The data is streamed to the filter process anyway. Better avoid mapping
the file if possible. This is especially useful if a clean filter
reduces the size, for example if it computes a sha1 for binary data,
like git media. The file size that the previous implementation could
handle was limited by the available address space; large files for
example could not be handled with (32-bit) msysgit. The new
implementation can filter files of any size as long as the filter output
is small enough.
The new code path is only taken if the filter is required. The filter
consumes data directly from the fd. If it fails, the original data is
not immediately available. The condition can easily be handled as
a fatal error, which is expected for a required filter anyway.
If the filter was not required, the condition would need to be handled
in a different way, like seeking to 0 and reading the data. But this
would require more restructuring of the code and is probably not worth
it. The obvious approach of falling back to reading all data would not
help achieving the main purpose of this patch, which is to handle large
files with limited address space. If reading all data is an option, we
can simply take the old code path right away and mmap the entire file.
The environment variable GIT_MMAP_LIMIT, which has been introduced in
a previous commit is used to test that the expected code path is taken.
A related test that exercises required filters is modified to verify
that the data actually has been modified on its way from the file system
to the object store.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is only the path that matters in the decision whether to filter
or not. Clarify this by making path the only argument of
would_convert_to_git().
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some callers may want to know whether convert_to_git will
actually do anything before performing the conversion
itself (e.g., to decide whether to stream or handle blobs
in-core). This patch lets callers specify the dry run mode
by passing a NULL destination buffer. The return value,
instead of indicating whether conversion happened, will
indicate whether conversion would occur.
For readability, we also include a wrapper function which
makes it more obvious we are not actually performing the
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some filters may need to buffer the input and look-ahead inside it
to decide what to output, and they may consume more than zero bytes
of input and still not produce any output. After feeding all the
input, pass NULL as input as keep calling stream_filter() to let
such filters know there is no more input coming, and it is time for
them to produce the remaining output based on the buffered input.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This introduces an API to plug custom filters to an input stream.
The caller gets get_stream_filter("path") to obtain an appropriate
filter for the path, and then uses it when opening an input stream
via open_istream(). After that, the caller can read from the stream
with read_istream(), and close it with close_istream(), just like an
unfiltered stream.
This only adds a "null" filter that is a pass-thru filter, but later
changes can add LF-to-CRLF and other filters, and the callers of the
streaming API do not have to change.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before adding the streaming filter API to the conversion layer,
move the existing declarations related to the conversion to its
own header file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
