"git pack-objects" learns to find delta bases from blobs at the
same path, using the --path-walk API.
Comments?
* ds/path-walk-2:
pack-objects: allow --shallow and --path-walk
path-walk: add new 'edge_aggressive' option
pack-objects: thread the path-based compression
pack-objects: refactor path-walk delta phase
scalar: enable path-walk during push via config
pack-objects: enable --path-walk via config
repack: add --path-walk option
t5538: add tests to confirm deltas in shallow pushes
pack-objects: introduce GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALK
p5313: add performance tests for --path-walk
pack-objects: update usage to match docs
pack-objects: add --path-walk option
pack-objects: extract should_attempt_deltas()
A bunch of tests rely on Perl to print data in various different ways.
These usages fall into the following categories:
- Print data conditionally by matching patterns. These usecases can be
converted to use awk(1) rather easily.
- Print data repeatedly. These usecases can typically be converted to
use a combination of `test-tool genzeros` and sed(1).
- Print data in reverse. These usecases can be converted to use
awk(1) or `sort -r`.
Refactor the tests accordingly so that we can drop a couple of
PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisites.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the early days of Git, Perl was used quite prominently throughout the
project. This has changed significantly as almost all of the executables
we ship nowadays have eventually been rewritten in C. Only a handful of
subsystems remain that require Perl:
- gitweb, a read-only web interface.
- A couple of scripts that allow importing repositories from GNU Arch,
CVS and Subversion.
- git-send-email(1), which can be used to send mails.
- git-request-pull(1), which is used to request somebody to pull from
a URL by sending an email.
- git-filter-branch(1), which uses Perl with the `--state-branch`
option. This command is typically recommended against nowadays in
favor of git-filter-repo(1).
- Our Perl bindings for Git.
- The netrc Git credential helper.
None of these subsystems can really be considered to be part of the
"core" of Git, and an installation without them is fully functional.
It is more likely than not that an end user wouldn't even notice that
any features are missing if those tools weren't installed. But while
Perl nowadays very much is an optional dependency of Git, there is a
significant limitation when Perl isn't available: developers cannot run
our test suite.
Preceding commits have started to lift this restriction by removing the
strict dependency on Perl in many central parts of the test library. But
there are still many tests that rely on small Perl helpers to do various
different things.
Introduce a new PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisite that guards all tests
that require Perl. This prerequisite is explicitly different than the
preexisting PERL prerequisite:
- PERL records whether or not features depending on the Perl
interpreter are built.
- PERL_TEST_HELPERS records whether or not a Perl interpreter is
available for our tests.
By having these two separate prerequisites we can thus distinguish
between tests that inherently depend on Perl because the underlying
feature does, and those tests that depend on Perl because the test
itself is using Perl.
Adapt all tests to set the PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisite as needed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, the --path-walk option to 'git pack-objects' would compute
deltas inline with the path-walk logic. This would make the progress
indicator look like it is taking a long time to enumerate objects, and
then very quickly computed deltas.
Instead of computing deltas on each region of objects organized by tree,
store a list of regions corresponding to these groups. These can later
be pulled from the list for delta compression before doing the "global"
delta search.
This presents a new progress indicator that can be used in tests to
verify that this stage is happening.
The current implementation is not integrated with threads, but could be
done in a future update.
Since we do not attempt to sort objects by size until after exploring
all trees, we can remove the previous change to t5530 due to a different
error message appearing first.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to more easily compute delta bases among objects that appear at
the exact same path, add a --path-walk option to 'git pack-objects'.
This option will use the path-walk API instead of the object walk given
by the revision machinery. Since objects will be provided in batches
representing a common path, those objects can be tested for delta bases
immediately instead of waiting for a sort of the full object list by
name-hash. This has multiple benefits, including avoiding collisions by
name-hash.
The objects marked as UNINTERESTING are included in these batches, so we
are guaranteeing some locality to find good delta bases.
After the individual passes are done on a per-path basis, the default
name-hash is used to find other opportunistic delta bases that did not
match exactly by the full path name.
The current implementation performs delta calculations while walking
objects, which is not ideal for a few reasons. First, this will cause
the "Enumerating objects" phase to be much longer than usual. Second, it
does not take advantage of threading during the path-scoped delta
calculations. Even with this lack of threading, the path-walk option is
sometimes faster than the usual approach. Future changes will refactor
this code to allow for threading, but that complexity is deferred until
later to keep this patch as simple as possible.
This new walk is incompatible with some features and is ignored by
others:
* Object filters are not currently integrated with the path-walk API,
such as sparse-checkout or tree depth. A blobless packfile could be
integrated easily, but that is deferred for later.
* Server-focused features such as delta islands, shallow packs, and
using a bitmap index are incompatible with the path-walk API.
* The path walk API is only compatible with the --revs option, not
taking object lists or pack lists over stdin. These alternative ways
to specify the objects currently ignores the --path-walk option
without even a warning.
Future changes will create performance tests that demonstrate the power
of this approach.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pack-objects" and its wrapper "git repack" learned an option
to use an alternative path-hash function to improve delta-base
selection to produce a packfile with deeper history than window
size.
* ds/name-hash-tweaks:
pack-objects: prevent name hash version change
test-tool: add helper for name-hash values
p5313: add size comparison test
pack-objects: add GIT_TEST_NAME_HASH_VERSION
repack: add --name-hash-version option
pack-objects: add --name-hash-version option
pack-objects: create new name-hash function version
Add a new environment variable to opt-in to different values of the
--name-hash-version=<n> option in 'git pack-objects'. This allows for
extra testing of the feature without repeating all of the test
scenarios. Unlike many GIT_TEST_* variables, we are choosing to not add
this to the linux-TEST-vars CI build as that test run is already
overloaded. The behavior exposed by this test variable is of low risk
and should be sufficient to allow manual testing when an issue arises.
But this option isn't free. There are a few tests that change behavior
with the variable enabled.
First, there are a few tests that are very sensitive to certain delta
bases being picked. These are both involving the generation of thin
bundles and then counting their objects via 'git index-pack --fix-thin'
which pulls the delta base into the new packfile. For these tests,
disable the option as a decent long-term option.
Second, there are some tests that compare the exact output of a 'git
pack-objects' process when using bitmaps. The warning that ignores the
--name-hash-version=2 and forces version 1 causes these tests to fail.
Disable the environment variable to get around this issue.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous change introduced a new pack_name_hash_v2() function that
intends to satisfy much of the hash locality features of the existing
pack_name_hash() function while also distinguishing paths with similar
final components of their paths.
This change adds a new --name-hash-version option for 'git pack-objects'
to allow users to select their preferred function version. This use of
an integer version allows for future expansion and a direct way to later
store a name hash version in the .bitmap format.
For now, let's consider how effective this mechanism is when repacking a
repository with different name hash versions. Specifically, we will
execute 'git pack-objects' the same way a 'git repack -adf' process
would, except we include --name-hash-version=<n> for testing.
On the Git repository, we do not expect much difference. All path names
are short. This is backed by our results:
| Stage | Pack Size | Repack Time |
|-----------------------|-----------|-------------|
| After clone | 260 MB | N/A |
| --name-hash-version=1 | 127 MB | 129s |
| --name-hash-version=2 | 127 MB | 112s |
This example demonstrates how there is some natural overhead coming from
the cloned copy because the server is hosting many forks and has not
optimized for exactly this set of reachable objects. But the full repack
has similar characteristics for both versions.
Let's consider some repositories that are hitting too many collisions
with version 1. First, let's explore the kinds of paths that are
commonly causing these collisions:
* "/CHANGELOG.json" is 15 characters, and is created by the beachball
[1] tool. Only the final character of the parent directory can
differentiate different versions of this file, but also only the two
most-significant digits. If that character is a letter, then this is
always a collision. Similar issues occur with the similar
"/CHANGELOG.md" path, though there is more opportunity for
differences In the parent directory.
* Localization files frequently have common filenames but
differentiates via parent directories. In C#, the name
"/strings.resx.lcl" is used for these localization files and they
will all collide in name-hash.
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/beachball
I've come across many other examples where some internal tool uses a
common name across multiple directories and is causing Git to repack
poorly due to name-hash collisions.
One open-source example is the fluentui [2] repo, which uses beachball
to generate CHANGELOG.json and CHANGELOG.md files, and these files have
very poor delta characteristics when comparing against versions across
parent directories.
| Stage | Pack Size | Repack Time |
|-----------------------|-----------|-------------|
| After clone | 694 MB | N/A |
| --name-hash-version=1 | 438 MB | 728s |
| --name-hash-version=2 | 168 MB | 142s |
[2] https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui
In this example, we see significant gains in the compressed packfile
size as well as the time taken to compute the packfile.
Using a collection of repositories that use the beachball tool, I was
able to make similar comparisions with dramatic results. While the
fluentui repo is public, the others are private so cannot be shared for
reproduction. The results are so significant that I find it important to
share here:
| Repo | --name-hash-version=1 | --name-hash-version=2 |
|----------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
| fluentui | 440 MB | 161 MB |
| Repo B | 6,248 MB | 856 MB |
| Repo C | 37,278 MB | 6,755 MB |
| Repo D | 131,204 MB | 7,463 MB |
Future changes could include making --name-hash-version implied by a config
value or even implied by default during a full repack.
It is important to point out that the name hash value is stored in the
.bitmap file format, so we must force --name-hash-version=1 when bitmaps
are being read or written. Later, the bitmap format could be updated to
be aware of the name hash version so deltas can be quickly computed
across the bitmapped/not-bitmapped boundary. To promote the safety of
this parameter, the validate_name_hash_version() method will die() if
the given name-hash version is incorrect and will disable newer versions
if not yet compatible with other features, such as --write-bitmap-index.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Regression fix for 'show-index' when run outside of a repository.
* as/show-index-uninitialized-hash:
t5300: add test for 'show-index --object-format'
show-index: fix uninitialized hash function
Leakfixes.
* ps/leakfixes-part-10: (27 commits)
t: remove TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK annotations
test-lib: unconditionally enable leak checking
t: remove unneeded !SANITIZE_LEAK prerequisites
t: mark some tests as leak free
t5601: work around leak sanitizer issue
git-compat-util: drop now-unused `UNLEAK()` macro
global: drop `UNLEAK()` annotation
t/helper: fix leaking commit graph in "read-graph" subcommand
builtin/branch: fix leaking sorting options
builtin/init-db: fix leaking directory paths
builtin/help: fix leaks in `check_git_cmd()`
help: fix leaking return value from `help_unknown_cmd()`
help: fix leaking `struct cmdnames`
help: refactor to not use globals for reading config
builtin/sparse-checkout: fix leaking sanitized patterns
split-index: fix memory leak in `move_cache_to_base_index()`
git: refactor builtin handling to use a `struct strvec`
git: refactor alias handling to use a `struct strvec`
strvec: introduce new `strvec_splice()` function
line-log: fix leak when rewriting commit parents
...
Now that the default value for TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK is `true` there
is no longer a need to have that variable declared in all of our tests.
Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently,
- Running "index-pack --promisor" outside a repo segfaults.
- It may be confusing to a user that running "index-pack --promisor"
within a repo may make changes to the repo's object DB, especially
since the packs indexed by the index-pack invocation may not even be
related to the repo.
As discussed in [1] and [2], teaching --promisor to forbid a packfile
name solves both these problems. This combination of arguments requires
a repo (since we are writing the resulting .pack and .idx to it) and it
is clear that the files are related to the repo.
Currently, Git uses "index-pack --promisor" only when fetching into
a repo, so it could be argued that we should teach "index-pack" a
new argument (say, "--fetching-mode") instead of tying --promisor to
a generic argument like the packfile name. However, this --promisor
feature could conceivably be used whenever we have a packfile that is
known to come from the promisor remote (whether obtained through Git's
fetch protocol or through other means) so not using a new argument seems
reasonable - one could envision a user-made script obtaining a packfile
and then running "index-pack --promisor --stdin", for example. In fact,
it might be possible to relax the restriction further (say, by also
allowing --promisor when indexing a packfile that is in the object DB),
but relaxing the restriction is backwards-compatible so we can revisit
that later.
One thing to watch out for is the possibility of a future Git feature
that indexes a pack in the context of a repo, but does not necessarily
write the resulting pack to it (and does not necessarily desire to
make any changes to the object DB). One such feature would be fetch
quarantine, which might need the repo context in order to detect
hash collisions, but would also need to ensure that the object DB
is undisturbed in case the fetch fails for whatever reason, even if
the reason occurs only after the indexing is complete. It may not be
obvious to the implementer of such a feature that "index-pack" could
sometimes write packs other than the indexed pack to the object DB,
but there are already other ways that "fetch" could write to the object
DB (in particular, packfile URIs and bundle URIs), so hopefully the
implementation of this future feature would already include a test that
the object DB be undisturbed.
This change requires the change to t5300 by 1f52cdfacb (index-pack:
document and test the --promisor option, 2022-03-09) to be undone.
(--promisor is already tested indirectly, so we don't need the explicit
test here any more.)
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241114005652.GC1140565@coredump.intra.peff.net/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241119185345.GB15723@coredump.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 88a09a557c (builtin/show-index: provide options to determine hash
algo), the flag --object-format was added to show-index builtin as a way
to provide a hash algorithm explicitly. However, we do not have tests in
place for that functionality. Add them.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Sonar <abhijeet.nkt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In c8aed5e8da (repository: stop setting SHA1 as the default object
hash), we got rid of the default hash algorithm for the_repository.
Due to this change, it is now the responsibility of the callers to set
their own default when this is not present.
As stated in the docs, show-index should use SHA1 as the default hash
algorithm when run outside a repository. Make sure this promise is
met by falling back to SHA1 when the_hash_algo is not present (i.e.
when the command is run outside a repository). Also add a test that
verifies this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Sonar <abhijeet.nkt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A subsequent commit will change the behavior of "git index-pack
--promisor", which is exercised in "build pack index for an existing
pack", causing the unclamped and clamped versions of the --window
test to exhibit different behavior. Move the clamp test closer to the
unclamped test that it references.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was reported that git-verify-pack(1) has started to crash with Git
v2.46.0 when run outside of a repository. This is another fallout from
c8aed5e8da (repository: stop setting SHA1 as the default object hash,
2024-05-07), where we have stopped setting the default hash algorithm
for `the_repository`. Consequently, code that relies on `the_hash_algo`
will now crash when it hasn't explicitly been initialized, which may be
the case when running outside of a Git repository.
The crash is not in git-verify-pack(1) but instead in git-index-pack(1),
which gets called by the former. Ideally, both of these programs should
be able to identify the hash algorithm used by the packfile and index
without having to rely on external information. But unfortunately, the
format for neither of them is completely self-describing, so it is not
possible to derive that information. This is a design issue that we
should address by introducing a new packfile version that encodes its
object hash.
For now though the more important fix is to not make either of these
programs crash anymore, which we do by falling back to SHA1 when the
object hash is unconfigured. This pessimizes reading packfiles which
use a different hash than SHA1, but restores previous behaviour.
Reported-by: Ilya K <me@0upti.me>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In `wanted_peer_refs()` we first create a copy of the "HEAD" ref. This
copy may not actually be passed back to the caller, but is not getting
freed in this case. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
0f8edf7317 (index-pack: --fsck-objects to take an optional argument for
fsck msgs, 2024-02-01) added a test function test_with_bad_commit() that
contained two bugs. test_expect_fail was used instead of test_must_fail,
and a && was not included at the end of the line.
Fix these two issues in the test.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-index-pack has a --strict option that can take an optional argument
to provide a list of fsck issues to change their severity.
--fsck-objects does not have such a utility, which would be useful if
one would like to be more lenient or strict on data integrity in a
repository.
Like --strict, allow --fsck-objects to also take a list of fsck msgs to
change the severity.
Remove the "For internal use only" note for --fsck-objects, and document
the option. This won't often be used by the normal end user, but it
turns out it is useful for Git forges like GitLab.
Reviewed-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
5d477a334a (fsck (receive-pack): allow demoting errors to warnings,
2015-06-22) allowed a list of fsck msg to downgrade to be passed to
--strict. However this is a hidden argument that was not documented nor
tested. Though it is true that most users would not call this option
directly, (nor use index-pack for that matter) it is still useful to
document and test this feature.
Reviewed-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
They are equivalents and the former still exists, so as long as the
only change this commit makes are to rewrite test_i18ngrep to
test_grep, there won't be any new bug, even if there still are
callers of test_i18ngrep remaining in the tree, or when merged to
other topics that add new uses of test_i18ngrep.
This patch was produced more or less with
git grep -l -e 'test_i18ngrep ' 't/t[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.sh' |
xargs perl -p -i -e 's/test_i18ngrep /test_grep /'
and a good way to sanity check the result yourself is to run the
above in a checkout of c4603c1c (test framework: further deprecate
test_i18ngrep, 2023-10-31) and compare the resulting working tree
contents with the result of applying this patch to the same commit.
You'll see that test_i18ngrep in a few t/lib-*.sh files corrected,
in addition to the manual reproduction.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some tests still use the old format with four spaces indentation.
Standardize the tests to the new format with tab indentation.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test suite for git-pack-objects(1) is quite huge, and we're about to
add more tests that relate to the `--stdin-packs` option. Split out all
tests related to this option into a standalone file so that it becomes
easier to test the feature in isolation.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a filesystem-dependent mechanism to optimize the way the
bits for many loose object files are ensured to hit the disk
platter.
* ns/batch-fsync:
core.fsyncmethod: performance tests for batch mode
t/perf: add iteration setup mechanism to perf-lib
core.fsyncmethod: tests for batch mode
test-lib-functions: add parsing helpers for ls-files and ls-tree
core.fsync: use batch mode and sync loose objects by default on Windows
unpack-objects: use the bulk-checkin infrastructure
update-index: use the bulk-checkin infrastructure
builtin/add: add ODB transaction around add_files_to_cache
cache-tree: use ODB transaction around writing a tree
core.fsyncmethod: batched disk flushes for loose-objects
bulk-checkin: rebrand plug/unplug APIs as 'odb transactions'
bulk-checkin: rename 'state' variable and separate 'plugged' boolean
Add test cases to exercise batch mode for:
* 'git add'
* 'git stash'
* 'git update-index'
* 'git unpack-objects'
These tests ensure that the added data winds up in the object database.
In this change we introduce a new test helper lib-unique-files.sh. The
goal of this library is to create a tree of files that have different
oids from any other files that may have been created in the current test
repo. This helps us avoid missing validation of an object being added
due to it already being in the repo.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --promisor option of 'git index-pack' was created in 88e2f9e
(introduce fetch-object: fetch one promisor object, 2017-12-05) but was
untested. It is currently unused within the Git codebase, but that will
change in an upcoming change to 'git bundle unbundle' when there is a
filter capability.
For now, add documentation about the option and add a test to ensure it
is working as expected.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Failures within `for` and `while` loops can go unnoticed if not detected
and signaled manually since the loop itself does not abort when a
contained command fails, nor will a failure necessarily be detected when
the loop finishes since the loop returns the exit code of the last
command it ran on the final iteration, which may not be the command
which failed. Therefore, detect and signal failures manually within
loops using the idiom `|| return 1` (or `|| exit 1` within subshells).
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Take advantage of test_write_lines() to generate line-oriented output
rather than using for-loops or a series of `echo` commands. Not only is
test_write_lines() a natural fit for such a task, but there is less
opportunity for a broken &&-chain.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a segfault in the --stdin-packs option added in
339bce27f4 (builtin/pack-objects.c: add '--stdin-packs' option,
2021-02-22).
The read_packs_list_from_stdin() function didn't check that the lines
it was reading were valid packs, and thus when doing the QSORT() with
pack_mtime_cmp() we'd have a NULL "util" field. The "util" field is
used to associate the names of included/excluded packs with the
packed_git structs they correspond to.
The logic error was in assuming that we could iterate all packs and
annotate the excluded and included packs we got, as opposed to
checking the lines we got on stdin. There was a check for excluded
packs, but included packs were simply assumed to be valid.
As noted in the test we'll not report the first bad line, but whatever
line sorted first according to the string-list.c API. In this case I
think that's fine. There was further discussion of alternate
approaches in [1].
Even though we're being lazy let's assert the line we do expect to get
in the test, since whoever changes this code in the future might miss
this case, and would want to update the test and comments.
1. http://lore.kernel.org/git/YND3h2l10PlnSNGJ@nand.local
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cover blindspots in the testing of stdin handling, including the
"!len" condition added in b5d97e6b0a (pack-objects: run rev-list
equivalent internally., 2006-09-04). The codepath taken with --revs
and read_object_list_from_stdin() acts differently in some of these
common cases, let's test for those.
The "--stdin --revs" test being added here stresses the combination of
--stdin-packs and the revision.c --stdin argument, some of this was
covered in a test added in 339bce27f4 (builtin/pack-objects.c: add
'--stdin-packs' option, 2021-02-22), but let's make sure that
GIT_TEST_DISALLOW_ABBREVIATED_OPTIONS=true keeps erroring out about
--stdin, and it isn't picked up by the revision.c API's handling of
that option.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A negative window size makes no sense, and the code in find_deltas() is
not prepared to handle it. If you pass "-1", for example, we end up
generate a 0-length array of "struct unpacked", but our loop assumes it
has at least one entry in it (and we end up reading garbage memory).
We could complain to the user about this, but it's more forgiving to
just clamp it to 0, which means "do not find any deltas at all". The
0-case is already tested earlier in the script, so we'll make sure this
does the same thing.
Reported-by: Yiyuan guo <yguoaz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We pack a set of objects both with and without --window=0, assuming that
the 0-length window will cause us not to produce any deltas. Let's
confirm that this is the case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first set of tests in t5300 goes back to 2005, and doesn't use some
of our customary style and tools these days. In preparation for touching
them, let's modernize a few things:
- titles go on the line with test_expect_success, with a hanging
open-quote to start the test body
- test bodies should be indented with tabs
- opening braces for shell blocks in &&-chains go on their own line
- no space between redirect operators and files (">foo", not "> foo")
- avoid doing work outside of test blocks; in this case, we can stick
the setup of ".git2" into the appropriate blocks
- avoid modifying and then cleaning up the environment or current
directory by using subshells and "git -C"
- this test does a curious thing when testing the unpacking: it sets
GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, and then does a "git init" in the _original_
directory, creating a weird mixed situation. Instead, it's much
simpler to just "git init --bare" a new repository to unpack into,
and check the results there. I renamed this "git2" instead of
".git2" to make it more clear it's a separate repo.
- we can observe that the bodies of the no-delta, ref_delta, and
ofs_delta cases are all virtually identical except for the pack
creation, and factor out shared helper functions. I collapsed "do
the unpack" and "check the results of the unpack" into a single
test, since that makes the expected lifetime of the "git2" temporary
directory more clear (that also lets us use test_when_finished to
clean it up). This does make the "-v" output slightly less useful,
but the improvement in reading the actual test code makes it worth
it.
- I dropped the "pwd" calls from some tests. These don't do anything
functional, and I suspect may have been an aid for debugging when
the script was more cavalier about leaving the working directory
changed between tests.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS is a mechanism to skip test pieces with
prerequisites to catch broken tests that depend on the side effects
of optional pieces, but did not work at all when negative
prerequisites were involved.
* jk/fail-prereq-testfix:
t: annotate !PTHREADS tests with !FAIL_PREREQS
"git repack" so far has been only capable of repacking everything
under the sun into a single pack (or split by size). A cleverer
strategy to reduce the cost of repacking a repository has been
introduced.
* tb/geometric-repack:
builtin/pack-objects.c: ignore missing links with --stdin-packs
builtin/repack.c: reword comment around pack-objects flags
builtin/repack.c: be more conservative with unsigned overflows
builtin/repack.c: assign pack split later
t7703: test --geometric repack with loose objects
builtin/repack.c: do not repack single packs with --geometric
builtin/repack.c: add '--geometric' option
packfile: add kept-pack cache for find_kept_pack_entry()
builtin/pack-objects.c: rewrite honor-pack-keep logic
p5303: measure time to repack with keep
p5303: add missing &&-chains
builtin/pack-objects.c: add '--stdin-packs' option
revision: learn '--no-kept-objects'
packfile: introduce 'find_kept_pack_entry()'
When 'git pack-objects --stdin-packs' encounters a commit in a pack, it
marks it as a starting point of a best-effort reachability traversal
that is used to populate the name-hash of the objects listed in the
given packs.
The traversal expects that it should be able to walk the ancestors of
all commits in a pack without issue. Ordinarily this is the case, but it
is possible to having missing parents from an unreachable part of the
repository. In that case, we'd consider any missing objects in the
unreachable portion of the graph to be junk.
This should be handled gracefully: since the traversal is best-effort
(i.e., we don't strictly need to fill in all of the name-hash fields),
we should simply ignore any missing links.
This patch does that (by setting the 'ignore_missing_links' bit on the
rev_info struct), and ensures we don't regress in the future by adding a
test which demonstrates this case.
It is a little over-eager, since it will also ignore missing links in
reachable parts of the packs (which would indicate a corrupted
repository), but '--stdin-packs' is explicitly *not* about reachability.
So this step isn't making anything worse for a repository which contains
packs missing reachable objects (since we never drop objects with
'--stdin-packs').
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some tests in t5300 and t7810 expect us to complain about a "--threads"
argument when Git is compiled without pthread support. Running these
under GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS produces a confusing failure: we pretend to
the tests that there is no pthread support, so they expect the warning,
but of course the actual build is perfectly happy to respect the
--threads argument.
We never noticed before the recent a926c4b904 (tests: remove most uses
of C_LOCALE_OUTPUT, 2021-02-11), because the tests also were marked as
requiring the C_LOCALE_OUTPUT prerequisite. Which means they'd never
have run in FAIL_PREREQS mode, since it would always pretend that the
locale prereq was not satisfied.
These tests can't possibly work in this mode; it is a mismatch between
what the tests expect and what the build was told to do. So let's just
mark them to be skipped, using the special prereq introduced by
dfe1a17df9 (tests: add a special setup where prerequisites fail,
2019-05-13).
Reported-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In an upcoming commit, 'git repack' will want to create a pack comprised
of all of the objects in some packs (the included packs) excluding any
objects in some other packs (the excluded packs).
This caller could iterate those packs themselves and feed the objects it
finds to 'git pack-objects' directly over stdin, but this approach has a
few downsides:
- It requires every caller that wants to drive 'git pack-objects' in
this way to implement pack iteration themselves. This forces the
caller to think about details like what order objects are fed to
pack-objects, which callers would likely rather not do.
- If the set of objects in included packs is large, it requires
sending a lot of data over a pipe, which is inefficient.
- The caller is forced to keep track of the excluded objects, too, and
make sure that it doesn't send any objects that appear in both
included and excluded packs.
But the biggest downside is the lack of a reachability traversal.
Because the caller passes in a list of objects directly, those objects
don't get a namehash assigned to them, which can have a negative impact
on the delta selection process, causing 'git pack-objects' to fail to
find good deltas even when they exist.
The caller could formulate a reachability traversal themselves, but the
only way to drive 'git pack-objects' in this way is to do a full
traversal, and then remove objects in the excluded packs after the
traversal is complete. This can be detrimental to callers who care
about performance, especially in repositories with many objects.
Introduce 'git pack-objects --stdin-packs' which remedies these four
concerns.
'git pack-objects --stdin-packs' expects a list of pack names on stdin,
where 'pack-xyz.pack' denotes that pack as included, and
'^pack-xyz.pack' denotes it as excluded. The resulting pack includes all
objects that are present in at least one included pack, and aren't
present in any excluded pack.
To address the delta selection problem, 'git pack-objects --stdin-packs'
works as follows. First, it assembles a list of objects that it is going
to pack, as above. Then, a reachability traversal is started, whose tips
are any commits mentioned in included packs. Upon visiting an object, we
find its corresponding object_entry in the to_pack list, and set its
namehash parameter appropriately.
To avoid the traversal visiting more objects than it needs to, the
traversal is halted upon encountering an object which can be found in an
excluded pack (by marking the excluded packs as kept in-core, and
passing --no-kept-objects=in-core to the revision machinery).
This can cause the traversal to halt early, for example if an object in
an included pack is an ancestor of ones in excluded packs. But stopping
early is OK, since filling in the namehash fields of objects in the
to_pack list is only additive (i.e., having it helps the delta selection
process, but leaving it blank doesn't impact the correctness of the
resulting pack).
Even still, it is unlikely that this hurts us much in practice, since
the 'git repack --geometric' caller (which is introduced in a later
commit) marks small packs as included, and large ones as excluded.
During ordinary use, the small packs usually represent pushes after a
large repack, and so are unlikely to be ancestors of objects that
already exist in the repository.
(I found it convenient while developing this patch to have 'git
pack-objects' report the number of objects which were visited and got
their namehash fields filled in during traversal. This is also included
in the below patch via trace2 data lines).
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As a follow-up to d162b25f95 (tests: remove support for
GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON, 2021-01-20) remove those uses of the now
always true C_LOCALE_OUTPUT prerequisite from those tests which
declare it as an argument to test_expect_{success,failure}.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach Git to lazy-fetch missing objects in a subprocess instead of doing
it in-process. This allows any fatal errors that occur during the fetch
to be isolated and converted into an error return value, instead of
causing the current command being run to terminate.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The final leg of SHA-256 transition.
* bc/sha-256-part-3: (39 commits)
t: remove test_oid_init in tests
docs: add documentation for extensions.objectFormat
ci: run tests with SHA-256
t: make SHA1 prerequisite depend on default hash
t: allow testing different hash algorithms via environment
t: add test_oid option to select hash algorithm
repository: enable SHA-256 support by default
setup: add support for reading extensions.objectformat
bundle: add new version for use with SHA-256
builtin/verify-pack: implement an --object-format option
http-fetch: set up git directory before parsing pack hashes
t0410: mark test with SHA1 prerequisite
t5308: make test work with SHA-256
t9700: make hash size independent
t9500: ensure that algorithm info is preserved in config
t9350: make hash size independent
t9301: make hash size independent
t9300: use $ZERO_OID instead of hard-coded object ID
t9300: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t8011: make hash size independent
...
Now that we call test_oid_init in the setup for all test scripts,
there's no point in calling it individually. Remove all of the places
where we've done so to help keep tests tidy.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an object to be packed is noticed to be missing, prefetch all
to-be-packed objects in one batch.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git index-pack by default reads the repository to determine the object
format. However, when outside of a repository, it's necessary to specify
the hash algorithm in use so that the pack can be properly indexed. Add
an --object-format argument when invoking git index-pack outside of a
repository.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the pack-objects tests to not leave their .git directory
corrupt and the end.
In 2fca19fbb5 ("fix multiple issues with t5300", 2010-02-03) a comment
was added warning against adding any subsequent tests, but since
4614043c8f ("index-pack: use streaming interface for collision test on
large blobs", 2012-05-24) the comment has drifted away from the code,
mentioning two test, when we actually have three.
Instead of having this warning let's just create a new .git directory
specifically for these tests.
As an aside, it would be interesting to instrument the test suite to
run a "git fsck" at the very end (in "test_done"). That would have
errored before this change, and may find other issues #leftoverbits.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Modernize the quoting and indentation style of two tests added in
8685da4256 ("don't ever allow SHA1 collisions to exist by fetching a
pack", 2007-03-20), and of a subsequent one added in
4614043c8f ("index-pack: use streaming interface for collision test on
large blobs", 2012-05-24) which had copied the style of the first two.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"index-pack --strict" has been taught to make sure that it runs the
final object integrity checks after making the freshly indexed
packfile available to itself.
* jk/index-pack-maint:
index-pack: correct install_packed_git() args
index-pack: handle --strict checks of non-repo packs
prepare_commit_graft: treat non-repository as a noop
The parse_commit_buffer() function consults lookup_commit_graft()
to see if we need to rewrite parents. The latter will look
at $GIT_DIR/info/grafts. If you're outside of a repository,
then this will trigger a BUG() as of b1ef400eec (setup_git_env:
avoid blind fall-back to ".git", 2016-10-20).
It's probably uncommon to actually parse a commit outside of
a repository, but you can see it in action with:
cd /not/a/git/repo
git index-pack --strict /some/file.pack
This works fine without --strict, but the fsck checks will
try to parse any commits, triggering the BUG(). We can fix
that by teaching the graft code to behave as if there are no
grafts when we aren't in a repository.
Arguably index-pack (and fsck) are wrong to consider grafts
at all. So another solution is to disable grafts entirely
for those commands. But given that the graft feature is
deprecated anyway, it's not worth even thinking through the
ramifications that might have.
There is one other corner case I considered here. What
should:
cd /not/a/git/repo
export GIT_GRAFT_FILE=/file/with/grafts
git index-pack --strict /some/file.pack
do? We don't have a repository, but the user has pointed us
directly at a graft file, which we could respect. I believe
this case did work that way prior to b1ef400eec. However,
fixing it now would be pretty invasive. Back then we would
just call into setup_git_env() even without a repository.
But these days it actually takes a git_dir argument. So
there would be a fair bit of refactoring of the setup code
involved.
Given the obscurity of this case, plus the fact that grafts
are deprecated and probably shouldn't work under index-pack
anyway, it's not worth pursuing further. This patch at least
un-breaks the common case where you're _not_ using grafts,
but we BUG() anyway trying to even find that out.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many tests hardcode the raw object names, which would change once
we migrate away from SHA-1. While some of them must test against
exact object names, most of them do not have to use hardcoded
constants in the test. The latter kind of tests have been updated
to test the moral equivalent of the original without hardcoding the
actual object names.
* bc/hash-independent-tests: (28 commits)
t5300: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4208: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4045: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4042: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4205: sort log output in a hash-independent way
t/lib-diff-alternative: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4030: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4029: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4029: fix test indentation
t4022: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4020: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4014: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4008: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4007: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t3905: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t3702: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t3103: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t2203: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t: skip pack tests if not using SHA-1
t4044: skip test if not using SHA-1
...