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>
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>
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>
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>
We reject hostnames that start with a dash because they may
be confused for command-line options. Let's factor out that
notion into a helper function, as we'll use it in more
places. And while it's simple now, it's not clear if some
systems might need more complex logic to handle all cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the flags for get_oid_with_context and friends to use "OID"
instead of "SHA1" in their names.
This transform was made by running the following one-liner on the
affected files:
perl -pi -e 's/GET_SHA1/GET_OID/g'
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some `clean` / `smudge` filters may require a significant amount of
time to process a single blob (e.g. the Git LFS smudge filter might
perform network requests). During this process the Git checkout
operation is blocked and Git needs to wait until the filter is done to
continue with the checkout.
Teach the filter process protocol, introduced in edcc8581 ("convert: add
filter.<driver>.process option", 2016-10-16), to accept the status
"delayed" as response to a filter request. Upon this response Git
continues with the checkout operation. After the checkout operation Git
calls "finish_delayed_checkout" which queries the filter for remaining
blobs. If the filter is still working on the completion, then the filter
is expected to block. If the filter has completed all remaining blobs
then an empty response is expected.
Git has a multiple code paths that checkout a blob. Support delayed
checkouts only in `clone` (in unpack-trees.c) and `checkout` operations
for now. The optimization is most effective in these code paths as all
files of the tree are processed.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new flags field to emit_diff_symbol, that will be used by
context lines for:
* white space rules that are applicable (The first 12 bits)
Take a note in cahe.c as well, when this ws rules are extended we have
to fix the bits in the flags field.
* how the rules are evaluated (actually this double encodes the sign
of the line, but the code is easier to keep this way, bits 13,14,15)
* if the line a blank line at EOF (bit 16)
The check if new lines need to be marked up as extra lines at the end of
file, is now done unconditionally. That should be ok, as
'new_blank_line_at_eof' has a quick early return.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
has_sha1_file_with_flags() implements many mechanisms in common with
sha1_object_info_extended(). Make has_sha1_file_with_flags() a
convenience function for sha1_object_info_extended() instead.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve sha1_object_info_extended() by supporting additional
flags. This allows has_sha1_file_with_flags() to be modified to use
sha1_object_info_extended() in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Loose object subdirectories have hexadecimal names based on the first
byte of the hash of contained objects, thus their numerical
representation can range from 0 (0x00) to 255 (0xff). Change the type
of the corresponding variable in for_each_file_in_obj_subdir() and
associated callback functions to unsigned int and add a range check.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move all path related declarations from cache.h to a new path.h header
file. This makes cache.h smaller and makes it easier to add new path
related functions.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Migrate 'git_dir', 'git_common_dir', 'git_object_dir', 'git_index_file',
'git_graft_file', and 'namespace' to be stored in 'the_repository'.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Under some circumstances (bogus GIT_DIR value or the discovered gitdir
is '.git') 'setup_git_directory()' won't initialize key repository
state. This leads to inconsistent state after running the setup code.
To account for this inconsistent state, lazy initialization is done once
a caller asks for the repository's gitdir or some other piece of
repository state. This is confusing and can be error prone.
Instead let's tighten the expected outcome of 'setup_git_directory()'
and ensure that it initializes repository state in all cases that would
have been handled by lazy initialization.
This also lets us drop the requirement to have 'have_git_dir()' check if
the environment variable GIT_DIR was set as that will be handled by the
end of the setup code.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Read each loose object subdirectory at most once when looking for unique
abbreviated hashes. This speeds up commands like "git log --pretty=%h"
considerably, which previously caused one readdir(3) call for each
candidate, even for subdirectories that were visited before.
The new cache is kept until the program ends and never invalidated. The
same is already true for pack indexes. The inherent racy nature of
finding unique short hashes makes it still fit for this purpose -- a
conflicting new object may be added at any time. Tasks with higher
consistency requirements should not use it, though.
The cached object names are stored in an oid_array, which is quite
compact. The bitmap for remembering which subdir was already read is
stored as a char array, with one char per directory -- that's not quite
as compact, but really simple and incurs only an overhead equivalent to
11 hashes after all.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
read_object() and sha1_object_info_extended() both implement mechanisms
such as object replacement, retrying the packed store after failing to
find the object in the packed store then the loose store, and being able
to mark a packed object as bad and then retrying the whole process.
Consolidating these mechanisms would be a great help to maintainability.
Therefore, consolidate them by extending sha1_object_info_extended() to
support the functionality needed, and then modifying read_object() to
use sha1_object_info_extended().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The LOOKUP_REPLACE_OBJECT flag controls whether the
lookup_replace_object() function is invoked by
sha1_object_info_extended(), read_sha1_file_extended(), and
lookup_replace_object_extended(), but it is not immediately clear which
functions accept that flag.
Therefore restrict this flag to only sha1_object_info_extended(),
renaming it appropriately to OBJECT_INFO_LOOKUP_REPLACE and adding some
documentation. Update read_sha1_file_extended() to have a boolean
parameter instead, and delete lookup_replace_object_extended().
parse_sha1_header() also passes this flag to
parse_sha1_header_extended() since commit 46f0344 ("sha1_file: support
reading from a loose object of unknown type", 2015-05-03), but that has
had no effect since that commit. Therefore this patch also removes this
flag from that invocation.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The LOOKUP_UNKNOWN_OBJECT flag was introduced in commit 46f0344
("sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type",
2015-05-03) in order to support a feature in cat-file subsequently
introduced in commit 39e4ae3 ("cat-file: teach cat-file a
'--allow-unknown-type' option", 2015-05-03). Despite its name and
location in cache.h, this flag is used neither in
read_sha1_file_extended() nor in any of the lookup functions, but used
only in sha1_object_info_extended().
Therefore rename this flag to OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE, taking the
name of the cat-file flag that invokes this feature, and move it closer
to the declaration of sha1_object_info_extended(). Also add
documentation for this flag.
OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE is defined to 2, not 1, to avoid
conflicting with LOOKUP_REPLACE_OBJECT. Avoidance of this conflict is
necessary because sha1_object_info_extended() supports both flags.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the ability to --copy a branch and its reflog and configuration,
this uses the same underlying machinery as the --move (-m) option
except the reflog and configuration is copied instead of being moved.
This is useful for e.g. copying a topic branch to a new version,
e.g. work to work-2 after submitting the work topic to the list, while
preserving all the tracking info and other configuration that goes
with the branch, and unlike --move keeping the other already-submitted
branch around for reference.
Like --move, when the source branch is the currently checked out
branch the HEAD is moved to the destination branch. In the case of
--move we don't really have a choice (other than remaining on a
detached HEAD) and in order to keep the functionality consistent, we
are doing it in similar way for --copy too.
The most common usage of this feature is expected to be moving to a
new topic branch which is a copy of the current one, in that case
moving to the target branch is what the user wants, and doesn't
unexpectedly behave differently than --move would.
One outstanding caveat of this implementation is that:
git checkout maint &&
git checkout master &&
git branch -c topic &&
git checkout -
Will check out 'maint' instead of 'master'. This is because the @{-N}
feature (or its -1 shorthand "-") relies on HEAD reflogs created by
the checkout command, so in this case we'll checkout maint instead of
master, as the user might expect. What to do about that is left to a
future change.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sahil Dua <sahildua2305@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'discover_git_directory' only looks at the gitdir to determine
if a git directory was discovered. This causes a problem in the event
that the gitdir which was discovered was in fact a per-worktree git
directory and not the common git directory. This is because the
repository config, which is checked to verify the repository's format,
is stored in the commondir and not in the per-worktree gitdir. Correct
this behavior by checking the config stored in the commondir.
It will also be of use for callers to have access to the commondir, so
lets also return that upon successfully discovering a git directory.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move all config related declarations from cache.h to a new config.h
header file. This makes cache.h smaller and allows for the opportunity
in a following patch to only include config.h when needed.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King