Prior to 509f6f62a4 (cache: update object ID functions for
the_hash_algo, 2018-07-16), hashcmp() called memcmp() with a
constant size of 20 bytes. Some compilers were able to turn
that into a few quad-word comparisons, which is faster than
actually calling memcmp().
In 509f6f62a4, we started using the_hash_algo->rawsz
instead. Even though this will always be 20, the compiler
doesn't know that while inlining hashcmp() and ends up just
generating a call to memcmp().
Eventually we'll have to deal with multiple hash sizes, but
for the upcoming v2.19, we can restore some of the original
performance by asserting on the size. That gives the
compiler enough information to know that the memcmp will
always be called with a length of 20, and it performs the
same optimization.
Here are numbers for p0001.2 run against linux.git on a few
versions. This is using -O2 with gcc 8.2.0.
Test v2.18.0 v2.19.0-rc0 HEAD
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0001.2: 34.24(33.81+0.43) 34.83(34.42+0.40) +1.7% 33.90(33.47+0.42) -1.0%
You can see that v2.19 is a little slower than v2.18. This
commit ended up slightly faster than v2.18, but there's a
fair bit of run-to-run noise (the generated code in the two
cases is basically the same). This patch does seem to be
consistently 1-2% faster than v2.19.
I tried changing hashcpy(), which was also touched by
509f6f62a4, in the same way, but couldn't measure any
speedup. Which makes sense, at least for this workload. A
traversal of the whole commit graph requires looking up
every entry of every tree via lookup_object(). That's many
multiples of the numbers of objects in the repository (most
of the lookups just return "yes, we already saw that
object").
[jn: verified using "make object.s" that the memcmp call goes away.]
Reported-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code hygiene improvement for the header files.
* en/incl-forward-decl:
Remove forward declaration of an enum
compat/precompose_utf8.h: use more common include guard style
urlmatch.h: fix include guard
Move definition of enum branch_track from cache.h to branch.h
alloc: make allocate_alloc_state and clear_alloc_state more consistent
Add missing includes and forward declarations
The API to iterate over all objects learned to optionally list
objects in the order they appear in packfiles, which helps locality
of access if the caller accesses these objects while as objects are
enumerated.
* jk/for-each-object-iteration:
for_each_*_object: move declarations to object-store.h
cat-file: use a single strbuf for all output
cat-file: split batch "buf" into two variables
cat-file: use oidset check-and-insert
cat-file: support "unordered" output for --batch-all-objects
cat-file: rename batch_{loose,packed}_object callbacks
t1006: test cat-file --batch-all-objects with duplicates
for_each_packed_object: support iterating in pack-order
for_each_*_object: give more comprehensive docstrings
for_each_*_object: take flag arguments as enum
for_each_*_object: store flag definitions in a single location
Add a script (in contrib/) to help users of VSCode work better with
our codebase.
* js/vscode:
vscode: let cSpell work on commit messages, too
vscode: add a dictionary for cSpell
vscode: use 8-space tabs, no trailing ws, etc for Git's source code
vscode: wrap commit messages at column 72 by default
vscode: only overwrite C/C++ settings
mingw: define WIN32 explicitly
cache.h: extract enum declaration from inside a struct declaration
vscode: hard-code a couple defines
contrib: add a script to initialize VS Code configuration
A new configuration variable core.usereplacerefs has been added,
primarily to help server installations that want to ignore the
replace mechanism altogether.
* jk/core-use-replace-refs:
add core.usereplacerefs config option
check_replace_refs: rename to read_replace_refs
check_replace_refs: fix outdated comment
'branch_track' feels more closely related to branching, and it is
needed later in branch.h; rather than #include'ing cache.h in branch.h
for this small enum, just move the enum and the external declaration
for git_branch_track to branch.h.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The for_each_loose_object() and for_each_packed_object()
functions are meant to be part of a unified interface: they
use the same set of for_each_object_flags, and it's not
inconceivable that we might one day add a single
for_each_object() wrapper around them.
Let's put them together in a single file, so we can avoid
awkwardness like saying "the flags for this function are
over in cache.h". Moving the loose functions to packfile.h
is silly. Moving the packed functions to cache.h works, but
makes the "cache.h is a kitchen sink" problem worse. The
best place is the recently-created object-store.h, since
these are quite obviously related to object storage.
The for_each_*_in_objdir() functions do not use the same
flags, but they are logically part of the same interface as
for_each_loose_object(), and share callback signatures. So
we'll move those, as well, as they also make sense in
object-store.h.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently iterate over objects within a pack in .idx
order, which uses the object hashes. That means that it
is effectively random with respect to the location of the
object within the pack. If you're going to access the actual
object data, there are two reasons to move linearly through
the pack itself:
1. It improves the locality of access in the packfile. In
the cold-cache case, this may mean fewer disk seeks, or
better usage of disk cache.
2. We store related deltas together in the packfile. Which
means that the delta base cache can operate much more
efficiently if we visit all of those related deltas in
sequence, as the earlier items are likely to still be
in the cache. Whereas if we visit the objects in
random order, our cache entries are much more likely to
have been evicted by unrelated deltas in the meantime.
So in general, if you're going to access the object contents
pack order is generally going to end up more efficient.
But if you're simply generating a list of object names, or
if you're going to end up sorting the result anyway, you're
better off just using the .idx order, as finding the pack
order means generating the in-memory pack-revindex.
According to the numbers in 8b8dfd5132 (pack-revindex:
radix-sort the revindex, 2013-07-11), that takes about 200ms
for linux.git, and 20ms for git.git (those numbers are a few
years old but are still a good ballpark).
That makes it a good optimization for some cases (we can
save tens of seconds in git.git by having good locality of
delta access, for a 20ms cost), but a bad one for others
(e.g., right now "cat-file --batch-all-objects
--batch-check="%(objectname)" is 170ms in git.git, so adding
20ms to that is noticeable).
Hence this patch makes it an optional flag. You can't
actually do any interesting timings yet, as it's not plumbed
through to any user-facing tools like cat-file. That will
come in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already mention the local/alternate behavior of these
functions, but we can help clarify a few other behaviors:
- there's no need to mention LOCAL_ONLY specifically, since
we already reference the flags by type (and as we add
more flags, we don't want to have to mention each)
- clarify that reachability doesn't matter here; this is
all accessible objects
- what ordering/uniqueness guarantees we give
- how pack-specific flags are handled for the loose case
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's not wrong to pass our flags in an "unsigned", as we
know it will be at least as large as the enum. However,
using the enum in the declaration makes it more obvious
where to find the list of flags.
While we're here, let's also drop the "extern" noise-words
from the declarations, per our modern coding style.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These flags were split between cache.h and packfile.h,
because some of the flags apply only to packs. However, they
share a single numeric namespace, since both are respected
for the packed variant. Let's make sure they're defined
together so that nobody accidentally adds a new flag in one
location that duplicates the other.
While we're here, let's also put them in an enum (which
helps debugger visibility) and use "(1<<n)" rather than
counting powers of 2 manually.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recursive merge strategy did not properly ensure there was no
change between HEAD and the index before performing its operation,
which has been corrected.
* en/dirty-merge-fixes:
merge: fix misleading pre-merge check documentation
merge-recursive: enforce rule that index matches head before merging
t6044: add more testcases with staged changes before a merge is invoked
merge-recursive: fix assumption that head tree being merged is HEAD
merge-recursive: make sure when we say we abort that we actually abort
t6044: add a testcase for index matching head, when head doesn't match HEAD
t6044: verify that merges expected to abort actually abort
index_has_changes(): avoid assuming operating on the_index
read-cache.c: move index_has_changes() from merge.c
For a large tree, the index needs to hold many cache entries
allocated on heap. These cache entries are now allocated out of a
dedicated memory pool to amortize malloc(3) overhead.
* jm/cache-entry-from-mem-pool:
block alloc: add validations around cache_entry lifecyle
block alloc: allocate cache entries from mem_pool
mem-pool: fill out functionality
mem-pool: add life cycle management functions
mem-pool: only search head block for available space
block alloc: add lifecycle APIs for cache_entry structs
read-cache: teach make_cache_entry to take object_id
read-cache: teach refresh_cache_entry to take istate
Conversion from uchar[40] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id:
pretty: switch hard-coded constants to the_hash_algo
sha1-file: convert constants to uses of the_hash_algo
log-tree: switch GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ to the_hash_algo->hexsz
diff: switch GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ to use the_hash_algo
builtin/merge-recursive: make hash independent
builtin/merge: switch to use the_hash_algo
builtin/fmt-merge-msg: make hash independent
builtin/update-index: simplify parsing of cacheinfo
builtin/update-index: convert to using the_hash_algo
refs/files-backend: use the_hash_algo for writing refs
sha1-name: use the_hash_algo when parsing object names
strbuf: allocate space with GIT_MAX_HEXSZ
commit: express tree entry constants in terms of the_hash_algo
hex: switch to using the_hash_algo
tree-walk: replace hard-coded constants with the_hash_algo
cache: update object ID functions for the_hash_algo
While it is technically possible, it is confusing. Not only the user,
but also VS Code's intellisense.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was added as a NEEDSWORK in c3c36d7de2 (replace-object:
check_replace_refs is safe in multi repo environment, 2018-04-11),
waiting for a calmer period. Since doing so now doesn't conflict
with anything in 'pu', it seems as good a time as any.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit afc711b8e1 (rename read_replace_refs to
check_replace_refs, 2014-02-18) added a comment mentioning
that check_replace_refs is set in two ways:
- from user intent via --no-replace-objects, etc
- after seeing there are no replace refs to respect
Since c3c36d7de2 (replace-object: check_replace_refs is safe
in multi repo environment, 2018-04-11) the second is no
longer true. Let's drop that part of the comment.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
throughout the object access API continues.
* sb/object-store-grafts:
commit: allow lookup_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: allow prepare_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
shallow: migrate shallow information into the object parser
path.c: migrate global git_path_* to take a repository argument
cache: convert get_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: convert read_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: convert register_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: convert commit_graft_pos() to handle arbitrary repositories
shallow: add repository argument to is_repository_shallow
shallow: add repository argument to check_shallow_file_for_update
shallow: add repository argument to register_shallow
shallow: add repository argument to set_alternate_shallow_file
commit: add repository argument to lookup_commit_graft
commit: add repository argument to prepare_commit_graft
commit: add repository argument to read_graft_file
commit: add repository argument to register_commit_graft
commit: add repository argument to commit_graft_pos
object: move grafts to object parser
object-store: move object access functions to object-store.h
Add a struct repository argument to the functions in commit-graph.h that
read the commit graph. (This commit does not affect functions that write
commit graphs.)
Because the commit graph functions can now read the commit graph of any
repository, the global variable core_commit_graph has been removed.
Instead, the config option core.commitGraph is now read on the first
time in a repository that a commit is attempted to be parsed using its
commit graph.
This commit includes a test that exercises the functionality on an
arbitrary repository that is not the_repository.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of our code has been converted to use struct object_id for object
IDs. However, there are some places that still have not, and there are
a variety of places that compare equivalently sized hashes that are not
object IDs. All of these hashes are artifacts of the internal hash
algorithm in use, and when we switch to NewHash for object storage, all
of these uses will also switch.
Update the hashcpy, hashclr, and hashcmp functions to use the_hash_algo,
since they are used in a variety of places to copy and manipulate
buffers that need to move data into or out of struct object_id. This
has the effect of making the corresponding oid* functions use
the_hash_algo as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git merge-recursive` does a three-way merge between user-specified trees
base, head, and remote. Since the user is allowed to specify head, we can
not necesarily assume that head == HEAD.
Modify index_has_changes() to take an extra argument specifying the tree
to compare against. If NULL, it will compare to HEAD. We then use this
from merge-recursive to make sure we compare to the user-specified head.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Modify index_has_changes() to take a struct istate* instead of just
operating on the_index. This is only a partial conversion, though,
because we call do_diff_cache() which implicitly assumes work is to be
done on the_index. Ongoing work is being done elsewhere to do the
remainder of the conversion, and thus is not duplicated here. Instead,
a simple check is put in place until that work is complete.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an option (controlled by an environment variable) perform extra
validations on mem_pool allocated cache entries. When set:
1) Invalidate cache_entry memory when discarding cache_entry.
2) When discarding index_state struct, verify that all cache_entries
were allocated from expected mem_pool.
3) When discarding mem_pools, invalidate mem_pool memory.
This should provide extra checks that mem_pools and their allocated
cache_entries are being used as expected.
Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When reading large indexes from disk, a portion of the time is
dominated in malloc() calls. This can be mitigated by allocating a
large block of memory and manage it ourselves via memory pools.
This change moves the cache entry allocation to be on top of memory
pools.
Design:
The index_state struct will gain a notion of an associated memory_pool
from which cache_entries will be allocated from. When reading in the
index from disk, we have information on the number of entries and
their size, which can guide us in deciding how large our initial
memory allocation should be. When an index is discarded, the
associated memory_pool will be discarded as well - so the lifetime of
a cache_entry is tied to the lifetime of the index_state that it was
allocated for.
In the case of a Split Index, the following rules are followed. 1st,
some terminology is defined:
Terminology:
- 'the_index': represents the logical view of the index
- 'split_index': represents the "base" cache entries. Read from the
split index file.
'the_index' can reference a single split_index, as well as
cache_entries from the split_index. `the_index` will be discarded
before the `split_index` is. This means that when we are allocating
cache_entries in the presence of a split index, we need to allocate
the entries from the `split_index`'s memory pool. This allows us to
follow the pattern that `the_index` can reference cache_entries from
the `split_index`, and that the cache_entries will not be freed while
they are still being referenced.
Managing transient cache_entry structs:
Cache entries are usually allocated for an index, but this is not always
the case. Cache entries are sometimes allocated because this is the
type that the existing checkout_entry function works with. Because of
this, the existing code needs to handle cache entries associated with an
index / memory pool, and those that only exist transiently. Several
strategies were contemplated around how to handle this:
Chosen approach:
An extra field was added to the cache_entry type to track whether the
cache_entry was allocated from a memory pool or not. This is currently
an int field, as there are no more available bits in the existing
ce_flags bit field. If / when more bits are needed, this new field can
be turned into a proper bit field.
Alternatives:
1) Do not include any information about how the cache_entry was
allocated. Calling code would be responsible for tracking whether the
cache_entry needed to be freed or not.
Pro: No extra memory overhead to track this state
Con: Extra complexity in callers to handle this correctly.
The extra complexity and burden to not regress this behavior in the
future was more than we wanted.
2) cache_entry would gain knowledge about which mem_pool allocated it
Pro: Could (potentially) do extra logic to know when a mem_pool no
longer had references to any cache_entry
Con: cache_entry would grow heavier by a pointer, instead of int
We didn't see a tangible benefit to this approach
3) Do not add any extra information to a cache_entry, but when freeing a
cache entry, check if the memory exists in a region managed by existing
mem_pools.
Pro: No extra memory overhead to track state
Con: Extra computation is performed when freeing cache entries
We decided tracking and iterating over known memory pool regions was
less desirable than adding an extra field to track this stae.
Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It has been observed that the time spent loading an index with a large
number of entries is partly dominated by malloc() calls. This change
is in preparation for using memory pools to reduce the number of
malloc() calls made to allocate cahce entries when loading an index.
Add an API to allocate and discard cache entries, abstracting the
details of managing the memory backing the cache entries. This commit
does actually change how memory is managed - this will be done in a
later commit in the series.
This change makes the distinction between cache entries that are
associated with an index and cache entries that are not associated with
an index. A main use of cache entries is with an index, and we can
optimize the memory management around this. We still have other cases
where a cache entry is not persisted with an index, and so we need to
handle the "transient" use case as well.
To keep the congnitive overhead of managing the cache entries, there
will only be a single discard function. This means there must be enough
information kept with the cache entry so that we know how to discard
them.
A summary of the main functions in the API is:
make_cache_entry: create cache entry for use in an index. Uses specified
parameters to populate cache_entry fields.
make_empty_cache_entry: Create an empty cache entry for use in an index.
Returns cache entry with empty fields.
make_transient_cache_entry: create cache entry that is not used in an
index. Uses specified parameters to populate
cache_entry fields.
make_empty_transient_cache_entry: create cache entry that is not used in
an index. Returns cache entry with
empty fields.
discard_cache_entry: A single function that knows how to discard a cache
entry regardless of how it was allocated.
Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor refresh_cache_entry() to work on a specific index, instead of
implicitly using the_index. This is in preparation for making the
make_cache_entry function apply to a specific index.
Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
throughout the object access API continues.
* sb/object-store-alloc:
alloc: allow arbitrary repositories for alloc functions
object: allow create_object to handle arbitrary repositories
object: allow grow_object_hash to handle arbitrary repositories
alloc: add repository argument to alloc_commit_index
alloc: add repository argument to alloc_report
alloc: add repository argument to alloc_object_node
alloc: add repository argument to alloc_tag_node
alloc: add repository argument to alloc_commit_node
alloc: add repository argument to alloc_tree_node
alloc: add repository argument to alloc_blob_node
object: add repository argument to grow_object_hash
object: add repository argument to create_object
repository: introduce parsed objects field
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
bit more consolidated to allow more automation.
* nd/command-list:
completion: allow to customize the completable command list
completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
completion: reduce completable command list
completion: let git provide the completable command list
command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
Remove common-cmds.h
help: use command-list.h for common command list
generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id: (42 commits)
merge-one-file: compute empty blob object ID
add--interactive: compute the empty tree value
Update shell scripts to compute empty tree object ID
sha1_file: only expose empty object constants through git_hash_algo
dir: use the_hash_algo for empty blob object ID
sequencer: use the_hash_algo for empty tree object ID
cache-tree: use is_empty_tree_oid
sha1_file: convert cached object code to struct object_id
builtin/reset: convert use of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
builtin/receive-pack: convert one use of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
wt-status: convert two uses of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
submodule: convert several uses of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
sequencer: convert one use of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
merge: convert empty tree constant to the_hash_algo
builtin/merge: switch tree functions to use object_id
builtin/am: convert uses of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN to the_hash_algo
sha1-file: add functions for hex empty tree and blob OIDs
builtin/receive-pack: avoid hard-coded constants for push certs
diff: specify abbreviation size in terms of the_hash_algo
upload-pack: replace use of several hard-coded constants
...
"git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry"
while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance
quite a bit.
* nd/pack-objects-pack-struct:
ci: exercise the whole test suite with uncommon code in pack-objects
pack-objects: reorder members to shrink struct object_entry
pack-objects: shrink delta_size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: shrink size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: clarify the use of object_entry::size
pack-objects: don't check size when the object is bad
pack-objects: shrink z_delta_size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: refer to delta objects by index instead of pointer
pack-objects: move in_pack out of struct object_entry
pack-objects: move in_pack_pos out of struct object_entry
pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::depth
pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::dfs_state
pack-objects: turn type and in_pack_type to bitfields
pack-objects: a bit of document about struct object_entry
read-cache.c: make $GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX boolean
The codepath around object-info API has been taught to take the
repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store
the objects are to be located).
* sb/oid-object-info:
cache.h: allow oid_object_info to handle arbitrary repositories
packfile: add repository argument to cache_or_unpack_entry
packfile: add repository argument to unpack_entry
packfile: add repository argument to read_object
packfile: add repository argument to packed_object_info
packfile: add repository argument to packed_to_object_type
packfile: add repository argument to retry_bad_packed_offset
cache.h: add repository argument to oid_object_info
cache.h: add repository argument to oid_object_info_extended
* maint-2.16:
Git 2.16.4
Git 2.15.2
Git 2.14.4
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
* maint-2.15:
Git 2.15.2
Git 2.14.4
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
* maint-2.14:
Git 2.14.4
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
* maint-2.13:
Git 2.13.7
verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
update-index: stat updated files earlier
verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
There are a few reasons it's not a good idea to make
.gitmodules a symlink, including:
1. It won't be portable to systems without symlinks.
2. It may behave inconsistently, since Git may look at
this file in the index or a tree without bothering to
resolve any symbolic links. We don't do this _yet_, but
the config infrastructure is there and it's planned for
the future.
With some clever code, we could make (2) work. And some
people may not care about (1) if they only work on one
platform. But there are a few security reasons to simply
disallow it:
a. A symlinked .gitmodules file may circumvent any fsck
checks of the content.
b. Git may read and write from the on-disk file without
sanity checking the symlink target. So for example, if
you link ".gitmodules" to "../oops" and run "git
submodule add", we'll write to the file "oops" outside
the repository.
Again, both of those are problems that _could_ be solved
with sufficient code, but given the complications in (1) and
(2), we're better off just outlawing it explicitly.
Note the slightly tricky call to verify_path() in
update-index's update_one(). There we may not have a mode if
we're not updating from the filesystem (e.g., we might just
be removing the file). Passing "0" as the mode there works
fine; since it's not a symlink, we'll just skip the extra
checks.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
When we started to catch NTFS short names that clash with .git, we only
looked for GIT~1. This is sufficient because we only ever clone into an
empty directory, so .git is guaranteed to be the first subdirectory or
file in that directory.
However, even with a fresh clone, .gitmodules is *not* necessarily the
first file to be written that would want the NTFS short name GITMOD~1: a
malicious repository can add .gitmodul0000 and friends, which sorts
before `.gitmodules` and is therefore checked out *first*. For that
reason, we have to test not only for ~1 short names, but for others,
too.
It's hard to just adapt the existing checks in is_ntfs_dotgit(): since
Windows 2000 (i.e., in all Windows versions still supported by Git),
NTFS short names are only generated in the <prefix>~<number> form up to
number 4. After that, a *different* prefix is used, calculated from the
long file name using an undocumented, but stable algorithm.
For example, the short name of .gitmodules would be GITMOD~1, but if it
is taken, and all of ~2, ~3 and ~4 are taken, too, the short name
GI7EBA~1 will be used. From there, collisions are handled by
incrementing the number, shortening the prefix as needed (until ~9999999
is reached, in which case NTFS will not allow the file to be created).
We'd also want to handle .gitignore and .gitattributes, which suffer
from a similar problem, using the fall-back short names GI250A~1 and
GI7D29~1, respectively.
To accommodate for that, we could reimplement the hashing algorithm, but
it is just safer and simpler to provide the known prefixes. This
algorithm has been reverse-engineered and described at
https://usn.pw/blog/gen/2015/06/09/filenames/, which is defunct but
still available via https://web.archive.org/.
These can be recomputed by running the following Perl script:
-- snip --
use warnings;
use strict;
sub compute_short_name_hash ($) {
my $checksum = 0;
foreach (split('', $_[0])) {
$checksum = ($checksum * 0x25 + ord($_)) & 0xffff;
}
$checksum = ($checksum * 314159269) & 0xffffffff;
$checksum = 1 + (~$checksum & 0x7fffffff) if ($checksum & 0x80000000);
$checksum -= (($checksum * 1152921497) >> 60) * 1000000007;
return scalar reverse sprintf("%x", $checksum & 0xffff);
}
print compute_short_name_hash($ARGV[0]);
-- snap --
E.g., running that with the argument ".gitignore" will
result in "250a" (which then becomes "gi250a" in the code).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
This conversion was done without the #define trick used in the earlier
series refactoring to have better repository access, because this function
is easy to review, as all lines are converted and it has only one caller.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should make these functions easier to find and cache.h less
overwhelming to read.
In particular, this moves:
- read_object_file
- oid_object_info
- write_object_file
As a result, most of the codebase needs to #include object-store.h.
In this patch the #include is only added to files that would fail to
compile otherwise. It would be better to #include wherever
identifiers from the header are used. That can happen later
when we have better tooling for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have to convert all of the alloc functions at once, because alloc_report
uses a funky macro for reporting. It is better for the sake of mechanical
conversion to convert multiple functions at once rather than changing the
structure of the reporting function.
We record all memory allocation in alloc.c, and free them in
clear_alloc_state, which is called for all repositories except
the_repository.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current document mentions OBJ_* constants without their actual
values. A git developer would know these are from cache.h but that's
not very friendly to a person who wants to read this file to implement
a pack file parser.
Similarly, the deltified representation is not documented at all (the
"document" is basically patch-delta.c). Translate that C code to
English with a bit more about what ofs-delta and ref-delta mean.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a small mechanical change; it doesn't change the
implementation to handle repositories other than the_repository yet.
Use a macro to catch callers passing a repository other than
the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a small mechanical change; it doesn't change the
implementation to handle repositories other than the_repository yet.
Use a macro to catch callers passing a repository other than
the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a small mechanical change; it doesn't change the
implementation to handle repositories other than the_repository yet.
Use a macro to catch callers passing a repository other than
the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
