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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>
2024-06-14Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt: add missing position tableTaylor Blau
While investigating a benign Coverity warning on the new pseudo-merge implementation, I was struggling to understand the (paraphrased) below: ofs = index_end - 24 - (index->pseudo_merges.nr * sizeof(uint64_t)); for (i = 0; i < index->pseudo_merges.nr; i++) { index->pseudo_merges.v[i].at = get_be64(ofs); ofs += sizeof(uint64_t); } , in pack-bitmap.c::load_bitmap_header(). Looking at the documentation, the diagram describing the on-disk format (prior to this patch) suggested that the optional extended lookup table immediately preceded the trailing metadata portion. If that were the case, that would make the above code from load_bitmap_header() incorrect, as we'd be blindly reading into the extended offset table. But later on in the documentation there is a description of the pseudo-merge position table as immediately preceding the trailing metadata portion of the extension. And indeed, we do write the position table in pack-bitmap-write.c: /* write positions for all pseudo merges */ for (i = 0; i < writer->pseudo_merges_nr; i++) hashwrite_be64(f, pseudo_merge_ofs[i]); hashwrite_be32(f, writer->pseudo_merges_nr); hashwrite_be32(f, kh_size(writer->pseudo_merge_commits)); hashwrite_be64(f, table_start - start); hashwrite_be64(f, hashfile_total(f) - start + sizeof(uint64_t)); So this is purely a case of the diagram being out of sync with the textual description and actual implementation of the format specification. Add the missing component back to the format diagram to avoid further confusion in this area. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-05-24Documentation/technical: describe pseudo-merge bitmaps formatTaylor Blau
Prepare to implement pseudo-merge bitmaps over the next several commits by first describing the serialization format which will store the new pseudo-merge bitmaps themselves. This format is implemented as an optional extension within the bitmap v1 format, making it compatible with previous versions of Git, as well as the original .bitmap implementation within JGit. The format is described in detail in the patch contents below, but the high-level description is as follows: - An array of pseudo-merge bitmaps, each containing a pair of EWAH bitmaps: one describing the set of pseudo-merge "parents", and another describing the set of object(s) reachable from those parents. - A lookup table to determine which pseudo-merge(s) a given commit appears in. An optional extended lookup table follows when there is at least one commit which appears in multiple pseudo-merge groups. - Trailing metadata, including the number of pseudo-merge(s), number of unique parents, the offset within the .bitmap file for the pseudo-merge commit lookup table, and the size of the optional extension itself. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09documentation: add missing articleElijah Newren
Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09documentation: fix choice of articleElijah Newren
Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09documentation: wording improvementsElijah Newren
Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-26Documentation/technical: describe bitmap lookup table extensionAbhradeep Chakraborty
When reading bitmap file, Git loads each and every bitmap one by one even if all the bitmaps are not required. A "bitmap lookup table" extension to the bitmap format can reduce the overhead of loading bitmaps which stores a list of bitmapped commit id pos (in the midx or pack, along with their offset and xor offset. This way Git can load only the necessary bitmaps without loading the previous bitmaps. Older versions of Git ignore the lookup table extension and don't throw any kind of warning or error while parsing the bitmap file. Add some information for the new "bitmap lookup table" extension in the bitmap-format documentation. Mentored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Co-Mentored-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> Co-Authored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-16bitmap-format.txt: add information for trailing checksumAbhradeep Chakraborty
Bitmap file has a trailing checksum at the end of the file. However there is no information in the bitmap-format documentation about it. Add a trailer section to include the trailing checksum info in the `Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt` file. Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-16bitmap-format.txt: fix some formatting issuesAbhradeep Chakraborty
The asciidoc generated html for `Documentation/technical/bitmap- format.txt` is broken. This is mainly because `-` is used for nested lists (which is not allowed in asciidoc) instead of `*`. Fix these and also reformat it for better readability of the html page. Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-24Documentation: describe MIDX-based bitmapsTaylor Blau
Update the technical documentation to describe the multi-pack bitmap format. This patch merely introduces the new format, and describes its high-level ideas. Git does not yet know how to read nor write these multi-pack variants, and so the subsequent patches will: - Introduce code to interpret multi-pack bitmaps, according to this document. - Then, introduce code to write multi-pack bitmaps from the 'git multi-pack-index write' sub-command. Finally, the implementation will gain tests in subsequent patches (as opposed to inline with the patch teaching Git how to write multi-pack bitmaps) to avoid a cyclic dependency. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cacheVicent Marti
When we use pack bitmaps rather than walking the object graph, we end up with the list of objects to include in the packfile, but we do not know the path at which any tree or blob objects would be found. In a recently packed repository, this is fine. A fetch would use the paths only as a heuristic in the delta compression phase, and a fully packed repository should not need to do much delta compression. As time passes, though, we may acquire more objects on top of our large bitmapped pack. If clients fetch frequently, then they never even look at the bitmapped history, and all works as usual. However, a client who has not fetched since the last bitmap repack will have "have" tips in the bitmapped history, but "want" newer objects. The bitmaps themselves degrade gracefully in this circumstance. We manually walk the more recent bits of history, and then use bitmaps when we hit them. But we would also like to perform delta compression between the newer objects and the bitmapped objects (both to delta against what we know the user already has, but also between "new" and "old" objects that the user is fetching). The lack of pathnames makes our delta heuristics much less effective. This patch adds an optional cache of the 32-bit name_hash values to the end of the bitmap file. If present, a reader can use it to match bitmapped and non-bitmapped names during delta compression. Here are perf results for p5310: Test origin/master HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5310.2: repack to disk 36.81(37.82+1.43) 47.70(48.74+1.41) +29.6% 47.75(48.70+1.51) +29.7% 5310.3: simulated clone 30.78(29.70+2.14) 1.08(0.97+0.10) -96.5% 1.07(0.94+0.12) -96.5% 5310.4: simulated fetch 3.16(6.10+0.08) 3.54(10.65+0.06) +12.0% 1.70(3.07+0.06) -46.2% 5310.6: partial bitmap 36.76(43.19+1.81) 6.71(11.25+0.76) -81.7% 4.08(6.26+0.46) -88.9% You can see that the time spent on an incremental fetch goes down, as our delta heuristics are able to do their work. And we save time on the partial bitmap clone for the same reason. Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30documentation: add documentation for the bitmap formatVicent Marti
This is the technical documentation for the JGit-compatible Bitmap v1 on-disk format. Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>