This is a faithful conversion without attempting to improve
anything. That comes later.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[jc: squashed in missing forward decl in userdiff.h found by Ramsay]
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git grep" learned the "--column" option that gives not just the
line number but the column number of the hit.
* tb/grep-column:
contrib/git-jump/git-jump: jump to exact location
grep.c: add configuration variables to show matched option
builtin/grep.c: add '--column' option to 'git-grep(1)'
grep.c: display column number of first match
grep.[ch]: extend grep_opt to allow showing matched column
grep.c: expose {,inverted} match column in match_line()
Documentation/config.txt: camel-case lineNumber for consistency
The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
throughout the object access API continues.
* sb/object-store-grafts:
commit: allow lookup_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: allow prepare_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
shallow: migrate shallow information into the object parser
path.c: migrate global git_path_* to take a repository argument
cache: convert get_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: convert read_graft_file to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: convert register_commit_graft to handle arbitrary repositories
commit: convert commit_graft_pos() to handle arbitrary repositories
shallow: add repository argument to is_repository_shallow
shallow: add repository argument to check_shallow_file_for_update
shallow: add repository argument to register_shallow
shallow: add repository argument to set_alternate_shallow_file
commit: add repository argument to lookup_commit_graft
commit: add repository argument to prepare_commit_graft
commit: add repository argument to read_graft_file
commit: add repository argument to register_commit_graft
commit: add repository argument to commit_graft_pos
object: move grafts to object parser
object-store: move object access functions to object-store.h
Teach 'git grep --only-matching', a new option to only print the
matching part(s) of a line.
For instance, a line containing the following (taken from README.md:27):
(`man gitcvs-migration` or `git help cvs-migration` if git is
Is printed as follows:
$ git grep --line-number --column --only-matching -e git -- \
README.md | grep ":27"
README.md:27:7:git
README.md:27:16:git
README.md:27:38:git
The patch works mostly as one would expect, with the exception of a few
considerations that are worth mentioning here.
Like GNU grep, this patch ignores --only-matching when --invert (-v) is
given. There is a sensible answer here, but parity with the behavior of
other tools is preferred.
Because a line might contain more than one match, there are special
considerations pertaining to when to print line headers, newlines, and
how to increment the match column offset. The line header and newlines
are handled as a special case within the main loop to avoid polluting
the surrounding code with conditionals that have large blocks.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The grep code invokes show_line() to display the contents of a matched
or context line in its output. Part of this execution is to print a line
header that includes information such as the kind, the line- and
column-number and etc. of that match.
To prepare for the addition of an option to print only the matching
component(s) of a non-context line, we must prepare for the possibility
that a single line may contain multiple matching parts, and thus will
need multiple headers printed for a single line.
Extracting show_line_header allows us to do just that. In the subsequent
commit, it will be used within the colorization loop to print out only
the matching parts of a line, optionally with LFs delimiting
sub-matches.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various
pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the
codebase to report the list of configuration variables
subcommands care about to help complete them.
* nd/complete-config-vars:
completion: complete general config vars in two steps
log-tree: allow to customize 'grafted' color
completion: support case-insensitive config vars
completion: keep other config var completion in camelCase
completion: drop the hard coded list of config vars
am: move advice.amWorkDir parsing back to advice.c
advice: keep config name in camelCase in advice_config[]
fsck: produce camelCase config key names
help: add --config to list all available config
fsck: factor out msg_id_info[] lazy initialization code
grep: keep all colors in an array
Add and use generic name->id mapping code for color slot parsing
To support git-grep(1)'s new option, '--column', document and teach
grep.c how to interpret relevant configuration options, similar to those
associated with '--line-number'.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To prepare for 'git grep' learning '--column', teach grep.c's
show_line() how to show the column of the first match on non-context
lines.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To support showing the matched column when calling 'git-grep(1)', teach
'grep_opt' the normal set of options to configure the default behavior
and colorization of this feature.
Now that we have opt->columnnum, use it to disable short-circuiting over
ORs and ANDs so that col and icol are always filled with the earliest
matches on each line. In addition, don't return the first match from
match_line(), for the same reason.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When calling match_line(), callers presently cannot determine the
relative offset of the match because match_line() discards the
'regmatch_t' that contains this information.
Instead, teach match_line() to take in two 'ssize_t's. Fill the first
with the offset of the match produced by the given expression. If
extended, fill the later with the offset of the match produced as if
--invert were given.
For instance, matching "--not -e x" on this line produces a columnar
offset of 0, (i.e., the whole line does not contain an x), but "--invert
--not -e -x" will fill the later ssize_t of the column containing an
"x", because this expression is semantically equivalent to "-e x".
To determine the column for the inverted and non-inverted case, do the
following:
- If matching an atom, the non-inverted column is as given from
match_one_pattern(), and the inverted column is unset.
- If matching a --not, the inverted column and non-inverted column
swap.
- If matching an --and, or --or, the non-inverted column is the
minimum of the two children.
Presently, the existing short-circuiting logic for AND and OR applies as
before. This will change in the following commit when we add options to
configure the --column flag. Taken together, this and the forthcoming
change will always yield the earlier column on a given line.
This patch will become useful when we later pick between the two new
results in order to display the column number of the first match on a
line with --column.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We used to call regfree() after regcomp() failed in some codepaths,
which have been corrected.
* ma/regex-no-regfree-after-comp-fail:
regex: do not call `regfree()` if compilation fails
Sometimes it helps to list all available config vars so the user can
search for something they want. The config man page can also be used
but it's harder to search if you want to focus on the variable name,
for example.
This is not the best way to collect the available config since it's
not precise. Ideally we should have a centralized list of config in C
code (pretty much like 'struct option'), but that's a lot more work.
This will do for now.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is more inline with how we handle color slots in other code. It
also allows us to get the list of configurable color slots later.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is apparently undefined behavior to call `regfree()` on a regex where
`regcomp()` failed. The language in [1] is a bit muddy, at least to me,
but the clearest hint is this (`preg` is the `regex_t *`):
Upon successful completion, the regcomp() function shall return 0.
Otherwise, it shall return an integer value indicating an error as
described in <regex.h>, and the content of preg is undefined.
Funnily enough, there is also the `regerror()` function which should be
given a pointer to such a "failed" `regex_t` -- the content of which
would supposedly be undefined -- and which may investigate it to come up
with a detailed error message.
In any case, the example in that document shows how `regfree()` is not
called after `regcomp()` fails.
We have quite a few users of this API and most get this right. These
three users do not.
Several implementations can handle this just fine [2] and these code paths
supposedly have not wreaked havoc or we'd have heard about it. (These
are all in code paths where git got bad input and is just about to die
anyway.) But let's just avoid the issue altogether.
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/regcomp.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-September/msg00262.html
Researched-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-byi Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should make these functions easier to find and cache.h less
overwhelming to read.
In particular, this moves:
- read_object_file
- oid_object_info
- write_object_file
As a result, most of the codebase needs to #include object-store.h.
In this patch the #include is only added to files that would fail to
compile otherwise. It would be better to #include wherever
identifiers from the header are used. That can happen later
when we have better tooling for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In d8193743e0 (usage.c: add BUG() function, 2017-05-12), a new macro
was introduced to use for reporting bugs instead of die(). It was then
subsequently used to convert one single caller in 588a538ae5
(setup_git_env: convert die("BUG") to BUG(), 2017-05-12).
The cover letter of the patch series containing this patch
(cf 20170513032414.mfrwabt4hovujde2@sigill.intra.peff.net) is not
terribly clear why only one call site was converted, or what the plan
is for other, similar calls to die() to report bugs.
Let's just convert all remaining ones in one fell swoop.
This trick was performed by this invocation:
sed -i 's/die("BUG: /BUG("/g' $(git grep -l 'die("BUG' \*.c)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert read_sha1_file to take a pointer to struct object_id and rename
it read_object_file. Do the same for read_sha1_file_extended.
Convert one use in grep.c to use the new function without any other code
change, since the pointer being passed is a void pointer that is already
initialized with a pointer to struct object_id. Update the declaration
and definitions of the modified functions, and apply the following
semantic patch to convert the remaining callers:
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- read_sha1_file(E1.hash, E2, E3)
+ read_object_file(&E1, E2, E3)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- read_sha1_file(E1->hash, E2, E3)
+ read_object_file(E1, E2, E3)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3, E4;
@@
- read_sha1_file_extended(E1.hash, E2, E3, E4)
+ read_object_file_extended(&E1, E2, E3, E4)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3, E4;
@@
- read_sha1_file_extended(E1->hash, E2, E3, E4)
+ read_object_file_extended(E1, E2, E3, E4)
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add documentation explaining the functions in color.h.
While at it, migrate the function `color_set` into grep.c,
where the only callers are.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git grep" compiled with libpcre2 sometimes triggered a segfault,
which is being fixed.
* ab/pcre2-grep:
grep: fix segfault under -P + PCRE2 <=10.30 + (*NO_JIT)
test-lib: add LIBPCRE1 & LIBPCRE2 prerequisites
Fix a bug in the compilation of PCRE2 patterns under JIT (the most
common runtime configuration). Any pattern with a (*NO_JIT) verb would
segfault in any currently released PCRE2 version:
$ git grep -P '(*NO_JIT)hi.*there'
Segmentation fault
That this segfaulted was a bug in PCRE2 itself, after reporting it[1]
on pcre-dev it's been fixed in a yet-to-be-released version of
PCRE (presumably released first as 10.31). Now it'll die with:
$ git grep -P '(*NO_JIT)hi.*there'
fatal: pcre2_jit_match failed with error code -45: bad JIT option
But the cause of the bug is in our own code dating back to my
94da9193a6 ("grep: add support for PCRE v2", 2017-06-01).
As explained at more length in the comment being added here, it isn't
sufficient to just check pcre2_config() to see whether the JIT should
be used, pcre2_pattern_info() also has to be asked.
This is something I discovered myself when fiddling around with PCRE2
verbs in patterns passed to git. I don't expect that any user of git
has encountered this given the obscurity of passing PCRE2 verbs
through to the library, along with the relative obscurity of (*NO_JIT)
itself.
1. "How am I supposed to use PCRE2 JIT in the face of (*NO_JIT) ?"
(<CACBZZX5mMqDuWuFmi7sRBp3wH6CFyd-ghACukd=v0NN=rBMnJg@mail.gmail.com> &
https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20171123.101502.7f0d38ca.en.html)
on the pcre-dev mailing list
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Non-empty lines before a function definition are most likely comments
for that function and thus relevant. Include them in function context.
Such a non-empty line might also belong to the preceding function if
there is no separating blank line. Stop extending the context upwards
also at the next function line to make sure only one extra function body
is shown at most.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Function context can be bigger than -A/-B/-C context. To find the
beginning of the combined context we search backwards. Currently we
check at each loop iteration what we're looking for and determine the
effective upper boundary based on that.
Simplify this a bit by setting the variable "from" to the lowest unshown
line number up front if we're looking for a function line and set it
back to the required -B/-C context line number when we find one. This
prepares the ground for the next patch; no functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you have a pcre1 library which is compiled with JIT enabled then
PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE will be defined whether or not the
NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT configuration is set.
This means that we enable JIT functionality when calling pcre_study
even if NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT has been explicitly set and we just use plain
pcre_exec later.
Fix this by using own macro (GIT_PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE) which we set to
PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE only if NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT is not set and define to
0 otherwise, as before.
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit
codes; this has been corrected.
* as/grep-quiet-no-match-exit-code-fix:
git-grep: correct exit code with --quiet and -L
The handling of `status_only` no longer interferes with the handling of
`unmatch_name_only`. `--quiet` no longer affects the exit code when using
`-L`/`--files-without-match`.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert grep to use 'struct repository' which enables recursing into
submodules to be handled in-process.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the redundant REG_NEWLINE regcomp() flag from the code that
compiles a fixed-string regular-expression.
The REG_NEWLINE causes metacharacters such as "." to match a newline,
since the basic_regex_quote_buf() function being called here escapes
all metacharacters using REG_NEWLINE is confusing and redundant.
The use of this flag was introduced as an unintended emergent property
of 793dc676e0 ("grep/icase: avoid kwsset when -F is specified",
2016-06-25).
That change amended the existing regflags, which were initialized to
REG_NEWLINE in init_grep_defaults() assuming a subsequent non-fixed
regcomp().
Manual testing reveals that this was always redundant, since no flags
of any use were inherited from opt->regflags even back
then. 793dc676e0 passes all tests with this on top:
diff --git a/grep.c b/grep.c
index 627ae3e3e8..89e84ed7fd 100644
--- a/grep.c
+++ b/grep.c
@@ -407,3 +407,3 @@ static void compile_fixed_regexp(struct grep_pat *p, struct grep_opt *opt)
basic_regex_quote_buf(&sb, p->pattern);
- regflags = opt->regflags & ~REG_EXTENDED;
+ regflags = 0;
if (opt->ignore_case)
Since this isn't used for anything and never was, remove it to reduce
confusion when reading this code.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor calls to the grep machinery to always pass opt.ignore_case &
opt.extended_regexp_option instead of setting the equivalent regflags
bits.
The bug fixed when making -i work with -P in commit 9e3cbc59d5 ("log:
make --regexp-ignore-case work with --perl-regexp", 2017-05-20) was
really just plastering over the code smell which this change fixes.
The reason for adding the extensive commentary here is that I
discovered some subtle complexity in implementing this that really
should be called out explicitly to future readers.
Before this change we'd rely on the difference between
`extended_regexp_option` and `regflags` to serve as a membrane between
our preliminary parsing of grep.extendedRegexp and grep.patternType,
and what we decided to do internally.
Now that those two are the same thing, it's necessary to unset
`extended_regexp_option` just before we commit in cases where both of
those config variables are set. See 84befcd0a4 ("grep: add a
grep.patternType configuration setting", 2012-08-03) for the code and
documentation related to that.
The explanation of why the if/else branches in
grep_commit_pattern_type() are ordered the way they are exists in that
commit message, but I think it's worth calling this subtlety out
explicitly with a comment for future readers.
Even though grep_commit_pattern_type() is the only caller of
grep_set_pattern_type_option() it's simpler to reset the
extended_regexp_option flag in the latter, since 2/3 branches in the
former would otherwise need to reset it, this way we can do it in one
place.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the redundant re-assignments of the fixed/pcre1/pcre2 fields to
zero right after the entire struct has been set to zero via
memset(...).
See an earlier related cleanup commit e0b9f8ae09 ("grep: remove
redundant regflags assignments", 2017-05-25) for an explanation of why
the code was structured like this to begin with.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the redundant re-assignment of the fixed field to zero right
after the entire struct has been set to zero via memset(...).
Unlike some nearby commits this pattern doesn't date back to the
pattern described in e0b9f8ae09 ("grep: remove redundant regflags
assignments", 2017-05-25), instead it was apparently cargo-culted in
9eceddeec6 ("Use kwset in grep", 2011-08-21).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adjust a now-redundant assignment to extended_regexp_option to make it
zero if grep.extendedRegexp is not set. This is always called right
after init_grep_defaults() which memsets the entire structure to 0, so
there's no need to set it again to zero.
However the reason for the if/else pattern is a holdover from[1] where
this was adjusted from a bitfield assignment to a boolean. Rather than
getting rid of the assignment to 0 in all cases, let's just use the
value returned by git_config_bool(), which is more idiomatic and in
sync with the rest of the boolean handling in this function.
This is a logical follow-up to my commit to remove redundant regflags
assignments[2]. This logic was originally introduced in [3], but as
explained in the former commit it's working around a pattern in our
code that no longer exists, and is now confusing as it leads the
reader to think that this needs to be flipped back & forth.
1. 84befcd0a4 ("grep: add a grep.patternType configuration setting",
2012-08-03)
2. e0b9f8ae09 ("grep: remove redundant regflags assignments",
2017-05-25)
3. b22520a37c ("grep: allow -E and -n to be turned on by default via
configuration", 2011-03-30)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop assigning 0 to the extended_regexp_option field right after we've
zeroed out the entire struct with memset() just a few lines earlier.
Unlike some of the code being refactored in subsequent commits, this
was always completely redundant. See the original code introduced in
84befcd0a4 ("grep: add a grep.patternType configuration setting",
2012-08-03).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
* ab/free-and-null:
*.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro
coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL
Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
into its own header file.
* bw/config-h:
config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir
config: respect commondir
setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir
config: don't include config.h by default
config: remove git_config_iter
config: create config.h
Fix an erroneously copy/pasted check for the pcre2_jit_stack variable
to check pcre2_match_context instead. The former was already checked
in the preceding "if" statement.
This is a trivial and obvious error introduced in my commit
94da9193a6 ("grep: add support for PCRE v2", 2017-06-01).
In practice if pcre2_match_context_create() returned NULL we were
likely in a situation where malloc() was returning NULL, and were thus
screwed anyway, but if only the pcre2_match_context_create() call
returned NULL (through some transitory bug) PCRE v2 would just
allocate and supply its own context object when matching, and we'd run
normally at the trivial expense of not getting a slight speedup by
sharing the context object between successive matches.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace occurrences of `free(ptr); ptr = NULL` which weren't caught by
the coccinelle rule. These fall into two categories:
- free/NULL assignments one after the other which coccinelle all put
on one line, which is functionally equivalent code, but very ugly.
- manually spotted occurrences where the NULL assignment isn't right
after the free() call.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Apply the result of the just-added coccinelle rule. This manually
excludes a few occurrences, mostly things that resulted in many
FREE_AND_NULL() on one line, that'll be manually fixed in a subsequent
change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the remaining parts of grep to use struct object_id.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for v2 of the PCRE API. This is a new major version of
PCRE that came out in early 2015[1].
The regular expression syntax is the same, but while the API is
similar, pretty much every function is either renamed or takes
different arguments. Thus using it via entirely new functions makes
sense, as opposed to trying to e.g. have one compile_pcre_pattern()
that would call either PCRE v1 or v2 functions.
Git can now be compiled with either USE_LIBPCRE1=YesPlease or
USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease, with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease currently being a
synonym for the former. Providing both is a compile-time error.
With earlier patches to enable JIT for PCRE v1 the performance of the
release versions of both libraries is almost exactly the same, with
PCRE v2 being around 1% slower.
However after I reported this to the pcre-dev mailing list[2] I got a
lot of help with the API use from Zoltán Herczeg, he subsequently
optimized some of the JIT functionality in v2 of the library.
Running the p7820-grep-engines.sh performance test against the latest
Subversion trunk of both, with both them and git compiled as -O3, and
the test run against linux.git, gives the following results. Just the
/perl/ tests shown:
$ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=30 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND='grep -q LIBPCRE2 Makefile && make -j8 USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease CC=~/perl5/installed/bin/gcc NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=YesPlease CFLAGS=-O3 LIBPCREDIR=/home/avar/g/pcre2/inst LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/home/avar/g/pcre2/inst/lib || make -j8 USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease CC=~/perl5/installed/bin/gcc NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=YesPlease CFLAGS=-O3 LIBPCREDIR=/home/avar/g/pcre/inst LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/home/avar/g/pcre/inst/lib' ./run HEAD~5 HEAD~ HEAD p7820-grep-engines.sh
[...]
Test HEAD~5 HEAD~ HEAD
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
7820.3: perl grep 'how.to' 0.31(1.10+0.48) 0.21(0.35+0.56) -32.3% 0.21(0.34+0.55) -32.3%
7820.7: perl grep '^how to' 0.56(2.70+0.40) 0.24(0.64+0.52) -57.1% 0.20(0.28+0.60) -64.3%
7820.11: perl grep '[how] to' 0.56(2.66+0.38) 0.29(0.95+0.45) -48.2% 0.23(0.45+0.54) -58.9%
7820.15: perl grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare' 1.02(5.77+0.42) 0.31(1.02+0.54) -69.6% 0.23(0.50+0.54) -77.5%
7820.19: perl grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te' 0.38(1.57+0.42) 0.27(0.85+0.46) -28.9% 0.21(0.33+0.57) -44.7%
See commit ("perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines",
2017-04-19) for details on the machine the above test run was executed
on.
Here HEAD~2 is git with PCRE v1 without JIT, HEAD~ is PCRE v1 with
JIT, and HEAD is PCRE v2 (also with JIT). See previous commits of mine
mentioning p7820-grep-engines.sh for more details on the test setup.
For ease of readability, a different run just of HEAD~ (PCRE v1 with
JIT v.s. PCRE v2), again with just the /perl/ tests shown:
[...]
Test HEAD~ HEAD
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
7820.3: perl grep 'how.to' 0.21(0.42+0.52) 0.21(0.31+0.58) +0.0%
7820.7: perl grep '^how to' 0.25(0.65+0.50) 0.20(0.31+0.57) -20.0%
7820.11: perl grep '[how] to' 0.30(0.90+0.50) 0.23(0.46+0.53) -23.3%
7820.15: perl grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare' 0.30(1.19+0.38) 0.23(0.51+0.51) -23.3%
7820.19: perl grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te' 0.27(0.84+0.48) 0.21(0.34+0.57) -22.2%
I.e. the two are either neck-to-neck, but PCRE v2 usually pulls ahead,
when it does it's around 20% faster.
A brief note on thread safety: As noted in pcre2api(3) & pcre2jit(3)
the compiled pattern can be shared between threads, but not some of
the JIT context, however the grep threading support does all pattern &
JIT compilation in separate threads, so this code doesn't need to
concern itself with thread safety.
See commit 63e7e9d8b6 ("git-grep: Learn PCRE", 2011-05-09) for the
initial addition of PCRE v1. This change follows some of the same
patterns it did (and which were discussed on list at the time),
e.g. mocking up types with typedef instead of ifdef-ing them out when
USE_LIBPCRE2 isn't defined. This adds some trivial memory use to the
program, but makes the code look nicer.
1. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20150105.162835.0666407a.en.html
2. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20170419.172322.833ee099.en.html
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
