Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks"
option can be passed to Git to disable them.
* jk/no-optional-locks:
git: add --no-optional-locks option
Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run
commands like "git status" in the background to keep track
of the state of the repository. Some of these commands may
refresh the index and write out the result in an
opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they
update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if
not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be
recomputed by the next caller.
But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations
in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing
themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words,
"git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is
holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status
would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it.
There are a couple possible solutions:
1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other
commands to tell status that they want the lock.
This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to
implement (and maybe even impossible with just
dotlocks to work from, as it requires some
inter-process communication).
2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status"
that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring
instead plumbing like diff-files, etc.
This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that
"status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the
repository state than is available from individual
plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_
want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to
take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands
like diff-files expect us to refresh the index
separately and write it to disk so that they can depend
on the result. But that write is exactly what we're
trying to avoid.
3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index.
This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any
work done in refreshing the index for such a call is
lost when the process exits. So a background process
may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times
until the user runs a command that does an index
refresh themselves.
This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test)
is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes
Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the
index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that
instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes
a "git" option and matching environment variable.
The reason there is two-fold:
1. An environment variable is carried through to
sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a
background process or not should apply to the whole
process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks
foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls
"status", you'll still get the effect.
2. There may be other programs that want the same
treatment.
I've punted here on finding more callers to convert,
since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated
background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh
of the index may be a good candidate.
The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating
Johannes's explanation:
Note that the regression test added in this commit does
not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written;
that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we
verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git
status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The MRU cache that keeps track of recently used packs is represented
using two global variables:
struct mru packed_git_mru_storage;
struct mru *packed_git_mru = &packed_git_mru_storage;
Callers never assign to the packed_git_mru pointer, though, so we can
simplify by eliminating it and using &packed_git_mru_storage (renamed
to &packed_git_mru) directly. This variable is only used by the
packfile subsystem, making this a relatively uninvasive change (and
any new unadapted callers would trigger a compile error).
Noticed while moving these globals to the object_store struct.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff" has been taught to optionally paint new lines that are
the same as deleted lines elsewhere differently from genuinely new
lines.
* sb/diff-color-move: (25 commits)
diff: document the new --color-moved setting
diff.c: add dimming to moved line detection
diff.c: color moved lines differently, plain mode
diff.c: color moved lines differently
diff.c: buffer all output if asked to
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns about DIFF_SYMBOL_SUMMARY
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns about DIFF_SYMBOL_STAT_SEP
diff.c: convert word diffing to use emit_diff_symbol
diff.c: convert show_stats to use emit_diff_symbol
diff.c: convert emit_binary_diff_body to use emit_diff_symbol
submodule.c: migrate diff output to use emit_diff_symbol
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_REWRITE_DIFF
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns about DIFF_SYMBOL_BINARY_FILES
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_HEADER
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_FILEPAIR_{PLUS, MINUS}
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_WORDS[_PORCELAIN]
diff.c: migrate emit_line_checked to use emit_diff_symbol
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_NO_LF_EOF
diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_CONTEXT_FRAGINFO
...
Both sha1_file.c and packfile.c now need read_object(), so a copy of
read_object() was created in packfile.c.
This patch makes both mark_bad_packed_object() and has_packed_and_bad()
global. Unlike most of the other patches in this series, these 2
functions need to remain global.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function open_packed_git() needs to be temporarily made global. Its
scope will be restored to static in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function close_pack_fd() needs to be temporarily made global. Its
scope will be restored to static in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
alloc_packed_git() in packfile.c is duplicated from sha1_file.c. In a
subsequent commit, alloc_packed_git() will be removed from sha1_file.c.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, sha1_file.c and cache.h contain many functions, both related
to and unrelated to packfiles. This makes both files very large and
causes an unclear separation of concerns.
Create a new file, packfile.c, to hold all packfile-related functions
currently in sha1_file.c. It has a corresponding header packfile.h.
In this commit, the pack name-related functions are moved. Subsequent
commits will move the other functions.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code cleanup.
* jt/subprocess-handshake:
sub-process: refactor handshake to common function
Documentation: migrate sub-process docs to header
convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol
convert: refactor capabilities negotiation
convert: move multiple file filter error handling to separate function
convert: put the flags field before the flag itself for consistent style
t0021: write "OUT <size>" only on success
t0021: make debug log file name configurable
t0021: keep filter log files on comparison
"git grep --recurse-submodules" has been reworked to give a more
consistent output across submodule boundary (and do its thing
without having to fork a separate process).
* bw/grep-recurse-submodules:
grep: recurse in-process using 'struct repository'
submodule: merge repo_read_gitmodules and gitmodules_config
submodule: check for unmerged .gitmodules outside of config parsing
submodule: check for unstaged .gitmodules outside of config parsing
submodule: remove fetch.recursesubmodules from submodule-config parsing
submodule: remove submodule.fetchjobs from submodule-config parsing
config: add config_from_gitmodules
cache.h: add GITMODULES_FILE macro
repository: have the_repository use the_index
repo_read_index: don't discard the index
read_info_alternates is not used from outside, so let's make it static.
We have to declare the function before link_alt_odb_entry instead of
moving the code around, link_alt_odb_entry calls read_info_alternates,
which in turn calls link_alt_odb_entry.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The filter-process interface learned to allow a process with long
latency give a "delayed" response.
* ls/filter-process-delayed:
convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol
convert: refactor capabilities negotiation
convert: move multiple file filter error handling to separate function
convert: put the flags field before the flag itself for consistent style
t0021: write "OUT <size>" only on success
t0021: make debug log file name configurable
t0021: keep filter log files on comparison
Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id:
sha1_name: convert uses of 40 to GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ
sha1_name: convert GET_SHA1* flags to GET_OID*
sha1_name: convert get_sha1* to get_oid*
Convert remaining callers of get_sha1 to get_oid.
builtin/unpack-file: convert to struct object_id
bisect: convert bisect_checkout to struct object_id
builtin/update_ref: convert to struct object_id
sequencer: convert to struct object_id
remote: convert struct push_cas to struct object_id
submodule: convert submodule config lookup to use object_id
builtin/merge-tree: convert remaining caller of get_sha1 to object_id
builtin/fsck: convert remaining caller of get_sha1 to object_id
In 1a812f3a70 (hashcmp(): inline memcmp() by hand to
optimize, 2011-04-28), it was reported that an open-coded
loop outperformed memcmp() for comparing sha1s.
Discussion[1] a few years later in 2013 showed that this
depends on your libc's version of memcmp(). In particular,
glibc 2.13 optimized their memcmp around 2011. Here are
current timings with glibc 2.24 (best-of-five, on
linux.git):
[before this patch, open-coded]
$ time git rev-list --objects --all
real 0m35.357s
user 0m35.016s
sys 0m0.340s
[after this patch, memcmp]
real 0m32.930s
user 0m32.630s
sys 0m0.300s
Now that we've had 6 years for that version of glibc to
make its way onto people's machines, it's worth revisiting
our benchmarks and switching to memcmp().
It may be that there are other non-glibc systems where
memcmp() isn't as well optimized. But since our single data
point in favor of open-coding was on a now-ancient glibc, we
should probably assume the system memcmp is good unless
proven otherwise. We may end up with a SLOW_MEMCMP Makefile
knob, but we can hold off on that until we actually find
such a system in practice.
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20130318073229.GA5551@sigill.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert grep to use 'struct repository' which enables recursing into
submodules to be handled in-process.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a macro to be used when specifying the '.gitmodules' file and
convert any existing hard coded '.gitmodules' file strings to use the
new macro.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
