We allow sharing commit-graph files across alternates. When we are
writing a split commit-graph, we allow adding tip graph files that
are not in the alternate, but include commits from our local repo.
However, if our alternate is not using the split commit-graph format,
its file is at .git/objects/info/commit-graph and we are trying to
write files in .git/objects/info/commit-graphs/graph-{hash}.graph.
We already have logic to ensure we do not merge across alternate
boundaries, but we also cannot have a commit-graph chain to our
alternate if uses the old filename structure.
Create a test that verifies we create a new split commit-graph
with only one level and we do not modify the existing commit-graph
in the alternate.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Octopus merges require an extra chunk of data in the commit-graph
file format. Create a test that ensures the new --split option
continues to work with an octopus merge. Specifically, ensure
that the octopus merge has parents across layers to truly check
that our graph position logic holds up correctly.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we write a commit-graph file without the split option, then
we write to $OBJDIR/info/commit-graph and start to ignore
the chains in $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs/.
Unlink the commit-graph-chain file and expire the graph-{hash}.graph
files in $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs/ during every write.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we wrote a commit-graph chain, we only modified the tip file in
the chain. It is valuable to verify what we wrote, but not waste
time checking files we did not write.
Add a '--shallow' option to the 'git commit-graph verify' subcommand
and check that it does not read the base graph in a two-file chain.
Making the verify subcommand read from a chain of commit-graphs takes
some rearranging of the builtin code.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The split commit-graph feature is now fully implemented, but needs
some more run-time configurability. Allow direct callers to 'git
commit-graph write --split' to specify the values used in the
merge strategy and the expire time.
Update the documentation to specify these values.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we merge commit-graph files in a commit-graph chain, we should clean
up the files that are no longer used.
This change introduces an 'expiry_window' value to the context, which is
always zero (for now). We then check the modified time of each
graph-{hash}.graph file in the $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs folder and
unlink the files that are older than the expiry_window.
Since this is always zero, this immediately clears all unused graph
files. We will update the value to match a config setting in a future
change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In an environment like a fork network, it is helpful to have a
commit-graph chain that spans both the base repo and the fork repo. The
fork is usually a small set of data on top of the large repo, but
sometimes the fork is much larger. For example, git-for-windows/git has
almost double the number of commits as git/git because it rebases its
commits on every major version update.
To allow cross-alternate commit-graph chains, we need a few pieces:
1. When looking for a graph-{hash}.graph file, check all alternates.
2. When merging commit-graph chains, do not merge across alternates.
3. When writing a new commit-graph chain based on a commit-graph file
in another object directory, do not allow success if the base file
has of the name "commit-graph" instead of
"commit-graphs/graph-{hash}.graph".
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When searching for a commit in a commit-graph chain of G graphs with N
commits, the search takes O(G log N) time. If we always add a new tip
graph with every write, the linear G term will start to dominate and
slow the lookup process.
To keep lookups fast, but also keep most incremental writes fast, create
a strategy for merging levels of the commit-graph chain. The strategy is
detailed in the commit-graph design document, but is summarized by these
two conditions:
1. If the number of commits we are adding is more than half the number
of commits in the graph below, then merge with that graph.
2. If we are writing more than 64,000 commits into a single graph,
then merge with all lower graphs.
The numeric values in the conditions above are currently constant, but
can become config options in a future update.
As we merge levels of the commit-graph chain, check that the commits
still exist in the repository. A garbage-collection operation may have
removed those commits from the object store and we do not want to
persist them in the commit-graph chain. This is a non-issue if the
'git gc' process wrote a new, single-level commit-graph file.
After we merge levels, the old graph-{hash}.graph files are no longer
referenced by the commit-graph-chain file. We will expire these files in
a future change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new "--split" option to the 'git commit-graph write' subcommand. This
option allows the optional behavior of writing a commit-graph chain.
The current behavior will add a tip commit-graph containing any commits that
are not in the existing commit-graph or commit-graph chain. Later changes
will allow merging the chain and expiring out-dated files.
Add a new test script (t5324-split-commit-graph.sh) that demonstrates this
behavior.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extend write_commit_graph() to write a commit-graph chain when given the
COMMIT_GRAPH_SPLIT flag.
This implementation is purposefully simplistic in how it creates a new
chain. The commits not already in the chain are added to a new tip
commit-graph file.
Much of the logic around writing a graph-{hash}.graph file and updating
the commit-graph-chain file is the same as the commit-graph file case.
However, there are several places where we need to do some extra logic
in the split case.
Track the list of graph filenames before and after the planned write.
This will be more important when we start merging graph files, but it
also allows us to upgrade our commit-graph file to the appropriate
graph-{hash}.graph file when we upgrade to a chain of commit-graphs.
Note that we use the eighth byte of the commit-graph header to store the
number of base graph files. This determines the length of the base
graphs chunk.
A subtle change of behavior with the new logic is that we do not write a
commit-graph if we our commit list is empty. This extends to the typical
case, which is reflected in t5318-commit-graph.sh.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The number of chunks in a commit-graph file can change depending on
whether we need the Extra Edges Chunk. We are going to add more optional
chunks, and it will be helpful to rearrange this logic around the chunk
count before doing so.
Specifically, we need to finalize the number of chunks before writing
the commit-graph header. Further, we also need to fill out the chunk
lookup table dynamically and using "num_chunks" as we add optional
chunks is useful for adding optional chunks in the future.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To quickly verify a commit-graph chain is valid on load, we will
read from the new "Base Graphs Chunk" of each file in the chain.
This will prevent accidentally loading incorrect data from manually
editing the commit-graph-chain file or renaming graph-{hash}.graph
files.
The commit_graph struct already had an object_id struct "oid", but
it was never initialized or used. Add a line to read the hash from
the end of the commit-graph file and into the oid member.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare the logic for reading a chain of commit-graphs.
First, look for a file at $OBJDIR/info/commit-graph. If it exists,
then use that file and stop.
Next, look for the chain file at $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs/commit-graph-chain.
If this file exists, then load the hash values as line-separated values in that
file and load $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs/graph-{hash[i]}.graph for each hash[i]
in that file. The file is given in order, so the first hash corresponds to the
"base" file and the final hash corresponds to the "tip" file.
This implementation assumes that all of the graph-{hash}.graph files are in
the same object directory as the commit-graph-chain file. This will be updated
in a future change. This change is purposefully simple so we can isolate the
different concerns.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The helper function commit_compare() actually compares object_id
structs, not commits. A future change to commit-graph.c will need
to sort commit structs, so rename this function in advance.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To prepare for a chain of commit-graph files, augment the
commit_graph struct to point to a base commit_graph. As we load
commits from the graph, we may actually want to read from a base
file according to the graph position.
The "graph position" of a commit is given by concatenating the
lexicographic commit orders from each of the commit-graph files in
the chain. This means that we must distinguish two values:
* lexicographic index : the position within the lexicographic
order in a single commit-graph file.
* graph position: the position within the concatenated order
of multiple commit-graph files
Given the lexicographic index of a commit in a graph, we can
compute the graph position by adding the number of commits in
the lower-level graphs. To find the lexicographic index of
a commit, we subtract the number of commits in lower-level graphs.
While here, change insert_parent_or_die() to take a uint32_t
position, as that is the type used by its only caller and that
makes more sense with the limits in the commit-graph format.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a basic description of commit-graph chains. More details about the
feature will be added as we add functionality. This introduction gives a
high-level overview to the goals of the feature and the basic layout of
commit-graph chains.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The close_all_packs() method is now responsible for more than just pack-files.
It also closes the commit-graph and the multi-pack-index. Rename the function
to be more descriptive of its larger role. The name also fits because the
input parameter is a raw_object_store.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The close_all_packs() method is used to close all read handles to
pack-files and the multi-pack-index before running 'git gc --auto'.
This is particularly important on the Windows platform, where read
handles block any writes to those files. Replacing one of these
files with a rename() will fail in this situation.
The commit-graph also performs a rename, so is susceptable to this
problem. We are careful to close the commit-graph before writing,
but that doesn't work when a 'git fetch' (or similar) process runs
'git gc --auto' which may write a commit-graph.
Here, close the commit-graph as part of close_all_packs().
Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The close_commit_graph() method took a repository struct, but then
only uses the raw_object_store within. Change the function prototype
to make the method more flexible.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The write_commit_graph() method is too complex, so we are
extracting helper functions one by one.
Extract write_commit_graph_file() that takes all of the information
in the context struct and writes the data to a commit-graph file.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The write_commit_graph() method is too complex, so we are
extracting helper functions one by one.
Extract copy_oids_to_commits(), which fills the commits list
with the distinct commits from the oids list. During this loop,
it also counts the number of "extra" edges from octopus merges.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The write_commit_graph() method is too complex, so we are
extracting helper functions one by one.
Extract count_distinct_commits(), which sorts the oids list, then
iterates through to find duplicates.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The write_commit_graph() method is too complex, so we are
extracting helper functions one by one.
Extract fill_oids_from_all_packs() that reads all pack-files
for commits and fills the oid list in the context.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The write_commit_graph() method is too complex, so we are
extracting helper functions one by one.
Extract fill_oids_from_commit_hex() that reads the given commit
id list and fille the oid list in the context.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The write_commit_graph() method is too complex, so we are
extracting helper functions one by one.
This extracts fill_oids_from_packs() that reads the given
pack-file list and fills the oid list in the context.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The write_commit_graph() method is too large and complex. To simplify
it, we should extract several helper functions. However, we will risk
repeating a lot of declarations related to progress incidators and
object id or commit lists.
Create a new write_commit_graph_context struct that contains the
core data structures used in this process. Replace the other local
variables with the values inside the context object. Following this
change, we will start to lift code segments wholesale out of the
write_commit_graph() method and into helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-graph feature began with a long list of planned
benefits, most of which are now complete. The future work
section has only a few items left.
As for making more algorithms aware of generation numbers,
some are only waiting for generation number v2 to ensure the
performance matches the existing behavior using commit date.
It is unlikely that we will ever send a commit-graph file
as part of the protocol, since we would need to verify the
data, and that is expensive. If we want to start trusting
remote content, then that item can be investigated again.
While there is more work to be done on the feature, having
a section of the docs devoted to a TODO list is wasteful and
hard to keep up-to-date.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The write_commit_graph() and write_commit_graph_reachable() methods
currently take two boolean parameters: 'append' and 'report_progress'.
As we update these methods, adding more parameters this way becomes
cluttered and hard to maintain.
Collapse these parameters into a 'flags' parameter, and adjust the
callers to provide flags as necessary.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The write_commit_graph() method uses die() to report failure and
exit when confronted with an unexpected condition. This use of
die() in a library function is incorrect and is now replaced by
error() statements and an int return type. Return zero on success
and a negative value on failure.
Now that we use 'goto cleanup' to jump to the terminal condition
on an error, we have new paths that could lead to uninitialized
values. New initializers are added to correct for this.
The builtins 'commit-graph', 'gc', and 'commit' call these methods,
so update them to check the return value. Test that 'git commit-graph
write' returns a proper error code when hitting a failure condition
in write_commit_graph().
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The parse_commit_buffer() method takes a repository pointer, so it
should not refer to the_repository anymore.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the error emitted when a commit-graph file is corrupt so that
we actually mention the commit-graph, e.g. change errors like:
error: improper chunk offset 0000000000385e0c
To:
error: commit-graph improper chunk offset 0000000000385e0c
As discussed in the commits leading up to this one the commit-graph
machinery is now used by common commands like "status". If the graph
was corrupt we'd often emit some error that gave no indication what
was wrong. Now some of them are still cryptic, but they'll at least
mention "commit-graph" to give the user a hint as to where to look.
While I'm at it mark some of the strings that hadn't been marked for
translation. It's clear from the commit history and the code that this
was merely forgotten at the time, and wasn't intentional.p5
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the commit-graph is written we end up calling
parse_commit(). This will in turn invoke code that'll consult the
existing commit-graph about the commit, if the graph is corrupted we
die.
We thus get into a state where a failing "commit-graph verify" can't
be followed-up with a "commit-graph write" if core.commitGraph=true is
set, the graph either needs to be manually removed to proceed, or
core.commitGraph needs to be set to "false".
Change the "commit-graph write" codepath to use a new
parse_commit_no_graph() helper instead of parse_commit() to avoid
this. The latter will call repo_parse_commit_internal() with
use_commit_graph=1 as seen in 177722b344 ("commit: integrate commit
graph with commit parsing", 2018-04-10).
Not using the old graph at all slows down the writing of the new graph
by some small amount, but is a sensible way to prevent an error in the
existing commit-graph from spreading.
Just fixing the current issue would be likely to result in code that's
inadvertently broken in the future. New code might use the
commit-graph at a distance. To detect such cases introduce a
"GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_DIE_ON_LOAD" setting used when we do our
corruption tests, and test that a "write/verify" combo works after
every one of our current test cases where we now detect commit-graph
corruption.
Some of the code changes here might be strictly unnecessary, e.g. I
was unable to find cases where the parse_commit() called from
write_graph_chunk_data() didn't exit early due to
"item->object.parsed" being true in
repo_parse_commit_internal() (before the use_commit_graph=1 has any
effect). But let's also convert those cases for good measure, we do
not have exhaustive tests for all possible types of commit-graph
corruption.
This might need to be re-visited if we learn to write the commit-graph
incrementally, but probably not. Hopefully we'll just start by finding
out what commits we have in total, then read the old graph(s) to see
what they cover, and finally write a new graph file with everything
that's missing. In that case the new graph writing code just needs to
continue to use e.g. a parse_commit() that doesn't consult the
existing commit-graphs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change "commit-graph verify" to error on open() failures other than
ENOENT. As noted in the third paragraph of 283e68c72f ("commit-graph:
add 'verify' subcommand", 2018-06-27) and the test it added it's
intentional that "commit-graph verify" doesn't error out when the file
doesn't exist.
But let's not be overly promiscuous in what we accept. If we can't
read the file for other reasons, e.g. permission errors, bad file
descriptor etc. we'd like to report an error to the user.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier change implemented load_commit_graph_one_fd_st() in a way
that was bug-compatible with earlier code in terms of the "graph file
%s is too small" error message printing out the path to the
commit-graph (".git/objects/info/commit-graph").
But change that, because:
* A function that takes an already-open file descriptor also needing
the filename isn't very intuitive.
* The vast majority of errors we might emit when loading the graph
come from parse_commit_graph(), which doesn't report the
filename. Let's not do that either in this case for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the commit-graph loading code work as a library that returns an
error code instead of calling exit(1) when the commit-graph is
corrupt. This means that e.g. "status" will now report commit-graph
corruption as an "error: [...]" at the top of its output, but then
proceed to work normally.
This required splitting up the load_commit_graph_one() function so
that the code that deals with open()-ing and stat()-ing the graph can
now be called independently as open_commit_graph().
This is needed because "commit-graph verify" where the graph doesn't
exist isn't an error. See the third paragraph in
283e68c72f ("commit-graph: add 'verify' subcommand",
2018-06-27). There's a bug in that logic where we conflate the
intended ENOENT with other errno values (e.g. EACCES), but this change
doesn't address that. That'll be addressed in a follow-up change.
I'm then splitting most of the logic out of load_commit_graph_one()
into load_commit_graph_one_fd_st(), which allows for providing an
existing file descriptor and stat information to the loading
code. This isn't strictly needed, but it would be redundant and
confusing to open() and stat() the file twice for some of the
codepaths, this allows for calling open_commit_graph() followed by
load_commit_graph_one_fd_st(). The "graph_file" still needs to be
passed to that function for the the "graph file %s is too small" error
message.
This leaves load_commit_graph_one() unused by everything except the
internal prepare_commit_graph_one() function, so let's mark it as
"static". If someone needs it in the future we can remove the "static"
attribute. I could also rewrite its sole remaining
user ("prepare_commit_graph_one()") to use
load_commit_graph_one_fd_st() instead, but let's leave it at this.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When core.commitGraph=true is set, various common commands now consult
the commit graph. Because the commit-graph code is very trusting of
its input data, it's possibly to construct a graph that'll cause an
immediate segfault on e.g. "status" (and e.g. "log", "blame", ...). In
some other cases where git immediately exits with a cryptic error
about the graph being broken.
The root cause of this is that while the "commit-graph verify"
sub-command exhaustively verifies the graph, other users of the graph
simply trust the graph, and will e.g. deference data found at certain
offsets as pointers, causing segfaults.
This change does the bare minimum to ensure that we don't segfault in
the common fill_commit_in_graph() codepath called by
e.g. setup_revisions(), to do this instrument the "commit-graph
verify" tests to always check if "status" would subsequently
segfault. This fixes the following tests which would previously
segfault:
not ok 50 - detect low chunk count
not ok 51 - detect missing OID fanout chunk
not ok 52 - detect missing OID lookup chunk
not ok 53 - detect missing commit data chunk
Those happened because with the commit-graph enabled setup_revisions()
would eventually call fill_commit_in_graph(), where e.g.
g->chunk_commit_data is used early as an offset (and will be
0x0). With this change we get far enough to detect that the graph is
broken, and show an error instead. E.g.:
$ git status; echo $?
error: commit-graph is missing the Commit Data chunk
1
That also sucks, we should *warn* and not hard-fail "status" just
because the commit-graph is corrupt, but fixing is left to a follow-up
change.
A side-effect of changing the reporting from graph_report() to error()
is that we now have an "error: " prefix for these even for
"commit-graph verify". Pseudo-diff before/after:
$ git commit-graph verify
-commit-graph is missing the Commit Data chunk
+error: commit-graph is missing the Commit Data chunk
Changing that is OK. Various errors it emits now early on are prefixed
with "error: ", moving these over and changing the output doesn't
break anything.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the recently split-up components of the corrupt_graph_and_verify()
function to assert that we error on graphs that are too small. The
error was added in 2a2e32bdc5 ("commit-graph: implement git
commit-graph read", 2018-04-10), but there was no test for it.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split up the corrupt_graph_and_verify() function added in
d9b9f8a6fd ("commit-graph: verify catches corrupt signature",
2018-06-27) into its logical components of setting up the test itself,
doing the corruption in a particular way with "dd", and then finally
testing that stderr is what we expect.
This allows for re-using everything except the now slimmer
corrupt_graph_and_verify() to corrupt the graph in a way that doesn't
involve inserting a given byte sequence at a given position,
e.g. truncating it entirely to a custom value.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mk/t5562-no-input-to-too-large-an-input-test:
t5562: do not depend on /dev/zero
Revert "t5562: replace /dev/zero with a pipe from generate_zero_bytes"
Some expected failures of git-http-backend leaves running its children
(receive-pack or upload-pack) which still hold opened descriptors
to act.err and with some probability they live long enough to write
there their failure messages after next test has already truncated
the files. This causes occasional failures of the test script.
Avoid the issue by using separated output and error file for each test,
apprending the test number to their name.
Reported-by: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In cc95bc2025 (t5562: replace /dev/zero with a pipe from
generate_zero_bytes, 2019-02-09), we replaced usage of /dev/zero (which
is not available on NonStop, apparently) by a Perl script snippet to
generate NUL bytes.
Sadly, it does not seem to work on NonStop, as t5562 reportedly hangs.
Worse, this also hangs in the Ubuntu 16.04 agents of the CI builds on
Azure Pipelines: for some reason, the Perl script snippet that is run
via `generate_zero_bytes` in t5562's 'CONTENT_LENGTH overflow ssite_t'
test case tries to write out an infinite amount of NUL bytes unless a
broken pipe is encountered, that snippet never encounters the broken
pipe, and keeps going until the build times out.
Oddly enough, this does not reproduce on the Windows and macOS agents,
nor in a local Ubuntu 18.04.
This developer tried for a day to figure out the exact circumstances
under which this hang happens, to no avail, the details remain a
mystery.
In the end, though, what counts is that this here change incidentally
fixes that hang (maybe also on NonStop?). Even more positively, it gets
rid of yet another unnecessary Perl invocation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was reported [1] that NonStop platform does not have /dev/zero.
The test uses /dev/zero as a dummy input. Passing case (http-backed
failed because of too big input size) should not be reading anything
from it. If http-backend would erroneously try to read any data
returning EOF probably would be even safer than providing some
meaningless data.
Replace /dev/zero with /dev/null to avoid issues with platforms which do
not have /dev/zero.
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20190209185930.5256-4-randall.s.becker@rogers.com/
Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Revert cc95bc20 ("t5562: replace /dev/zero with a pipe from
generate_zero_bytes", 2019-02-09), as not feeding anything to the
command is a better way to test it.
Running up to v2.21.0, we fixed two bugs that were made prominent by the
Windows-specific change to retain copies of only the 30 latest getenv()
calls' returned strings, invalidating any copies of previous getenv()
calls' return values.
While this really shines a light onto bugs of the form where we hold
onto getenv()'s return values without copying them, it is also a real
problem for users.
And even if Jeff King's patches merged via 773e408881 (Merge branch
'jk/save-getenv-result', 2019-01-29) provide further work on that front,
we are far from done. Just one example: on Windows, we unset environment
variables when spawning new processes, which potentially invalidates
strings that were previously obtained via getenv(), and therefore we
have to duplicate environment values that are somehow involved in
spawning new processes (e.g. GIT_MAN_VIEWER in show_man_page()).
We do not have a chance to investigate, let address, all of those issues
in time for v2.21.0, so let's at least help Windows users by increasing
the number of getenv() calls' return values that are kept valid. The
number 64 was determined by looking at the average number of getenv()
calls per process in the entire test suite run on Windows (which is
around 40) and then adding a bit for good measure. And it is a power of
two (which would have hit yesterday's theme perfectly).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch" and "git upload-pack" learned to send all exchange over
the sideband channel while talking the v2 protocol.
* jt/fetch-v2-sideband:
t/lib-httpd: pass GIT_TEST_SIDEBAND_ALL through Apache
Derrick Stolee