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2026-03-05Merge branch 'ps/fsck-stream-from-the-right-object-instance'Junio C Hamano
"fsck" iterates over packfiles and its access to pack data caused the list to be permuted, which caused it to loop forever; the code to access pack data by "fsck" has been updated to avoid this. * ps/fsck-stream-from-the-right-object-instance: pack-check: fix verification of large objects packfile: expose function to read object stream for an offset object-file: adapt `stream_object_signature()` to take a stream t/helper: improve "genrandom" test helper
2026-02-23t/helper: improve "genrandom" test helperPatrick Steinhardt
The `test-tool genrandom` test helper can be used to generate random data, either as an infinite stream or with a specified number of bytes. The way we handle parsing the number of bytes is lacking though: - We don't have good error handling, so if the caller for example uses `test-tool genrandom 200xyz` then we'll end up generating 200 bytes of random data successfully. - Many callers want to generate e.g. 1 kilobyte or megabyte of data, but they have to either use unwieldy numbers like 1048576, or they have to precompute them. Fix both of these issues by using `git_parse_ulong()` to parse the argument. This function has better error handling, and it knows to handle unit suffixes. Adapt a couple of our tests to use suffixes instead of manual computations. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-19pack-bitmap: fix bug with exact ref match in "pack.preferBitmapTips"Patrick Steinhardt
The "pack.preferBitmapTips" configuration allows the user to specify which references should be preferred when generating bitmaps. This option is typically expected to be set to a reference prefix, like for example "refs/heads/". It's not unreasonable though for a user to configure one specific reference as preferred. But if they do, they'll hit a `BUG()`: $ git -c pack.preferBitmapTips=refs/heads/main repack -adb BUG: ../refs/iterator.c:366: attempt to trim too many characters error: pack-objects died of signal 6 The root cause for this bug is how we enumerate these references. We call `refs_for_each_ref_in()`, which will: - Yield all references that have a user-specified prefix. - Trim each of these references so that the prefix is removed. Typically, this function is called with a trailing slash, like "refs/heads/", and in that case things work alright. But if the function is called with the name of an existing reference then we'll try to trim the full reference name, which would leave us with an empty name. And as this would not really leave us with anything sensible, we call `BUG()` instead of yielding this reference. One could argue that this is a bug in `refs_for_each_ref_in()`. But the question then becomes what the correct behaviour would be: - Do we want to skip exact matches? In our case we certainly don't want that, as the user has asked us to generate a bitmap for it. - Do we want to yield the reference with the empty refname? That would lead to a somewhat weird result. Neither of these feel like viable options, so calling `BUG()` feels like a sensible way out. The root cause ultimately is that we even try to trim the whole refname in the first place. There are two possible ways to fix this issue: - We can fix the bug by using `refs_for_each_fullref_in()` instead, which does not strip the prefix at all. Consequently, we would now start to accept all references that start with the configured prefix, including exact matches. So if we had "refs/heads/main", we would both match "refs/heads/main" and "refs/heads/main-branch". - Or we can fix the bug by appending a slash to the prefix if it doesn't already have one. This would mean that we only match ref hierarchies that start with this prefix. While the first fix leaves the user with strictly _more_ configuration options, we have already fixed a similar case in 10e8a9352b (refs.c: stop matching non-directory prefixes in exclude patterns, 2025-03-06) by using the second option. So for the sake of consistency, let's apply the same fix here. Clarify the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-15Merge branch 'ly/load-bitmap-leakfix'Junio C Hamano
Leakfix with a new and a bit invasive test. * ly/load-bitmap-leakfix: pack-bitmap: add load corrupt bitmap test pack-bitmap: reword comments in test_bitmap_commits() pack-bitmap: fix memory leak if load_bitmap() failed
2025-07-01pack-bitmap: add load corrupt bitmap testLidong Yan
t5310 lacks a test to ensure git works correctly when commit bitmap data is corrupted. So this patch add test helper in pack-bitmap.c to list each commit bitmap position in bitmap file and `load corrupt bitmap` test case in t/t5310 to corrupt a commit bitmap before loading it. Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <502024330056@smail.nju.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-06-17Merge branch 'ds/path-walk-2'Junio C Hamano
"git pack-objects" learns to find delta bases from blobs at the same path, using the --path-walk API. * 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()
2025-05-16pack-objects: introduce GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALKDerrick Stolee
There are many tests that validate whether 'git pack-objects' works as expected. Instead of duplicating these tests, add a new test environment variable, GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALK, that implies --path-walk by default when specified. This was useful in testing the implementation of the --path-walk implementation, helping to find tests that are overly specific to the default object walk. These include: - t0411-clone-from-partial.sh : One test fetches from a repo that does not have the boundary objects. This causes the path-based walk to fail. Disable the variable for this test. - t5306-pack-nobase.sh : Similar to t0411, one test fetches from a repo without a boundary object. - t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh : One test compares the case when packing with bitmaps to the case when packing without them. Since we disable the test variable when writing bitmaps, this causes a difference in the object list (the --path-walk option adds an extra object). Specify --no-path-walk in both processes for the comparison. Another test checks for a specific delta base, but when computing dynamically without using bitmaps, the base object it too small to be considered in the delta calculations so no base is used. - t5316-pack-delta-depth.sh : This script cares about certain delta choices and their chain lengths. The --path-walk option changes how these chains are selected, and thus changes the results of this test. - t5322-pack-objects-sparse.sh : This demonstrates the effectiveness of the --sparse option and how it combines with --path-walk. - t5332-multi-pack-reuse.sh : This test verifies that the preferred pack is used for delta reuse when possible. The --path-walk option is not currently aware of the preferred pack at all, so finds a different delta base. - t7406-submodule-update.sh : When using the variable, the --depth option collides with the --path-walk feature, resulting in a warning message. Disable the variable so this warning does not appear. I want to call out one specific test change that is only temporary: - t5530-upload-pack-error.sh : One test cares specifically about an "unable to read" error message. Since the current implementation performs delta calculations within the path-walk API callback, a different "unable to get size" error message appears. When this is changed in a future refactoring, this test change can be reverted. Similar to GIT_TEST_NAME_HASH_VERSION, we do not add this option to the linux-TEST-vars CI build as that's already an overloaded build. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-07t: refactor tests depending on Perl substitution operatorPatrick Steinhardt
We have a bunch of tests that use Perl to perform substitution via the "s/" operator. These usecases can be trivially replaced with sed(1) and tr(1). 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>
2025-04-07t: introduce PERL_TEST_HELPERS prerequisitePatrick Steinhardt
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>
2025-02-12Merge branch 'ds/name-hash-tweaks'Junio C Hamano
"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
2025-01-27test-tool: add helper for name-hash valuesDerrick Stolee
Add a new test-tool helper, name-hash, to output the value of the name-hash algorithms for the input list of strings, one per line. Since the name-hash values can be stored in the .bitmap files, it is important that these hash functions do not change across Git versions. Add a simple test to t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh to provide some testing of the current values. Due to how these functions are implemented, it would be difficult to change them without disturbing these values. The paths used for this test are carefully selected to demonstrate some of the behavior differences of the two current name hash versions, including which conditions will cause them to collide. Create a performance test that uses test_size to demonstrate how collisions occur for these hash algorithms. This test helps inform someone as to the behavior of the name-hash algorithms for their repo based on the paths at HEAD. My copy of the Git repository shows modest statistics around the collisions of the default name-hash algorithm: Test this tree -------------------------------------------------- 5314.1: paths at head 4.5K 5314.2: distinct hash value: v1 4.1K 5314.3: maximum multiplicity: v1 13 5314.4: distinct hash value: v2 4.2K 5314.5: maximum multiplicity: v2 9 Here, the maximum collision multiplicity is 13, but around 10% of paths have a collision with another path. In a more interesting example, the microsoft/fluentui [1] repo had these statistics at time of committing: Test this tree -------------------------------------------------- 5314.1: paths at head 19.5K 5314.2: distinct hash value: v1 8.2K 5314.3: maximum multiplicity: v1 279 5314.4: distinct hash value: v2 17.8K 5314.5: maximum multiplicity: v2 44 [1] https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui That demonstrates that of the nearly twenty thousand path names, they are assigned around eight thousand distinct values. 279 paths are assigned to a single value, leading the packing algorithm to sort objects from those paths together, by size. With the v2 name hash function, the maximum multiplicity lowers to 44, leaving some room for further improvement. In a more extreme example, an internal monorepo had a much worse collision rate: Test this tree -------------------------------------------------- 5314.1: paths at head 227.3K 5314.2: distinct hash value: v1 72.3K 5314.3: maximum multiplicity: v1 14.4K 5314.4: distinct hash value: v2 166.5K 5314.5: maximum multiplicity: v2 138 Here, we can see that the v2 name hash function provides somem improvements, but there are still a number of collisions that could lead to repacking problems at this scale. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-27pack-objects: add GIT_TEST_NAME_HASH_VERSIONDerrick Stolee
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>
2024-12-04Merge branch 'ps/leakfixes-part-10'Junio C Hamano
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 ...
2024-11-21t: remove TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK annotationsPatrick Steinhardt
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>
2024-11-01rev-list: skip bitmap traversal for --left-rightJeff King
Running: git rev-list --left-right --use-bitmap-index one...two will produce output without any left-right markers, since the bitmap traversal returns only a single set of reachable commits. Instead we should refuse to use bitmaps here and produce the correct output using a traditional traversal. This is probably not the only remaining option that misbehaves with bitmaps, but it's particularly egregious in that it feels like it _could_ work. Doing two separate traversals for the left/right sides and then taking the symmetric set differences should yield the correct answer, but our traversal code doesn't know how to do that. It's not clear if naively doing two separate traversals would always be a performance win. A traditional traversal only needs to walk down to the merge base, but bitmaps always fill out the full reachability set. So depending on your bitmap coverage, we could end up walking old bits of history twice to fill out the same uninteresting bits on both sides. We'd also of course end up with a very large --boundary set, if the user asked for that. So this might or might not be something worth implementing later. But for now, let's make sure we don't produce the wrong answer if somebody tries it. The test covers this, but also the same thing with "--count" (which is what I originally tried in a real-world case). Ironically the try_bitmap_count() code already realizes that "--left-right" won't work there. But that just causes us to fall back to the regular bitmap traversal code, which itself doesn't handle counting (we produce a list of objects rather than a count). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2024-09-27revision: fix leaking parents when simplifying commitsPatrick Steinhardt
When simplifying commits, e.g. because they are treesame with their parents, we unset the commit's parent pointers but never free them. Plug the resulting memory leaks. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-06t: retire 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP'Taylor Blau
Two years ago, commit ff1e653c8e2 (midx: respect 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP', 2021-08-31) introduced a new environment variable which caused the test suite to write MIDX bitmaps after any 'git repack' invocation. At the time, this was done to help flush out any bugs with MIDX bitmaps that weren't explicitly covered in the t5326-multi-pack-bitmap.sh script. Two years later, that flag has served us well and is no longer providing meaningful coverage, as the script in t5326 has matured substantially and covers many more interesting cases than it did back when ff1e653c8e2 was originally written. Remove the 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP' environment variable as it is no longer serving a useful purpose. More importantly, removing this variable clears the way for us to introduce a new one to help similarly flush out bugs related to incremental MIDX chains. Because these incremental MIDX chains are (for now) incompatible with MIDX bitmaps, we cannot have both. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-02tests: teach callers of test_i18ngrep to use test_grepJunio C Hamano
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>
2023-05-08pack-bitmap.c: use commit boundary during bitmap traversalTaylor Blau
When reachability bitmap coverage exists in a repository, Git will use a different (and hopefully faster) traversal to compute revision walks. Consider a set of positive and negative tips (which we'll refer to with their standard bitmap parlance by "wants", and "haves"). In order to figure out what objects exist between the tips, the existing traversal in `prepare_bitmap_walk()` does something like: 1. Consider if we can even compute the set of objects with bitmaps, and fall back to the usual traversal if we cannot. For example, pathspec limiting traversals can't be computed using bitmaps (since they don't know which objects are at which paths). The same is true of certain kinds of non-trivial object filters. 2. If we can compute the traversal with bitmaps, partition the (dereferenced) tips into two object lists, "haves", and "wants", based on whether or not the objects have the UNINTERESTING flag, respectively. 3. Fall back to the ordinary object traversal if either (a) there are more than zero haves, none of which are in the bitmapped pack or MIDX, or (b) there are no wants. 4. Construct a reachability bitmap for the "haves" side by walking from the revision tips down to any existing bitmaps, OR-ing in any bitmaps as they are found. 5. Then do the same for the "wants" side, stopping at any objects that appear in the "haves" bitmap. 6. Filter the results if any object filter (that can be easily computed with bitmaps alone) was given, and then return back to the caller. When there is good bitmap coverage relative to the traversal tips, this walk is often significantly faster than an ordinary object traversal because it can visit far fewer objects. But in certain cases, it can be significantly *slower* than the usual object traversal. Why? Because we need to compute complete bitmaps on either side of the walk. If either one (or both) of the sides require walking many (or all!) objects before they get to an existing bitmap, the extra bitmap machinery is mostly or all overhead. One of the benefits, however, is that even if the walk is slower, bitmap traversals are guaranteed to provide an *exact* answer. Unlike the traditional object traversal algorithm, which can over-count the results by not opening trees for older commits, the bitmap walk builds an exact reachability bitmap for either side, meaning the results are never over-counted. But producing non-exact results is OK for our traversal here (both in the bitmap case and not), as long as the results are over-counted, not under. Relaxing the bitmap traversal to allow it to produce over-counted results gives us the opportunity to make some significant improvements. Instead of the above, the new algorithm only has to walk from the *boundary* down to the nearest bitmap, instead of from each of the UNINTERESTING tips. The boundary-based approach still has degenerate cases, but we'll show in a moment that it is often a significant improvement. The new algorithm works as follows: 1. Build a (partial) bitmap of the haves side by first OR-ing any bitmap(s) that already exist for UNINTERESTING commits between the haves and the boundary. 2. For each commit along the boundary, add it as a fill-in traversal tip (where the traversal terminates once an existing bitmap is found), and perform fill-in traversal. 3. Build up a complete bitmap of the wants side as usual, stopping any time we intersect the (partial) haves side. 4. Return the results. And is more-or-less equivalent to using the *old* algorithm with this invocation: $ git rev-list --objects --use-bitmap-index $WANTS --not \ $(git rev-list --objects --boundary $WANTS --not $HAVES | perl -lne 'print $1 if /^-(.*)/') The new result performs significantly better in many cases, particularly when the distance from the boundary commit(s) to an existing bitmap is shorter than the distance from (all of) the have tips to the nearest bitmapped commit. Note that when using the old bitmap traversal algorithm, the results can be *slower* than without bitmaps! Under the new algorithm, the result is computed faster with bitmaps than without (at the cost of over-counting the true number of objects in a similar fashion as the non-bitmap traversal): # (Computing the number of tagged objects not on any branches # without bitmaps). $ time git rev-list --count --objects --tags --not --branches 20 real 0m1.388s user 0m1.092s sys 0m0.296s # (Computing the same query using the old bitmap traversal). $ time git rev-list --count --objects --tags --not --branches --use-bitmap-index 19 real 0m22.709s user 0m21.628s sys 0m1.076s # (this commit) $ time git.compile rev-list --count --objects --tags --not --branches --use-bitmap-index 19 real 0m1.518s user 0m1.234s sys 0m0.284s The new algorithm is still slower than not using bitmaps at all, but it is nearly a 15-fold improvement over the existing traversal. In a more realistic setting (using my local copy of git.git), I can observe a similar (if more modest) speed-up: $ argv="--count --objects --branches --not --tags" hyperfine \ -n 'no bitmaps' "git.compile rev-list $argv" \ -n 'existing traversal' "git.compile rev-list --use-bitmap-index $argv" \ -n 'boundary traversal' "git.compile -c pack.useBitmapBoundaryTraversal=true rev-list --use-bitmap-index $argv" Benchmark 1: no bitmaps Time (mean ± σ): 124.6 ms ± 2.1 ms [User: 103.7 ms, System: 20.8 ms] Range (min … max): 122.6 ms … 133.1 ms 22 runs Benchmark 2: existing traversal Time (mean ± σ): 368.6 ms ± 3.0 ms [User: 325.3 ms, System: 43.1 ms] Range (min … max): 365.1 ms … 374.8 ms 10 runs Benchmark 3: boundary traversal Time (mean ± σ): 167.6 ms ± 0.9 ms [User: 139.5 ms, System: 27.9 ms] Range (min … max): 166.1 ms … 169.2 ms 17 runs Summary 'no bitmaps' ran 1.34 ± 0.02 times faster than 'boundary traversal' 2.96 ± 0.05 times faster than 'existing traversal' Here, the new algorithm is also still slower than not using bitmaps, but represents a more than 2-fold improvement over the existing traversal in a more modest example. Since this algorithm was originally written (nearly a year and a half ago, at the time of writing), the bitmap lookup table shipped, making the new algorithm's result more competitive. A few other future directions for improving bitmap traversal times beyond not using bitmaps at all: - Decrease the cost to decompress and OR together many bitmaps together (particularly when enumerating the uninteresting side of the walk). Here we could explore more efficient bitmap storage techniques, like Roaring+Run and/or use SIMD instructions to speed up ORing them together. - Store pseudo-merge bitmaps, which could allow us to OR together fewer "summary" bitmaps (which would also help with the above). Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-06Merge branch 'ab/config-multi-and-nonbool'Junio C Hamano
Assorted config API updates. * ab/config-multi-and-nonbool: for-each-repo: with bad config, don't conflate <path> and <cmd> config API: add "string" version of *_value_multi(), fix segfaults config API users: test for *_get_value_multi() segfaults for-each-repo: error on bad --config config API: have *_multi() return an "int" and take a "dest" versioncmp.c: refactor config reading next commit config API: add and use a "git_config_get()" family of functions config tests: add "NULL" tests for *_get_value_multi() config tests: cover blind spots in git_die_config() tests
2023-03-28config API: add "string" version of *_value_multi(), fix segfaultsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Fix numerous and mostly long-standing segfaults in consumers of the *_config_*value_multi() API. As discussed in the preceding commit an empty key in the config syntax yields a "NULL" string, which these users would give to strcmp() (or similar), resulting in segfaults. As this change shows, most users users of the *_config_*value_multi() API didn't really want such an an unsafe and low-level API, let's give them something with the safety of git_config_get_string() instead. This fix is similar to what the *_string() functions and others acquired in[1] and [2]. Namely introducing and using a safer "*_get_string_multi()" variant of the low-level "_*value_multi()" function. This fixes segfaults in code introduced in: - d811c8e17c6 (versionsort: support reorder prerelease suffixes, 2015-02-26) - c026557a373 (versioncmp: generalize version sort suffix reordering, 2016-12-08) - a086f921a72 (submodule: decouple url and submodule interest, 2017-03-17) - a6be5e6764a (log: add log.excludeDecoration config option, 2020-04-16) - 92156291ca8 (log: add default decoration filter, 2022-08-05) - 50a044f1e40 (gc: replace config subprocesses with API calls, 2022-09-27) There are now two users ofthe low-level API: - One in "builtin/for-each-repo.c", which we'll convert in a subsequent commit. - The "t/helper/test-config.c" code added in [3]. As seen in the preceding commit we need to give the "t/helper/test-config.c" caller these "NULL" entries. We could also alter the underlying git_configset_get_value_multi() function to be "string safe", but doing so would leave no room for other variants of "*_get_value_multi()" that coerce to other types. Such coercion can't be built on the string version, since as we've established "NULL" is a true value in the boolean context, but if we coerced it to "" for use in a list of strings it'll be subsequently coerced to "false" as a boolean. The callback pattern being used here will make it easy to introduce e.g. a "multi" variant which coerces its values to "bool", "int", "path" etc. 1. 40ea4ed9032 (Add config_error_nonbool() helper function, 2008-02-11) 2. 6c47d0e8f39 (config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL, 2008-02-11). 3. 4c715ebb96a (test-config: add tests for the config_set API, 2014-07-28) Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-28config API users: test for *_get_value_multi() segfaultsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
As we'll discuss in the subsequent commit these tests all show *_get_value_multi() API users unable to handle there being a value-less key in the config, which is represented with a "NULL" for that entry in the "string" member of the returned "struct string_list", causing a segfault. These added tests exhaustively test for that issue, as we'll see in a subsequent commit we'll need to change all of the API users of *_get_value_multi(). These cases were discovered by triggering each one individually, and then adding these tests. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-11-14pack-bitmap.c: avoid exposing absolute pathsTeng Long
In "open_midx_bitmap_1()" and "open_pack_bitmap_1()", when we find that there are multiple bitmaps, we will only open the first one and then leave warnings about the remaining pack information, the information will contain the absolute path of the repository, for example in a alternates usage scenario. So let's hide this kind of potentially sensitive information in this commit. Found-by: XingXin <moweng.xx@antgroup.com> Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-09-26pack-bitmap: remove trace2 region from hot pathDerrick Stolee
The trace2 region around the call to lazy_bitmap_for_commit() in bitmap_for_commit() was added in 28cd730680d (pack-bitmap: prepare to read lookup table extension, 2022-08-14). While adding trace2 regions is typically helpful for tracking performance, this method is called possibly thousands of times as a commit walk explores commit history looking for a matching bitmap. When trace2 output is enabled, this region is emitted many times and performance is throttled by that output. For now, remove these regions entirely. This is a critical path, and it would be valuable to measure that the time spent in bitmap_for_commit() does not increase when using the commit lookup table. The best way to do that would be to use a mechanism that sums the time spent in a region and reports a single value at the end of the process. This technique was introduced but not merged by [1] so maybe this example presents some justification to revisit that approach. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1099.v2.git.1640720202.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/ To help with the 'git blame' output in this region, add a comment that warns against adding a trace2 region. Delete a test from t5310 that used that trace output to check that this lookup optimization was activated. To create this kind of test again in the future, the stopwatch traces mentioned earlier could be used as a signal that we activated this code path. Helpedy-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-26pack-bitmap: prepare to read lookup table extensionAbhradeep Chakraborty
Earlier change teaches Git to write bitmap lookup table. But Git does not know how to parse them. Teach Git to parse the existing bitmap lookup table. The older versions of Git are not affected by it. Those versions ignore the lookup table. Mentored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Co-Mentored-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.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>
2022-08-26pack-bitmap-write: learn pack.writeBitmapLookupTable and add testsAbhradeep Chakraborty
Teach Git to provide a way for users to enable/disable bitmap lookup table extension by providing a config option named 'writeBitmapLookupTable'. Default is false. Also add test to verify writting of lookup table. 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>
2022-01-27pack-bitmap.c: gracefully fallback after opening pack/MIDXTaylor Blau
When opening a MIDX/pack-bitmap, we call open_midx_bitmap_1() or open_pack_bitmap_1() respectively in a loop over the set of MIDXs/packs. By design, these functions are supposed to be called over every pack and MIDX, since only one of them should have a valid bitmap. Ordinarily we return '0' from these two functions in order to indicate that we successfully loaded a bitmap To signal that we couldn't load a bitmap corresponding to the MIDX/pack (either because one doesn't exist, or because there was an error with loading it), we can return '-1'. In either case, the callers each enumerate all MIDXs/packs to ensure that at most one bitmap per-kind is present. But when we fail to load a bitmap that does exist (for example, loading a MIDX bitmap without finding a corresponding reverse index), we'll return -1 but leave the 'midx' field non-NULL. So when we fallback to loading a pack bitmap, we'll complain that the bitmap we're trying to populate already is "opened", even though it isn't. Rectify this by setting the '->pack' and '->midx' field back to NULL as appropriate. Two tests are added: one to ensure that the MIDX-to-pack bitmap fallback works, and another to ensure we still complain when there are multiple pack bitmaps in a repository. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-03Merge branch 'es/test-chain-lint'Junio C Hamano
Broken &&-chains in the test scripts have been corrected. * es/test-chain-lint: t6000-t9999: detect and signal failure within loop t5000-t5999: detect and signal failure within loop t4000-t4999: detect and signal failure within loop t0000-t3999: detect and signal failure within loop tests: simplify by dropping unnecessary `for` loops tests: apply modern idiom for exiting loop upon failure tests: apply modern idiom for signaling test failure tests: fix broken &&-chains in `{...}` groups tests: fix broken &&-chains in `$(...)` command substitutions tests: fix broken &&-chains in compound statements tests: use test_write_lines() to generate line-oriented output tests: simplify construction of large blocks of text t9107: use shell parameter expansion to avoid breaking &&-chain t6300: make `%(raw:size) --shell` test more robust t5516: drop unnecessary subshell and command invocation t4202: clarify intent by creating expected content less cleverly t1020: avoid aborting entire test script when one test fails t1010: fix unnoticed failure on Windows t/lib-pager: use sane_unset() to avoid breaking &&-chain
2021-12-15Merge branch 'js/test-initial-branch-override-cleanup'Junio C Hamano
Many tests that used to need GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME mechanism to force "git" to use 'master' as the default name for the initial branch no longer need it; the use of the mechanism from them have been removed. * js/test-initial-branch-override-cleanup: tests: set GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME only when needed
2021-12-13t5000-t5999: detect and signal failure within loopEric Sunshine
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>
2021-12-05tests: set GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME only when neededJohannes Schindelin
A couple of test scripts have actually been adapted to accommodate for a configurable default branch name, but they still overrode it via the `GIT_TEST_*` variable. Let's drop that override where possible. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-29t/t*: remove custom GIT_TRACE2_EVENT_NESTINGDerrick Stolee
The previous change modified GIT_TRACE2_EVENT_NESTING by default within test-lib.sh. These custom assignments throughout the test suite are no longer necessary. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-01Merge branch 'ab/test-lib'Junio C Hamano
Test (cosmetic) fix. * ab/test-lib: t5310: drop lib-bundle.sh include
2021-10-29t5310: drop lib-bundle.sh includeJeff King
Commit ddfe900612 (test-lib-functions: move function to lib-bitmap.sh, 2021-02-09) meant to include lib-bitmap.sh in t5310, but also includes lib-bundle.sh. Yet we don't use any of its functions, nor have anything to do with bundles. This is probably just a typo/copy-paste error, as lib-bundle.sh was added (correctly) to other scripts in the same series. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-01t5310: disable GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAPJeff King
Generating a MIDX bitmap confuses many of the tests in t5310, which expect to control whether and how bitmaps are written. Since the relevant MIDX-bitmap tests here are covered already in t5326, let's just disable the flag for the whole t5310 script. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-01t5310: move some tests to lib-bitmap.shTaylor Blau
We'll soon be adding a test script that will cover many of the same bitmap concepts as t5310, but for MIDX bitmaps. Let's pull out as many of the applicable tests as we can so we don't have to rewrite them. There should be no functional change to t5310; we still run the same operations in the same order. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-20Merge branch 'jk/pack-objects-bitmap-progress-fix'Junio C Hamano
When "git pack-objects" makes a literal copy of a part of existing packfile using the reachability bitmaps, its update to the progress meter was broken. * jk/pack-objects-bitmap-progress-fix: pack-objects: update "nr_seen" progress based on pack-reused count
2021-04-12pack-objects: update "nr_seen" progress based on pack-reused countJeff King
When serving a clone or fetch with bitmaps, after deciding which objects need to be sent our "pack reuse" mechanism kicks in: we try to send more-or-less verbatim a bunch of objects from the beginning of the bitmapped packfile without even adding them to the to_pack.objects array. After deciding which objects will be in the "reused" portion, we update nr_result to account for those, and then trigger display_progress() to show the user (who is undoubtedly dazzled that we managed to enumerate so many objects so quickly). But then something confusing happens: the "Enumerating objects" progress meter jumps _backwards_, counting up from zero the number of objects we actually add into to_pack.objects. This worked correctly once upon a time, but was broken in 5af050437a (pack-objects: show some progress when counting kept objects, 2018-04-15), when the latter half of that progress meter switched to using a separate nr_seen counter, rather than nr_result. Nobody noticed for two reasons: - prior to the pack-reuse fixes from a14aebeac3 (Merge branch 'jk/packfile-reuse-cleanup', 2020-02-14), the reuse code almost never kicked in anyway - the output looks _kind of_ correct. The "backwards" moment is hard to catch, because we overwrite the old progress number with the new one, and the larger number is displayed only for a second. So unless you look at that exact second, you just see the much smaller value, counting up to the number of non-reused objects (though of course if you catch it in stderr, or look at GIT_TRACE_PACKET from a server with bitmaps, you can see both values). This smaller output isn't wrong per se, but isn't counting what we ever intended to. We should give the user the whole number of objects we considered (which, as per 5af050437a's original purpose, is already _not_ a count of what goes into to_pack.objects). The follow-on "Counting objects" meter shows the actual number of objects we feed into that array. We can easily fix this by bumping (and showing) nr_seen for the pack-reused objects. When the included test is run without this patch, the second pack-objects invocation produces "Enumerating objects: 1" to show the one loose object, even though the resulting pack has hundreds of objects in it. With it, we jump to "Enumerating objects: 674" after deciding on reuse, and then "675" when we add in the loose object. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-31builtin/pack-objects.c: respect 'pack.preferBitmapTips'Taylor Blau
When writing a new pack with a bitmap, it is sometimes convenient to indicate some reference prefixes which should receive priority when selecting which commits to receive bitmaps. A truly motivated caller could accomplish this by setting 'pack.islandCore', (since all commits in the core island are similarly marked as preferred) but this requires callers to opt into using delta islands, which they may or may not want to do. Introduce a new multi-valued configuration, 'pack.preferBitmapTips' to allow callers to specify a list of reference prefixes. All references which have a prefix contained in 'pack.preferBitmapTips' will mark their tips as "preferred" in the same way as commits are marked as preferred for selection by 'pack.islandCore'. The choice of the verb "prefer" is intentional: marking the NEEDS_BITMAP flag on an object does *not* guarantee that that object will receive a bitmap. It merely guarantees that that commit will receive a bitmap over any *other* commit in the same window by bitmap_writer_select_commits(). The test this patch adds reflects this quirk, too. It only tests that a commit (which didn't receive bitmaps by default) is selected for bitmaps after changing the value of 'pack.preferBitmapTips' to include it. Other commits may lose their bitmaps as a byproduct of how the selection process works (bitmap_writer_select_commits() ignores the remainder of a window after seeing a commit with the NEEDS_BITMAP flag). This configuration will aide in selecting important references for multi-pack bitmaps, since they do not respect the same pack.islandCore configuration. (They could, but doing so may be confusing, since it is packs--not bitmaps--which are influenced by the delta-islands configuration). In a fork network repository (one which lists all forks of a given repository as remotes), for example, it is useful to set pack.preferBitmapTips to 'refs/remotes/<root>/heads' and 'refs/remotes/<root>/tags', where '<root>' is an opaque identifier referring to the repository which is at the base of the fork chain. Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-10test-lib-functions: move function to lib-bitmap.shÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Move a function added to test-lib-functions.sh in ea047a8eb4f (t5310: factor out bitmap traversal comparison, 2020-02-14) into a new lib-bitmap.sh. The test-lib-functions.sh file should be for functions that are widely used across the test suite, if something's only used by a few tests it makes more sense to have it in a lib-*.sh file. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-25Merge branch 'js/default-branch-name-tests-final-stretch'Junio C Hamano
Prepare tests not to be affected by the name of the default branch "git init" creates. * js/default-branch-name-tests-final-stretch: (28 commits) tests: drop prereq `PREPARE_FOR_MAIN_BRANCH` where no longer needed t99*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" tests(git-p4): transition to the default branch name `main` t9[5-7]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t9[0-4]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t8*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t7[5-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t7[0-4]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t6[4-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t64*: preemptively adjust alignment to prepare for `master` -> `main` t6[0-3]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t5[6-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t55[4-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t55[23]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t551*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t550*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t5503: prepare aligned comment for replacing `master` with `main` t5[0-4]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" t5323: prepare centered comment for `master` -> `main` t4*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main" ...
2021-01-06Merge branch 'tb/pack-bitmap'Junio C Hamano
Various improvements to the codepath that writes out pack bitmaps. * tb/pack-bitmap: (24 commits) pack-bitmap-write: better reuse bitmaps pack-bitmap-write: relax unique revwalk condition pack-bitmap-write: use existing bitmaps pack-bitmap: factor out 'add_commit_to_bitmap()' pack-bitmap: factor out 'bitmap_for_commit()' pack-bitmap-write: ignore BITMAP_FLAG_REUSE pack-bitmap-write: build fewer intermediate bitmaps pack-bitmap.c: check reads more aggressively when loading pack-bitmap-write: rename children to reverse_edges t5310: add branch-based checks commit: implement commit_list_contains() bitmap: implement bitmap_is_subset() pack-bitmap-write: fill bitmap with commit history pack-bitmap-write: pass ownership of intermediate bitmaps pack-bitmap-write: reimplement bitmap writing ewah: add bitmap_dup() function ewah: implement bitmap_or() ewah: make bitmap growth less aggressive ewah: factor out bitmap growth rev-list: die when --test-bitmap detects a mismatch ...
2020-12-08pack-bitmap-write: relax unique revwalk conditionDerrick Stolee
The previous commits improved the bitmap computation process for very long, linear histories with many refs by removing quadratic growth in how many objects were walked. The strategy of computing "intermediate commits" using bitmasks for which refs can reach those commits partitioned the poset of reachable objects so each part could be walked exactly once. This was effective for linear histories. However, there was a (significant) drawback: wide histories with many refs had an explosion of memory costs to compute the commit bitmasks during the exploration that discovers these intermediate commits. Since these wide histories are unlikely to repeat walking objects, the benefit of walking objects multiple times was not expensive before. But now, the commit walk *before computing bitmaps* is incredibly expensive. In an effort to discover a happy medium, this change reduces the walk for intermediate commits to only the first-parent history. This focuses the walk on how the histories converge, which still has significant reduction in repeat object walks. It is still possible to create quadratic behavior in this version, but it is probably less likely in realistic data shapes. Here is some data taken on a fresh clone of the kernel: | runtime (sec) | peak heap (GB) | | | | | from | with | from | with | | scratch | existing | scratch | existing | -----------+---------+----------+---------+----------- original | 64.044 | 83.241 | 2.088 | 2.194 | last patch | 45.049 | 37.624 | 2.267 | 2.334 | this patch | 88.478 | 53.218 | 2.157 | 2.224 | Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08pack-bitmap-write: build fewer intermediate bitmapsDerrick Stolee
The bitmap_writer_build() method calls bitmap_builder_init() to construct a list of commits reachable from the selected commits along with a "reverse graph". This reverse graph has edges pointing from a commit to other commits that can reach that commit. After computing a reachability bitmap for a commit, the values in that bitmap are then copied to the reachability bitmaps across the edges in the reverse graph. We can now relax the role of the reverse graph to greatly reduce the number of intermediate reachability bitmaps we compute during this reverse walk. The end result is that we walk objects the same number of times as before when constructing the reachability bitmaps, but we also spend much less time copying bits between bitmaps and have much lower memory pressure in the process. The core idea is to select a set of "important" commits based on interactions among the sets of commits reachable from each selected commit. The first technical concept is to create a new 'commit_mask' member in the bb_commit struct. Note that the selected commits are provided in an ordered array. The first thing to do is to mark the ith bit in the commit_mask for the ith selected commit. As we walk the commit-graph, we copy the bits in a commit's commit_mask to its parents. At the end of the walk, the ith bit in the commit_mask for a commit C stores a boolean representing "The ith selected commit can reach C." As we walk, we will discover non-selected commits that are important. We will get into this later, but those important commits must also receive bit positions, growing the width of the bitmasks as we walk. At the true end of the walk, the ith bit means "the ith _important_ commit can reach C." MAXIMAL COMMITS --------------- We use a new 'maximal' bit in the bb_commit struct to represent whether a commit is important or not. The term "maximal" comes from the partially-ordered set of commits in the commit-graph where C >= P if P is a parent of C, and then extending the relationship transitively. Instead of taking the maximal commits across the entire commit-graph, we instead focus on selecting each commit that is maximal among commits with the same bits on in their commit_mask. This definition is important, so let's consider an example. Suppose we have three selected commits A, B, and C. These are assigned bitmasks 100, 010, and 001 to start. Each of these can be marked as maximal immediately because they each will be the uniquely maximal commit that contains their own bit. Keep in mind that that these commits may have different bitmasks after the walk; for example, if B can reach C but A cannot, then the final bitmask for C is 011. Even in these cases, C would still be a maximal commit among all commits with the third bit on in their masks. Now define sets X, Y, and Z to be the sets of commits reachable from A, B, and C, respectively. The intersections of these sets correspond to different bitmasks: * 100: X - (Y union Z) * 010: Y - (X union Z) * 001: Z - (X union Y) * 110: (X intersect Y) - Z * 101: (X intersect Z) - Y * 011: (Y intersect Z) - X * 111: X intersect Y intersect Z This can be visualized with the following Hasse diagram: 100 010 001 | \ / \ / | | \/ \/ | | /\ /\ | | / \ / \ | 110 101 011 \___ | ___/ \ | / 111 Some of these bitmasks may not be represented, depending on the topology of the commit-graph. In fact, we are counting on it, since the number of possible bitmasks is exponential in the number of selected commits, but is also limited by the total number of commits. In practice, very few bitmasks are possible because most commits converge on a common "trunk" in the commit history. With this three-bit example, we wish to find commits that are maximal for each bitmask. How can we identify this as we are walking? As we walk, we visit a commit C. Since we are walking the commits in topo-order, we know that C is visited after all of its children are visited. Thus, when we get C from the revision walk we inspect the 'maximal' property of its bb_data and use that to determine if C is truly important. Its commit_mask is also nearly final. If C is not one of the originally-selected commits, then assign a bit position to C (by incrementing num_maximal) and set that bit on in commit_mask. See "MULTIPLE MAXIMAL COMMITS" below for more detail on this. Now that the commit C is known to be maximal or not, consider each parent P of C. Compute two new values: * c_not_p : true if and only if the commit_mask for C contains a bit that is not contained in the commit_mask for P. * p_not_c : true if and only if the commit_mask for P contains a bit that is not contained in the commit_mask for P. If c_not_p is false, then P already has all of the bits that C would provide to its commit_mask. In this case, move on to other parents as C has nothing to contribute to P's state that was not already provided by other children of P. We continue with the case that c_not_p is true. This means there are bits in C's commit_mask to copy to P's commit_mask, so use bitmap_or() to add those bits. If p_not_c is also true, then set the maximal bit for P to one. This means that if no other commit has P as a parent, then P is definitely maximal. This is because no child had the same bitmask. It is important to think about the maximal bit for P at this point as a temporary state: "P is maximal based on current information." In contrast, if p_not_c is false, then set the maximal bit for P to zero. Further, clear all reverse_edges for P since any edges that were previously assigned to P are no longer important. P will gain all reverse edges based on C. The final thing we need to do is to update the reverse edges for P. These reverse edges respresent "which closest maximal commits contributed bits to my commit_mask?" Since C contributed bits to P's commit_mask in this case, C must add to the reverse edges of P. If C is maximal, then C is a 'closest' maximal commit that contributed bits to P. Add C to P's reverse_edges list. Otherwise, C has a list of maximal commits that contributed bits to its bitmask (and this list is exactly one element). Add all of these items to P's reverse_edges list. Be careful to ignore duplicates here. After inspecting all parents P for a commit C, we can clear the commit_mask for C. This reduces the memory load to be limited to the "width" of the commit graph. Consider our ABC/XYZ example from earlier and let's inspect the state of the commits for an interesting bitmask, say 011. Suppose that D is the only maximal commit with this bitmask (in the first three bits). All other commits with bitmask 011 have D as the only entry in their reverse_edges list. D's reverse_edges list contains B and C. COMPUTING REACHABILITY BITMAPS ------------------------------ Now that we have our definition, let's zoom out and consider what happens with our new reverse graph when computing reachability bitmaps. We walk the reverse graph in reverse-topo-order, so we visit commits with largest commit_masks first. After we compute the reachability bitmap for a commit C, we push the bits in that bitmap to each commit D in the reverse edge list for C. Then, when we finally visit D we already have the bits for everything reachable from maximal commits that D can reach and we only need to walk the objects in the set-difference. In our ABC/XYZ example, when we finally walk for the commit A we only need to walk commits with bitmask equal to A's bitmask. If that bitmask is 100, then we are only walking commits in X - (Y union Z) because the bitmap already contains the bits for objects reachable from (X intersect Y) union (X intersect Z) (i.e. the bits from the reachability bitmaps for the maximal commits with bitmasks 110 and 101). The behavior is intended to walk each commit (and the trees that commit introduces) at most once while allocating and copying fewer reachability bitmaps. There is one caveat: what happens when there are multiple maximal commits with the same bitmask, with respect to the initial set of selected commits? MULTIPLE MAXIMAL COMMITS ------------------------ Earlier, we mentioned that when we discover a new maximal commit, we assign a new bit position to that commit and set that bit position to one for that commit. This is absolutely important for interesting commit-graphs such as git/git and torvalds/linux. The reason is due to the existence of "butterflies" in the commit-graph partial order. Here is an example of four commits forming a butterfly: I J |\ /| | \/ | | /\ | |/ \| M N \ / |/ Q Here, I and J both have parents M and N. In general, these do not need to be exact parent relationships, but reachability relationships. The most important part is that M and N cannot reach each other, so they are independent in the partial order. If I had commit_mask 10 and J had commit_mask 01, then M and N would both be assigned commit_mask 11 and be maximal commits with the bitmask 11. Then, what happens when M and N can both reach a commit Q? If Q is also assigned the bitmask 11, then it is not maximal but is reachable from both M and N. While this is not necessarily a deal-breaker for our abstract definition of finding maximal commits according to a given bitmask, we have a few issues that can come up in our larger picture of constructing reachability bitmaps. In particular, if we do not also consider Q to be a "maximal" commit, then we will walk commits reachable from Q twice: once when computing the reachability bitmap for M and another time when computing the reachability bitmap for N. This becomes much worse if the topology continues this pattern with multiple butterflies. The solution has already been mentioned: each of M and N are assigned their own bits to the bitmask and hence they become uniquely maximal for their bitmasks. Finally, Q also becomes maximal and thus we do not need to walk its commits multiple times. The final bitmasks for these commits are as follows: I:10 J:01 |\ /| | \ _____/ | | /\____ | |/ \ | M:111 N:1101 \ / Q:1111 Further, Q's reverse edge list is { M, N }, while M and N both have reverse edge list { I, J }. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS ------------------------ Now that we've spent a LOT of time on the theory of this algorithm, let's show that this is actually worth all that effort. To test the performance, use GIT_TRACE2_PERF=1 when running 'git repack -abd' in a repository with no existing reachability bitmaps. This avoids any issues with keeping existing bitmaps to skew the numbers. Inspect the "building_bitmaps_total" region in the trace2 output to focus on the portion of work that is affected by this change. Here are the performance comparisons for a few repositories. The timings are for the following versions of Git: "multi" is the timing from before any reverse graph is constructed, where we might perform multiple traversals. "reverse" is for the previous change where the reverse graph has every reachable commit. Finally "maximal" is the version introduced here where the reverse graph only contains the maximal commits. Repository: git/git multi: 2.628 sec reverse: 2.344 sec maximal: 2.047 sec Repository: torvalds/linux multi: 64.7 sec reverse: 205.3 sec maximal: 44.7 sec So in all cases we've not only recovered any time lost to switching to the reverse-edge algorithm, but we come out ahead of "multi" in all cases. Likewise, peak heap has gone back to something reasonable: Repository: torvalds/linux multi: 2.087 GB reverse: 3.141 GB maximal: 2.288 GB While I do not have access to full fork networks on GitHub, Peff has run this algorithm on the chromium/chromium fork network and reported a change from 3 hours to ~233 seconds. That network is particularly beneficial for this approach because it has a long, linear history along with many tags. The "multi" approach was obviously quadratic and the new approach is linear. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08t5310: add branch-based checksDerrick Stolee
The current rev-list tests that check the bitmap data only work on HEAD instead of multiple branches. Expand the test cases to handle both 'master' and 'other' branches. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08t5310: drop size of truncated ewah bitmapJeff King
We truncate the .bitmap file to 512 bytes and expect to run into problems reading an individual ewah file. But this length is somewhat arbitrary, and just happened to work when the test was added in 9d2e330b17 (ewah_read_mmap: bounds-check mmap reads, 2018-06-14). An upcoming commit will change the size of the history we create in the test repo, which will cause this test to fail. We can future-proof it a bit more by reducing the size of the truncated bitmap file. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08pack-bitmap: bounds-check size of cache extensionJeff King
A .bitmap file may have a "name hash cache" extension, which puts a sequence of uint32_t values (one per object) at the end of the file. When we see a flag indicating this extension, we blindly subtract the appropriate number of bytes from our available length. However, if the .bitmap file is too short, we'll underflow our length variable and wrap around, thinking we have a very large length. This can lead to reading out-of-bounds bytes while loading individual ewah bitmaps. We can fix this by checking the number of available bytes when we parse the header. The existing "truncated bitmap" test is now split into two tests: one where we don't have this extension at all (and hence actually do try to read a truncated ewah bitmap) and one where we realize up-front that we can't even fit in the cache structure. We'll check stderr in each case to make sure we hit the error we're expecting. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-19tests: mark tests relying on the current default for `init.defaultBranch`Johannes Schindelin
In addition to the manual adjustment to let the `linux-gcc` CI job run the test suite with `master` and then with `main`, this patch makes sure that GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME is set in all test scripts that currently rely on the initial branch name being `master by default. To determine which test scripts to mark up, the first step was to force-set the default branch name to `master` in - all test scripts that contain the keyword `master`, - t4211, which expects `t/t4211/history.export` with a hard-coded ref to initialize the default branch, - t5560 because it sources `t/t556x_common` which uses `master`, - t8002 and t8012 because both source `t/annotate-tests.sh` which also uses `master`) This trick was performed by this command: $ sed -i '/^ *\. \.\/\(test-lib\|lib-\(bash\|cvs\|git-svn\)\|gitweb-lib\)\.sh$/i\ GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=master\ export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME\ ' $(git grep -l master t/t[0-9]*.sh) \ t/t4211*.sh t/t5560*.sh t/t8002*.sh t/t8012*.sh After that, careful, manual inspection revealed that some of the test scripts containing the needle `master` do not actually rely on a specific default branch name: either they mention `master` only in a comment, or they initialize that branch specificially, or they do not actually refer to the current default branch. Therefore, the aforementioned modification was undone in those test scripts thusly: $ git checkout HEAD -- \ t/t0027-auto-crlf.sh t/t0060-path-utils.sh \ t/t1011-read-tree-sparse-checkout.sh \ t/t1305-config-include.sh t/t1309-early-config.sh \ t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh t/t1450-fsck.sh \ t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh \ t/t2106-update-index-assume-unchanged.sh \ t/t3040-subprojects-basic.sh t/t3301-notes.sh \ t/t3308-notes-merge.sh t/t3423-rebase-reword.sh \ t/t3436-rebase-more-options.sh \ t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh t/t4257-am-interactive.sh \ t/t5323-pack-redundant.sh t/t5401-update-hooks.sh \ t/t5511-refspec.sh t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh \ t/t5529-push-errors.sh t/t5530-upload-pack-error.sh \ t/t5548-push-porcelain.sh \ t/t5552-skipping-fetch-negotiator.sh \ t/t5572-pull-submodule.sh t/t5608-clone-2gb.sh \ t/t5614-clone-submodules-shallow.sh \ t/t7508-status.sh t/t7606-merge-custom.sh \ t/t9302-fast-import-unpack-limit.sh We excluded one set of test scripts in these commands, though: the range of `git p4` tests. The reason? `git p4` stores the (foreign) remote branch in the branch called `p4/master`, which is obviously not the default branch. Manual analysis revealed that only five of these tests actually require a specific default branch name to pass; They were modified thusly: $ sed -i '/^ *\. \.\/lib-git-p4\.sh$/i\ GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=master\ export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME\ ' t/t980[0167]*.sh t/t9811*.sh Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-16t5310-pack-bitmaps: skip JGit tests with SHA256SZEDER Gábor
In 't5310-pack-bitmaps.sh' two tests make sure that our pack bitmaps are compatible with JGit's bitmaps. Alas, not even the most recent JGit version (5.9.0.202009080501-r) supports SHA256 yet, so when this test script is run with GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH=sha256 on a setup with JGit installed in PATH, then these two tests fail. Protect these two tests with the SHA1 prereq in order to skip them when testing with SHA256. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-14pack-objects: support filters with bitmapsJeff King
Just as rev-list recently learned to combine filters and bitmaps, let's do the same for pack-objects. The infrastructure is all there; we just need to pass along our filter options, and the pack-bitmap code will decide to use bitmaps or not. This unsurprisingly makes things faster for partial clones of large repositories (here we're cloning linux.git): Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5310.11: simulated partial clone 38.94(37.28+5.87) 11.06(11.27+4.07) -71.6% Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>