The "init" and "set" subcommands in "git sparse-checkout" have been
unified for a better user experience and performance.
* en/sparse-checkout-set:
sparse-checkout: remove stray trailing space
clone: avoid using deprecated `sparse-checkout init`
Documentation: clarify/correct a few sparsity related statements
git-sparse-checkout.txt: update to document init/set/reapply changes
sparse-checkout: enable reapply to take --[no-]{cone,sparse-index}
sparse-checkout: enable `set` to initialize sparse-checkout mode
sparse-checkout: split out code for tweaking settings config
sparse-checkout: disallow --no-stdin as an argument to set
sparse-checkout: add sanity-checks on initial sparsity state
sparse-checkout: break apart functions for sparse_checkout_(set|add)
sparse-checkout: pass use_stdin as a parameter instead of as a global
As noted in the previous commit, using separate `init` and `set` steps
with sparse-checkout result in a number of issues. The previous commits
made `set` able to handle the work of both commands, and enabled reapply
to tweak the {cone,sparse-index} settings. Update the documentation to
reflect this, and mark `init` as deprecated.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Doc update.
* ja/doc-cleanup:
init doc: --shared=0xxx does not give umask but perm bits
doc: git-init: clarify file modes in octal.
doc: git-http-push: describe the refs as pattern pairs
doc: uniformize <URL> placeholders' case
doc: use three dots for indicating repetition instead of star
doc: git-ls-files: express options as optional alternatives
doc: use only hyphens as word separators in placeholders
doc: express grammar placeholders between angle brackets
doc: split placeholders as individual tokens
doc: fix git credential synopsis
This discerns user inputs from verbatim options in the synopsis.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When changing the scope of a sparse-checkout using cone mode, we might
have some tracked directories go out of scope. The current logic removes
the tracked files from within those directories, but leaves the ignored
files within those directories. This is a bit unexpected to users who
have given input to Git saying they don't need those directories
anymore.
This is something that is new to the cone mode pattern type: the user
has explicitly said "I want these directories and _not_ those
directories." The typical sparse-checkout patterns more generally apply
to "I want files with with these patterns" so it is natural to leave
ignored files as they are. This focus on directories in cone mode
provides us an opportunity to change the behavior.
Leaving these ignored files in the sparse directories makes it
impossible to gain performance benefits in the sparse index. When we
track into these directories, we need to know if the files are ignored
or not, which might depend on the _tracked_ .gitignore file(s) within
the sparse directory. This depends on the indexed version of the file,
so the sparse directory must be expanded.
We must take special care to look for untracked, non-ignored files in
these directories before deleting them. We do not want to delete any
meaningful work that the users were doing in those directories and
perhaps forgot to add and commit before switching sparse-checkout
definitions. Since those untracked files might be code files that
generated ignored build output, also do not delete any ignored files
from these directories in that case. The users can recover their state
by resetting their sparse-checkout definition to include that directory
and continue. Alternatively, they can see the warning that is presented
and delete the directory themselves to regain the performance they
expect.
By deleting the sparse directories when changing scope (or running 'git
sparse-checkout reapply') we regain these performance benefits as if the
repository was in a clean state.
Since these ignored files are frequently build output or helper files
from IDEs, the users should not need the files now that the tracked
files are removed. If the tracked files reappear, then they will have
newer timestamps than the build artifacts, so the artifacts will need to
be regenerated anyway.
Use the sparse-index as a data structure in order to find the sparse
directories that can be safely deleted. Re-expand the index to a full
one if it was full before.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sparse index extension is used to signal that index writes should be
in sparse mode. This was only updated using GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=1.
Add a '--[no-]sparse-index' option to 'git sparse-checkout init' that
specifies if the sparse index should be used. It also updates the index
to use the correct format, either way. Add a warning in the
documentation that the use of a repository extension might reduce
compatibility with third-party tools. 'git sparse-checkout init' already
sets extension.worktreeConfig, which places most sparse-checkout users
outside of the scope of most third-party tools.
Update t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh to use this CLI instead of
GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=1.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The effect of sparse checkout settings on submodules is documented.
* en/sparse-with-submodule-doc:
git-sparse-checkout: clarify interactions with submodules
Ignoring the sparse-checkout feature momentarily, if one has a submodule and
creates local branches within it with unpushed changes and maybe adds some
untracked files to it, then we would want to avoid accidentally removing such
a submodule. So, for example with git.git, if you run
git checkout v2.13.0
then the sha1collisiondetection/ submodule is NOT removed even though it
did not exist as a submodule until v2.14.0. Similarly, if you only had
v2.13.0 checked out previously and ran
git checkout v2.14.0
the sha1collisiondetection/ submodule would NOT be automatically
initialized despite being part of v2.14.0. In both cases, git requires
submodules to be initialized or deinitialized separately. Further, we
also have special handling for submodules in other commands such as
clean, which requires two --force flags to delete untracked submodules,
and some commands have a --recurse-submodules flag.
sparse-checkout is very similar to checkout, as evidenced by the similar
name -- it adds and removes files from the working copy. However, for
the same avoid-data-loss reasons we do not want to remove a submodule
from the working copy with checkout, we do not want to do it with
sparse-checkout either. So submodules need to be separately initialized
or deinitialized; changing sparse-checkout rules should not
automatically trigger the removal or vivification of submodules.
I believe the previous wording in git-sparse-checkout.txt about
submodules was only about this particular issue. Unfortunately, the
previous wording could be interpreted to imply that submodules should be
considered active regardless of sparsity patterns. Update the wording
to avoid making such an implication. It may be helpful to consider two
example situations where the differences in wording become important:
In the future, we want users to be able to run commands like
git clone --sparse=moduleA --recurse-submodules $REPO_URL
and have sparsity paths automatically set up and have submodules *within
the sparsity paths* be automatically initialized. We do not want all
submodules in any path to be automatically initialized with that
command.
Similarly, we want to be able to do things like
git -c sparse.restrictCmds grep --recurse-submodules $REV $PATTERN
and search through $REV for $PATTERN within the recorded sparsity
patterns. We want it to recurse into submodules within those sparsity
patterns, but do not want to recurse into directories that do not match
the sparsity patterns in search of a possible submodule.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Where we explain the 'reapply' command, we don't properly wrap it in
single quote marks like we do with the other commands: We omit the
closing mark ("'reapply") and this ends up being rendered literally as
"'reapply". Add the missing "'".
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If commands like merge or rebase materialize files as part of their work,
or a previous sparse-checkout command failed to update individual files
due to dirty changes, users may want a command to simply 'reapply' the
sparsity rules. Provide one.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git sparse-checkout" learned a new "add" subcommand.
* ds/sparse-add:
sparse-checkout: allow one-character directories in cone mode
sparse-checkout: work with Windows paths
sparse-checkout: create 'add' subcommand
sparse-checkout: extract pattern update from 'set' subcommand
sparse-checkout: extract add_patterns_from_input()
Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around
the cone mode, have been cleaned up.
* ds/sparse-checkout-harden:
sparse-checkout: fix cone mode behavior mismatch
sparse-checkout: improve docs around 'set' in cone mode
sparse-checkout: escape all glob characters on write
sparse-checkout: use C-style quotes in 'list' subcommand
sparse-checkout: unquote C-style strings over --stdin
sparse-checkout: write escaped patterns in cone mode
sparse-checkout: properly match escaped characters
sparse-checkout: warn on globs in cone patterns
sparse-checkout: detect short patterns
sparse-checkout: cone mode does not recognize "**"
sparse-checkout: fix documentation typo for core.sparseCheckoutCone
clone: fix --sparse option with URLs
sparse-checkout: create leading directories
t1091: improve here-docs
t1091: use check_files to reduce boilerplate
When using the sparse-checkout feature, a user may want to incrementally
grow their sparse-checkout pattern set. Allow adding patterns using a
new 'add' subcommand. This is not much different from the 'set'
subcommand, because we still want to allow the '--stdin' option and
interpret inputs as directories when in cone mode and patterns
otherwise.
When in cone mode, we are growing the cone. This may actually reduce the
set of patterns when adding directory A when A/B is already a directory
in the cone. Test the different cases: siblings, parents, ancestors.
When not in cone mode, we can only assume the patterns should be
appended to the sparse-checkout file.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing documentation does not clarify how the 'set' subcommand
changes when core.sparseCheckoutCone is enabled. Correct this by
changing some language around the "A/B/C" example. Also include a
description of the input format matching the output of 'git ls-tree
--name-only'.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In af09ce2 ("sparse-checkout: init and set in cone mode", 2019-11-21),
the '--cone' option was added to 'git sparse-checkout init'.
Document it.
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This typo was introduced in 94c0956b60 (sparse-checkout: create builtin
with 'list' subcommand, 2019-11-21).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using 'git submodule (init|deinit)' a user can select a subset of
submodules to populate. This behaves very similar to the sparse-checkout
feature, but those directories contain their own .git directory
including an object database and ref space. To have the sparse-checkout
file also determine if those files should exist would easily cause
problems. Therefore, keeping these features independent in this way
is the best way forward.
Also create a test that demonstrates this behavior to make sure
it doesn't change as the sparse-checkout feature evolves.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When core.sparseCheckoutCone is enabled, the 'git sparse-checkout set'
command takes a list of directories as input, then creates an ordered
list of sparse-checkout patterns such that those directories are
recursively included and all sibling entries along the parent directories
are also included. Listing the patterns is less user-friendly than the
directories themselves.
In cone mode, and as long as the patterns match the expected cone-mode
pattern types, change the output of 'git sparse-checkout list' to only
show the directories that created the patterns.
With this change, the following piped commands would not change the
working directory:
git sparse-checkout list | git sparse-checkout set --stdin
The only time this would not work is if core.sparseCheckoutCone is
true, but the sparse-checkout file contains patterns that do not
match the expected pattern types for cone mode.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a user uses the sparse-checkout feature in cone mode, they
add patterns using "git sparse-checkout set <dir1> <dir2> ..."
or by using "--stdin" to provide the directories line-by-line over
stdin. This behaviour naturally looks a lot like the way a user
would type "git add <dir1> <dir2> ..."
If core.ignoreCase is enabled, then "git add" will match the input
using a case-insensitive match. Do the same for the sparse-checkout
feature.
Perform case-insensitive checks while updating the skip-worktree
bits during unpack_trees(). This is done by changing the hash
algorithm and hashmap comparison methods to optionally use case-
insensitive methods.
When this is enabled, there is a small performance cost in the
hashing algorithm. To tease out the worst possible case, the
following was run on a repo with a deep directory structure:
git ls-tree -d -r --name-only HEAD |
git sparse-checkout set --stdin
The 'set' command was timed with core.ignoreCase disabled or
enabled. For the repo with a deep history, the numbers were
core.ignoreCase=false: 62s
core.ignoreCase=true: 74s (+19.3%)
For reproducibility, the equivalent test on the Linux kernel
repository had these numbers:
core.ignoreCase=false: 3.1s
core.ignoreCase=true: 3.6s (+16%)
Now, this is not an entirely fair comparison, as most users
will define their sparse cone using more shallow directories,
and the performance improvement from eb42feca97 ("unpack-trees:
hash less in cone mode" 2019-11-21) can remove most of the
hash cost. For a more realistic test, drop the "-r" from the
ls-tree command to store only the first-level directories.
In that case, the Linux kernel repository takes 0.2-0.25s in
each case, and the deep repository takes one second, plus or
minus 0.05s, in each case.
Thus, we _can_ demonstrate a cost to this change, but it is
unlikely to matter to any reasonable sparse-checkout cone.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git sparse-checkout disable' subcommand returns a user to a
full working directory. The old process for doing this required
updating the sparse-checkout file with the "/*" pattern and then
updating the working directory with core.sparseCheckout enabled.
Finally, the sparse-checkout file could be removed and the config
setting disabled.
However, it is valuable to keep a user's sparse-checkout file
intact so they can re-enable the sparse-checkout they previously
used with 'git sparse-checkout init'. This is now possible with
the in-process mechanism for updating the working directory.
Reported-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sparse-checkout feature can have quadratic performance as
the number of patterns and number of entries in the index grow.
If there are 1,000 patterns and 1,000,000 entries, this time can
be very significant.
Create a new Boolean config option, core.sparseCheckoutCone, to
indicate that we expect the sparse-checkout file to contain a
more limited set of patterns. This is a separate config setting
from core.sparseCheckout to avoid breaking older clients by
introducing a tri-state option.
The config option does nothing right now, but will be expanded
upon in a later commit.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The instructions for disabling a sparse-checkout to a full
working directory are complicated and non-intuitive. Add a
subcommand, 'git sparse-checkout disable', to perform those
steps for the user.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git sparse-checkout set' subcommand takes a list of patterns
and places them in the sparse-checkout file. Then, it updates the
working directory to match those patterns. For a large list of
patterns, the command-line call can get very cumbersome.
Add a '--stdin' option to instead read patterns over standard in.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git sparse-checkout set' subcommand takes a list of patterns
as arguments and writes them to the sparse-checkout file. Then, it
updates the working directory using 'git read-tree -mu HEAD'.
The 'set' subcommand will replace the entire contents of the
sparse-checkout file. The write_patterns_and_update() method is
extracted from cmd_sparse_checkout() to make it easier to implement
'add' and/or 'remove' subcommands in the future.
If the core.sparseCheckout config setting is disabled, then enable
the config setting in the worktree config. If we set the config
this way and the sparse-checkout fails, then re-disable the config
setting.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Getting started with a sparse-checkout file can be daunting. Help
users start their sparse enlistment using 'git sparse-checkout init'.
This will set 'core.sparseCheckout=true' in their config, write
an initial set of patterns to the sparse-checkout file, and update
their working directory.
Make sure to use the `extensions.worktreeConfig` setting and write
the sparse checkout config to the worktree-specific config file.
This avoids confusing interactions with other worktrees.
The use of running another process for 'git read-tree' is sub-
optimal. This will be removed in a later change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sparse-checkout feature is mostly hidden to users, as its
only documentation is supplementary information in the docs for
'git read-tree'. In addition, users need to know how to edit the
.git/info/sparse-checkout file with the right patterns, then run
the appropriate 'git read-tree -mu HEAD' command. Keeping the
working directory in sync with the sparse-checkout file requires
care.
Begin an effort to make the sparse-checkout feature a porcelain
feature by creating a new 'git sparse-checkout' builtin. This
builtin will be the preferred mechanism for manipulating the
sparse-checkout file and syncing the working directory.
The documentation provided is adapted from the "git read-tree"
documentation with a few edits for clarity in the new context.
Extra sections are added to hint toward a future change to
a more restricted pattern set.
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
