Clean stale git temp files

src/cargo/sources/git/utils.rs

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ use serde::Serialize;
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::env;
 use std::fmt;
+use std::fs;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::process::Command;
 use std::str;
@@ -812,6 +813,8 @@ pub fn fetch(
     // request we're about to issue.
     maybe_gc_repo(repo)?;
 
+    clean_repo_temp_files(repo);
+
     // Translate the reference desired here into an actual list of refspecs
     // which need to get fetched. Additionally record if we're fetching tags.
     let mut refspecs = Vec::new();
@@ -1001,6 +1004,43 @@ fn maybe_gc_repo(repo: &mut git2::Repository) -> CargoResult<()> {
     reinitialize(repo)
 }
 
+/// Removes temporary files left from previous activity.
+///
+/// If libgit2 is interrupted while indexing pack files, it will leave behind
+/// some temporary files that it doesn't clean up. These can be quite large in
+/// size, so this tries to clean things up.
+///
+/// This intentionally ignores errors. This is only an opportunistic cleaning,
+/// and we don't really care if there are issues (there's unlikely anything
+/// that can be done).
+///
+/// The git CLI has similar behavior (its temp files look like
+/// `objects/pack/tmp_pack_9kUSA8`). Those files are normally deleted via `git
+/// prune` which is run by `git gc`. However, it doesn't know about libgit2's
+/// filenames, so they never get cleaned up.
+fn clean_repo_temp_files(repo: &git2::Repository) {
+    let path = repo.path().join("objects/pack/pack_git2_*");
+    let pattern = match path.to_str() {
+        Some(p) => p,
+        None => {
+            log::warn!("cannot convert {path:?} to a string");
+            return;
+        }
+    };
+    let paths = match glob::glob(pattern) {
+        Ok(paths) => paths,
+        Err(_) => return,
+    };
+    for path in paths {
+        if let Ok(path) = path {
+            match fs::remove_file(&path) {
+                Ok(_) => log::debug!("removed stale temp git file {path:?}"),
+                Err(e) => log::warn!("failed to remove {path:?} while cleaning temp files: {e}"),
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 fn reinitialize(repo: &mut git2::Repository) -> CargoResult<()> {
     // Here we want to drop the current repository object pointed to by `repo`,
     // so we initialize temporary repository in a sub-folder, blow away the

tests/testsuite/git.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::thread;
 
 use cargo_test_support::paths::{self, CargoPathExt};
+use cargo_test_support::registry::Package;
 use cargo_test_support::{basic_lib_manifest, basic_manifest, git, main_file, path2url, project};
 use cargo_test_support::{sleep_ms, t, Project};
 
@@ -3619,3 +3620,31 @@ fn _corrupted_checkout(with_cli: bool) {
     e.run();
     assert!(ok.exists());
 }
+
+#[cargo_test]
+fn cleans_temp_pack_files() {
+    // Checks that cargo removes temp files left by libgit2 when it is
+    // interrupted (see clean_repo_temp_files).
+    Package::new("bar", "1.0.0").publish();
+    let p = project()
+        .file(
+            "Cargo.toml",
+            r#"
+                [package]
+                name = "foo"
+                version = "0.1.0"
+
+                [dependencies]
+                bar = "1.0"
+            "#,
+        )
+        .file("src/lib.rs", "")
+        .build();
+    p.cargo("fetch").run();
+    // Simulate what happens when libgit2 is interrupted while indexing a pack file.
+    let tmp_path = super::git_gc::find_index().join(".git/objects/pack/pack_git2_91ab40da04fdc2e7");
+    fs::write(&tmp_path, "test").unwrap();
+    // Trigger an index update.
+    p.cargo("generate-lockfile").run();
+    assert!(!tmp_path.exists());
+}

tests/testsuite/git_gc.rs

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use cargo_test_support::registry::Package;
 
 use url::Url;
 
-fn find_index() -> PathBuf {
+pub fn find_index() -> PathBuf {
     let dir = paths::home().join(".cargo/registry/index");
     dir.read_dir().unwrap().next().unwrap().unwrap().path()
 }