Back in 5b92477f89 (builtin/gc.c: conditionally avoid pruning objects
via loose, 2022-05-20), `git gc` learned the `--cruft` option and
`gc.cruftPacks` configuration to opt-in to writing cruft packs when
collecting or pruning unreachable objects.
Cruft packs were introduced with the merge in a50036da1a (Merge branch
'tb/cruft-packs', 2022-06-03). They address the problem of "loose object
explosions", where Git will write out many individual loose objects when
there is a large number of unreachable objects that have not yet aged
past `--prune=<date>`.
Instead of keeping track of those unreachable yet recent objects via
their loose object file's mtime, cruft packs collect all unreachable
objects into a single pack with a corresponding `*.mtimes` file that
acts as a table to store the mtimes of all unreachable objects. This
prevents the need to store unreachable objects as loose as they age out
of the repository, and avoids the problem of loose object explosions.
Beyond avoiding loose object explosions, cruft packs also act as a more
efficient mechanism to store unreachable objects as they age out of a
repository. This is because pairs of similar unreachable objects serve
as delta bases for one another.
In 5b92477f89, the feature was introduced as experimental. Since then,
GitHub has been running these patches in every repository generating
hundreds of millions of cruft packs along the way. The feature is
battle-tested, and avoids many pathological cases such as above. Users
who either run `git gc` manually, or via `git maintenance` can benefit
from having cruft packs.
As such, enable cruft pack generation to take place by default (by
making `gc.cruftPacks` have the default of "true" rather than "false).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a similar fashion as previous commits, adjust the fast-import tests
to prepare for "git gc" generating a cruft pack by default.
This adjustment is slightly different, however. Instead of relying on us
writing out the objects loose, and then calling `git prune` to remove
them, t9300 needs to be prepared to drop objects that would be moved
into cruft packs.
To do this, we can combine the `git gc` invocation with `git prune` into
one `git gc --prune`, which handles pruning both loose objects, and
objects that would otherwise be written to a cruft pack.
Likely this pattern of "git gc && git prune" started all the way back in
03db4525d3 (Support gitlinks in fast-import., 2008-07-19), which
happened after deprecating `git gc --prune` in 9e7d501990 (builtin-gc.c:
deprecate --prune, it now really has no effect, 2008-05-09).
After `--prune` was un-deprecated in 58e9d9d472 (gc: make --prune useful
again by accepting an optional parameter, 2009-02-14), this script got a
handful of new "git gc && git prune" instances via via 4cedb78cb5
(fast-import: add input format tests, 2011-08-11). These could have been
`git gc --prune`, but weren't (likely taking after 03db4525d3).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the last commit, we refactored some of the tests in t6500 to make
clearer when cruft packs will and won't be generated by `git gc`.
Add the remaining cases not covered by the previous patch into this one,
which enumerates all possible combinations of arguments that will
produce (or not produce) a cruft pack.
This prepares us for a future commit which will change the default value
of `gc.cruftPacks` by ensuring that we understand which invocations do
and do not change as a result.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 12253ab6d0 (gc: add tests for --cruft and friends, 2022-10-26), we
added a handful of tests to t6500 to ensure that `git gc` respected the
value of `--cruft` and `gc.cruftPacks`.
Then, in c695592850 (config: let feature.experimental imply
gc.cruftPacks=true, 2022-10-26), another set of similar tests was added
to ensure that `feature.experimental` correctly implied enabling cruft
pack generation (or not).
These tests are similar and could be consolidated. Do so in this patch
to prepare for expanding the set of command-line invocations that enable
or disable writing cruft packs. This makes it possible to easily test
more combinations of arguments without being overly repetitive.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a similar spirit as previous commits, prepare for `gc --cruft`
becoming the default by ensuring that the tests in t6501 explicitly
cover the case of freshening loose objects not using cruft packs.
We could run this test twice, once with `--cruft` and once with
`--no-cruft`, but doing so is unnecessary, since we already test object
rescuing, freshening, and dealing with corrupt parts of the unreachable
object graph extensively via t5329.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many of the tests in t5304 run `git gc`, and rely on its behavior that
unreachable-but-recent objects are written out loose. This is sensible,
since t5304 deals specifically with this kind of pruning.
If left unattended, however, this test would break when the default
behavior of a bare "git gc" is adjusted to generate a cruft pack by
default.
Ensure that these tests continue to work as-is (and continue to provide
coverage of loose object pruning) by passing `--no-cruft` explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cruft packs were implemented, we never adjusted the code for `git
gc`'s `--keep-largest-pack` and `gc.bigPackThreshold` to ignore cruft
packs. This option and configuration option share a common
implementation, but including cruft packs is wrong in both cases:
- Running `git gc --keep-largest-pack` in a repository where the
largest pack is the cruft pack itself will make it impossible for
`git gc` to prune objects, since the cruft pack itself is kept.
- The same is true for `gc.bigPackThreshold`, if the size of the cruft
pack exceeds the limit set by the caller.
In the future, it is possible that `gc.bigPackThreshold` could be used
to write a separate cruft pack containing any new unreachable objects
that entered the repository since the last time a cruft pack was
written.
There are some complexities to doing so, mainly around handling
pruning objects that are in an existing cruft pack that is above the
threshold (which would either need to be rewritten, or else delay
pruning). Rewriting a substantially similar cruft pack isn't ideal, but
it is significantly better than the status-quo.
If users have large cruft packs that they don't want to rewrite, they
can mark them as `*.keep` packs. But in general, if a repository has a
cruft pack that is so large it is slowing down GC's, it should probably
be pruned anyway.
In the meantime, ignore cruft packs in the common implementation for
both of these options, and add a pair of tests to prevent any future
regressions here.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cruft packs were originally being developed, `-C` was designated as
the short-form for `--cruft` (as in `git repack -C`).
This was dropped due to confusion with Git's top-level `-C` option
before submitting to the list. But the reference to it in
`--cruft-expiration`'s help text was never updated. Fix that dangling
reference in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `stage_tmp_packfiles()` generates a filename to use for
staging the contents of what will become the pack's ".mtimes" file.
The name is generated in `write_mtimes_file()` and the result is
returned back to `stage_tmp_packfiles()` which uses it to rename the
temporary file into place via `rename_tmp_packfiles()`.
`write_mtimes_file()` returns a `const char *`, indicating that callers
are not expected to free its result (similar to, e.g., `oid_to_hex()`).
But callers are expected to free its result, so this return type is
incorrect.
Change the function's signature to return a non-const `char *`, and free
it at the end of `stage_tmp_packfiles()`.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tests had a few places where we ignored PERL_PATH and blindly used
/usr/bin/perl, which have been corrected.
* jk/use-perl-path-consistently:
t/lib-httpd: pass PERL_PATH to CGI scripts
"git clone" from an empty repository learned to propagate the
choice of the hash algorithm from the source repository to the
newly created repository.
* jc/clone-object-format-from-void:
clone: propagate object-format when cloning from void
Consistently spell "Message-ID" as such, not "Message-Id".
* jc/spell-id-in-both-caps-in-message-id:
e-mail workflow: Message-ID is spelled with ID in both capital letters
"git sparse-checkout" command learns a debugging aid for the sparse
rule definitions.
* ws/sparse-check-rules:
builtin/sparse-checkout: add check-rules command
builtin/sparse-checkout: remove NEED_WORK_TREE flag
Emily finally figured out how to set up their alias at DayJob, and would
prefer to use nasamuffin@google.com, partially to reduce confusion
between IRC and list, and partially because they just like the alias a
lot more.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch --all" does not have to download and handle the same
bundleURI over and over, which has been corrected.
* ds/fetch-bundle-uri-with-all:
fetch: download bundles once, even with --all
Test framework fix.
* jk/chainlint-fixes:
tests: skip test_eval_ in internal chain-lint
tests: drop here-doc check from internal chain-linter
tests: diagnose unclosed here-doc in chainlint.pl
tests: replace chainlint subshell with a function
tests: run internal chain-linter under "make test"
Split key function and data structure definitions out of cache.h to
new header files and adjust the users.
* en/header-split-cleanup:
csum-file.h: remove unnecessary inclusion of cache.h
write-or-die.h: move declarations for write-or-die.c functions from cache.h
treewide: remove cache.h inclusion due to setup.h changes
setup.h: move declarations for setup.c functions from cache.h
treewide: remove cache.h inclusion due to environment.h changes
environment.h: move declarations for environment.c functions from cache.h
treewide: remove unnecessary includes of cache.h
wrapper.h: move declarations for wrapper.c functions from cache.h
path.h: move function declarations for path.c functions from cache.h
cache.h: remove expand_user_path()
abspath.h: move absolute path functions from cache.h
environment: move comment_line_char from cache.h
treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h inclusion from several sources
treewide: remove unnecessary inclusion of gettext.h
treewide: be explicit about dependence on gettext.h
treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h inclusion from a few headers
Code clean-up around the use of the_repository.
* ab/remove-implicit-use-of-the-repository:
libs: use "struct repository *" argument, not "the_repository"
post-cocci: adjust comments for recent repo_* migration
cocci: apply the "revision.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "rerere.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "refs.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "promisor-remote.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "packfile.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "pretty.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "object-store.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "diff.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "commit.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "commit-reach.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: apply the "cache.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
cocci: add missing "the_repository" macros to "pending"
cocci: sort "the_repository" rules by header
cocci: fix incorrect & verbose "the_repository" rules
cocci: remove dead rule from "the_repository.pending.cocci"
Add a few configuration variables to tell the cURL library that
different types of ssl-cert and ssl-key are in use.
* sm/ssl-key-type-config:
http: add support for different sslcert and sslkey types.
Assorted config API updates.
* ab/config-multi-and-nonbool:
for-each-repo: with bad config, don't conflate <path> and <cmd>
config API: add "string" version of *_value_multi(), fix segfaults
config API users: test for *_get_value_multi() segfaults
for-each-repo: error on bad --config
config API: have *_multi() return an "int" and take a "dest"
versioncmp.c: refactor config reading next commit
config API: add and use a "git_config_get()" family of functions
config tests: add "NULL" tests for *_get_value_multi()
config tests: cover blind spots in git_die_config() tests
Clean-up of the code path that reports what "git fetch" did to each
ref.
* ps/fetch-ref-update-reporting:
fetch: centralize printing of reference updates
fetch: centralize logic to print remote URL
fetch: centralize handling of per-reference format
fetch: pass the full local reference name to `format_display`
fetch: move output format into `display_state`
fetch: move reference width calculation into `display_state`
Code clean-up for "-Wunused-parameter" build.
* jk/unused-post-2.40-part2:
parse-options: drop parse_opt_unknown_cb()
t/helper: mark unused argv/argc arguments
mark "argv" as unused when we check argc
builtins: mark unused prefix parameters
builtins: annotate always-empty prefix parameters
builtins: always pass prefix to parse_options()
fast-import: fix file access when run from subdir
More "-Wunused-parameters" code clean-up.
* jk/unused-post-2.40:
transport: mark unused parameters in fetch_refs_from_bundle()
http: mark unused parameter in fill_active_slot() callbacks
http: drop unused parameter from start_object_request()
mailmap: drop debugging code
"git for-each-ref" learns '%(ahead-behind:<base>)' that computes the
distances from a single reference point in the history with bunch
of commits in bulk.
* ds/ahead-behind:
commit-reach: add tips_reachable_from_bases()
for-each-ref: add ahead-behind format atom
commit-reach: implement ahead_behind() logic
commit-graph: introduce `ensure_generations_valid()`
commit-graph: return generation from memory
commit-graph: simplify compute_generation_numbers()
commit-graph: refactor compute_topological_levels()
for-each-ref: explicitly test no matches
for-each-ref: add --stdin option
As discussed in t/README, tests should aim to use PERL_PATH rather than
straight "perl". We usually do this automatically with a "perl" function
in test-lib.sh, but a few cases need to be handled specially.
One such case is the apply-one-time-perl.sh CGI, which invokes plain
"perl". It should be using $PERL_PATH, but to make that work, we must
also instruct Apache to pass through the variable.
Prior to this patch, doing:
mv /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/my-perl
make PERL_PATH=/usr/bin/my-perl test
would fail t5702, t5703, and t5616. After this it passes. This is a
pretty extreme case, as even if you install perl elsewhere, you'd likely
still have it in your $PATH. A more realistic case is that you don't
want to use the perl in your $PATH (because it's older, broken, etc) and
expect PERL_PATH to consistently override that (since that's what it's
documented to do). Removing it completely is just a convenient way of
completely breaking it for testing purposes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Without the word "the", the sentence is a little harder to read. The
word "the" makes it clearer that the comment refers to discrete patches,
and not portions of individual patches.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Watson <ozzloy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 50d9bbba92 (Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam,
2009-12-04) introduced manpage-base-url.xsl because ancient versions of
xmlto did not have --stringparam.
However, that was more than ten years ago, no need for that complexity
anymore, we can just use --stringparam.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A user could prepare an empty repository and set it to use SHA256 as
the object format. The new repository created by "git clone" from
such a repository however would not record that it is expecting
objects in the same SHA256 format. This works as expected if the
source repository is not empty.
Just like we started copying the name of the primary branch from the
remote repository even if it is unborn in 3d8314f8 (clone: propagate
empty remote HEAD even with other branches, 2022-07-07), lift the
code that records the object format out of the block executed only
when cloning from an instantiated repository, so that it works also
when cloning from an empty repository.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pack-redundant" gave a warning when run, as the command has
outlived its usefulness long ago and is nominated for future
removal. Now we escalate to give an error.
* jk/really-deprecate-pack-redundant:
pack-redundant: escalate deprecation warning to an error
Document what the pathname-looking strings in "rev-list --object"
output are for and what they mean.
* jk/document-rev-list-object-name:
docs: document caveats of rev-list's object-name output
"git blame --contents=<file> <rev> -- <path>" used to be forbidden,
but now it finds the origins of lines starting at <file> contents
through the history that leads to <rev>.
* jk/blame-contents-with-arbitrary-commit:
blame: allow --contents to work with non-HEAD commit
Streamline --rebase-merges command line option handling and
introduce rebase.merges configuration variable.
* ah/rebase-merges-config:
rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges
rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges=""
rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges
Code clean-up.
* jk/fast-export-cleanup:
fast-export: drop unused parameter from anonymize_commit_message()
fast-export: drop data parameter from anonymous generators
fast-export: de-obfuscate --anonymize-map handling
fast-export: factor out anonymized_entry creation
fast-export: simplify initialization of anonymized hashmaps
fast-export: drop const when storing anonymized values
The index files can become corrupt under certain conditions when
the split-index feature is in use, especially together with
fsmonitor, which have been corrected.
* js/split-index-fixes:
unpack-trees: take care to propagate the split-index flag
fsmonitor: avoid overriding `cache_changed` bits
split-index; stop abusing the `base_oid` to strip the "link" extension
split-index & fsmonitor: demonstrate a bug
The wildmatch library code unlearns exponential behaviour it
acquired some time ago since it was borrowed from rsync.
* pw/wildmatch-fixes:
t3070: make chain lint tester happy
wildmatch: hide internal return values
wildmatch: avoid undefined behavior
wildmatch: fix exponential behavior
