unsupported option value");

src/pygit2.c

@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ moduleinit(PyObject* m)
     ADD_CONSTANT_INT(m, GIT_OPT_ENABLE_UNSAVED_INDEX_SAFETY);
     ADD_CONSTANT_INT(m, GIT_OPT_GET_PACK_MAX_OBJECTS);
     ADD_CONSTANT_INT(m, GIT_OPT_SET_PACK_MAX_OBJECTS);
+    ADD_CONSTANT_INT(m, GIT_OPT_DISABLE_PACK_KEEP_FILE_CHECKS);
 
     /* Errors */
     GitError = PyErr_NewException("_pygit2.GitError", NULL, NULL);