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Junio C Hamano
6f64eeab60 Merge branch 'es/trace2-log-parent-process-name'
trace2 logs learned to show parent process name to see in what
context Git was invoked.

* es/trace2-log-parent-process-name:
  tr2: log parent process name
  tr2: make process info collection platform-generic
2021-08-24 15:32:40 -07:00
Taylor Blau
917a54c017 Documentation: describe MIDX-based bitmaps
Update the technical documentation to describe the multi-pack bitmap
format. This patch merely introduces the new format, and describes its
high-level ideas. Git does not yet know how to read nor write these
multi-pack variants, and so the subsequent patches will:

  - Introduce code to interpret multi-pack bitmaps, according to this
    document.

  - Then, introduce code to write multi-pack bitmaps from the 'git
    multi-pack-index write' sub-command.

Finally, the implementation will gain tests in subsequent patches (as
opposed to inline with the patch teaching Git how to write multi-pack
bitmaps) to avoid a cyclic dependency.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-24 13:21:13 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
98e2d9d6f7 upload-pack: document and rename --advertise-refs
The --advertise-refs documentation in git-upload-pack added in
9812f2136b (upload-pack.c: use parse-options API, 2016-05-31) hasn't
been entirely true ever since v2 support was implemented in
e52449b672 (connect: request remote refs using v2, 2018-03-15). Under
v2 we don't advertise the refs at all, but rather dump the
capabilities header.

This option has always been an obscure internal implementation detail,
it wasn't even documented for git-receive-pack. Since it has exactly
one user let's rename it to --http-backend-info-refs, which is more
accurate and points the reader in the right direction. Let's also
cross-link this from the protocol v1 and v2 documentation.

I'm retaining a hidden --advertise-refs alias in case there's any
external users of this, and making both options hidden to the bash
completion (as with most other internal-only options).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05 08:59:37 -07:00
Elijah Newren
b378df72ed directory-rename-detection.txt: small updates due to merge-ort optimizations
In commit 0c4fd732f0 ("Move computation of dir_rename_count from
merge-ort to diffcore-rename", 2021-02-27), much of the logic for
computing directory renames moved into diffcore-rename.
directory-rename-detection.txt had claims that all of that logic was
found in merge-recursive.  Update the documentation.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05 08:57:39 -07:00
Emily Shaffer
2f732bf15e tr2: log parent process name
It can be useful to tell who invoked Git - was it invoked manually by a
user via CLI or script? By an IDE?  In some cases - like 'repo' tool -
we can influence the source code and set the GIT_TRACE2_PARENT_SID
environment variable from the caller process. In 'repo''s case, that
parent SID is manipulated to include the string "repo", which means we
can positively identify when Git was invoked by 'repo' tool. However,
identifying parents that way requires both that we know which tools
invoke Git and that we have the ability to modify the source code of
those tools. It cannot scale to keep up with the various IDEs and
wrappers which use Git, most of which we don't know about. Learning
which tools and wrappers invoke Git, and how, would give us insight to
decide where to improve Git's usability and performance.

Unfortunately, there's no cross-platform reliable way to gather the name
of the parent process. If procfs is present, we can use that; otherwise
we will need to discover the name another way. However, the process ID
should be sufficient to look up the process name on most platforms, so
that code may be shareable.

Git for Windows gathers similar information and logs it as a "data_json"
event. However, since "data_json" has a variable format, it is difficult
to parse effectively in some languages; instead, let's pursue a
dedicated "cmd_ancestry" event to record information about the ancestry
of the current process and a consistent, parseable way.

Git for Windows also gathers information about more than one generation
of parent. In Linux further ancestry info can be gathered with procfs,
but it's unwieldy to do so. In the interest of later moving Git for
Windows ancestry logging to the 'cmd_ancestry' event, and in the
interest of later adding more ancestry to the Linux implementation - or
of adding this functionality to other platforms which have an easier
time walking the process tree - let's make 'cmd_ancestry' accept an
array of parentage.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-22 13:35:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a515f26eac Merge branch 'ar/typofix'
Typofixes.

* ar/typofix:
  *: fix typos which duplicate a word
2021-07-08 13:14:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9c7a1fc9b6 Merge branch 'js/trace2-discard-event-docfix'
Docfix.

* js/trace2-discard-event-docfix:
  docs: fix api-trace2 doc for "too_many_files" event
2021-07-08 13:14:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
40098093c6 Merge branch 'tk/partial-clone-repack-doc'
Docfix.

* tk/partial-clone-repack-doc:
  Remove warning that repack only works on non-promisor packfiles
2021-07-08 13:14:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
169914ede2 Merge branch 'en/ort-perf-batch-11'
Optimize out repeated rename detection in a sequence of mergy
operations.

* en/ort-perf-batch-11:
  merge-ort, diffcore-rename: employ cached renames when possible
  merge-ort: handle interactions of caching and rename/rename(1to1) cases
  merge-ort: add helper functions for using cached renames
  merge-ort: preserve cached renames for the appropriate side
  merge-ort: avoid accidental API mis-use
  merge-ort: add code to check for whether cached renames can be reused
  merge-ort: populate caches of rename detection results
  merge-ort: add data structures for in-memory caching of rename detection
  t6429: testcases for remembering renames
  fast-rebase: write conflict state to working tree, index, and HEAD
  fast-rebase: change assert() to BUG()
  Documentation/technical: describe remembering renames optimization
  t6423: rename file within directory that other side renamed
2021-06-14 13:33:27 +09:00
Andrei Rybak
abcb66c614 *: fix typos which duplicate a word
Fix typos in documentation, code comments, and RelNotes which repeat
various words.  In trivial cases, just delete the duplicated word and
rewrap text, if needed.  Reword the affected sentence in
Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt for it to make sense.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-06-14 10:16:06 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8e1d2fc0cc Merge branch 'tl/fix-packfile-uri-doc'
Doc fix.

* tl/fix-packfile-uri-doc:
  packfile-uri.txt: fix blobPackfileUri description
2021-06-10 12:04:26 +09:00
Josh Steadmon
7ba68e0cf1 docs: fix api-trace2 doc for "too_many_files" event
In 87db61a (trace2: write discard message to sentinel files,
2019-10-04), we added a new "too_many_files" event for when trace2
logging would create too many files in an output directory.
Unfortunately, the api-trace2 doc described a "discard" event instead.
Fix the doc to use the correct event name.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-06-04 12:11:16 +09:00
Tao Klerks
ace6d8e3d6 Remove warning that repack only works on non-promisor packfiles
The git-repack doc clearly states that it *does* operate on promisor
packfiles (in a separate partition), with "-a" specified. Presumably
the statements here are outdated, as they feature from the first doc
in 2017 (and the repack support was added in 2018)

Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-06-04 09:45:47 +09:00
Teng Long
3127ff90ea packfile-uri.txt: fix blobPackfileUri description
Fix the 'uploadpack.blobPackfileUri' description in packfile-uri.txt
and the correct format also can be seen in t5702.

Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-25 09:31:06 +09:00
Elijah Newren
a22099f552 t6429: testcases for remembering renames
We will soon be adding an optimization that caches (in memory only,
never written to disk) upstream renames during a sequence of merges such
as occurs during a cherry-pick or rebase operation.  Add several tests
meant to stress such an implementation to ensure it does the right
thing, and include a test whose outcome we will later change due to this
optimization as well.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-20 15:40:39 +09:00
Elijah Newren
bb80333c08 Documentation/technical: describe remembering renames optimization
Remembering renames on the upstream side of history in an early merge of
a rebase or cherry-pick for re-use in a latter merge of the same
operation makes pretty good intuitive sense.  However, trying to show
that it doesn't cause some subtle behavioral difference or some funny
edge or corner case is much more involved.  And, in fact, it does
introduce a subtle behavioral change.

Document all the assumptions, special cases, and logic involved in such
an optimization, and describe why this optimization is safe under the
current optimizations/features/etc. -- even when the subtle behavioral
change is triggered.

Part of the point of adding this document that goes over the
optimization in such laborious detail, is that it is possible that
significant future changes (optimizations or feature changes) could
interact with this optimization in interesting ways; this document is
here to help folks making big changes sanity check that the assumptions
and arguments underlying this optimization are still valid.  (As a side
note, creating this document forced me to review things in sufficient
detail that I found I was not properly caching directory-rename-induced
renames, resulting in the code not being aware of those renames and
causing unnecessary diffcore_rename_extended() calls in subsequent
merges.)

A subsequent commit will add several testcases based on this document
meant to stress-test the implementation and also document the case with
the subtle behavioral change.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-20 15:40:39 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
644f4a2046 Merge branch 'jt/push-negotiation'
"git push" learns to discover common ancestor with the receiving
end over protocol v2.

* jt/push-negotiation:
  send-pack: support push negotiation
  fetch: teach independent negotiation (no packfile)
  fetch-pack: refactor command and capability write
  fetch-pack: refactor add_haves()
  fetch-pack: refactor process_acks()
2021-05-16 21:05:22 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
eede71149e Merge branch 'ba/object-info'
Over-the-wire protocol learns a new request type to ask for object
sizes given a list of object names.

* ba/object-info:
  object-info: support for retrieving object info
2021-05-14 08:26:08 +09:00
Jonathan Tan
9c1e657a8f fetch: teach independent negotiation (no packfile)
Currently, the packfile negotiation step within a Git fetch cannot be
done independent of sending the packfile, even though there is at least
one application wherein this is useful. Therefore, make it possible for
this negotiation step to be done independently. A subsequent commit will
use this for one such application - push negotiation.

This feature is for protocol v2 only. (An implementation for protocol v0
would require a separate implementation in the fetch, transport, and
transport helper code.)

In the protocol, the main hindrance towards independent negotiation is
that the server can unilaterally decide to send the packfile. This is
solved by a "wait-for-done" argument: the server will then wait for the
client to say "done". In practice, the client will never say it; instead
it will cease requests once it is satisfied.

In the client, the main change lies in the transport and transport
helper code. fetch_refs_via_pack() performs everything needed - protocol
version and capability checks, and the negotiation itself.

There are 2 code paths that do not go through fetch_refs_via_pack() that
needed to be individually excluded: the bundle transport (excluded
through requiring smart_options, which the bundle transport doesn't
support) and transport helpers that do not support takeover. If or when
we support independent negotiation for protocol v0, we will need to
modify these 2 code paths to support it. But for now, report failure if
independent negotiation is requested in these cases.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-05 10:41:29 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
a1cac26cc6 Merge branch 'mt/parallel-checkout-part-2'
The checkout machinery has been taught to perform the actual
write-out of the files in parallel when able.

* mt/parallel-checkout-part-2:
  parallel-checkout: add design documentation
  parallel-checkout: support progress displaying
  parallel-checkout: add configuration options
  parallel-checkout: make it truly parallel
  unpack-trees: add basic support for parallel checkout
2021-04-30 13:50:26 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8e97852919 Merge branch 'ds/sparse-index-protections'
Builds on top of the sparse-index infrastructure to mark operations
that are not ready to mark with the sparse index, causing them to
fall back on fully-populated index that they always have worked with.

* ds/sparse-index-protections: (47 commits)
  name-hash: use expand_to_path()
  sparse-index: expand_to_path()
  name-hash: don't add directories to name_hash
  revision: ensure full index
  resolve-undo: ensure full index
  read-cache: ensure full index
  pathspec: ensure full index
  merge-recursive: ensure full index
  entry: ensure full index
  dir: ensure full index
  update-index: ensure full index
  stash: ensure full index
  rm: ensure full index
  merge-index: ensure full index
  ls-files: ensure full index
  grep: ensure full index
  fsck: ensure full index
  difftool: ensure full index
  commit: ensure full index
  checkout: ensure full index
  ...
2021-04-30 13:50:26 +09:00
Bruno Albuquerque
a2ba162cda object-info: support for retrieving object info
Sometimes it is useful to get information of an object without having to
download it completely.

Add the "object-info" capability that lets the client ask for
object-related information with their full hexadecimal object names.

Only sizes are returned for now.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Albuquerque <bga@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-20 17:41:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fdef940afe Merge branch 'ab/usage-error-docs'
Documentation updates, with unrelated comment updates, too.

* ab/usage-error-docs:
  api docs: document that BUG() emits a trace2 error event
  api docs: document BUG() in api-error-handling.txt
  usage.c: don't copy/paste the same comment three times
2021-04-20 17:23:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
196cc525e2 Merge branch 'hn/reftable-tables-doc-update'
Doc updte.

* hn/reftable-tables-doc-update:
  reftable: document an alternate cleanup method on Windows
2021-04-20 17:23:35 -07:00
Matheus Tavares
68e66f2987 parallel-checkout: add design documentation
Co-authored-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-19 15:05:25 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
839a66349e sparse-index: API protection strategy
Edit and expand the sparse-index design document with the plan for
guarding index operations with ensure_full_index().

Notably, the plan has changed to not have an expand_to_path() method in
favor of checking for a sparse-directory hit inside of the
index_path_pos() API.

The changes that follow this one will incrementally add
ensure_full_index() guards to iterations over all cache entries. Some
iterations over the cache entries are not protected due to a few
categories listed in the document. Since these are not being modified,
here is a short list of the files and methods that will not receive
these guards:

Looking for non-zero stage:
* builtin/add.c:chmod_pathspec()
* builtin/merge.c:count_unmerged_entries()
* merge-ort.c:record_conflicted_index_entries()
* read-cache.c:unmerged_index()
* rerere.c:check_one_conflict(), find_conflict(), rerere_remaining()
* revision.c:prepare_show_merge()
* sequencer.c:append_conflicts_hint()
* wt-status.c:wt_status_collect_changes_initial()

Looking for submodules:
* builtin/submodule--helper.c:module_list_compute()
* submodule.c: several methods
* worktree.c:validate_no_submodules()

Part of the index API:
* name-hash.c: lazy init methods
* preload-index.c:preload_thread(), preload_index()
* read-cache.c: file format methods

Checking for correct order of cache entries:
* read-cache.c:check_ce_order()

Ignores SKIP_WORKTREE entries or already aware:
* unpack-trees.c:mark_new_skip_worktree()
* wt-status.c:wt_status_check_sparse_checkout()

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-14 13:45:34 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
f6d25d7878 api docs: document that BUG() emits a trace2 error event
Correct documentation added in e544221d97 (trace2:
Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt, 2019-02-22) to state that
calling BUG() also emits an "error" event. See ee4512ed48 (trace2:
create new combined trace facility, 2019-02-22) for the initial
implementation.

The BUG() function did not emit an event then however, that was only
changed later in 0a9dde4a04 (usage: trace2 BUG() invocations,
2021-02-05), that commit changed the code, but didn't update any of
the docs.

Let's also add a cross-reference from api-error-handling.txt.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-13 14:57:13 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
4bf0c6f38f api docs: document BUG() in api-error-handling.txt
When the BUG() function was added in d8193743e0 (usage.c: add BUG()
function, 2017-05-12) these docs added in 1f23cfe0ef (doc: document
error handling functions and conventions, 2014-12-03) were not
updated. Let's do that.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-13 14:56:58 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys
61a7660516 reftable: document an alternate cleanup method on Windows
The new method uses the update_index counter, which isn't susceptible to clock
inaccuracies.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-12 14:29:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e6b971fcf5 Merge branch 'tb/reverse-midx'
An on-disk reverse-index to map the in-pack location of an object
back to its object name across multiple packfiles is introduced.

* tb/reverse-midx:
  midx.c: improve cache locality in midx_pack_order_cmp()
  pack-revindex: write multi-pack reverse indexes
  pack-write.c: extract 'write_rev_file_order'
  pack-revindex: read multi-pack reverse indexes
  Documentation/technical: describe multi-pack reverse indexes
  midx: make some functions non-static
  midx: keep track of the checksum
  midx: don't free midx_name early
  midx: allow marking a pack as preferred
  t/helper/test-read-midx.c: add '--show-objects'
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: display usage on unrecognized command
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: don't enter bogus cmd_mode
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: split sub-commands
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: define common usage with a macro
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: don't handle 'progress' separately
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: inline 'flags' with options
2021-04-08 13:23:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
861794b60d Merge branch 'jh/simple-ipc'
A simple IPC interface gets introduced to build services like
fsmonitor on top.

* jh/simple-ipc:
  t0052: add simple-ipc tests and t/helper/test-simple-ipc tool
  simple-ipc: add Unix domain socket implementation
  unix-stream-server: create unix domain socket under lock
  unix-socket: disallow chdir() when creating unix domain sockets
  unix-socket: add backlog size option to unix_stream_listen()
  unix-socket: eliminate static unix_stream_socket() helper function
  simple-ipc: add win32 implementation
  simple-ipc: design documentation for new IPC mechanism
  pkt-line: add options argument to read_packetized_to_strbuf()
  pkt-line: add PACKET_READ_GENTLE_ON_READ_ERROR option
  pkt-line: do not issue flush packets in write_packetized_*()
  pkt-line: eliminate the need for static buffer in packet_write_gently()
2021-04-02 14:43:14 -07:00
Taylor Blau
b25fd24c00 Documentation/technical: describe multi-pack reverse indexes
As a prerequisite to implementing multi-pack bitmaps, motivate and
describe the format and ordering of the multi-pack reverse index.

The subsequent patch will implement reading this format, and the patch
after that will implement writing it while producing a multi-pack index.

Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-01 13:07:37 -07:00
Taylor Blau
9218c6a40c midx: allow marking a pack as preferred
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>
2021-04-01 13:07:37 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
cd42415fb4 sparse-index: add 'sdir' index extension
The index format does not currently allow for sparse directory entries.
This violates some expectations that older versions of Git or
third-party tools might not understand. We need an indicator inside the
index file to warn these tools to not interact with a sparse index
unless they are aware of sparse directory entries.

Add a new _required_ index extension, 'sdir', that indicates that the
index may contain sparse directory entries. This allows us to continue
to use the differences in index formats 2, 3, and 4 before we create a
new index version 5 in a later change.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-30 12:57:46 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
0ad6090bdd sparse-index: design doc and format update
This begins a long effort to update the index format to allow sparse
directory entries. This should result in a significant improvement to
Git commands when HEAD contains millions of files, but the user has
selected many fewer files to keep in their sparse-checkout definition.

Currently, the index format is only updated in the presence of
extensions.sparseIndex instead of increasing a file format version
number. This is temporary, and index v5 is part of the plan for future
work in this area.

The design document details many of the reasons for embarking on this
work, and also the plan for completing it safely.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-30 12:57:44 -07:00
Jeff Hostetler
066d5234d0 simple-ipc: design documentation for new IPC mechanism
Brief design documentation for new IPC mechanism allowing
foreground Git client to talk with an existing daemon process
at a known location using a named pipe or unix domain socket.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-15 14:32:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
18aabfaee5 Merge branch 'hn/reftable-tables-doc-update'
Documentation update.

* hn/reftable-tables-doc-update:
  doc/reftable: document how to handle windows
2021-03-01 14:02:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
660dd97a62 Merge branch 'ds/chunked-file-api'
The common code to deal with "chunked file format" that is shared
by the multi-pack-index and commit-graph files have been factored
out, to help codepaths for both filetypes to become more robust.

* 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
2021-03-01 14:02:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
09e72204f8 Merge branch 'dl/doc-config-camelcase'
A handful of multi-word configuration variable names in
documentation that are spelled in all lowercase have been corrected
to use the more canonical camelCase.

* dl/doc-config-camelcase:
  index-format doc: camelCase core.excludesFile
  blame-options.txt: camelcase blame.blankBoundary
  i18n.txt: camel case and monospace "i18n.commitEncoding"
2021-02-25 16:43:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f47c3328ef Merge branch 'js/doc-proto-v2-response-end'
Docfix.

* js/doc-proto-v2-response-end:
  doc: fix naming of response-end-pkt
2021-02-25 16:43:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
11875561bf Merge branch 'ds/chunked-file-api' into tb/reverse-midx
* 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
2021-02-24 15:26:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7dd0eaa39c index-format doc: camelCase core.excludesFile
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-24 15:21:25 -08:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys
00f68732e5 doc/reftable: document how to handle windows
On Windows we can't delete or overwrite files opened by other processes. Here we
sketch how to handle this situation.

We propose to use a random element in the filename. It's possible to design an
alternate solution based on counters, but that would assign semantics to the
filenames that complicates implementation.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-23 10:01:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dc24948be9 Merge branch 'ta/hash-function-transition-doc'
Update formatting and grammar of the hash transition plan
documentation, plus some updates.

* ta/hash-function-transition-doc:
  doc: use https links
  doc hash-function-transition: move rationale upwards
  doc hash-function-transition: fix incomplete sentence
  doc hash-function-transition: use upper case consistently
  doc hash-function-transition: use SHA-1 and SHA-256 consistently
  doc hash-function-transition: fix asciidoc output
2021-02-22 16:12:43 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
a43a2e6c2a chunk-format: add technical docs
The chunk-based file format is now an API in the code, but we should
also take time to document it as a file format. Specifically, it matches
the CHUNK LOOKUP sections of the commit-graph and multi-pack-index
files, but there are some commonalities that should be grouped in this
document.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-18 13:38:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
69571dfe21 Merge branch 'jt/clone-unborn-head'
"git clone" tries to locally check out the branch pointed at by
HEAD of the remote repository after it is done, but the protocol
did not convey the information necessary to do so when copying an
empty repository.  The protocol v2 learned how to do so.

* jt/clone-unborn-head:
  clone: respect remote unborn HEAD
  connect, transport: encapsulate arg in struct
  ls-refs: report unborn targets of symrefs
2021-02-17 17:21:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8b4701ae4f Merge branch 'ak/corrected-commit-date'
The commit-graph learned to use corrected commit dates instead of
the generation number to help topological revision traversal.

* ak/corrected-commit-date:
  doc: add corrected commit date info
  commit-reach: use corrected commit dates in paint_down_to_common()
  commit-graph: use generation v2 only if entire chain does
  commit-graph: implement generation data chunk
  commit-graph: implement corrected commit date
  commit-graph: return 64-bit generation number
  commit-graph: add a slab to store topological levels
  t6600-test-reach: generalize *_three_modes
  commit-graph: consolidate fill_commit_graph_info
  revision: parse parent in indegree_walk_step()
  commit-graph: fix regression when computing Bloom filters
2021-02-17 17:21:40 -08:00
Joey Salazar
9d336655ba doc: fix naming of response-end-pkt
Git Protocol version 2[1] defines 0002 as a Message Packet that indicates
the end of a response for stateless connections.

Change the naming of the 0002 Packet to 'Response End' to match the
parsing introduced in Wireshark's MR !1922 for consistency. A subsequent
MR in Wireshark will address additional mismatches.

[1] kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/technical/protocol-v2.html
[2] gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/1922

Signed-off-by: Joey Salazar <jgsal@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-17 16:30:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3c12d0b885 Merge branch 'tb/pack-revindex-on-disk'
Introduce an on-disk file to record revindex for packdata, which
traditionally was always created on the fly and only in-core.

* tb/pack-revindex-on-disk:
  t5325: check both on-disk and in-memory reverse index
  pack-revindex: ensure that on-disk reverse indexes are given precedence
  t: support GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX
  t: prepare for GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX
  Documentation/config/pack.txt: advertise 'pack.writeReverseIndex'
  builtin/pack-objects.c: respect 'pack.writeReverseIndex'
  builtin/index-pack.c: write reverse indexes
  builtin/index-pack.c: allow stripping arbitrary extensions
  pack-write.c: prepare to write 'pack-*.rev' files
  packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files
2021-02-12 14:21:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
71e83b2e7d Merge branch 'ma/doc-pack-format-varint-for-sizes' into maint
Doc update.

* ma/doc-pack-format-varint-for-sizes:
  pack-format.txt: document sizes at start of delta data
2021-02-08 14:05:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a0a2d75d3b Merge branch 'ds/cache-tree-basics'
Document, clean-up and optimize the code around the cache-tree
extension in the index.

* ds/cache-tree-basics:
  cache-tree: speed up consecutive path comparisons
  cache-tree: use ce_namelen() instead of strlen()
  index-format: discuss recursion of cache-tree better
  index-format: update preamble to cache tree extension
  index-format: use 'cache tree' over 'cached tree'
  cache-tree: trace regions for prime_cache_tree
  cache-tree: trace regions for I/O
  cache-tree: use trace2 in cache_tree_update()
  unpack-trees: add trace2 regions
  tree-walk: report recursion counts
2021-02-05 16:40:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
93da9662d7 Merge branch 'jt/packfile-as-uri-doc' into maint
Doc fix for packfile URI feature.

* jt/packfile-as-uri-doc:
  Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI
2021-02-05 16:31:28 -08:00
Jonathan Tan
59e1205d16 ls-refs: report unborn targets of symrefs
When cloning, we choose the default branch based on the remote HEAD.
But if there is no remote HEAD reported (which could happen if the
target of the remote HEAD is unborn), we'll fall back to using our local
init.defaultBranch. Traditionally this hasn't been a big deal, because
most repos used "master" as the default. But these days it is likely to
cause confusion if the server and client implementations choose
different values (e.g., if the remote started with "main", we may choose
"master" locally, create commits there, and then the user is surprised
when they push to "master" and not "main").

To solve this, the remote needs to communicate the target of the HEAD
symref, even if it is unborn, and "git clone" needs to use this
information.

Currently, symrefs that have unborn targets (such as in this case) are
not communicated by the protocol. Teach Git to advertise and support the
"unborn" feature in "ls-refs" (by default, this is advertised, but
server administrators may turn this off through the lsrefs.unborn
config). This feature indicates that "ls-refs" supports the "unborn"
argument; when it is specified, "ls-refs" will send the HEAD symref with
the name of its unborn target.

This change is only for protocol v2. A similar change for protocol v0
would require independent protocol design (there being no analogous
position to signal support for "unborn") and client-side plumbing of the
data required, so the scope of this patch set is limited to protocol v2.

The client side will be updated to use this in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05 13:49:53 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
6eda9ac9e5 doc: use https links
Use only https links for lore.kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05 11:57:10 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
1d18997007 doc hash-function-transition: move rationale upwards
Move rationale for new hash function to beginning of document
so that it appears before the concrete move to SHA-256 is described.

Remove some of the details about SHA-1 weaknesses and add references
to the details on how the new hash function was chosen instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05 11:57:10 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
cc9f0916bd doc hash-function-transition: fix incomplete sentence
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05 11:57:02 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
810372f881 doc hash-function-transition: use upper case consistently
Use upper case consistently in Document History.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05 11:57:02 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
af9b1e9aba doc hash-function-transition: use SHA-1 and SHA-256 consistently
Use SHA-1 and SHA-256 instead of sha1 and sha256  when referring
to the hash type.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05 11:57:02 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
de82095a95 doc hash-function-transition: fix asciidoc output
Asciidoc requires lists to start with an empty line and uses
different characters for indentation levels ("-", "*", "**", ...).
For special symbols like a dash "--" has to be used and there is
no double arrow "<->", so a left and right arrow "<-->" has to be
combined for that. Lastly for verbatim output a newline followed
by an indentation has to be used.

Fix asciidoc output for lists, special characters and verbatim
text while retaining the readabilty of the original text file.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05 11:57:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d03553ecd1 Merge branch 'jt/packfile-as-uri-doc'
Doc fix for packfile URI feature.

* jt/packfile-as-uri-doc:
  Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI
2021-02-03 15:04:49 -08:00
Taylor Blau
2f4ba2a867 packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files
Specify the format of the on-disk reverse index 'pack-*.rev' file, as
well as prepare the code for the existence of such files.

The reverse index maps from pack relative positions (i.e., an index into
the array of object which is sorted by their offsets within the
packfile) to their position within the 'pack-*.idx' file. Today, this is
done by building up a list of (off_t, uint32_t) tuples for each object
(the off_t corresponding to that object's offset, and the uint32_t
corresponding to its position in the index). To convert between pack and
index position quickly, this array of tuples is radix sorted based on
its offset.

This has two major drawbacks:

First, the in-memory cost scales linearly with the number of objects in
a pack.  Each 'struct revindex_entry' is sizeof(off_t) +
sizeof(uint32_t) + padding bytes for a total of 16.

To observe this, force Git to load the reverse index by, for e.g.,
running 'git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)"'. When asking
for a single object in a fresh clone of the kernel, Git needs to
allocate 120+ MB of memory in order to hold the reverse index in memory.

Second, the cost to sort also scales with the size of the pack.
Luckily, this is a linear function since 'load_pack_revindex()' uses a
radix sort, but this cost still must be paid once per pack per process.

As an example, it takes ~60x longer to print the _size_ of an object as
it does to print that entire object's _contents_:

  Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj
    Time (mean ± σ):       3.4 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 3.3 ms, System: 2.1 ms]
    Range (min … max):     3.2 ms …   3.7 ms    726 runs

  Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj
    Time (mean ± σ):     210.3 ms ±   8.9 ms    [User: 188.2 ms, System: 23.2 ms]
    Range (min … max):   193.7 ms … 224.4 ms    13 runs

Instead, avoid computing and sorting the revindex once per process by
writing it to a file when the pack itself is generated.

The format is relatively straightforward. It contains an array of
uint32_t's, the length of which is equal to the number of objects in the
pack.  The ith entry in this table contains the index position of the
ith object in the pack, where "ith object in the pack" is determined by
pack offset.

One thing that the on-disk format does _not_ contain is the full (up to)
eight-byte offset corresponding to each object. This is something that
the in-memory revindex contains (it stores an off_t in 'struct
revindex_entry' along with the same uint32_t that the on-disk format
has). Omit it in the on-disk format, since knowing the index position
for some object is sufficient to get a constant-time lookup in the
pack-*.idx file to ask for an object's offset within the pack.

This trades off between the on-disk size of the 'pack-*.rev' file for
runtime to chase down the offset for some object. Even though the lookup
is constant time, the constant is heavier, since it can potentially
involve two pointer walks in v2 indexes (one to access the 4-byte offset
table, and potentially a second to access the double wide offset table).

Consider trying to map an object's pack offset to a relative position
within that pack. In a cold-cache scenario, more page faults occur while
switching between binary searching through the reverse index and
searching through the *.idx file for an object's offset. Sure enough,
with a cold cache (writing '3' into '/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' after
'sync'ing), printing out the entire object's contents is still
marginally faster than printing its size:

  Benchmark #1: git.compile cat-file --batch-check="%(objectsize:disk)" <obj >/dev/null
    Time (mean ± σ):      22.6 ms ±   0.5 ms    [User: 2.4 ms, System: 7.9 ms]
    Range (min … max):    21.4 ms …  23.5 ms    41 runs

  Benchmark #2: git.compile cat-file --batch <obj >/dev/null
    Time (mean ± σ):      17.2 ms ±   0.7 ms    [User: 2.8 ms, System: 5.5 ms]
    Range (min … max):    15.6 ms …  18.2 ms    45 runs

(Numbers taken in the kernel after cheating and using the next patch to
generate a reverse index). There are a couple of approaches to improve
cold cache performance not pursued here:

  - We could include the object offsets in the reverse index format.
    Predictably, this does result in fewer page faults, but it triples
    the size of the file, while simultaneously duplicating a ton of data
    already available in the .idx file. (This was the original way I
    implemented the format, and it did show
    `--batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)'` winning out against `--batch`.)

    On the other hand, this increase in size also results in a large
    block-cache footprint, which could potentially hurt other workloads.

  - We could store the mapping from pack to index position in more
    cache-friendly way, like constructing a binary search tree from the
    table and writing the values in breadth-first order. This would
    result in much better locality, but the price you pay is trading
    O(1) lookup in 'pack_pos_to_index()' for an O(log n) one (since you
    can no longer directly index the table).

So, neither of these approaches are taken here. (Thankfully, the format
is versioned, so we are free to pursue these in the future.) But, cold
cache performance likely isn't interesting outside of one-off cases like
asking for the size of an object directly. In real-world usage, Git is
often performing many operations in the revindex (i.e., asking about
many objects rather than a single one).

The trade-off is worth it, since we will avoid the vast majority of the
cost of generating the revindex that the extra pointer chase will look
like noise in the following patch's benchmarks.

This patch describes the format and prepares callers (like in
pack-revindex.c) to be able to read *.rev files once they exist. An
implementation of the writer will appear in the next patch, and callers
will gradually begin to start using the writer in the patches that
follow after that.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-25 18:32:43 -08:00
Jonathan Tan
bfc2a36ff2 Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI
Clarify that, when the packfile-uri feature is used, the client should
not assume that the extra packfiles downloaded would only contain a
single blob, but support packfiles containing multiple objects of all
types.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-20 19:06:50 -08:00
Abhishek Kumar
5a3b130cad doc: add corrected commit date info
With generation data chunk and corrected commit dates implemented, let's
update the technical documentation for commit-graph.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-18 16:21:18 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
4bdde337f4 index-format: discuss recursion of cache-tree better
The end of the cache tree index extension format trails off with
ellipses ever since 23fcc98 (doc: technical details about the index
file format, 2011-03-01). While an intuitive reader could gather what
this means, it could be better to use "and so on" instead.

Really, this is only justified because I also wanted to point out that
the number of subtrees in the index format is used to determine when the
recursive depth-first-search stack should be "popped." This should help
to add clarity to the format.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-15 23:04:59 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
22ad8600c1 index-format: update preamble to cache tree extension
I had difficulty in my efforts to learn about the cache tree extension
based on the documentation and code because I had an incorrect
assumption about how it behaved. This might be due to some ambiguity in
the documentation, so this change modifies the beginning of the cache
tree format by expanding the description of the feature.

My hope is that this documentation clarifies a few things:

1. There is an in-memory recursive tree structure that is constructed
   from the extension data. This structure has a few differences, such
   as where the name is stored.

2. What does it mean for an entry to be invalid?

3. When exactly are "new" trees created?

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-15 23:04:46 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
845d15d4d0 index-format: use 'cache tree' over 'cached tree'
The index has a "cache tree" extension. This corresponds to a
significant API implemented in cache-tree.[ch]. However, there are a few
places that refer to this erroneously as "cached tree". These are rare,
but notably the index-format.txt file itself makes this error.

The only other reference is in t7104-reset-hard.sh.

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>
2021-01-15 23:04:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
16a8055dae Merge branch 'ma/doc-pack-format-varint-for-sizes'
Doc update.

* ma/doc-pack-format-varint-for-sizes:
  pack-format.txt: document sizes at start of delta data
2021-01-15 15:20:29 -08:00
Martin Ågren
7b77f5a13e pack-format.txt: document sizes at start of delta data
We document the delta data as a set of instructions, but forget to
document the two sizes that precede those instructions: the size of the
base object and the size of the object to be reconstructed. Fix this
omission.

Rather than cramming all the details about the encoding into the running
text, introduce a separate section detailing our "size encoding" and
refer to it.

Reported-by: Ross Light <ross@zombiezen.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-04 13:00:28 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
7efc378205 doc: fix some typos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Acked-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-04 11:27:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7bceb83bfe Merge branch 'jh/index-v2-doc-on-fsmn'
Doc update.

* jh/index-v2-doc-on-fsmn:
  index-format.txt: document v2 format of file system monitor extension
2020-12-17 15:06:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
94dc98d1d2 Merge branch 'jb/midx-doc-update'
Doc update.

* jb/midx-doc-update:
  docs: multi-pack-index: remove note about future 'verify' work
2020-12-17 15:06:41 -08:00
Jeff Hostetler
5885367e8f index-format.txt: document v2 format of file system monitor extension
Update the documentation of the file system monitor extension to
describe version 2.

The format was extended to support opaque tokens in:
56c6910028 fsmonitor: change last update timestamp on the index_state to opaque token

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-14 08:42:23 -08:00
Johannes Berg
633eebe142 docs: multi-pack-index: remove note about future 'verify' work
This was implemented in the 'git multi-pack-index' command and
merged in 468b3221 (Merge branch 'ds/multi-pack-verify',
2018-10-10).

And there's no 'git midx' command.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-14 08:39:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
01b8886a62 Merge branch 'js/trace2-session-id'
The transport layer was taught to optionally exchange the session
ID assigned by the trace2 subsystem during fetch/push transactions.

* js/trace2-session-id:
  receive-pack: log received client session ID
  send-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities
  upload-pack, serve: log received client session ID
  fetch-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities
  transport: log received server session ID
  serve: advertise session ID in v2 capabilities
  receive-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities
  upload-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities
  trace2: add a public function for getting the SID
  docs: new transfer.advertiseSID option
  docs: new capability to advertise session IDs
2020-12-08 15:11:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2aeafbc896 Merge branch 'jt/trace-error-on-warning'
Like die() and error(), a call to warning() will also trigger a
trace2 event.

* jt/trace-error-on-warning:
  usage: add trace2 entry upon warning()
2020-12-08 15:11:17 -08:00
Jonathan Tan
0ee10fd129 usage: add trace2 entry upon warning()
Emit a trace2 error event whenever warning() is called, just like when
die(), error(), or usage() is called.

This helps debugging issues that would trigger warnings but not errors.
In particular, this might have helped debugging an issue I encountered
with commit graphs at $DAYJOB [1].

There is a tradeoff between including potentially relevant messages and
cluttering up the trace output produced. I think that warning() messages
should be included in traces, because by its nature, Git is used over
multiple invocations of the Git tool, and a failure (currently traced)
in a Git invocation might be caused by an unexpected interaction in a
previous Git invocation that only has a warning (currently untraced) as
a symptom - as is the case in [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200629220744.1054093-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-24 17:39:38 -08:00
Josh Steadmon
f5cdbe485f docs: new capability to advertise session IDs
In future patches, we will add the ability for Git servers and clients
to advertise unique session IDs via protocol capabilities. This
allows for easier debugging when both client and server logs are
available.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-11 18:26:52 -08:00
Elijah Newren
c64432aacd t6423: more involved rules for renaming directories into each other
Testcases 12b and 12c were both slightly weird; they were marked as
having a weird resolution, but with the note that even straightforward
simple rules can give weird results when the input is bizarre.

However, during optimization work for merge-ort, I discovered a
significant speedup that is possible if we add one more fairly
straightforward rule: we don't bother doing directory rename detection
if there are no new files added to the directory on the other side of
the history to be affected by the directory rename.  This seems like an
obvious and straightforward rule, but there was one funny corner case
where directory rename detection could affect only existing files: the
funny corner case where two directories are renamed into each other on
opposite sides of history.  In other words, it only results in a
different output for testcases 12b and 12c.

Since we already thought testcases 12b and 12c were weird anyway, and
because the optimization often has a significant effect on common cases
(but is entirely prevented if we can't change how 12b and 12c function),
let's add the additional rule and tweak how 12b and 12c work.  Split
both testcases into two (one where we add no new files, and one where
the side that doesn't rename a given directory will add files to it),
and mark them with the new expectation.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-16 12:29:28 -07:00
Elijah Newren
8536821d05 t6423: update directory rename detection tests with new rule
While investigating the issues highlighted by the testcase in the
previous patch, I also found a shortcoming in the directory rename
detection rules.  Split testcase 6b into two to explain this issue
and update directory-rename-detection.txt to remove one of the previous
rules that I know believe to be detrimental.  Also, update the wording
around testcase 8e; while we are not modifying the results of that
testcase, we were previously unsure of the appropriate resolution of
that test and the new rule makes the previously chosen resolution for
that testcase a bit more solid.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-16 12:29:28 -07:00
Elijah Newren
b9718d0cc9 directory-rename-detection.txt: update references to regression tests
The regression tests for directory rename detection were renamed from
t6043 to t6423 in commit 919df31955 ("Collect merge-related tests to
t64xx", 2020-08-10); update this file to match.  Also, add a small
clarification to nearby text while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-16 12:29:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
288ed98bf7 Merge branch 'tb/bloom-improvements'
"git commit-graph write" learned to limit the number of bloom
filters that are computed from scratch with the --max-new-filters
option.

* tb/bloom-improvements:
  commit-graph: introduce 'commitGraph.maxNewFilters'
  builtin/commit-graph.c: introduce '--max-new-filters=<n>'
  commit-graph: rename 'split_commit_graph_opts'
  bloom: encode out-of-bounds filters as non-empty
  bloom/diff: properly short-circuit on max_changes
  bloom: use provided 'struct bloom_filter_settings'
  bloom: split 'get_bloom_filter()' in two
  commit-graph.c: store maximum changed paths
  commit-graph: respect 'commitGraph.readChangedPaths'
  t/helper/test-read-graph.c: prepare repo settings
  commit-graph: pass a 'struct repository *' in more places
  t4216: use an '&&'-chain
  commit-graph: introduce 'get_bloom_filter_settings()'
2020-09-29 14:01:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6c430a647c Merge branch 'jx/proc-receive-hook'
"git receive-pack" that accepts requests by "git push" learned to
outsource most of the ref updates to the new "proc-receive" hook.

* jx/proc-receive-hook:
  doc: add documentation for the proc-receive hook
  transport: parse report options for tracking refs
  t5411: test updates of remote-tracking branches
  receive-pack: new config receive.procReceiveRefs
  doc: add document for capability report-status-v2
  New capability "report-status-v2" for git-push
  receive-pack: feed report options to post-receive
  receive-pack: add new proc-receive hook
  t5411: add basic test cases for proc-receive hook
  transport: not report a non-head push as a branch
2020-09-25 15:25:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4d515253af Merge branch 'cd/commit-graph-doc'
Doc update.

* cd/commit-graph-doc:
  commit-graph-format.txt: fix no-parent value
2020-09-22 12:36:30 -07:00
Taylor Blau
59f0d5073f bloom: encode out-of-bounds filters as non-empty
When a changed-path Bloom filter has either zero, or more than a
certain number (commonly 512) of entries, the commit-graph machinery
encodes it as "missing". More specifically, it sets the indices adjacent
in the BIDX chunk as equal to each other to indicate a "length 0"
filter; that is, that the filter occupies zero bytes on disk.

This has heretofore been fine, since the commit-graph machinery has no
need to care about these filters with too few or too many changed paths.
Both cases act like no filter has been generated at all, and so there is
no need to store them.

In a subsequent commit, however, the commit-graph machinery will learn
to only compute Bloom filters for some commits in the current
commit-graph layer. This is a change from the current implementation
which computes Bloom filters for all commits that are in the layer being
written. Critically for this patch, only computing some of the Bloom
filters means adding a third state for length 0 Bloom filters: zero
entries, too many entries, or "hasn't been computed".

It will be important for that future patch to distinguish between "not
representable" (i.e., zero or too-many changed paths), and "hasn't been
computed". In particular, we don't want to waste time recomputing
filters that have already been computed.

To that end, change how we store Bloom filters in the "computed but not
representable" category:

  - Bloom filters with no entries are stored as a single byte with all
    bits low (i.e., all queries to that Bloom filter will return
    "definitely not")

  - Bloom filters with too many entries are stored as a single byte with
    all bits set high (i.e., all queries to that Bloom filter will
    return "maybe").

These rules are sufficient to not incur a behavior change by changing
the on-disk representation of these two classes. Likewise, no
specification changes are necessary for the commit-graph format, either:

  - Filters that were previously empty will be recomputed and stored
    according to the new rules, and

  - old clients reading filters generated by new clients will interpret
    the filters correctly and be none the wiser to how they were
    generated.

Clients will invoke the Bloom machinery in more cases than before, but
this can be addressed by returning a NULL filter when all bits are set
high. This can be addressed in a future patch.

Note that this does increase the size of on-disk commit-graphs, but far
less than other proposals. In particular, this is generally more
efficient than storing a bitmap for which commits haven't computed their
Bloom filters. Storing a bitmap incurs a penalty of one bit per commit,
whereas storing explicit filters as above incurs a penalty of one byte
per too-large or empty commit.

In practice, these boundary commits likely occupy a small proportion of
the overall number of commits, and so the size penalty is likely smaller
than storing a bitmap for all commits.

See, for example, these relative proportions of such boundary commits
(collected by SZEDER Gábor):

                  |     Percentage of     |    commit-graph   |           |
                  |   commits modifying   |     file size     |           |
                  ├────────┬──────────────┼───────────────────┤    pct.   |
                  | 0 path | >= 512 paths | before  |  after  |   change  |
 ┌────────────────┼────────┼──────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼───────────┤
 | android-base   | 13.20% |        0.13% | 37.468M | 37.534M | +0.1741 % |
 | cmssw          |  0.15% |        0.23% | 17.118M | 17.119M | +0.0091 % |
 | cpython        |  3.07% |        0.01% |  7.967M |  7.971M | +0.0423 % |
 | elasticsearch  |  0.70% |        1.00% |  8.833M |  8.835M | +0.0128 % |
 | gcc            |  0.00% |        0.08% | 16.073M | 16.074M | +0.0030 % |
 | gecko-dev      |  0.14% |        0.64% | 59.868M | 59.874M | +0.0105 % |
 | git            |  0.11% |        0.02% |  3.895M |  3.895M | +0.0020 % |
 | glibc          |  0.02% |        0.10% |  3.555M |  3.555M | +0.0021 % |
 | go             |  0.00% |        0.07% |  3.186M |  3.186M | +0.0018 % |
 | homebrew-cask  |  0.40% |        0.02% |  7.035M |  7.035M | +0.0065 % |
 | homebrew-core  |  0.01% |        0.01% | 11.611M | 11.611M | +0.0002 % |
 | jdk            |  0.26% |        5.64% |  5.537M |  5.540M | +0.0590 % |
 | linux          |  0.01% |        0.51% | 63.735M | 63.740M | +0.0073 % |
 | llvm-project   |  0.12% |        0.03% | 25.515M | 25.516M | +0.0050 % |
 | rails          |  0.10% |        0.10% |  6.252M |  6.252M | +0.0027 % |
 | rust           |  0.07% |        0.17% |  9.364M |  9.364M | +0.0033 % |
 | tensorflow     |  0.09% |        1.02% |  7.009M |  7.010M | +0.0158 % |
 | webkit         |  0.05% |        0.31% | 17.405M | 17.406M | +0.0047 % |

(where the above increase is determined by computing a non-split
commit-graph before and after this patch).

Given that these projects are all "large" by commit count, the storage
cost by writing these filters explicitly is negligible. In the most
extreme example, android-base (which has 494,848 commits at the time of
writing) would have its commit-graph increase by a modest 68.4 KB.

Finally, a test to exercise filters which contain too many changed path
entries will be introduced in a subsequent patch.

Suggested-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17 21:55:50 -07:00
Conor Davis
e40e936551 commit-graph-format.txt: fix no-parent value
The correct value from commit-graph.c:

    #define GRAPH_PARENT_NONE 0x70000000

Signed-off-by: Conor Davis <git@conor.fastmail.fm>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-15 14:34:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b4100f366c Merge branch 'jt/lazy-fetch'
Updates to on-demand fetching code in lazily cloned repositories.

* jt/lazy-fetch:
  fetch: no FETCH_HEAD display if --no-write-fetch-head
  fetch-pack: remove no_dependents code
  promisor-remote: lazy-fetch objects in subprocess
  fetch-pack: do not lazy-fetch during ref iteration
  fetch: only populate existing_refs if needed
  fetch: avoid reading submodule config until needed
  fetch: allow refspecs specified through stdin
  negotiator/noop: add noop fetch negotiator
2020-09-03 12:37:04 -07:00
Jiang Xin
b913075cb8 doc: add document for capability report-status-v2
Add ABNF notation for capability 'report-status-v2' which extends
capability 'report-status' by adding additional option lines.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-27 12:47:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6f8a2138b9 Merge branch 'ds/sha256-leftover-bits'
midx and commit-graph files now use the byte defined in their file
format specification for identifying the hash function used for
object names.

* ds/sha256-leftover-bits:
  multi-pack-index: use hash version byte
  commit-graph: use the "hash version" byte
  t/README: document GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH
2020-08-19 16:14:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
74a395c484 Merge branch 'ma/sha-256-docs'
Further update of docs to adjust to the recent SHA-256 work.

* ma/sha-256-docs:
  shallow.txt: document SHA-256 shallow format
  protocol-capabilities.txt: clarify "allow-x-sha1-in-want" re SHA-256
  index-format.txt: document SHA-256 index format
  http-protocol.txt: document SHA-256 "want"/"have" format
2020-08-19 16:14:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
336fbd18bb Merge branch 'bc/sha-256-doc-updates'
Further update of docs to adjust to the recent SHA-256 work.

* bc/sha-256-doc-updates:
  docs: fix step in transition plan
  docs: document SHA-256 pack and indices
2020-08-19 16:14:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ecc796caa2 Merge branch 'jb/commit-graph-doc-fix'
Docfix.

* jb/commit-graph-doc-fix:
  docs: commit-graph: fix some whitespace in the diagram
2020-08-19 16:14:49 -07:00
Jonathan Tan
7ca3c0ac37 promisor-remote: lazy-fetch objects in subprocess
Teach Git to lazy-fetch missing objects in a subprocess instead of doing
it in-process. This allows any fatal errors that occur during the fetch
to be isolated and converted into an error return value, instead of
causing the current command being run to terminate.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-18 16:46:53 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
d96075428a multi-pack-index: use hash version byte
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>
2020-08-17 16:45:20 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
665d70ad03 commit-graph: use the "hash version" byte
The commit-graph format reserved a byte among the header of the file to
store a "hash version". During the SHA-256 work, this was not modified
because file formats are not necessarily intended to work across hash
versions. If a repository has SHA-256 as its hash algorithm, it
automatically up-shifts the lengths of object names in all necessary
formats.

However, since we have this byte available for adjusting the version, we
can make the file formats more obviously incompatible instead of relying
on other context from the repository.

Update the oid_version() method in commit-graph.c to add a new value, 2,
for sha-256. This automatically writes the new value in a SHA-256
repository _and_ verifies the value is correct. This is a breaking
change relative to the current 'master' branch since 092b677 (Merge
branch 'bc/sha-256-cvs-svn-updates', 2020-08-13) but it is not breaking
relative to any released version of Git.

The test impact is relatively minor: the output of 'test-tool
read-graph' lists the header information, so those instances of '1' need
to be replaced with a variable determined by GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH. A
more careful test is added that specifically creates a repository of
each type then swaps the commit-graph files. The important value here is
that the "git log" command succeeds while writing a message to stderr.

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>
2020-08-17 16:45:14 -07:00
Martin Ågren
8afa50aabc shallow.txt: document SHA-256 shallow format
Similar to recent commits, document that we list object names rather
than SHA-1s.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-17 10:35:13 -07:00
Martin Ågren
0756e61078 protocol-capabilities.txt: clarify "allow-x-sha1-in-want" re SHA-256
Two of our capabilities contain "sha1" in their names, but that's
historical. Clarify that object names are still to be given using
whatever object format has been negotiated using the "object-format"
capability.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-17 10:35:12 -07:00
Martin Ågren
123712ba41 index-format.txt: document SHA-256 index format
Document that in SHA-1 repositories, we use SHA-1 and in SHA-256
repositories, we use SHA-256, then replace all other uses of "SHA-1"
with something more neutral. Avoid referring to "160-bit" hash values.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-17 10:35:12 -07:00
Martin Ågren
5b6422a616 http-protocol.txt: document SHA-256 "want"/"have" format
Document that rather than always naming objects using SHA-1, we should
use whatever has been negotiated using the object-format capability.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-17 10:35:12 -07:00
brian m. carlson
2ae12e568b docs: fix step in transition plan
One of the required steps for the objectFormat extension is to implement
the loose object index.  However, without support for
compatObjectFormat, we don't even know if the loose object index is
needed, so it makes sense to move that step to the compatObjectFormat
section.  Do so.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-13 18:09:55 -07:00
brian m. carlson
17420eafa9 docs: document SHA-256 pack and indices
Now that we have SHA-256 support for packs and indices, let's document
that in SHA-256 repositories, we use SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 for object
names and checksums.  Instead of duplicating this information throughout
the document, let's just document that in SHA-1 repositories, we use
SHA-1 for these purposes, and in SHA-256 repositories, we use SHA-256.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-13 18:09:36 -07:00
Johannes Berg
6dfefe70a9 docs: commit-graph: fix some whitespace in the diagram
In the merge diagram, some whitespace is missing which
makes it a bit confusing, fix that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-13 11:06:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e0ad9574dd Merge branch 'bc/sha-256-part-3'
The final leg of SHA-256 transition.

* bc/sha-256-part-3: (39 commits)
  t: remove test_oid_init in tests
  docs: add documentation for extensions.objectFormat
  ci: run tests with SHA-256
  t: make SHA1 prerequisite depend on default hash
  t: allow testing different hash algorithms via environment
  t: add test_oid option to select hash algorithm
  repository: enable SHA-256 support by default
  setup: add support for reading extensions.objectformat
  bundle: add new version for use with SHA-256
  builtin/verify-pack: implement an --object-format option
  http-fetch: set up git directory before parsing pack hashes
  t0410: mark test with SHA1 prerequisite
  t5308: make test work with SHA-256
  t9700: make hash size independent
  t9500: ensure that algorithm info is preserved in config
  t9350: make hash size independent
  t9301: make hash size independent
  t9300: use $ZERO_OID instead of hard-coded object ID
  t9300: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
  t8011: make hash size independent
  ...
2020-08-11 18:04:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
46b225f153 Merge branch 'jk/strvec'
The argv_array API is useful for not just managing argv but any
"vector" (NULL-terminated array) of strings, and has seen adoption
to a certain degree.  It has been renamed to "strvec" to reduce the
barrier to adoption.

* jk/strvec:
  strvec: rename struct fields
  strvec: drop argv_array compatibility layer
  strvec: update documention to avoid argv_array
  strvec: fix indentation in renamed calls
  strvec: convert remaining callers away from argv_array name
  strvec: convert more callers away from argv_array name
  strvec: convert builtin/ callers away from argv_array name
  quote: rename sq_dequote_to_argv_array to mention strvec
  strvec: rename files from argv-array to strvec
  argv-array: rename to strvec
  argv-array: use size_t for count and alloc
2020-08-10 10:23:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
de6dda0dc3 Merge branch 'sg/commit-graph-cleanups' into master
The changed-path Bloom filter is improved using ideas from an
independent implementation.

* sg/commit-graph-cleanups:
  commit-graph: simplify write_commit_graph_file() #2
  commit-graph: simplify write_commit_graph_file() #1
  commit-graph: simplify parse_commit_graph() #2
  commit-graph: simplify parse_commit_graph() #1
  commit-graph: clean up #includes
  diff.h: drop diff_tree_oid() & friends' return value
  commit-slab: add a function to deep free entries on the slab
  commit-graph-format.txt: all multi-byte numbers are in network byte order
  commit-graph: fix parsing the Chunk Lookup table
  tree-walk.c: don't match submodule entries for 'submod/anything'
2020-07-30 13:20:30 -07:00
brian m. carlson
c5aecfc866 bundle: add new version for use with SHA-256
Currently we detect the hash algorithm in use by the length of the
object ID.  This is inelegant and prevents us from using a different
hash algorithm that is also 256 bits in length.

Since we cannot extend the v2 format in a backward-compatible way, let's
add a v3 format, which is identical, except for the addition of
capabilities, which are prefixed by an at sign.  We add "object-format"
as the only capability and reject unknown capabilities, since we do not
have a network connection and therefore cannot negotiate with the other
side.

For compatibility, default to the v2 format for SHA-1 and require v3
for SHA-256.

In t5510, always use format v3 so we can be sure we produce consistent
results across hash algorithms.  Since head -n N lists the top N lines
instead of the Nth line, let's run our output through sed to normalize
it and compare it against a fixed value, which will make sure we get
exactly what we're expecting.

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>
2020-07-30 09:16:48 -07:00
Jeff King
837dc425cf strvec: update documention to avoid argv_array
There were a few mentions of argv_array in a non-code file which didn't
get picked up in the previous commits (note that even comments in code
files were already covered because of the mechanical conversion via
perl).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-28 15:02:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
12210859da Merge branch 'bc/sha-256-part-2'
SHA-256 migration work continues.

* bc/sha-256-part-2: (44 commits)
  remote-testgit: adapt for object-format
  bundle: detect hash algorithm when reading refs
  t5300: pass --object-format to git index-pack
  t5704: send object-format capability with SHA-256
  t5703: use object-format serve option
  t5702: offer an object-format capability in the test
  t/helper: initialize the repository for test-sha1-array
  remote-curl: avoid truncating refs with ls-remote
  t1050: pass algorithm to index-pack when outside repo
  builtin/index-pack: add option to specify hash algorithm
  remote-curl: detect algorithm for dumb HTTP by size
  builtin/ls-remote: initialize repository based on fetch
  t5500: make hash independent
  serve: advertise object-format capability for protocol v2
  connect: parse v2 refs with correct hash algorithm
  connect: pass full packet reader when parsing v2 refs
  Documentation/technical: document object-format for protocol v2
  t1302: expect repo format version 1 for SHA-256
  builtin/show-index: provide options to determine hash algo
  t5302: modernize test formatting
  ...
2020-07-06 22:09:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
34e849b05a Merge branch 'jt/cdn-offload'
The "fetch/clone" protocol has been updated to allow the server to
instruct the clients to grab pre-packaged packfile(s) in addition
to the packed object data coming over the wire.

* jt/cdn-offload:
  upload-pack: fix a sparse '0 as NULL pointer' warning
  upload-pack: send part of packfile response as uri
  fetch-pack: support more than one pack lockfile
  upload-pack: refactor reading of pack-objects out
  Documentation: add Packfile URIs design doc
  Documentation: order protocol v2 sections
  http-fetch: support fetching packfiles by URL
  http-fetch: refactor into function
  http: refactor finish_http_pack_request()
  http: use --stdin when indexing dumb HTTP pack
2020-06-25 12:27:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eebb51ba8c Merge branch 'hn/refs-cleanup'
Preliminary clean-ups around refs API, plus file format
specification documentation for the reftable backend.

* hn/refs-cleanup:
  reftable: define version 2 of the spec to accomodate SHA256
  reftable: clarify how empty tables should be written
  reftable: file format documentation
  refs: improve documentation for ref iterator
  t: use update-ref and show-ref to reading/writing refs
  refs.h: clarify reflog iteration order
2020-06-12 13:57:13 -07:00
Jonathan Tan
cd8402e0fd Documentation: add Packfile URIs design doc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-10 18:06:34 -07:00
Jonathan Tan
fd194dd56a Documentation: order protocol v2 sections
The current C Git implementation expects Git servers to follow a
specific order of sections when transmitting protocol v2 responses, but
this is not explicit in the documentation. Make the order explicit.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-10 18:06:34 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys
ee9681d949 reftable: define version 2 of the spec to accomodate SHA256
Version appends a hash ID to the file header, making it slightly larger.

This commit also changes "SHA-1" into "object ID" in many places.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-09 13:48:36 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys
10f007c370 reftable: clarify how empty tables should be written
The format allows for some ambiguity, as a lone footer also starts
with a valid file header. However, the current JGit code will barf on
this. This commit codifies this behavior into the standard.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-09 13:48:36 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
35e6c47404 reftable: file format documentation
Shawn Pearce explains:

Some repositories contain a lot of references (e.g. android at 866k,
rails at 31k). The reftable format provides:

- Near constant time lookup for any single reference, even when the
  repository is cold and not in process or kernel cache.
- Near constant time verification if a SHA-1 is referred to by at least
  one reference (for allow-tip-sha1-in-want).
- Efficient lookup of an entire namespace, such as `refs/tags/`.
- Support atomic push `O(size_of_update)` operations.
- Combine reflog storage with ref storage.

This file format spec was originally written in July, 2017 by Shawn
Pearce.  Some refinements since then were made by Shawn and by Han-Wen
Nienhuys based on experiences implementing and experimenting with the
format.  (All of this was in the context of our work at Google and
Google is happy to contribute the result to the Git project.)

Imported from JGit[1]'s current version (c217d33ff,
"Documentation/technical/reftable: improve repo layout", 2020-02-04)
of Documentation/technical/reftable.md and converted to asciidoc by
running

  pandoc -t asciidoc -f markdown reftable.md >reftable.txt

using pandoc 2.2.1.  The result required the following additional
minor changes:

- removed the [TOC] directive to add a table of contents, since
  asciidoc does not support it
- replaced git-scm.com/docs links with linkgit: directives that link
  to other pages within Git's documentation

[1] https://eclipse.googlesource.com/jgit/jgit

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-09 13:48:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b37fd14beb Merge branch 'dl/remote-curl-deadlock-fix'
On-the-wire protocol v2 easily falls into a deadlock between the
remote-curl helper and the fetch-pack process when the server side
prematurely throws an error and disconnects.  The communication has
been updated to make it more robust.

* dl/remote-curl-deadlock-fix:
  stateless-connect: send response end packet
  pkt-line: define PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END
  remote-curl: error on incomplete packet
  pkt-line: extern packet_length()
  transport: extract common fetch_pack() call
  remote-curl: remove label indentation
  remote-curl: fix typo
2020-06-08 18:06:30 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
6141cdfdcb commit-graph-format.txt: all multi-byte numbers are in network byte order
The commit-graph format specifies that "All 4-byte numbers are in
network order", but the commit-graph contains 8-byte integers as well
(file offsets in the Chunk Lookup table), and their byte order is
unspecified.

Clarify that all multi-byte integers are in network byte order.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-08 12:28:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
70a1e331b0 Merge branch 'jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix'
Docfix.

* jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix:
  doc: fix wrong 4-byte length of pkt-line message
2020-06-02 13:35:02 -07:00
brian m. carlson
7f46e7ead1 Documentation/technical: document object-format for protocol v2
Document the object-format extension for protocol v2.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-27 10:07:07 -07:00
Denton Liu
b0df0c16ea stateless-connect: send response end packet
Currently, remote-curl acts as a proxy and blindly forwards packets
between an HTTP server and fetch-pack. In the case of a stateless RPC
connection where the connection is terminated before the transaction is
complete, remote-curl will blindly forward the packets before waiting on
more input from fetch-pack. Meanwhile, fetch-pack will read the
transaction and continue reading, expecting more input to continue the
transaction. This results in a deadlock between the two processes.

This can be seen in the following command which does not terminate:

	$ git -c protocol.version=2 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
	Cloning into 'git'...

whereas the v1 version does terminate as expected:

	$ git -c protocol.version=1 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
	Cloning into 'git'...
	fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly

Instead of blindly forwarding packets, make remote-curl insert a
response end packet after proxying the responses from the remote server
when using stateless_connect(). On the RPC client side, ensure that each
response ends as described.

A separate control packet is chosen because we need to be able to
differentiate between what the remote server sends and remote-curl's
control packets. By ensuring in the remote-curl code that a server
cannot send response end packets, we prevent a malicious server from
being able to perform a denial of service attack in which they spoof a
response end packet and cause the described deadlock to happen.

Reported-by: Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-24 16:26:00 -07:00
Jiuyang Xie
2c31a7aa44 doc: fix wrong 4-byte length of pkt-line message
The first four bytes of the line, the pkt-len, indicates the total
length of the pkt-line in hexadecimal. Fix wrong pkt-len headers of
some pkt-line messages in `http-protocol.txt` and `pack-protocol.txt`.

Reviewed-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiuyang Xie <jiuyang.xjy@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-21 10:52:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4b1e5e5d8c Merge branch 'ds/bloom-cleanup'
Code cleanup and typofixes

* ds/bloom-cleanup:
  completion: offer '--(no-)patch' among 'git log' options
  bloom: use num_changes not nr for limit detection
  bloom: de-duplicate directory entries
  Documentation: changed-path Bloom filters use byte words
  bloom: parse commit before computing filters
  test-bloom: fix usage typo
  bloom: fix whitespace around tab length
2020-05-14 14:39:44 -07:00
brian m. carlson
b8615c3c63 Documentation: document v1 protocol object-format capability
Document a capability that indicates which hash algorithms are in use by
both sides of a remote connection.  Use the term "object-format", since
this is the term used for the repository extension as well.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-13 18:14:08 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
88093289cd Documentation: changed-path Bloom filters use byte words
In Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt, the definition
of the BIDX chunk specifies the length is a number of 8-byte words.
During development we discovered that using 8-byte words in the
Murmur3 hash algorithm causes issues with big-endian versus little-
endian machines. Thus, the hash algorithm was adapted to work on a
byte-by-byte basis. However, this caused a change in the definition
of a "word" in bloom.h. Now, a "word" is a single byte, which allows
filters to be as small as two bytes. These length-two filters are
demonstrated in t0095-bloom.sh, and a larger filter of length 25 is
demonstrated as well.

The original point of using 8-byte words was for alignment reasons.
It also presented opportunities for extremely sparse Bloom filters
when there were a small number of changes at a commit, creating a
very low false-positive rate. However, modifying the format at this
point is unlikely to be a valuable exercise. Also, this use of
single-byte granularity does present opportunities to save space.
It is unclear if 8-byte alignment of the filters would present any
meaningful performance benefits.

Modify the format document to reflect reality.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-11 09:33:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9b6606f43d Merge branch 'gs/commit-graph-path-filter'
Introduce an extension to the commit-graph to make it efficient to
check for the paths that were modified at each commit using Bloom
filters.

* gs/commit-graph-path-filter:
  bloom: ignore renames when computing changed paths
  commit-graph: add GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_CHANGED_PATHS test flag
  t4216: add end to end tests for git log with Bloom filters
  revision.c: add trace2 stats around Bloom filter usage
  revision.c: use Bloom filters to speed up path based revision walks
  commit-graph: add --changed-paths option to write subcommand
  commit-graph: reuse existing Bloom filters during write
  commit-graph: write Bloom filters to commit graph file
  commit-graph: examine commits by generation number
  commit-graph: examine changed-path objects in pack order
  commit-graph: compute Bloom filters for changed paths
  diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changes
  bloom.c: core Bloom filter implementation for changed paths.
  bloom.c: introduce core Bloom filter constructs
  bloom.c: add the murmur3 hash implementation
  commit-graph: define and use MAX_NUM_CHUNKS
2020-05-01 13:39:53 -07:00
Garima Singh
76ffbca71a commit-graph: write Bloom filters to commit graph file
Update the technical documentation for commit-graph-format with
the formats for the Bloom filter index (BIDX) and Bloom filter
data (BDAT) chunks. Write the computed Bloom filters information
to the commit graph file using this format.

Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-06 11:08:37 -07:00
Josh Steadmon
3d3adaad91 trace2: teach Git to log environment variables
Via trace2, Git can already log interesting config parameters (see the
trace2_cmd_list_config() function). However, this can grant an
incomplete picture because many config parameters also allow overrides
via environment variables.

To allow for more complete logs, we add a new trace2_cmd_list_env_vars()
function and supporting implementation, modeled after the pre-existing
config param logging implementation.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-23 13:14:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0410c2ba31 Merge branch 'jb/multi-pack-index-docfix'
Doc fix.

* jb/multi-pack-index-docfix:
  pack-format: correct multi-pack-index description
2020-02-12 12:41:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e99c325bb4 Merge branch 'ms/doc-bundle-format'
Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.

* ms/doc-bundle-format:
  doc: describe Git bundle format
2020-02-12 12:41:38 -08:00
Johannes Berg
eb31044ff7 pack-format: correct multi-pack-index description
The description of the multi-pack-index contains a small bug,
if all offsets are < 2^32 then there will be no LOFF chunk,
not only if they're all < 2^31 (since the highest bit is only
needed as the "LOFF-escape" when that's actually needed.)

Correct this, and clarify that in that case only offsets up
to 2^31-1 can be stored in the OOFF chunk.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-10 09:01:48 -08:00
Masaya Suzuki
7378ec90e1 doc: describe Git bundle format
The bundle format was not documented. Describe the format with ABNF and
explain the meaning of each part.

Signed-off-by: Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-07 12:47:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7e65f8638e Merge branch 'jb/doc-multi-pack-idx-fix'
Typofix.

* jb/doc-multi-pack-idx-fix:
  multi-pack-index: correct configuration in documentation
2020-01-08 12:44:12 -08:00
Johannes Berg
421c0ffb02 multi-pack-index: correct configuration in documentation
It's core.multiPackIndex, not pack.multiIndex.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-04 15:02:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
26c816a67d Merge branch 'hw/doc-in-header'
* hw/doc-in-header:
  trace2: move doc to trace2.h
  submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.h
  tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.h
  trace: move doc to trace.h
  run-command: move doc to run-command.h
  parse-options: add link to doc file in parse-options.h
  credential: move doc to credential.h
  argv-array: move doc to argv-array.h
  cache: move doc to cache.h
  sigchain: move doc to sigchain.h
  pathspec: move doc to pathspec.h
  revision: move doc to revision.h
  attr: move doc to attr.h
  refs: move doc to refs.h
  remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h
  sha1-array: move doc to sha1-array.h
  merge: move doc to ll-merge.h
  graph: move doc to graph.h and graph.c
  dir: move doc to dir.h
  diff: move doc to diff.h and diffcore.h
2019-12-16 13:08:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
56e6c16394 Merge branch 'dl/lore-is-the-archive'
Publicize lore.kernel.org mailing list archive and use URLs
pointing into it to refer to notable messages in the documentation.

* dl/lore-is-the-archive:
  doc: replace LKML link with lore.kernel.org
  RelNotes: replace Gmane with real Message-IDs
  doc: replace MARC links with lore.kernel.org
2019-12-06 15:09:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3b3d9ea6a8 Merge branch 'jk/lore-is-the-archive'
Doc update for the mailing list archiving and nntp service.

* jk/lore-is-the-archive:
  doc: replace public-inbox links with lore.kernel.org
  doc: recommend lore.kernel.org over public-inbox.org
2019-12-06 15:09:23 -08:00
Denton Liu
14b7664df8 doc: replace LKML link with lore.kernel.org
Since we're now recommending lore.kernel.org, replace LKML link
with lore.kernel.org.

Although LKML has been around for a long time, nothing lasts forever
(see Gmane). Since LKML uses opaque message identifiers, switching to
lore.kernel.org should be a strict improvement since, even if
lore.kernel.org goes down, the Message-ID will allow future readers to
look up the referenced messages on any other archive.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-04 10:26:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d3096d2ba6 Merge branch 'en/doc-typofix'
Docfix.

* en/doc-typofix:
  Fix spelling errors in no-longer-updated-from-upstream modules
  multimail: fix a few simple spelling errors
  sha1dc: fix trivial comment spelling error
  Fix spelling errors in test commands
  Fix spelling errors in messages shown to users
  Fix spelling errors in names of tests
  Fix spelling errors in comments of testcases
  Fix spelling errors in code comments
  Fix spelling errors in documentation outside of Documentation/
  Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new
2019-12-01 09:04:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3c90710c0c Merge branch 'hw/config-doc-in-header'
Follow recent push to move API docs from Documentation/ to header
files and update config.h

* hw/config-doc-in-header:
  config: move documentation to config.h
2019-12-01 09:04:32 -08:00
Jeff King
3eae30e464 doc: replace public-inbox links with lore.kernel.org
Since we're now recommending lore.kernel.org (and because the
public-inbox.org domain might eventually go away), let's update our
internal references to use it, too. That future-proofs our references,
and sets the example we want people to follow.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-30 09:12:26 -08:00
Heba Waly
6c51cb525d trace2: move doc to trace2.h
Move the functions documentation from
Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt to trace2.h as it's easier for the
developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking
for it in another doc file.

Only the functions documentation section is removed from
Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt as the file is full of
details that seemed more appropriate to be in a separate doc file
as it is, with a link to the doc file added in the trace2.h.
Also the functions doc is removed to avoid having redundandt info which
will be hard to keep syncronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
d95a77d059 submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt
to submodule-config.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

The documentation of parse_submodule_config_option() is discarded as the
function was removed 2 years ago.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
bbcfa3002a tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt
to tree-walk.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
f1ecbe0f53 trace: move doc to trace.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt
to trace.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
4c4066d95d run-command: move doc to run-command.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
to run-command.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
f3b9055624 credential: move doc to credential.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
to credential.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Documentation/git-credential.txt and Documentation/gitcredentials.txt now link
to credential.h instead of Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt for
details about the credetials API.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
971b1f24a2 argv-array: move doc to argv-array.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
to argv-array.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
13aa9c8b70 cache: move doc to cache.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt
to cache.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
c0be43f898 sigchain: move doc to sigchain.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-sigchain.txt
to sigchain.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-sigchain.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
Heba Waly
19ef3ddd36 pathspec: move doc to pathspec.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt
to pathspec.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-setup.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00
Heba Waly
301d595e72 revision: move doc to revision.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt
to revision.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18 15:21:28 +09:00