The code that gives an error message in "git multi-pack-index" when
no subcommand is given tried to print a NULL pointer as a strong,
which has been corrected.
* tb/reverse-midx:
multi-pack-index: fix potential segfault without sub-command
Since cd57bc41bb (builtin/multi-pack-index.c: display usage on
unrecognized command, 2021-03-30) we have used a "usage" label to avoid
having two separate callers of usage_with_options (one when no arguments
are given, and another for unrecognized sub-commands).
But the first caller has been broken since cd57bc41bb, since it will
happily jump to usage without arguments, and then pass argv[0] to the
"unrecognized subcommand" error.
Many compilers will save us from a segfault here, but the end result is
ugly, since it mentions an unrecognized subcommand when we didn't even
pass one, and (on GCC) includes "(null)" in its output.
Move the "usage" label down past the error about unrecognized
subcommands so that it is only triggered when it should be. While we're
at it, bulk up our test coverage in this area, too.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git multi-pack-index verify' inspects the data in an existing MIDX for
correctness by checking that the recorded object offsets are correct,
and so on.
But it does not check that the file's trailing checksum matches the data
that it records. So, if an on-disk corruption happened to occur in the
final few bytes (and all other data was recorded correctly), we would:
- get a clean result from 'git multi-pack-index verify', but
- be unable to reuse the existing MIDX when writing a new one (since
we now check for checksum mismatches before reusing a MIDX)
Teach the 'verify' sub-command to recognize corruption in the checksum
by calling midx_checksum_valid().
Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When writing a new multi-pack index, Git tries to reuse as much of the
data from an existing MIDX as possible, like object offsets. This is
done to avoid re-opening a bunch of *.idx files unnecessarily, but can
lead to problems if the data we are reusing is corrupt.
That's because we'll blindly reuse data from an existing MIDX without
checking its trailing checksum for validity. So if there is memory
corruption while writing a MIDX, or disk corruption in the intervening
period between writing and reuse, we'll blindly propagate those bad
values forward.
Suppose we experience a memory corruption while writing a MIDX such that
we write an incorrect object offset (or alternatively, the disk corrupts
the data after being written, but before being reused). Then when we go
to write a new MIDX, we'll reuse the bad object offset without checking
its validity. This means that the MIDX we just wrote is broken, but its
trailing checksum is in-tact, since we never bothered to look at the
values before writing.
In the above, a "git multi-pack-index verify" would have caught the
problem before writing, but writing a new MIDX wouldn't have noticed
anything wrong, blindly carrying forward the corrupt offset.
Individual pack indexes check their validity by verifying the crc32
attached to each entry when carrying data forward during a repack.
We could solve this problem for MIDXs in the same way, but individual
crc32's don't make much sense, since their entries are so small.
Likewise, checking the whole file on every read may be prohibitively
expensive if a repository has a lot of objects, packs, or both.
But we can check the trailing checksum when reusing an existing MIDX
when writing a new one. And a corrupt MIDX need not stop us from writing
a new one, since we can just avoid reusing the existing one at all and
pretend as if we are writing a new MIDX from scratch.
Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When multiple packs in the multi-pack index contain the same object, the
MIDX machinery must make a choice about which pack it associates with
that object. Prior to this patch, the lowest-ordered[1] pack was always
selected.
Pack selection for duplicate objects is relatively unimportant today,
but it will become important for multi-pack bitmaps. This is because we
can only invoke the pack-reuse mechanism when all of the bits for reused
objects come from the reuse pack (in order to ensure that all reused
deltas can find their base objects in the same pack).
To encourage the pack selection process to prefer one pack over another
(the pack to be preferred is the one a caller would like to later use as
a reuse pack), introduce the concept of a "preferred pack". When
provided, the MIDX code will always prefer an object found in a
preferred pack over any other.
No format changes are required to store the preferred pack, since it
will be able to be inferred with a corresponding MIDX bitmap, by looking
up the pack associated with the object in the first bit position (this
ordering is described in detail in a subsequent commit).
[1]: the ordering is specified by MIDX internals; for our purposes we
can consider the "lowest ordered" pack to be "the one with the
most-recent mtime.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ds/chunked-file-api:
commit-graph.c: display correct number of chunks when writing
chunk-format: add technical docs
chunk-format: restore duplicate chunk checks
midx: use 64-bit multiplication for chunk sizes
midx: use chunk-format read API
commit-graph: use chunk-format read API
chunk-format: create read chunk API
midx: use chunk-format API in write_midx_internal()
midx: drop chunk progress during write
midx: return success/failure in chunk write methods
midx: add num_large_offsets to write_midx_context
midx: add pack_perm to write_midx_context
midx: add entries to write_midx_context
midx: use context in write_midx_pack_names()
midx: rename pack_info to write_midx_context
commit-graph: use chunk-format write API
chunk-format: create chunk format write API
commit-graph: anonymize data in chunk_write_fn
Instead of parsing the table of contents directly, use the chunk-format
API methods read_table_of_contents() and pair_chunk(). In particular, we
can use the return value of pair_chunk() to generate an error when a
required chunk is missing.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the next patch, we'll add support for unconditionally enabling the
'pack.writeReverseIndex' setting with a new GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX
environment variable.
This causes a little bit of fallout with tests that, for example,
compare the list of files in the pack directory being unprepared to see
.rev files in its output.
Those locations can be cleaned up to look for specific file extensions,
rather than take everything in the pack directory (for instance) and
then grep out unwanted items.
Once the pack.writeReverseIndex option has been thoroughly
tested, we will default it to 'true', removing GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX,
and making it possible to revert this patch.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Processes that access packdata while the .idx file gets removed
(e.g. while repacking) did not fail or fall back gracefully as they
could.
* tb/idx-midx-race-fix:
midx.c: protect against disappearing packs
packfile.c: protect against disappearing indexes
When a packed object is stored in a multi-pack index, but that pack has
racily gone away, the MIDX code simply calls die(), when it could be
returning an error to the caller, which would in turn lead to
re-scanning the pack directory.
A pack can racily disappear, for example, due to a simultaneous 'git
repack -ad',
You can also reproduce this with two terminals, where one is running:
git init
while true; do
git commit -q --allow-empty -m foo
git repack -ad
git multi-pack-index write
done
(in effect, constantly writing new MIDXs), and the other is running:
obj=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
while true; do
echo $obj | git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)' || break
done
That will sometimes hit the error preparing packfile from
multi-pack-index message, which this patch fixes.
Right now, that path to discovering a missing pack looks something like
'find_pack_entry()' calling 'fill_midx_entry()' and eventually making
its way to call 'nth_midxed_pack_entry()'.
'nth_midxed_pack_entry()' already checks 'is_pack_valid()' and
propagates an error if the pack is invalid. So, this works if the pack
has gone away between calling 'prepare_midx_pack()' and before calling
'is_pack_valid()', but not if it disappears before then.
Catch the case where the pack has already disappeared before
'prepare_midx_pack()' by returning an error in that case, too.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 17c35c8969 (packfile: skip loading index if in multi-pack-index,
2018-07-12) we stopped loading the .idx file for packs that are
contained within a multi-pack index.
This saves us the effort of loading an .idx and doing some lightweight
validity checks by way of 'packfile.c:load_idx()', but introduces a race
between processes that need to load the index (e.g., to generate a
reverse index) and processes that can delete the index.
For example, running the following in your shell:
$ git init repo && cd repo
$ git commit --allow-empty -m 'base'
$ git repack -ad && git multi-pack-index write
followed by:
$ rm -f .git/objects/pack/pack-*.idx
$ git rev-parse HEAD | git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'
will result in a segfault prior to this patch. What's happening here is
that we notice that the pack is in the multi-pack index, and so don't
check that it still has a .idx. When we then try and load that index to
generate a reverse index, we don't have it, so the call to
'find_pack_revindex()' in 'packfile.c:packed_object_info()' returns
NULL, and then dereferencing it causes a segfault.
Of course, we don't ever expect someone to remove the index file by
hand, or to be in a state where we never wrote it to begin with (yet
find that pack in the multi-pack-index). But, this can happen in a
timing race with 'git repack -ad', which removes all existing packs
after writing a new pack containing all of their objects.
Avoid this by reverting the hunk of 17c35c8969 which stops loading the
index when the pack is contained in a MIDX. This makes the latter half
of 17c35c8969 useless, since we'll always have a non-NULL
'p->index_data', in which case that if statement isn't guarding
anything.
These two together effectively revert 17c35c8969, and avoid the race
explained above.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous change cleaned up loose objects using the
'loose-objects' that can be run safely in the background. Add a
similar job that performs similar cleanups for pack-files.
One issue with running 'git repack' is that it is designed to
repack all pack-files into a single pack-file. While this is the
most space-efficient way to store object data, it is not time or
memory efficient. This becomes extremely important if the repo is
so large that a user struggles to store two copies of the pack on
their disk.
Instead, perform an "incremental" repack by collecting a few small
pack-files into a new pack-file. The multi-pack-index facilitates
this process ever since 'git multi-pack-index expire' was added in
19575c7 (multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' subcommand,
2019-06-10) and 'git multi-pack-index repack' was added in ce1e4a1
(midx: implement midx_repack(), 2019-06-10).
The 'incremental-repack' task runs the following steps:
1. 'git multi-pack-index write' creates a multi-pack-index file if
one did not exist, and otherwise will update the multi-pack-index
with any new pack-files that appeared since the last write. This
is particularly relevant with the background fetch job.
When the multi-pack-index sees two copies of the same object, it
stores the offset data into the newer pack-file. This means that
some old pack-files could become "unreferenced" which I will use
to mean "a pack-file that is in the pack-file list of the
multi-pack-index but none of the objects in the multi-pack-index
reference a location inside that pack-file."
2. 'git multi-pack-index expire' deletes any unreferenced pack-files
and updaes the multi-pack-index to drop those pack-files from the
list. This is safe to do as concurrent Git processes will see the
multi-pack-index and not open those packs when looking for object
contents. (Similar to the 'loose-objects' job, there are some Git
commands that open pack-files regardless of the multi-pack-index,
but they are rarely used. Further, a user that self-selects to
use background operations would likely refrain from using those
commands.)
3. 'git multi-pack-index repack --bacth-size=<size>' collects a set
of pack-files that are listed in the multi-pack-index and creates
a new pack-file containing the objects whose offsets are listed
by the multi-pack-index to be in those objects. The set of pack-
files is selected greedily by sorting the pack-files by modified
time and adding a pack-file to the set if its "expected size" is
smaller than the batch size until the total expected size of the
selected pack-files is at least the batch size. The "expected
size" is calculated by taking the size of the pack-file divided
by the number of objects in the pack-file and multiplied by the
number of objects from the multi-pack-index with offset in that
pack-file. The expected size approximates how much data from that
pack-file will contribute to the resulting pack-file size. The
intention is that the resulting pack-file will be close in size
to the provided batch size.
The next run of the incremental-repack task will delete these
repacked pack-files during the 'expire' step.
In this version, the batch size is set to "0" which ignores the
size restrictions when selecting the pack-files. It instead
selects all pack-files and repacks all packed objects into a
single pack-file. This will be updated in the next change, but
it requires doing some calculations that are better isolated to
a separate change.
These steps are based on a similar background maintenance step in
Scalar (and VFS for Git) [1]. This was incredibly effective for
users of the Windows OS repository. After using the same VFS for Git
repository for over a year, some users had _thousands_ of pack-files
that combined to up to 250 GB of data. We noticed a few users were
running into the open file descriptor limits (due in part to a bug
in the multi-pack-index fixed by af96fe3 (midx: add packs to
packed_git linked list, 2019-04-29).
These pack-files were mostly small since they contained the commits
and trees that were pushed to the origin in a given hour. The GVFS
protocol includes a "prefetch" step that asks for pre-computed pack-
files containing commits and trees by timestamp. These pack-files
were grouped into "daily" pack-files once a day for up to 30 days.
If a user did not request prefetch packs for over 30 days, then they
would get the entire history of commits and trees in a new, large
pack-file. This led to a large number of pack-files that had poor
delta compression.
By running this pack-file maintenance step once per day, these repos
with thousands of packs spanning 200+ GB dropped to dozens of pack-
files spanning 30-50 GB. This was done all without removing objects
from the system and using a constant batch size of two gigabytes.
Once the work was done to reduce the pack-files to small sizes, the
batch size of two gigabytes means that not every run triggers a
repack operation, so the following run will not expire a pack-file.
This has kept these repos in a "clean" state.
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar/blob/master/Scalar.Common/Maintenance/PackfileMaintenanceStep.cs
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that the multi-pack-index may be written as part of auto maintenance
at the end of a command, reduce the progress output when the operations
are quick. Use start_delayed_progress() instead of start_progress().
Update t5319-multi-pack-index.sh to use GIT_PROGRESS_DELAY=0 now that
the progress indicators are conditional.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a packfile is removed by "git repack", multi-pack-index gets
cleared; the code was taught to do so less aggressively by first
checking if the midx actually refers to a pack that no longer
exists.
* tb/repack-clearing-midx:
midx: traverse the local MIDX first
builtin/repack.c: invalidate MIDX only when necessary
In 525e18c04b (midx: clear midx on repack, 2018-07-12), 'git repack'
learned to remove a multi-pack-index file if it added or removed a pack
from the object store.
This mechanism is a little over-eager, since it is only necessary to
drop a MIDX if 'git repack' removes a pack that the MIDX references.
Adding a pack outside of the MIDX does not require invalidating the
MIDX, and likewise for removing a pack the MIDX does not know about.
Teach 'git repack' to check for this by loading the MIDX, and checking
whether the to-be-removed pack is known to the MIDX. This requires a
slightly odd alternation to a test in t5319, which is explained with a
comment. A new test is added to show that the MIDX is left alone when
both packs known to it are marked as .keep, but two packs unknown to it
are removed and combined into one new pack.
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--batch-size" option of "git multi-pack-index repack" command
is now used to specify that very small packfiles are collected into
one until the total size roughly exceeds it.
* ds/midx-repack-to-batch-size:
multi-pack-index: repack batches below --batch-size
Similar to the commit-graph format, the multi-pack-index format has a
byte in the header intended to track the hash version used to write the
file. This allows one to interpret the hash length without having the
context of the repository config specifying the hash length. This was
not modified as part of the SHA-256 work because the hash length was
automatically up-shifted due to that config.
Since we have this byte available, we can make the file formats more
obviously incompatible instead of relying on other context from the
repository.
Add a new oid_version() method in midx.c similar to the one in
commit-graph.c. This is specifically made separate from that
implementation to avoid artificially linking the formats.
The test impact requires a few more things than the corresponding change
in the commit-graph format. Specifically, 'test-tool read-midx' was not
writing anything about this header value to output. Since the value
available in 'struct multi_pack_index' is hash_len instead of a version
value, we output "20" or "32" instead of "1" or "2".
Since we want a user to not have their Git commands fail if their
multi-pack-index has the incorrect hash version compared to the
repository's hash version, we relax the die() to an error() in
load_multi_pack_index(). This has some effect on 'git multi-pack-index
verify' as we need to check that a failed parse of a file that exists is
actually a verify error. For that test that checks the hash version
matches, we change the corrupted byte from "2" to "3" to ensure the test
fails for both hash algorithms.
Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --batch-size=<size> option of 'git multi-pack-index repack' is
intended to limit the amount of work done by the repack. In the case of
a large repository, this command should repack a number of small
pack-files but leave the large pack-files alone. Most often, the
repository has one large pack-file from a 'git clone' operation and
number of smaller pack-files from incremental 'git fetch' operations.
The issue with '--batch-size' is that it also _prevents_ the repack from
happening if the expected size of the resulting pack-file is too small.
This was intended as a way to avoid frequent churn of small pack-files,
but it has mostly caused confusion when a repository is of "medium"
size. That is, not enormous like the Windows OS repository, but also not
so small that this incremental repack isn't valuable.
The solution presented here is to collect pack-files for repack if their
expected size is smaller than the batch-size parameter until either the
total expected size exceeds the batch-size or all pack-files are
considered. If there are at least two pack-files, then these are
combined to a new pack-file whose size should not be too much larger
than the batch-size.
This new strategy should succeed in keeping the number of pack-files
small in these "medium" size repositories. The concern about churn is
likely not interesting, as the real control over that is the frequency
in which the repack command is run.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we call test_oid_init in the setup for all test scripts,
there's no point in calling it individually. Remove all of the places
where we've done so to help keep tests tidy.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When selecting a batch of pack-files to repack in the "git
multi-pack-index repack" command, Git should respect the
repack.packKeptObjects config option. When false, this option says that
the pack-files with an associated ".keep" file should not be repacked.
This config value is "false" by default.
There are two cases for selecting a batch of objects. The first is the
case where the input batch-size is zero, which specifies "repack
everything". The second is with a non-zero batch size, which selects
pack-files using a greedy selection criteria. Both of these cases are
updated and tested.
Reported-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The use of 'touch -m' to modify a file's mtime is slightly less
portable than using our own 'test-tool chmtime'. The important
thing is that these pack-files are ordered in a special way to
ensure the multi-pack-index selects some as the "newer" pack-files
when resolving duplicate objects.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When verifying a midx index with 0 objects, the
m->num_objects - 1
underflows and wraps around to 4294967295.
Fix this both by checking that the midx contains at least one oid,
and also that we don't write any midx when there is no packfiles.
Update the tests to check that `git multi-pack-index write` does
not write an midx when there is no objects, and another to check
that `git multi-pack-index verify` warns when it verifies an midx with no
objects. For this last test, use t5319/no-objects.midx which was
generated by an older version of git.
Signed-off-by: Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This test corrupts various locations in a multi-pack index to test
various error responses. However, these offsets differ between SHA-1
indexes and SHA-256 indexes due to differences in object length. Use
test_oid to look up the correct offsets based on the algorithm.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using SHA-1, the existing value of the byte we use is 0x13, so
writing the byte 0x07 serves to corrupt the test and verify that we
detect corruption. However, when we use SHA-256, the value at that
offset is already 0x07, so our "corruption" doesn't work and the test
fails to detect it.
To provide a value that is truly out of range, let's use 0xff, which is
not likely to be a valid value as the high byte of a two-byte offset in
a multi-pack index this small.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the --[no-]progress option to git multi-pack-index.
Pass the MIDX_PROGRESS flag to the subcommand functions
when progress should be displayed by multi-pack-index.
The progress feature was added to 'verify' in 144d703
("multi-pack-index: report progress during 'verify'", 2018-09-13)
but some subcommands were not updated to display progress, and
the ability to opt-out was overlooked.
Signed-off-by: William Baker <William.Baker@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using 'ls -l' and parsing the columns to find file sizes is
problematic when the platform could report the owner as a name
with spaces. Instead, use the 'test-tool path-utils file-size'
command to list only the sizes.
Reported-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git multi-pack-index repack' command can take a batch size of
zero, which creates a new pack-file containing all objects in the
multi-pack-index. The first 'repack' command will create one new
pack-file, and an 'expire' command after that will delete the old
pack-files, as they no longer contain any referenced objects in the
multi-pack-index.
We must remove the .keep file that was added in the previous test
in order to expire that pack-file.
Also test that a 'repack' will do nothing if there is only one
pack-file.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git multi-pack-index expire' subcommand may delete packs that
are not needed from the perspective of the multi-pack-index. If
a pack has a .keep file, then we should not delete that pack. Add
a test that ensures we preserve a pack that would otherwise be
expired. First, create a new pack that contains every object in
the repo, then add it to the multi-pack-index. Then create a .keep
file for a pack starting with "a-pack" that was added in the
previous test. Finally, expire and verify that the pack remains
and the other packs were expired.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During development of the multi-pack-index expire subcommand, a
version went out that improperly computed the pack order if a new
pack was introduced while other packs were being removed. Part of
the subtlety of the bug involved the new pack being placed before
other packs that already existed in the multi-pack-index.
Add a test to t5319-multi-pack-index.sh that catches this issue.
The test adds new packs that cause another pack to be expired, and
creates new packs that are lexicographically sorted before and
after the existing packs.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To repack with a non-zero batch-size, first sort all pack-files by
their modified time. Second, walk those pack-files from oldest
to newest, compute their expected size, and add the packs to a list
if they are smaller than the given batch-size. Stop when the total
expected size is at least the batch size.
If the batch size is zero, select all packs in the multi-pack-index.
Finally, collect the objects from the multi-pack-index that are in
the selected packs and send them to 'git pack-objects'. Write a new
multi-pack-index that includes the new pack.
Using a batch size of zero is very similar to a standard 'git repack'
command, except that we do not delete the old packs and instead rely
on the new multi-pack-index to prevent new processes from reading the
old packs. This does not disrupt other Git processes that are currently
reading the old packs based on the old multi-pack-index.
While first designing a 'git multi-pack-index repack' operation, I
started by collecting the batches based on the actual size of the
objects instead of the size of the pack-files. This allows repacking
a large pack-file that has very few referencd objects. However, this
came at a significant cost of parsing pack-files instead of simply
reading the multi-pack-index and getting the file information for
the pack-files. The "expected size" version provides similar
behavior, but could skip a pack-file if the average object size is
much larger than the actual size of the referenced objects, or
can create a large pack if the actual size of the referenced objects
is larger than the expected size.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In an environment where the multi-pack-index is useful, it is due
to many pack-files and an inability to repack the object store
into a single pack-file. However, it is likely that many of these
pack-files are rather small, and could be repacked into a slightly
larger pack-file without too much effort. It may also be important
to ensure the object store is highly available and the repack
operation does not interrupt concurrent git commands.
Introduce a 'repack' subcommand to 'git multi-pack-index' that
takes a '--batch-size' option. The subcommand will inspect the
multi-pack-index for referenced pack-files whose size is smaller
than the batch size, until collecting a list of pack-files whose
sizes sum to larger than the batch size. Then, a new pack-file
will be created containing the objects from those pack-files that
are referenced by the multi-pack-index. The resulting pack is
likely to actually be smaller than the batch size due to
compression and the fact that there may be objects in the pack-
files that have duplicate copies in other pack-files.
The current change introduces the command-line arguments, and we
add a test that ensures we parse these options properly. Since
we specify a small batch size, we will guarantee that future
implementations do not change the list of pack-files.
In addition, we hard-code the modified times of the packs in
the pack directory to ensure the list of packs sorted by modified
time matches the order if sorted by size (ascending). This will
be important in a future test.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git multi-pack-index expire' subcommand looks at the existing
mult-pack-index, counts the number of objects referenced in each
pack-file, deletes the pack-fils with no referenced objects, and
rewrites the multi-pack-index to no longer reference those packs.
Refactor the write_midx_file() method to call write_midx_internal()
which now takes an existing 'struct multi_pack_index' and a list
of pack-files to drop (as specified by the names of their pack-
indexes). As we write the new multi-pack-index, we drop those
file names from the list of known pack-files.
The expire_midx_packs() method removes the unreferenced pack-files
after carefully closing the packs to avoid open handles.
Test that a new pack-file that covers the contents of two other
pack-files leads to those pack-files being deleted during the
expire subcommand. Be sure to read the multi-pack-index to ensure
it no longer references those packs.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack-index tracks objects in a collection of pack-files.
Only one copy of each object is indexed, using the modified time
of the pack-files to determine tie-breakers. It is possible to
have a pack-file with no referenced objects because all objects
have a duplicate in a newer pack-file.
Introduce a new 'expire' subcommand to the multi-pack-index builtin.
This subcommand will delete these unused pack-files and rewrite the
multi-pack-index to no longer refer to those files. More details
about the specifics will follow as the method is implemented.
Add a test that verifies the 'expire' subcommand is correctly wired,
but will still be valid when the verb is implemented. Specifically,
create a set of packs that should all have referenced objects and
should not be removed during an 'expire' operation. The packs are
created carefully to ensure they have a specific order when sorted
by size. This will be important in a later test.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we have a multi-pack-index that covers many packfiles, we try to
avoid opening the .idx for those packfiles. To do that we feed the pack
name to midx_contains_pack(). But that function wants to see only the
basename, which we compute using strrchr() to find the final slash. But
that leaves an extra "/" at the start of our string.
We can fix this by incrementing the pointer. That also raises the
question of what to do when the name does not have a '/' at all. This
should generally not happen (we always find files in "pack/"), but it
doesn't hurt to be defensive here.
Let's wrap all of that up in a helper function and make it publicly
available, since a later patch will need to use it, too.
The tests don't notice because there's nothing about opening those .idx
files that would cause us to give incorrect output. It's just a little
slower. The new test checks this case by corrupting the covered .idx,
and then making sure we don't complain about it.
We also have to tweak t5570, which intentionally corrupts a .idx file
and expects us to notice it. When run with GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX,
this will fail since we now will (correctly) not bother opening the .idx
at all. We can fix that by unconditionally dropping any midx that's
there, which ensures we'll have to read the .idx.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cat-file --buffer option is the default already when using
--batch-all-objects. It doesn't hurt to specify it, but it's nice for
the test scripts to model good usage.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no such argument as "--unsorted"; it's spelled "--unordered".
But our test failed to notice that cat-file didn't run at all because:
1. It lost the exit code of git on the left-hand side of a pipe.
2. It was comparing two runs of the broken invocation with and without
a particular config variable (and indeed, both cases produced no
output!).
Let's fix the option, but also tweak the helper function to check the
exit code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tests for the recently introduced multi-pack index machinery.
* ds/test-multi-pack-index:
packfile: close multi-pack-index in close_all_packs
multi-pack-index: define GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX
midx: close multi-pack-index on repack
midx: fix broken free() in close_midx()
The multi-pack-index feature is tested in isolation by
t5319-multi-pack-index.sh, but there are many more interesting
scenarios in the test suite surrounding pack-file data shapes
and interactions. Since the multi-pack-index is an optional
data structure, it does not make sense to include it by default
in those tests.
Instead, add a new GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX environment variable
that enables core.multiPackIndex and writes a multi-pack-index
after each 'git repack' command. This adds extra test coverage
when needed.
There are a few spots in the test suite that need to react to this
change:
* t5319-multi-pack-index.sh: there is a test that checks that
'git repack' deletes the multi-pack-index. Disable the environment
variable to ensure this still happens.
* t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh: One test moves a pack-file from the object
directory to an alternate. This breaks the multi-pack-index, so
delete the multi-pack-index at this point, if it exists.
* t9300-fast-import.sh: One test verifies the number of files in
the .git/objects/pack directory is exactly 8. Exclude the
multi-pack-index from this count so it is still 8 in all cases.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When core.multiPackIndex is true, we may have a multi-pack-index
in our object directory. Add calls to 'git multi-pack-index verify'
at the end of 'git fsck' if so.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git multi-pack-index verify' command must verify the object
offsets stored in the multi-pack-index are correct. There are two
ways the offset chunk can be incorrect: the pack-int-id and the
object offset.
Replace the BUG() statement with a die() statement, now that we
may hit a bad pack-int-id during a 'verify' command on a corrupt
multi-pack-index, and it is covered by a test.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The final check we make while loading a multi-pack-index is that
the packfile names are in lexicographical order. Make this error
be a die() instead.
In order to test this condition, we need multiple packfiles.
Earlier in t5319-multi-pack-index.sh, we tested the interaction with
'git repack' but this limits us to one packfile in our object dir.
Move these repack tests until after the 'verify' tests.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When verifying if a multi-pack-index file is valid, we want the
command to fail to signal an invalid file. Previously, we wrote
an error to stderr and continued as if we had no multi-pack-index.
Now, die() instead of error().
Add tests that check corrupted headers in a few ways:
* Bad signature
* Bad file version
* Bad hash version
* Truncated hash count
* Extended hash count
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack-index builtin writes multi-pack-index files, and
uses a 'write' verb to do so. Add a 'verify' verb that checks this
file matches the contents of the pack-indexes it replaces.
The current implementation is a no-op, but will be extended in
small increments in later commits.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running 'git pack-objects --local', we want to avoid packing
objects that are in an alternate. Currently, we check for these
objects using the packed_git_mru list, which excludes the pack-files
covered by a multi-pack-index.
Add a new iteration over the multi-pack-indexes to find these
copies and mark them as unwanted.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
