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2026-02-24midx: enable reachability bitmaps during MIDX compactionTaylor Blau
Enable callers to generate reachability bitmaps when performing MIDX layer compaction by combining all existing bitmaps from the compacted layers. Note that because of the object/pack ordering described by the previous commit, the pseudo-pack order for the compacted MIDX is the same as concatenating the individual pseudo-pack orderings for each layer in the compaction range. As a result, the only non-test or documentation change necessary is to treat all objects as non-preferred during compaction so as not to disturb the object ordering. In the future, we may want to adjust which commit(s) receive reachability bitmaps when compacting multiple .bitmap files into one, or even generate new bitmaps (e.g., if the references have moved significantly since the .bitmap was generated). This commit only implements combining all existing bitmaps in range together in order to demonstrate and lay the groundwork for more exotic strategies. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-24midx: implement MIDX compactionTaylor Blau
When managing a MIDX chain with many layers, it is convenient to combine a sequence of adjacent layers into a single layer to prevent the chain from growing too long. While it is conceptually possible to "compact" a sequence of MIDX layers together by running "git multi-pack-index write --stdin-packs", there are a few drawbacks that make this less than desirable: - Preserving the MIDX chain is impossible, since there is no way to write a MIDX layer that contains objects or packs found in an earlier MIDX layer already part of the chain. So callers would have to write an entirely new (non-incremental) MIDX containing only the compacted layers, discarding all other objects/packs from the MIDX. - There is (currently) no way to write a MIDX layer outside of the MIDX chain to work around the above, such that the MIDX chain could be reassembled substituting the compacted layers with the MIDX that was written. - The `--stdin-packs` command-line option does not allow us to specify the order of packs as they appear in the MIDX. Therefore, even if there were workarounds for the previous two challenges, any bitmaps belonging to layers which come after the compacted layer(s) would no longer be valid. This commit introduces a way to compact a sequence of adjacent MIDX layers into a single layer while preserving the MIDX chain, as well as any bitmap(s) in layers which are newer than the compacted ones. Implementing MIDX compaction does not require a significant number of changes to how MIDX layers are written. The main changes are as follows: - Instead of calling `fill_packs_from_midx()`, we call a new function `fill_packs_from_midx_range()`, which walks backwards along the portion of the MIDX chain which we are compacting, and adds packs one layer a time. In order to preserve the pseudo-pack order, the concatenated pack order is preserved, with the exception of preferred packs which are always added first. - After adding entries from the set of packs in the compaction range, `compute_sorted_entries()` must adjust the `pack_int_id`'s for all objects added in each fanout layer to match their original `pack_int_id`'s (as opposed to the index at which each pack appears in `ctx.info`). Note that we cannot reuse `midx_fanout_add_midx_fanout()` directly here, as it unconditionally recurs through the `->base_midx`. Factor out a `_1()` variant that operates on a single layer, reimplement the existing function in terms of it, and use the new variant from `midx_fanout_add_compact()`. Since we are sorting the list of objects ourselves, the order we add them in does not matter. - When writing out the new 'multi-pack-index-chain' file, discard any layers in the compaction range, replacing them with the newly written layer, instead of keeping them and placing the new layer at the end of the chain. This ends up being sufficient to implement MIDX compaction in such a way that preserves bitmaps corresponding to more recent layers in the MIDX chain. The tests for MIDX compaction are so far fairly spartan, since the main interesting behavior here is ensuring that the right packs/objects are selected from each layer, and that the pack order is preserved despite whether or not they are sorted in lexicographic order in the original MIDX chain. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-24git-multi-pack-index(1): align SYNOPSIS with 'git multi-pack-index -h'Taylor Blau
Since c39fffc1c90 (tests: start asserting that *.txt SYNOPSIS matches -h output, 2022-10-13), the manual page for 'git multi-pack-index' has a SYNOPSIS section which differs from 'git multi-pack-index -h'. Correct this while also documenting additional options accepted by the 'write' sub-command. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-24git-multi-pack-index(1): remove non-existent incompatibilityTaylor Blau
Since fcb2205b774 (midx: implement support for writing incremental MIDX chains, 2024-08-06), the command-line options '--incremental' and '--bitmap' were declared to be incompatible with one another when running 'git multi-pack-index write'. However, since 27afc272c49 (midx: implement writing incremental MIDX bitmaps, 2025-03-20), that incompatibility no longer exists, despite the documentation saying so. Correct this by removing the stale reference to their incompatibility. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-24builtin/multi-pack-index.c: make '--progress' a common optionTaylor Blau
All multi-pack-index sub-commands (write, verify, repack, and expire) support a '--progress' command-line option, despite not listing it as one of the common options in `common_opts`. As a result each sub-command declares its own `OPT_BIT()` for a "--progress" command-line option. Centralize this within the `common_opts` to avoid re-declaring it in each sub-command. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-12Merge branch 'kh/doc-markup-fixes'Junio C Hamano
Doc markup fixes. * kh/doc-markup-fixes: doc: remove extra backtick for inline-verbatim doc: add missing backtick for inline-verbatim
2025-09-02doc: add missing backtick for inline-verbatimKristoffer Haugsbakk
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-11doc: check for absence of the form --[no-]parameterJean-Noël Avila
For better searchability, this commit adds a check to ensure that parameters expressed in the form of `--[no-]parameter` are not used in the documentation. In the place of such parameters, the documentation should list two separate parameters: `--parameter` and `--no-parameter`. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-05-22midx docs: clarify tie breakingPhillip Wood
Clarify what happens when an object exists in more than one pack, but not in the preferred pack. "git multi-pack-index repack" relies on ties for objects that are not in the preferred pack being resolved in favor of the newest pack that contains a copy of the object. If ties were resolved in favor of the oldest pack as the current documentation suggests the multi-pack index would not reference any of the objects in the pack created by "git multi-pack-index repack". Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-21doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc filesbrian m. carlson
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files. While not wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc, meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting. It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files, since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering. Let's do that here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where relevant. Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new extension as well. Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the documentation. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>