Doc update.
* ma/commit-graph-docs:
Doc: refer to the "commit-graph file" with dash
git-commit-graph.txt: refer to "*commit*-graph file"
git-commit-graph.txt: typeset more in monospace
git-commit-graph.txt: fix bullet lists
The code in "git status" sometimes hit an assertion failure. This
was caused by a structure that was reused without cleaning the data
used for the first run, which has been corrected.
* en/status-multiple-renames-to-the-same-target-fix:
commit: fix erroneous BUG, 'multiple renames on the same target? how?'
"gc --auto" ended up calling exit(-1) upon error, which has been
corrected to use exit(1). Also the error reporting behaviour when
daemonized has been updated to exit with zero status when stopping
due to a previously discovered error (which implies there is no
point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with
failure in such a case.
* jn/gc-auto:
gc: do not return error for prior errors in daemonized mode
Various test scripts have been updated for style and also correct
handling of exit status of various commands.
* md/test-cleanup:
tests: order arguments to git-rev-list properly
t9109: don't swallow Git errors upstream of pipes
tests: don't swallow Git errors upstream of pipes
t/*: fix ordering of expected/observed arguments
tests: standardize pipe placement
Documentation: add shell guidelines
t/README: reformat Do, Don't, Keep in mind lists
Doc updates.
* fe/doc-updates:
git-describe.1: clarify that "human readable" is also git-readable
git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples
git-archimport.1: specify what kind of Arch we're talking about
Code clean-up.
* en/merge-cleanup:
merge-recursive: rename merge_file_1() and merge_content()
merge-recursive: remove final remaining caller of merge_file_one()
merge-recursive: avoid wrapper function when unnecessary and wasteful
merge-recursive: set paths correctly when three-way merging content
Fix interactions between two recent topics.
* jk/delta-islands-with-bitmap-reuse-delta-fix:
pack-objects: handle island check for "external" delta base
An alias that expands to another alias has so far been forbidden,
but now it is allowed to create such an alias.
* ts/alias-of-alias:
t0014: introduce an alias testing suite
alias: show the call history when an alias is looping
alias: add support for aliases of an alias
The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable
nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations
based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
incompatible features are in use in the repository.
* ds/commit-graph-with-grafts:
commit-graph: close_commit_graph before shallow walk
commit-graph: not compatible with uninitialized repo
commit-graph: not compatible with grafts
commit-graph: not compatible with replace objects
test-repository: properly init repo
commit-graph: update design document
refs.c: upgrade for_each_replace_ref to be a each_repo_ref_fn callback
refs.c: migrate internal ref iteration to pass thru repository argument
Generation of (experimental) commit-graph files have so far been
fairly silent, even though it takes noticeable amount of time in a
meaningfully large repository. The users will now see progress
output.
* ab/commit-graph-progress:
gc: fix regression in 7b0f229222 impacting --quiet
commit-graph verify: add progress output
commit-graph write: add progress output
The previous git-p4 unshelve support would check for changes
in Perforce to the files being unshelved since the original
shelve, and would complain if any were found.
This was to ensure that the user wouldn't end up with both the
shelved change delta, and some deltas from other changes in their
git commit.
e.g. given fileA:
the
quick
brown
fox
change1: s/the/The/ <- p4 shelve this change
change2: s/fox/Fox/ <- p4 submit this change
git p4 unshelve 1 <- FAIL
This change teaches the P4Unshelve class to always create a parent
commit which matches the P4 tree (for the files being unshelved) at
the point prior to the P4 shelve being created (which is reported
in the p4 description for a shelved changelist).
That then means git-p4 can always create a git commit matching the
P4 shelve that was originally created, without any extra deltas.
The user might still need to use the --origin option though - there
is no way for git-p4 to work out the versions of all of the other
*unchanged* files in the shelve, since this information is not recorded
by Perforce.
Additionally this fixes handling of shelved 'move' operations.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The branch detection code looks for branches under refs/remotes/p4/...
and can end up getting confused if there are unshelved changes in
there as well. This happens in the function p4BranchesInGit().
Instead, put the unshelved changes into refs/remotes/p4-unshelved/<N>.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a user is registered in a Windows domain, it is really easy to
obtain the email address. So let's do that.
Suggested by Lutz Roeder.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do have the excellent GetUserInfoEx() function to obtain more
detailed information of the current user (if the user is part of a
Windows domain); Let's use it.
Suggested by Lutz Roeder.
To avoid the cost of loading Secur32.dll (even lazily, loading DLLs
takes a non-neglibile amount of time), we use the established technique
to load DLLs only when, and if, needed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Breaks the majority of check_packed_git_idx() into a separate function,
load_idx(). The latter function operates on arbitrary buffers, which
makes it suitable as a fuzzing test target.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fuzz-pack-headers.c provides a fuzzing entry point compatible with
libFuzzer (and possibly other fuzzing engines).
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few trivial updates to test to match the current best practices.
- avoid "grep -q" that strips potentially useful output from tests
running under "-v".
- use test_write_lines to prepare multi-line expected output file.
- reserve use of test_must_fail to "git" commands.
Signed-off-by: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After testing a previous patch at larger scale, a performance issue was
detected when using git show to locate parent revisions, with a single
run of the git show command taking 2 seconds or longer in a complex repo.
When the command is required tens or hundreds of times in a run of the
script, the additional wait time is unaccepatable. Replacing the command
with git rev-parse resulted in significantly increased performance, with
the command in question returning instantly.
Signed-off-by: Roger Strain <rstrain@swri.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of passing the sign directly to emit_line_ws_markup, pass only the
index to lookup the sign in diff_options->output_indicators.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If deleting or moving a file, sometimes P4 doesn't report the file size.
The code handles this just fine but some logging crashes. Stop this
happening.
There was some earlier discussion on the list about this:
https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqq1sqpp1vv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For octopus merges where the first parent edge immediately merges into
the next column to the left, the number of columns should be one less
than the usual case.
First parent to the left case:
| *-.
| |\ \
|/ / /
The usual case:
| *-.
| |\ \
| | | *
Also refactor the code to iterate over columns rather than dashes,
building from an initial patch suggested by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also remove git-cherry from Bash completion because plumbing
commands do not belong there.
Signed-off-by: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is definitely a low-level command, it's hard to argue
against it belonging in plumbing.
Signed-off-by: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the split index feature is in use, then a cache entry is:
- either only present in the split index, in which case its 'index'
field must be 0,
- or it should refer to an existing entry in the shared index, i.e.
the 'index' field can't be greater than the size of the shared
index.
If a cache entry were to refer to a non-existing entry in the shared
index, then that's a sign of something being wrong in the index state,
either as a result of a bug in dealing with the split/shared index
entries, or perhaps a (potentially unrelated) memory corruption issue.
prepare_to_write_split_index() already has a condition to catch cache
entries with such bogus 'index' field, but instead of calling BUG() it
just sets cache entry's 'index = 0', and the entry will then be
written to the new split index.
Don't write a new index file from bogus index state, and call BUG()
upon encountering an cache entry referring to a non-existing shared
index entry.
Running the test suite repeatedly with 'GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes'
doesn't trigger this condition.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since the split index feature was introduced [1], refreshing a
split index is prone to a variant of the classic racy git problem.
Consider the following sequence of commands updating the split index
when the shared index contains a racily clean cache entry, i.e. an
entry whose cached stat data matches with the corresponding file in
the worktree and the cached mtime matches that of the index:
echo "cached content" >file
git update-index --split-index --add file
echo "dirty worktree" >file # size stays the same!
# ... wait ...
git update-index --add other-file
Normally, when a non-split index is updated, then do_write_index()
(the function responsible for writing all kinds of indexes, "regular",
split, and shared) recognizes racily clean cache entries, and writes
them with smudged stat data, i.e. with file size set to 0. When
subsequent git commands read the index, they will notice that the
smudged stat data doesn't match with the file in the worktree, and
then go on to check the file's content and notice its dirtiness.
In the above example, however, in the second 'git update-index'
prepare_to_write_split_index() decides which cache entries stored only
in the shared index should be replaced in the new split index. Alas,
this function never looks out for racily clean cache entries, and
since the file's stat data in the worktree hasn't changed since the
shared index was written, it won't be replaced in the new split index.
Consequently, do_write_index() doesn't even get this racily clean
cache entry, and can't smudge its stat data. Subsequent git commands
will then see that the index has more recent mtime than the file and
that the (not smudged) cached stat data still matches with the file in
the worktree, and, ultimately, will erroneously consider the file
clean.
Modify prepare_to_write_split_index() to recognize racily clean cache
entries, and mark them to be added to the split index. Note that
there are two places where it should check raciness: first those cache
entries that are only stored in the shared index, and then those that
have been copied by unpack_trees() from the shared index while it
constructed a new index. This way do_write_index() will get these
racily clean cache entries as well, and will then write them with
smudged stat data to the new split index.
This change makes all tests in 't1701-racy-split-index.sh' pass, so
flip the two 'test_expect_failure' tests to success. Also add the '#'
(as in nr. of trial) to those tests' description that were omitted
when the tests expected failure.
Note that after this change if the index is split when it contains a
racily clean cache entry, then a smudged cache entry will be written
both to the new shared and to the new split indexes. This doesn't
affect regular git commands: as far as they are concerned this is just
an entry in the split index replacing an outdated entry in the shared
index. It did affect a few tests in 't1700-split-index.sh', though,
because they actually check which entries are stored in the split
index; a previous patch in this series has already made the necessary
adjustments in 't1700'. And racily clean cache entries and index
splitting are rare enough to not worry about the resulting duplicated
smudged cache entries, and the additional complexity required to
prevent them is not worth it.
Several tests failed occasionally when the test suite was run with
'GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes'. Here are those that I managed to trace
back to this racy split index problem, starting with those failing
more frequently, with a link to a failing Travis CI build job for
each. The highlighted line [2] shows when the racy file was written,
which is not always in the failing test but in a preceeding setup
test.
t3903-stash.sh:
https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/385542084#L5858
t4024-diff-optimize-common.sh:
https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/386531969#L3174
t4015-diff-whitespace.sh:
https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/360797600#L8215
t2200-add-update.sh:
https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/382543426#L3051
t0090-cache-tree.sh:
https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/416583010#L3679
There might be others, e.g. perhaps 't1000-read-tree-m-3way.sh' and
others using 'lib-read-tree-m-3way.sh', but I couldn't confirm yet.
[1] In the branch leading to the merge commit v2.1.0-rc0~45 (Merge
branch 'nd/split-index', 2014-07-16).
[2] Note that those highlighted lines are in the 'after failure' fold,
and your browser might unhelpfully fold it up before you could
take a good look.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When unpack_trees() constructs a new index, it copies cache entries
from the original index [1]. prepare_to_write_split_index() has to
deal with this, and it has a dedicated code path for copied entries
that are present in the shared index, where it compares the cached
data in the corresponding copied and original entries. If the cached
data matches, then they are considered the same; if it differs, then
the copied entry will be marked for inclusion as a replacement entry
in the just about to be written split index by setting the
CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag.
However, a cache entry already has its CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag set upon
reading the split index, if the entry already has a replacement entry
there, or upon refreshing the cached stat data, if the corresponding
file was modified. The state of this flag is then preserved when
unpack_trees() copies a cache entry from the shared index.
So modify prepare_to_write_split_index() to check the copied cache
entries' CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag first, and skip the thorough
comparison of cached data if the flag is already set. Those couple of
lines comparing the cached data would then have too many levels of
indentation, so extract them into a helper function.
Note that comparing the cached data in copied and original entries in
the shared index might actually be entirely unnecessary. In theory
all code paths refreshing the cached stat data of an entry in the
shared index should set the CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag in that entry, and
unpack_trees() should preserve this flag when copying cache entries.
This means that the cached data is only ever changed if the
CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag is set as well. Our test suite seems to
confirm this: instrumenting the conditions in question and running the
test suite repeatedly with 'GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes' showed that the
cached data in a copied entry differs from the data in the shared
entry only if its CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag is indeed set.
In practice, however, our test suite doesn't have 100% coverage,
GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX is inherently random, and I certainly can't claim
to possess complete understanding of what goes on in unpack_trees()...
Therefore I kept the comparison of the cached data when
CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE is not set, just in case that an unnoticed or future
code path were to accidentally miss setting this flag upon refreshing
the cached stat data or unpack_trees() were to drop this flag while
copying a cache entry.
[1] Note that when unpack_trees() constructs the new index and decides
that a cache entry should now refer to different content than what
was recorded in the original index (e.g. 'git read-tree -m
HEAD^'), then that can't really be considered a copy of the
original, but rather the creation of a new entry. Notably and
pertinent to the split index feature, such a new entry doesn't
have a reference to the original's shared index entry anymore,
i.e. its 'index' field is set to 0. Consequently, such an entry
is treated by prepare_to_write_split_index() as an entry not
present in the shared index and it will be added to the new split
index, while the original entry will be marked as deleted, and
neither the above discussion nor the changes in this patch apply
to them.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'struct split_index' contains the field 'nr_deletions', whose name
with the 'nr_' prefix suggests that it contains the number of deleted
cache entries. However, barring its initialization to 0, this field
is only ever set to 1, indicating that there is at least one deleted
entry, but not the number of deleted entries. Luckily, this doesn't
cause any issues (other than confusing the reader, that is), because
the only place reading this field uses it in the same sense, i.e.: 'if
(si->nr_deletions)'.
To avoid confusion, we could either rename this field to something
like 'has_deletions' to make its name match its role, or make it a
counter of deleted cache entries to match its name.
Let's make it a counter, to keep it in sync with the related field
'nr_replacements', which does contain the number of replaced cache
entries. This will also give developers debugging the split index
code easy access to the number of deleted cache entries.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
't1700-split-index.sh' checks that the index was split correctly under
various circumstances and that all the different ways to turn the
split index feature on and off work correctly. To do so, most of its
tests use 'test-tool dump-split-index' to see which files have their
cache entries in the split index. All these tests assume that all
cache entries are written to the shared index (called "base"
throughout these tests) when a new shared index is created. This is
an implementation detail: most git commands (basically all except 'git
update-index') don't care or know at all about split index or whether
a cache entry is stored in the split or shared index.
As demonstrated in the previous patch, refreshing a split index is
prone to a variant of the classic racy git issue. The next patch will
fix this issue, but while doing so it will also slightly change this
behaviour: only cache entries with mtime in the past will be written
only to the newly created shared index, but racily clean cache entries
will be written to the new split index (with smudged stat data).
While this upcoming change won't at all affect any git commands, it
will violate the above mentioned assumption of 't1700's tests. Since
these tests create or modify files and create or refresh the split
index in rapid succession, there are plenty of racily clean cache
entries to be dealt with, which will then be written to the new split
indexes, and, ultimately, will cause several tests in 't1700' to fail.
Let's prepare 't1700-split-index.sh' for this upcoming change and
modify its tests to avoid racily clean files by backdating the mtime
of any file modifications (and since a lot of tests create or modify
files, encapsulate it into a helper function).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since the split index feature was introduced [1], refreshing a
split index is prone to a variant of the classic racy git problem.
There are a couple of unrelated tests in the test suite that
occasionally fail when run with 'GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes', but
't1700-split-index.sh', the only test script focusing solely on split
index, has never noticed this issue, because it only cares about how
the index is split under various circumstances and all the different
ways to turn the split index feature on and off.
Add a dedicated test script 't1701-racy-split-index.sh' to exercise
the split index feature in racy situations as well; kind of a
"t0010-racy-git.sh for split index" but with modern style (the tests
do everything in &&-chained list of commands in 'test_expect_...'
blocks, and use 'test_cmp' for more informative output on failure).
The tests cover the following sequences of index splitting, updating,
and racy file modifications, with the last two cases demonstrating the
racy split index problem:
1. Split the index while adding a racily clean file:
echo "cached content" >file
git update-index --split-index --add file
echo "dirty worktree" >file # size stays the same
This case already works properly. Even though the cache entry's
stat data matches with the modifid file in the worktree,
subsequent git commands will notice that the (split) index and
the file have the same mtime, and then will go on to check the
file's content and notice its dirtiness.
2. Add a racily clean file to an already split index:
git update-index --split-index
echo "cached content" >file
git update-index --add file
echo "dirty worktree" >file
This case already works properly. After the second 'git
update-index' writes the newly added file's cache entry to the
new split index, it basically works in the same way as case #1.
3. Split the index when it (i.e. the not yet splitted index)
contains a racily clean cache entry, i.e. an entry whose cached
stat data matches with the corresponding file in the worktree and
the cached mtime matches that of the index:
echo "cached content" >file
git update-index --add file
echo "dirty worktree" >file
# ... wait ...
git update-index --split-index --add other-file
This case already works properly. The shared index is written by
do_write_index(), i.e. the same function that is responsible for
writing "regular" and split indexes as well. This function
cleverly notices the racily clean cache entry, and writes the
entry to the new shared index with smudged stat data, i.e. file
size set to 0. When subsequent git commands read the index, they
will notice that the smudged stat data doesn't match with the
file in the worktree, and then go on to check the file's content
and notice its dirtiness.
4. Update the split index when it contains a racily clean cache
entry:
git update-index --split-index
echo "cached content" >file
git update-index --add file
echo "dirty worktree" >file
# ... wait ...
git update-index --add other-file
This case already works properly. After the second 'git
update-index' the newly added file's cache entry is only stored
in the split index. If a cache entry is present in the split
index (even if it is a replacement of an outdated entry in the
shared index), then it will always be included in the new split
index on subsequent split index updates (until the file is
removed or a new shared index is written), independently from
whether the entry is racily clean or not. When do_write_index()
writes the new split index, it notices the racily clean cache
entry, and smudges its stat date. Subsequent git commands
reading the index will notice the smudged stat data and then go
on to check the file's content and notice its dirtiness.
5. Update the split index when a racily clean cache entry is stored
only in the shared index:
echo "cached content" >file
git update-index --split-index --add file
echo "dirty worktree" >file
# ... wait ...
git update-index --add other-file
This case fails due to the racy split index problem. In the
second 'git update-index' prepare_to_write_split_index() decides,
among other things, which cache entries stored only in the shared
index should be replaced in the new split index. Alas, this
function never looks out for racily clean cache entries, and
since the file's stat data in the worktree hasn't changed since
the shared index was written, the entry won't be replaced in the
new split index. Consequently, do_write_index() doesn't even get
this racily clean cache entry, and can't smudge its stat data.
Subsequent git commands will then see that the index has more
recent mtime than the file and that the (not smudged) cached stat
data still matches with the file in the worktree, and,
ultimately, will erroneously consider the file clean.
6. Update the split index after unpack_trees() copied a racily clean
cache entry from the shared index:
echo "cached content" >file
git update-index --split-index --add file
echo "dirty worktree" >file
# ... wait ...
git read-tree -m HEAD
This case fails due to the racy split index problem. This
basically fails for the same reason as case #5 above, but there
is one important difference, which warrants the dedicated test.
While that second 'git update-index' in case #5 updates
index_state in place, in this case 'git read-tree -m' calls
unpack_trees(), which throws out the entire index, and constructs
a new one from the (potentially updated) copies of the original's
cache entries. Consequently, when prepare_to_write_split_index()
gets to work on this reconstructed index, it takes a different
code path than in case #5 when deciding which cache entries in
the shared index should be replaced. The result is the same,
though: the racily clean cache entry goes unnoticed, it isn't
added to the split index with smudged stat data, and subsequent
git commands will then erroneously consider the file clean.
Note that in the last two 'test_expect_failure' cases I omitted the
'#' (as in nr. of trial) from the tests' description on purpose for
now, as it breakes the TAP output [2]; it will be added at the end of
the series, when those two tests will be flipped to
'test_expect_success'.
[1] In the branch leading to the merge commit v2.1.0-rc0~45 (Merge
branch 'nd/split-index', 2014-07-16).
[2] In the TAP output a '#' should separate the test's description
from the TODO directive emitted by 'test_expect_failure'. The
additional '#' in "#$trial" interferes with this, the test harness
won't recognize the TODO directive, and will report that those
tests failed unexpectedly.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-rev-parse mostly seems like plumbing, and is more usd in
scripts than in regular use. Online it's often mentioned as
a plumbing command. Nonetheless it's listed under porcelain
interrogators in `man git`. It seems appropriate to formally
move git-rev-parse to plumbing interrogators.
Signed-off-by: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explicitly mention in the intro that we may be writing supplemental
data structures such as the commit-graph during "gc", i.e. to call out
the "optimize" part of what this command does, it doesn't just
"collect garbage" as the "gc" name might imply.
Past changes have updated the intro to reflect new commands, such as
mentioning "worktree" in b586a96a39 ("gc.txt: more details about what
gc does", 2018-03-15). So let's elaborate on what was added in
d5d5d7b641 ("gc: automatically write commit-graph files", 2018-06-27).
See also
https://public-inbox.org/git/87tvm3go42.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/ (follow-up
replies) for an on-list discussion about what "gc" does.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch helps address the CPU cost of loading the index by utilizing
the Index Entry Offset Table (IEOT) to divide loading and conversion of
the cache entries across multiple threads in parallel.
I used p0002-read-cache.sh to generate some performance data:
Test w/100,000 files reduced the time by 32.24%
Test w/1,000,000 files reduced the time by -4.77%
Note that on the 1,000,000 files case, multi-threading the cache entry parsing
does not yield a performance win. This is because the cost to parse the
index extensions in this repo, far outweigh the cost of loading the cache
entries.
The high cost of parsing the index extensions is driven by the cache tree
and the untracked cache extensions. As this is currently the longest pole,
any reduction in this time will reduce the overall index load times so is
worth further investigation in another patch series.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch enables addressing the CPU cost of loading the index by adding
additional data to the index that will allow us to efficiently multi-
thread the loading and conversion of cache entries.
It accomplishes this by adding an (optional) index extension that is a
table of offsets to blocks of cache entries in the index file. To make
this work for V4 indexes, when writing the cache entries, it periodically
"resets" the prefix-compression by encoding the current entry as if the
path name for the previous entry is completely different and saves the
offset of that entry in the IEOT. Basically, with V4 indexes, it
generates offsets into blocks of prefix-compressed entries.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch helps address the CPU cost of loading the index by loading
the cache extensions on a worker thread in parallel with loading the cache
entries.
In some cases, loading the extensions takes longer than loading the
cache entries so this patch utilizes the new EOIE to start the thread to
load the extensions before loading all the cache entries in parallel.
This is possible because the current extensions don't access the cache
entries in the index_state structure so are OK that they don't all exist
yet.
The CACHE_EXT_TREE, CACHE_EXT_RESOLVE_UNDO, and CACHE_EXT_UNTRACKED
extensions don't even get a pointer to the index so don't have access to the
cache entries.
CACHE_EXT_LINK only uses the index_state to initialize the split index.
CACHE_EXT_FSMONITOR only uses the index_state to save the fsmonitor last
update and dirty flags.
I used p0002-read-cache.sh to generate some performance data:
Test w/100,000 files reduced the time by 0.53%
Test w/1,000,000 files reduced the time by 27.78%
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for a new index.threads config setting which will be used to
control the threading code in do_read_index(). A value of 0 will tell the
index code to automatically determine the correct number of threads to use.
A value of 1 will make the code single threaded. A value greater than 1
will set the maximum number of threads to use.
For testing purposes, this setting can be overwritten by setting the
GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS=<n> environment variable to a value greater than 0.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The End of Index Entry (EOIE) is used to locate the end of the variable
length index entries and the beginning of the extensions. Code can take
advantage of this to quickly locate the index extensions without having
to parse through all of the index entries.
The EOIE extension is always written out to the index file including to
the shared index when using the split index feature. Because it is always
written out, the SHA checksums in t/t1700-split-index.sh were updated
to reflect its inclusion.
It is written as an optional extension to ensure compatibility with other
git implementations that do not yet support it. It is always written out
to ensure it is available as often as possible to speed up index operations.
Because it must be able to be loaded before the variable length cache
entries and other index extensions, this extension must be written last.
The signature for this extension is { 'E', 'O', 'I', 'E' }.
The extension consists of:
- 32-bit offset to the end of the index entries
- 160-bit SHA-1 over the extension types and their sizes (but not
their contents). E.g. if we have "TREE" extension that is N-bytes
long, "REUC" extension that is M-bytes long, followed by "EOIE",
then the hash would be:
SHA-1("TREE" + <binary representation of N> +
"REUC" + <binary representation of M>)
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch does a clean up pass to minimize the casting required to work
with the memory mapped index (mmap).
It also makes the decoding of network byte order more consistent by using
get_be32() where possible.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This documents the existing behaviour of "git help cmd" when cmd is an
alias, as well as providing a hint to use the "git cmd --help" form to
be taken directly to the man page for the aliased command.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most git commands respond to -h anywhere in the command line, or at
least as a first and lone argument, by printing the usage
information. For aliases, we can provide a little more information that
might be useful in interpreting/understanding the following output by
prepending a line telling that the command is an alias, and for what.
When one invokes a simple alias, such as "cp = cherry-pick"
with -h, this results in
$ git cp -h
'cp' is aliased to 'cherry-pick'
usage: git cherry-pick [<options>] <commit-ish>...
...
When the alias consists of more than one word, this provides the
additional benefit of informing the user which options are implicit in
using the alias, e.g. with "cp = cherry-pick -n":
$ git cp -h
'cp' is aliased to 'cherry-pick -n'
usage: git cherry-pick [<options>] <commit-ish>...
...
For shell commands, we cannot know how it responds to -h, but printing
this line to stderr should not hurt, and can help in figuring out what
is happening in a case like
$ git sc -h
'sc' is aliased to '!somecommand'
somecommand: invalid option '-h'
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
