Now that the rest of the MIDX subsystem and relevant callers have been
updated to learn about how to read and process incremental MIDX chains,
let's finally update the implementation in `write_midx_internal()` to be
able to write incremental MIDX chains.
This new feature is available behind the `--incremental` option for the
`multi-pack-index` builtin, like so:
$ git multi-pack-index write --incremental
The implementation for doing so is relatively straightforward, and boils
down to a handful of different kinds of changes implemented in this
patch:
- The `compute_sorted_entries()` function is taught to reject objects
which appear in any existing MIDX layer.
- Functions like `write_midx_revindex()` are adjusted to write
pack_order values which are offset by the number of objects in the
base MIDX layer.
- The end of `write_midx_internal()` is adjusted to move
non-incremental MIDX files when necessary (i.e. when creating an
incremental chain with an existing non-incremental MIDX in the
repository).
There are a handful of other changes that are introduced, like new
functions to clear incremental MIDX files that are unrelated to the
current chain (using the same "keep_hash" mechanism as in the
non-incremental case).
The tests explicitly exercising the new incremental MIDX feature are
relatively limited for two reasons:
1. Most of the "interesting" behavior is already thoroughly covered in
t5319-multi-pack-index.sh, which handles the core logic of reading
objects through a MIDX.
The new tests in t5334-incremental-multi-pack-index.sh are mostly
focused on creating and destroying incremental MIDXs, as well as
stitching their results together across layers.
2. A new GIT_TEST environment variable is added called
"GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_INCREMENTAL", which modifies the
entire test suite to write incremental MIDXs after repacking when
combined with the "GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX" variable.
This exercises the long tail of other interesting behavior that is
defined implicitly throughout the rest of the CI suite. It is
likewise added to the linux-TEST-vars job.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach `git repack` a new `--write-midx` option for callers that wish to
persist a multi-pack index in their repository while repacking.
There are two existing alternatives to this new flag, but they don't
cover our particular use-case. These alternatives are:
- Call 'git multi-pack-index write' after running 'git repack', or
- Set 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=1' in your environment when running
'git repack'.
The former works, but introduces a gap in bitmap coverage between
repacking and writing a new MIDX (since the repack may have deleted a
pack included in the existing MIDX, invalidating it altogether).
Setting the 'GIT_TEST_' environment variable is obviously unsupported.
In fact, even if it were supported officially, it still wouldn't work,
because it generates the MIDX *after* redundant packs have been dropped,
leading to the same issue as above.
Introduce a new option which eliminates this race by teaching `git
repack` to generate the MIDX at the critical point: after the new packs
have been written and moved into place, but before the redundant packs
have been removed.
This option is compatible with `git repack`'s '--bitmap' option (it
changes the interpretation to be: "write a bitmap corresponding to the
MIDX after one has been generated").
There is a little bit of additional noise in the patch below to avoid
repeating ourselves when selecting which packs to delete. Instead of a
single loop as before (where we iterate over 'existing_packs', decide if
a pack is worth deleting, and if so, delete it), we have two loops (the
first where we decide which ones are worth deleting, and the second
where we actually do the deleting). This makes it so we have a single
check we can make consistently when (1) telling the MIDX which packs we
want to exclude, and (2) actually unlinking the redundant packs.
There is also a tiny change to short-circuit the body of
write_midx_included_packs() when no packs remain in the case of an empty
repository. The MIDX code does not handle this, so avoid trying to
generate a MIDX covering zero packs in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Taylor Blau