When passing `--incremental` to git-blame(1) we exit early by jumping to
the `cleanup` label. But some of the cleanups we perform are handled
between the `goto` and its label, and thus we leak the data.
Move the cleanups after the `cleanup` label. While at it, move the logic
to free the scoreboard's `final_buf` into `cleanup_scoreboard()` and
drop its `const` declaration.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Besides the textual symref, we also allow symbolic links as the symref.
So, we should also provide the consistency check as what we have done
for textual symref. And also we consider deprecating writing the
symbolic links. We first need to access whether symbolic links still
be used. So, add a new fsck message "symlinkRef(INFO)" to tell the
user be aware of this information.
We have already introduced "files_fsck_symref_target". We should reuse
this function to handle the symrefs which use legacy symbolic links. We
should not check the trailing garbage for symbolic refs. Add a new
parameter "symbolic_link" to disable some checks which should only be
executed for textual symrefs.
And we need to also generate the "referent" parameter for reusing
"files_fsck_symref_target" by the following steps:
1. Use "strbuf_add_real_path" to resolve the symlink and get the
absolute path "ref_content" which the symlink ref points to.
2. Generate the absolute path "abs_gitdir" of "gitdir" and combine
"ref_content" and "abs_gitdir" to extract the relative path
"relative_referent_path".
3. If "ref_content" is outside of "gitdir", we just set "referent" with
"ref_content". Instead, we set "referent" with
"relative_referent_path".
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ideally, we want to the users use "git symbolic-ref" to create symrefs
instead of writing raw contents into the filesystem. However, "git
symbolic-ref" is strict with the refname but not strict with the
referent. For example, we can make the "referent" located at the
"$(gitdir)/logs/aaa" and manually write the content into this where we
can still successfully parse this symref by using "git rev-parse".
$ git init repo && cd repo && git commit --allow-empty -mx
$ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/test logs/aaa
$ echo $(git rev-parse HEAD) > .git/logs/aaa
$ git rev-parse test
We may need to add some restrictions for "referent" parameter when using
"git symbolic-ref" to create symrefs because ideally all the
nonpseudo-refs should be located under the "refs" directory and we may
tighten this in the future.
In order to tell the user we may tighten the above situation, create
a new fsck message "symrefTargetIsNotARef" to notify the user that this
may become an error in the future.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have code that checks regular ref contents, but we do not yet check
the contents of symbolic refs. By using "parse_loose_ref_content" for
symbolic refs, we will get the information of the "referent".
We do not need to check the "referent" by opening the file. This is
because if "referent" exists in the file system, we will eventually
check its correctness by inspecting every file in the "refs" directory.
If the "referent" does not exist in the filesystem, this is OK as it is
seen as the dangling symref.
So we just need to check the "referent" string content. A regular ref
could be accepted as a textual symref if it begins with "ref:", followed
by zero or more whitespaces, followed by the full refname, followed only
by whitespace characters. However, we always write a single SP after
"ref:" and a single LF after the refname. It may seem that we should
report a fsck error message when the "referent" does not apply above
rules and we should not be so aggressive because third-party
reimplementations of Git may have taken advantage of the looser syntax.
Put it more specific, we accept the following contents:
1. "ref: refs/heads/master "
2. "ref: refs/heads/master \n \n"
3. "ref: refs/heads/master\n\n"
When introducing the regular ref content checks, we created two fsck
infos "refMissingNewline" and "trailingRefContent" which exactly
represents above situations. So we will reuse these two fsck messages to
write checks to info the user about these situations.
But we do not allow any other trailing garbage. The followings are bad
symref contents which will be reported as fsck error by "git-fsck(1)".
1. "ref: refs/heads/master garbage\n"
2. "ref: refs/heads/master \n\n\n garbage "
And we introduce a new "badReferentName(ERROR)" fsck message to report
above errors by using "is_root_ref" and "check_refname_format" to check
the "referent". Since both "is_root_ref" and "check_refname_format"
don't work with whitespaces, we use the trimmed version of "referent"
with these functions.
In order to add checks, we will do the following things:
1. Record the untrimmed length "orig_len" and untrimmed last byte
"orig_last_byte".
2. Use "strbuf_rtrim" to trim the whitespaces or newlines to make sure
"is_root_ref" and "check_refname_format" won't be failed by them.
3. Use "orig_len" and "orig_last_byte" to check whether the "referent"
misses '\n' at the end or it has trailing whitespaces or newlines.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have already used "parse_loose_ref_contents" function to check
whether the ref content is valid in files backend. However, by
using "parse_loose_ref_contents", we allow the ref's content to end with
garbage or without a newline.
Even though we never create such loose refs ourselves, we have accepted
such loose refs. So, it is entirely possible that some third-party tools
may rely on such loose refs being valid. We should not report an error
fsck message at current. We should notify the users about such
"curiously formatted" loose refs so that adequate care is taken before
we decide to tighten the rules in the future.
And it's not suitable either to report a warn fsck message to the user.
We don't yet want the "--strict" flag that controls this bit to end up
generating errors for such weirdly-formatted reference contents, as we
first want to assess whether this retroactive tightening will cause
issues for any tools out there. It may cause compatibility issues which
may break the repository. So, we add the following two fsck infos to
represent the situation where the ref content ends without newline or
has trailing garbages:
1. refMissingNewline(INFO): A loose ref that does not end with
newline(LF).
2. trailingRefContent(INFO): A loose ref has trailing content.
It might appear that we can't provide the user with any warnings by
using FSCK_INFO. However, in "fsck.c::fsck_vreport", we will convert
FSCK_INFO to FSCK_WARN and we can still warn the user about these
situations when using "git refs verify" without introducing
compatibility issues.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git-fsck(1)" implicitly checks the ref content by passing the
callback "fsck_handle_ref" to the "refs.c::refs_for_each_rawref".
Then, it will check whether the ref content (eventually "oid")
is valid. If not, it will report the following error to the user.
error: refs/heads/main: invalid sha1 pointer 0000...
And it will also report above errors when there are dangling symrefs
in the repository wrongly. This does not align with the behavior of
the "git symbolic-ref" command which allows users to create dangling
symrefs.
As we have already introduced the "git refs verify" command, we'd better
check the ref content explicitly in the "git refs verify" command thus
later we could remove these checks in "git-fsck(1)" and launch a
subprocess to call "git refs verify" in "git-fsck(1)" to make the
"git-fsck(1)" more clean.
Following what "git-fsck(1)" does, add a similar check to "git refs
verify". Then add a new fsck error message "badRefContent(ERROR)" to
represent that a ref has an invalid content.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have already set up the infrastructure to check the consistency for
refs, but we do not support multiple worktrees. However, "git-fsck(1)"
will check the refs of worktrees. As we decide to get feature parity
with "git-fsck(1)", we need to set up support for multiple worktrees.
Because each worktree has its own specific refs, instead of just showing
the users "refs/worktree/foo", we need to display the full name such as
"worktrees/<id>/refs/worktree/foo". So we should know the id of the
worktree to get the full name. Add a new parameter "struct worktree *"
for "refs-internal.h::fsck_fn". Then change the related functions to
follow this new interface.
The "packed-refs" only exists in the main worktree, so we should only
check "packed-refs" in the main worktree. Use "is_main_worktree" method
to skip checking "packed-refs" in "packed_fsck" function.
Then, enhance the "files-backend.c::files_fsck_refs_dir" function to add
"worktree/<id>/" prefix when we are not in the main worktree.
Last, add a new test to check the refname when there are multiple
worktrees to exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We passes "refs_check_dir" to the "files_fsck_refs_name" function which
allows it to create the checked ref name later. However, when we
introduce a new check function, we have to allocate redundant memory and
re-calculate the ref name. It's bad for us to allocate redundant memory
and duplicate logic. Instead, we should allocate and calculate it only
once and pass the ref name to the check functions.
In order not to do repeat calculation, rename "refs_check_dir" to
"refname". And in "files_fsck_refs_dir", create a new strbuf "refname",
thus whenever we handle a new ref, calculate the name and call the check
functions one by one.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "files-backend.c::files_fsck_refs_name", we validate the refname
format by using "check_refname_format" to check the basename of the
iterator with "REFNAME_ALLOW_ONELEVEL" flag.
However, this is a bad implementation. Although we doesn't allow a
single "@" in ".git" directory, we do allow "refs/heads/@". So, we will
report an error wrongly when there is a "refs/heads/@" ref by using one
level refname "@".
Because we just check one level refname, we either cannot check the
other parts of the full refname. And we will ignore the following
errors:
"refs/heads/ new-feature/test"
"refs/heads/~new-feature/test"
In order to fix the above problem, enhance "files_fsck_refs_name" to use
the full name for "check_refname_format". Then, replace the tests which
are related to "@" and add tests to exercise the above situations using
for loop to avoid repetition.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "fsck.c::fsck_refs_error_function", we need to tell whether "oid" and
"referent" is NULL. So, we need to always initialize these parameters to
NULL instead of letting them point to anywhere when creating a new
"fsck_ref_report" structure.
The original code explicitly initializes the "path" member in the
"struct fsck_ref_report" to NULL (which implicitly 0-initializes other
members in the struct). It is more customary to use "{ 0 }" to express
that we are 0-initializing everything. In order to align with the
codebase, initialize "fsck_ref_report" with zero.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The block writer needs to compute the key for every record that one adds
to the writer. The buffer for this key is stored on the stack and thus
reallocated on every call to `block_writer_add()`, which is inefficient.
Refactor the code so that we store the buffer in the `block_writer`
struct itself so that we can reuse it. This reduces the number of
allocations when writing many refs, e.g. when migrating one million refs
from the "files" backend to the "reftable backend. Before this change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks
total heap usage: 3,025,864 allocs, 3,025,815 frees, 372,746,291 bytes allocated
After this change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks
total heap usage: 2,013,250 allocs, 2,013,201 frees, 347,543,583 bytes allocated
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adapt the name of the `block_writer::buf` variable to instead be called
`block`. This aligns it with the existing `block_len` variable, which
tracks the length of this buffer, and is generally a bit more tied to
the actual context where this variable gets used.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both `writer_add_record()` and `reftable_writer_add_ref()` get executed
for every single ref record we're adding to the reftable writer. And as
both functions use a local buffer to write data, the allocations we have
to do here add up during larger transactions.
Refactor the code to use a scratch buffer part of the `reftable_writer`
itself such that we can reuse it. This signifcantly reduces the number
of allocations during large transactions, e.g. when migrating refs from
the "files" backend to the "reftable" backend. Before this change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks
total heap usage: 5,032,171 allocs, 5,032,122 frees, 418,792,092 bytes allocated
After this change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks
total heap usage: 3,025,864 allocs, 3,025,815 frees, 372,746,291 bytes allocated
This also translate into a small speedup:
Benchmark 1: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 827.2 ms ± 16.5 ms [User: 689.4 ms, System: 124.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 809.0 ms … 924.7 ms 50 runs
Benchmark 2: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 813.6 ms ± 11.6 ms [User: 679.0 ms, System: 123.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 786.7 ms … 833.5 ms 50 runs
Summary
migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) ran
1.02 ± 0.02 times faster than migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the `REF_SKIP_CREATE_REFLOG` flag is set we skip the creation of
the reflog entry, but we still normalize the reflog message when we
queue the update. This is a waste of resources as the normalized message
will never get used in the first place.
Fix this issue by skipping the normalization in case the flag is set.
This leads to a surprisingly large speedup when migrating from the
"files" to the "reftable" backend:
Benchmark 1: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 878.5 ms ± 14.9 ms [User: 726.5 ms, System: 139.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 858.4 ms … 941.3 ms 50 runs
Benchmark 2: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 831.1 ms ± 10.5 ms [User: 694.1 ms, System: 126.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 812.4 ms … 851.4 ms 50 runs
Summary
migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) ran
1.06 ± 0.02 times faster than migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
And an ever larger speedup when migrating the other way round:
Benchmark 1: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 923.6 ms ± 11.6 ms [User: 705.5 ms, System: 208.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 905.3 ms … 946.5 ms 50 runs
Benchmark 2: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 818.5 ms ± 9.0 ms [User: 627.6 ms, System: 180.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 802.2 ms … 842.9 ms 50 runs
Summary
migrate reftable:files (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) ran
1.13 ± 0.02 times faster than migrate reftable:files (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reference transactions use `refs_verify_refname_available()` to check
for colliding references. This check consists of two parts:
- Checks for whether multiple ref updates in the same transaction
conflict with each other.
- Checks for whether existing refs conflict with any refs part of the
transaction.
While we generally cannot avoid the first check, the second check is
superfluous in cases where the transaction is an initial one in an
otherwise empty ref store. The check results in multiple ref reads as
well as the creation of a ref iterator for every ref we're checking,
which adds up quite fast when performing the check for many refs.
Introduce a new flag that allows us to skip this check and wire it up in
such that the backends pass it when running an initial transaction. This
leads to significant speedups when migrating ref storage backends. From
"files" to "reftable":
Benchmark 1: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 472.4 ms ± 6.7 ms [User: 175.9 ms, System: 285.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 463.5 ms … 483.2 ms 10 runs
Benchmark 2: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 86.1 ms ± 1.9 ms [User: 67.9 ms, System: 16.0 ms]
Range (min … max): 82.9 ms … 90.9 ms 29 runs
Summary
migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) ran
5.48 ± 0.15 times faster than migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~)
And from "reftable" to "files":
Benchmark 1: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 452.7 ms ± 3.4 ms [User: 209.9 ms, System: 235.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 445.9 ms … 457.5 ms 10 runs
Benchmark 2: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 95.2 ms ± 2.2 ms [User: 73.6 ms, System: 20.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 91.7 ms … 100.8 ms 28 runs
Summary
migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) ran
4.76 ± 0.11 times faster than migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Until now, we couldn't use "initial" transaction semantics to migrate
refs because the "files" backend only supported writing regular refs via
the initial transaction because it simply mapped the transaction to a
"packed-refs" transaction. But with the preceding commit, the "files"
backend has learned to also write symbolic and root refs in the initial
transaction by creating a second transaction for all refs that need to
be written as loose refs.
Adapt the code to migrate refs to commit the transaction as an initial
transaction. This results in a signiticant speedup when migrating many
refs:
Benchmark 1: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 3.247 s ± 0.034 s [User: 0.485 s, System: 2.722 s]
Range (min … max): 3.216 s … 3.309 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 453.6 ms ± 1.9 ms [User: 214.6 ms, System: 230.5 ms]
Range (min … max): 451.5 ms … 456.4 ms 10 runs
Summary
migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) ran
7.16 ± 0.08 times faster than migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~)
As the reftable backend doesn't (yet) special-case initial transactions
there is no comparable speedup for that backend.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "files" backend has implemented special logic when committing
the first transactions in an otherwise empty ref store: instead of
writing all refs as separate loose files, it instead knows to write them
all into a "packed-refs" file directly. This is significantly more
efficient than having to write each of the refs as separate "loose" ref.
The only user of this optimization is git-clone(1), which only uses this
mechanism to write regular refs. Consequently, the implementation does
not know how to handle both symbolic and root refs. While fine in the
context of git-clone(1), this keeps us from using the mechanism in more
cases.
Adapt the logic to also support symbolic and root refs by using a second
transaction that we use for all of the refs that need to be written as
loose refs.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two different ways to commit a transaction:
- `ref_transaction_commit()` can be used to commit a regular
transaction and is what almost every caller wants.
- `initial_ref_transaction_commit()` can be used when it is known that
the ref store that the transaction is committed for is empty and
when there are no concurrent processes. This is used when cloning a
new repository.
Implementing this via two separate functions has a couple of downsides.
First, every reference backend needs to implement a separate callback
even in the case where they don't special-case the initial transaction.
Second, backends are basically forced to reimplement the whole logic for
how to commit the transaction like the "files" backend does, even though
backends may wish to only tweak certain behaviour of a "normal" commit.
Third, it is awkward that callers must never prepare the transaction as
this is somewhat different than how a transaction typically works.
Refactor the code such that we instead mark initial transactions via a
separate flag when starting the transaction. This addresses all of the
mentioned painpoints, where the most important part is that it will
allow backends to have way more leeway in how exactly they want to
handle the initial transaction.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the logic to commit initial transactions such that we can start to
call it in `files_transaction_finish()` in a subsequent commit without
requiring a separate function declaration.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow passing flags when setting up a transaction such that the
behaviour of the transaction itself can be altered. This functionality
will be used in a subsequent patch.
Adapt callers accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git gc" discards any objects that are outside promisor packs that
are referred to by an object in a promisor pack, and we do not
refetch them from the promisor at runtime, resulting an unusable
repository. Work it around by including these objects in the
referring promisor pack at the receiving end of the fetch.
* jt/repack-local-promisor:
index-pack: repack local links into promisor packs
t5300: move --window clamp test next to unclamped
t0410: use from-scratch server
t0410: make test description clearer
A "git fetch" from the superproject going down to a submodule used
a wrong remote when the default remote names are set differently
between them.
* db/submodule-fetch-with-remote-name-fix:
submodule: correct remote name with fetch
Fail gracefully instead of crashing when attempting to write the
contents of a corrupt in-core index as a tree object.
* ps/cache-tree-w-broken-index-entry:
unpack-trees: detect mismatching number of cache-tree/index entries
cache-tree: detect mismatching number of index entries
cache-tree: refactor verification to return error codes
"git maintenance start" crashed due to an uninitialized variable
reference, which has been corrected.
* ps/maintenance-start-crash-fix:
builtin/gc: fix crash when running `git maintenance start`
On macOS, fsmonitor can fall into a race condition that results in
a client waiting forever to be notified for an event that have
already happened. This problem has been corrected.
* jk/fsmonitor-event-listener-race-fix:
fsmonitor: initialize fs event listener before accepting clients
simple-ipc: split async server initialization and running
Use after free and double freeing at the end in "git log -L... -p"
had been identified and fixed.
* ds/line-log-asan-fix:
line-log: protect inner strbuf from free
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>
When running scheduled maintenance via `git maintenance start`, we
acquire a lockfile to ensure that no other scheduled maintenance task is
running in the repository concurrently. If so, we do provide an error to
the user hinting that another process seems to be running in this repo.
There are two important cases why such a lockfile may exist:
- An actual git-maintenance(1) process is still running in this
repository.
- An earlier process may have crashed or was interrupted part way
through and has left a stale lockfile behind.
In c95547a394 (builtin/gc: fix crash when running `git maintenance
start`, 2024-10-10), we have fixed an issue where git-maintenance(1)
would crash with the "start" subcommand, and the underlying bug causes
the second scenario to trigger quite often now.
Most users don't know how to get out of that situation again though.
Ideally, we'd be removing the stale lock for our users automatically.
But in the context of repository maintenance this is rather risky, as it
can easily run for hours or even days. So finding a clear point where we
know that the old process has exited is basically impossible.
We have the same issue in other subsystems, e.g. when locking refs. Our
lockfile interfaces thus provide the `unable_to_lock_message()` function
for exactly this purpose: it provides a nice hint to the user that
explains what is going on and how to get out of that situation again by
manually removing the file.
Adapt git-maintenance(1) to print a similar hint. While we could use the
above function, we can provide a bit more context as we know exactly
what kind of process would create the lockfile.
Reported-by: Miguel Rincon Barahona <mrincon@gitlab.com>
Reported-by: Kev Kloss <kkloss@gitlab.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By the way, we also change the sentences where git-diff would refer to
itself, so that no link is created in the HTML output.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The format change is only applied to the sections of the file that are
filtered in git-diff.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for git-diff has been updated to follow the new
documentation guidelines. The following changes have been applied to
the series of patches:
- switching the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- use `backticks for keywords and more complex option
descriptions`. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
- prevent git-diff from self-referencing itself via gitlink macro when
the generated link would point to the same page.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/reftable-detach:
reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for lockfile subsystem
reftable/stack: drop only use of `get_locked_file_path()`
reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for tempfile subsystem
reftable/stack: stop using `fsync_component()` directly
reftable/system: stop depending on "hash.h"
reftable: explicitly handle hash format IDs
reftable/system: move "dir.h" to its only user
We use the lockfile subsystem to write lockfiles for "tables.list". As
with the tempfile subsystem, the lockfile subsystem also hooks into our
infrastructure to prune stale locks via atexit(3p) or signal handlers.
Furthermore, the lockfile subsystem also handles locking timeouts, which
do add quite a bit of logic. Having to reimplement that in the context
of Git wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, and it is quite likely that
downstream users of the reftable library may have a better idea for how
exactly to implement timeouts.
So again, provide a thin wrapper for the lockfile subsystem instead such
that the compatibility shim is fully self-contained.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We've got a single callsite where we call `get_locked_file_path()`. As
we're about to convert our usage of the lockfile subsystem to instead be
used via a compatibility shim we'd have to implement more logic for this
single callsite. While that would be okay if Git was the only supposed
user of the reftable library, it's a bit more awkward when considering
that we have to reimplement this functionality for every user of the
library eventually.
Refactor the code such that we don't call `get_locked_file_path()`
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We use the tempfile subsystem to write temporary tables, but given that
we're in the process of converting the reftable library to become
standalone we cannot use this subsystem directly anymore. While we could
in theory convert the code to use mkstemp(3p) instead, we'd lose access
to our infrastructure that automatically prunes tempfiles via atexit(3p)
or signal handlers.
Provide a thin wrapper for the tempfile subsystem instead. Like this,
the compatibility shim is fully self-contained in "reftable/system.c".
Downstream users of the reftable library would have to implement their
own tempfile shims by replacing "system.c" with a custom version.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're executing `fsync_component()` directly in the reftable library so
that we can fsync data to disk depending on "core.fsync". But as we're
in the process of converting the reftable library to become standalone
we cannot use that function in the library anymore.
Refactor the code such that users of the library can inject a custom
fsync function via the write options. This allows us to get rid of the
dependency on "write-or-die.h".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We include "hash.h" in "reftable/system.h" such that we can use hash
format IDs as well as the raw size of SHA1 and SHA256. As we are in the
process of converting the reftable library to become standalone we of
course cannot rely on those constants anymore.
Introduce a new `enum reftable_hash` to replace internal uses of the
hash format IDs and new constants that replace internal uses of the hash
size. Adapt the reftable backend to set up the correct hash function.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The hash format IDs are used for two different things across the
reftable codebase:
- They are used as a 32 bit unsigned integer when reading and writing
the header in order to identify the hash function.
- They are used internally to identify which hash function is in use.
When one only considers the second usecase one might think that one can
easily change the representation of those hash IDs. But because those
IDs end up in the reftable header and footer on disk it is important
that those never change.
Create separate constants `REFTABLE_FORMAT_ID_*` and use them in
contexts where we read or write reftable headers. This serves multiple
purposes:
- It allows us to more easily discern cases where we actually use
those constants for the on-disk format.
- It detangles us from the same constants that are defined in
libgit.a, which is another required step to convert the reftable
library to become standalone.
- It makes the next step easier where we stop using `GIT_*_FORMAT_ID`
constants in favor of a custom enum.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We still include "dir.h" in "reftable/system.h" even though it is not
used by anything but by a single unit test. Move it over into that unit
test so that we don't accidentally use any functionality provided by it
in the reftable codebase.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If someone replaces a commit with a modified version, then builds on
that commit, and then later decides to rewrite history in a format like
git fast-export --all | CMD_TO_TWEAK_THE_STREAM | git fast-import
and CMD_TO_TWEAK_THE_STREAM undoes the modifications that the
replacement did, then at the end you'd get a replace ref that points to
itself. For example:
$ git show-ref | grep replace
fb92ebc654641b310e7d0360d0a5a49316fd7264 refs/replace/fb92ebc654641b310e7d0360d0a5a49316fd7264
Git commands which pay attention to replace refs will die with an error
when a self-referencing replace ref is present:
$ git log
fatal: replace depth too high for object fb92ebc654641b310e7d0360d0a5a49316fd7264
Avoid such problems by deleting replace refs that will simply end up
pointing to themselves at the end of our writing. Unless users specify
--quiet, warn them when we delete such a replace ref.
Two notes about this patch:
* We are not ignoring the problematic update of the replace ref
(turning it into a no-op), we are replacing the update with a delete.
The logic here is that if the repository had a value for the replace
ref before fast-import was run, and the replace ref was explicitly
named in the fast-import stream, we don't want the replace ref to be
left with a pre-fast-import value.
* While loops with more than one element (e.g. refs/replace/A points
to B, and refs/replace/B points to A) are possible, they seem much
less plausible. It is pretty easy to create a sequence of
git-filter-repo commands that will trigger a self-referencing replace
ref, but I do not know how to trigger a scenario with a cycle length
greater than 1.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We define macros with the bytes of the empty trees and blobs for sha1
and sha256. But since e1ccd7e2b1 (sha1_file: only expose empty object
constants through git_hash_algo, 2018-05-02), those are used only for
initializing the git_hash_algo entries. Any other code using the macros
directly would be suspicious, since a hash_algo pointer is the level of
indirection we use to make everything work with both sha1 and sha256.
So let's future proof against code doing the wrong thing by dropping the
macros entirely and just initializing the structs directly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cached-object API maps oids to in-memory entries. Once inserted,
these entries should be immutable. Let's return them from the
find_cached_object() call with a const tag to make this clear.
Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pretend_object_file() function adds to an array mapping oids to
object contents, which are later retrieved with find_cached_object().
We naturally need to store the oid for each entry, since it's the lookup
key.
But find_cached_object() also returns a hard-coded empty_tree object.
There we don't care about its oid field and instead compare against
the_hash_algo->empty_tree. The oid field is left as all-zeroes.
This all works, but it means that the cached_object struct we return
from find_cached_object() may or may not have a valid oid field, depend
whether it is the hard-coded tree or came from pretend_object_file().
Nobody looks at the field, so there's no bug. But let's future-proof it
by returning only the object contents themselves, not the oid. We'll
continue to call this "struct cached_object", and the array entry
mapping the key to those contents will be a "cached_object_entry".
This would also let us swap out the array for a better data structure
(like a hashmap) if we chose, but there's not much point. The only code
that adds an entry is git-blame, which adds at most a single entry per
process.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Patrick Steinhardt