Pseudorefs are not stored in the ref database as by definition, they
carry additional metadata that essentially makes them not a ref. As
such, writing pseudorefs via the ref backend does not make any sense
whatsoever as the ref backend wouldn't know how exactly to store the
data.
Restrict writing pseudorefs via the ref backend.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ref-filter interfaces currently define root refs as either a
detached HEAD or a pseudo ref. Pseudo refs aren't root refs though, so
let's properly distinguish those ref types.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `is_root_ref()` function will happily clarify a pseudoref as a root
ref, even though pseudorefs are no refs. Next to being wrong, it also
leads to inconsistent behaviour across ref backends: while the "files"
backend accidentally knows to parse those pseudorefs and thus yields
them to the caller, the "reftable" backend won't ever see the pseudoref
at all because they are never stored in the "reftable" backend.
Fix this issue by filtering out pseudorefs in `is_root_ref()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Root refs are those refs that live in the root of the ref hierarchy.
Our old and venerable "HEAD" reference falls into this category, but we
don't yet classify it as such in `is_root_ref()`.
Adapt the function to also treat "HEAD" as a root ref. This change is
safe to do for all current callers:
- `ref_kind_from_refname()` already handles "HEAD" explicitly before
calling `is_root_ref()`.
- The "files" and "reftable" backends explicitly call both
`is_root_ref()` and `is_headref()` together.
This also aligns behaviour or `is_root_ref()` and `is_headref()` such
that we stop checking for ref existence. This changes semantics for our
backends:
- In the reftable backend we already know that the ref must exist
because `is_headref()` is called as part of the ref iterator. The
existence check is thus redundant, and the change is safe to do.
- In the files backend we use it when populating root refs, where we
would skip adding the "HEAD" file if it was not possible to resolve
it. The new behaviour is to instead mark "HEAD" as broken, which
will cause us to emit warnings in various places.
As there are no callers of `is_headref()` left afer the refactoring, we
can absorb it completely into `is_root_ref()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before this patch series, root refs except for "HEAD" and our special
refs were classified as pseudorefs. Furthermore, our terminology
clarified that pseudorefs must not be symbolic refs. This restriction
is enforced in `is_root_ref()`, which explicitly checks that a supposed
root ref resolves to an object ID without recursing.
This has been extremely confusing right from the start because (in old
terminology) a ref name may sometimes be a pseudoref and sometimes not
depending on whether it is a symbolic or regular ref. This behaviour
does not seem reasonable at all and I very much doubt that it results in
anything sane.
Last but not least, the current behaviour can actually lead to a
segfault when calling `is_root_ref()` with a reference that either does
not exist or that is a symbolic ref because we never initialized `oid`,
but then read it via `is_null_oid()`.
We have now changed terminology to clarify that pseudorefs are really
only "MERGE_HEAD" and "FETCH_HEAD", whereas all the other refs that live
in the root of the ref hierarchy are just plain refs. Thus, we do not
need to check whether the ref is symbolic or not. In fact, we can now
avoid looking up the ref completely as the name is sufficient for us to
figure out whether something would be a root ref or not.
This change of course changes semantics for our callers. As there are
only three of them we can assess each of them individually:
- "ref-filter.c:ref_kind_from_refname()" uses it to classify refs.
It's clear that the intent is to classify based on the ref name,
only.
- "refs/reftable_backend.c:reftable_ref_iterator_advance()" uses it to
filter root refs. Again, using existence checks is pointless here as
the iterator has just surfaced the ref, so we know it does exist.
- "refs/files_backend.c:add_pseudoref_and_head_entries()" uses it to
determine whether it should add a ref to the root directory of its
iterator. This had the effect that we skipped over any files that
are either a symbolic ref, or which are not a ref at all.
The new behaviour is to include symbolic refs know, which aligns us
with the adapted terminology. Furthermore, files which look like
root refs but aren't are now mark those as "broken". As broken refs
are not surfaced by our tooling, this should not lead to a change in
user-visible behaviour, but may cause us to emit warnings. This
feels like the right thing to do as we would otherwise just silently
ignore corrupted root refs completely.
So in all cases the existence check was either superfluous, not in line
with the adapted terminology or masked potential issues. This commit
thus changes the behaviour as proposed and drops the existence check
altogether.
Add a test that verifies that this does not change user-visible
behaviour. Namely, we still don't want to show broken refs to the user
by default in git-for-each-ref(1). What this does allow though is for
internal callers to surface dangling root refs when they pass in the
`DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_BROKEN` flag.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename `is_special_ref()` to `is_pseudo_ref()` to adapt to the newly
defined terminology in our gitglossary(7). Note that in the preceding
commit we have just renamed `is_pseudoref()` to `is_root_ref()`, where
there may be confusion for in-flight patch series that add new calls to
`is_pseudoref()`. In order to intentionally break such patch series we
have thus picked `is_pseudo_ref()` instead of `is_pseudoref()` as the
new name.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename `is_pseudoref()` to `is_root_ref()` to adapt to the newly defined
terminology in our gitglossary(7).
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The preceding commit has rewritten all callers of ref-related functions
to use the equivalents that accept a `struct ref_store`. Consequently,
the respective variants without the ref store are now unused. Remove
them.
There are likely patch series in-flight that use the now-removed
functions. To help the authors, the old implementations have been added
to "refs.c" in an ifdef'd section as a reference for how to migrate each
of the respective callers.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Apply the rules that rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces to explicitly
pass `struct ref_store`. The resulting patch has been applied with the
`--whitespace=fix` option.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `for_each_fullref_in()` function is supposedly the ref-store-less
equivalent of `refs_for_each_fullref_in()`, but the latter has gained a
new parameter `exclude_patterns` over time. Bring these two functions
back in sync again by adding the parameter to the former function, as
well.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While most of the functions in "refs.h" have a variant that accepts a
`struct ref_store`, some don't. Callers of these functions are thus
forced to implicitly rely on `the_repository` to figure out the ref
store that is to be used.
Introduce those missing functions to address this shortcoming.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `refs_create_symref()` function is used to update/create a symref.
But it doesn't check the old target of the symref, if existing. It force
updates the symref. In this regard, the name `refs_create_symref()` is a
bit misleading. So let's rename it to `refs_update_symref()`. This is
akin to how 'git-update-ref(1)' also allows us to create apart from
update.
While we're here, rename the arguments in the function to clarify what
they actually signify and reduce confusion.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `refs_create_symref()` function updates a symref to a given new
target. To do this, it uses a ref-backend specific function
`create_symref()`.
In the previous commits, we introduced symref support in transactions.
This means we can now use transactions to perform symref updates and
don't have to resort to `create_symref()`. Doing this allows us to
remove and cleanup `create_symref()`, which we will do in the following
commit.
Modify the expected error message for a test in
't/t0610-reftable-basics.sh', since the error is now thrown from
'refs.c'. This is because in transactional updates, F/D conflicts are
caught before we're in the reference backend.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reference backends currently support transactional reference
updates. While this is exposed to users via 'git-update-ref' and its
'--stdin' mode, it is also used internally within various commands.
However, we do not support transactional updates of symrefs. This commit
adds support for symrefs in both the 'files' and the 'reftable' backend.
Here, we add and use `ref_update_has_null_new_value()`, a helper
function which is used to check if there is a new_value in a reference
update. The new value could either be a symref target `new_target` or a
OID `new_oid`.
We also add another common function `ref_update_check_old_target` which
will be used to check if the update's old_target corresponds to a
reference's current target.
Now transactional updates (verify, create, delete, update) can be used
for:
- regular refs
- symbolic refs
- conversion of regular to symbolic refs and vice versa
This also allows us to expose this to users via new commands in
'git-update-ref' in the future.
Note that a dangling symref update does not record a new reflog entry,
which is unchanged before and after this commit.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The files backend and the reftable backend implement
`original_update_refname` to obtain the original refname of the update.
Move it out to 'refs.c' and only expose it internally to the refs
library. This will be used in an upcoming commit to also introduce
another common functionality for the two backends.
We also rename the function to `ref_update_original_update_refname` to
keep it consistent with the upcoming other 'ref_update_*' functions
that'll be introduced.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'reference-transaction' hook runs whenever a reference update is
made to the system. In a previous commit, we added the `old_target` and
`new_target` fields to the `reference_transaction_update()`. In
following commits we'll also add the code to handle symref's in the
reference backends.
Support symrefs also in the 'reference-transaction' hook, by modifying
the current format:
<old-oid> SP <new-oid> SP <ref-name> LF
to be be:
<old-value> SP <new-value> SP <ref-name> LF
where for regular refs the output would not change and remain the same.
But when either 'old-value' or 'new-value' is a symref, we print the ref
as 'ref:<ref-target>'.
This does break backward compatibility, but the 'reference-transaction'
hook's documentation always stated that support for symbolic references
may be added in the future.
We do not add any tests in this commit since there is no git command
which activates this flow, in an upcoming commit, we'll start using
transaction based symref updates as the default, we'll add tests there
for the hook too.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `ref_transaction_update()` obtains ref information and
flags to create a `ref_update` and add them to the transaction at hand.
To extend symref support in transactions, we need to also accept the
old and new ref targets and process it. This commit adds the required
parameters to the function and modifies all call sites.
The two parameters added are `new_target` and `old_target`. The
`new_target` is used to denote what the reference should point to when
the transaction is applied. Some functions allow this parameter to be
NULL, meaning that the reference is not changed.
The `old_target` denotes the value the reference must have before the
update. Some functions allow this parameter to be NULL, meaning that the
old value of the reference is not checked.
We also update the internal function `ref_transaction_add_update()`
similarly to take the two new parameters.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git for-each-ref" learned "--include-root-refs" option to show
even the stuff outside the 'refs/' hierarchy.
* kn/for-all-refs:
for-each-ref: add new option to include root refs
ref-filter: rename 'FILTER_REFS_ALL' to 'FILTER_REFS_REGULAR'
refs: introduce `refs_for_each_include_root_refs()`
refs: extract out `loose_fill_ref_dir_regular_file()`
refs: introduce `is_pseudoref()` and `is_headref()`
The logic to access reflog entries by date and number had ugly
corner cases at the boundaries, which have been cleaned up.
* jk/reflog-special-cases-fix:
read_ref_at(): special-case ref@{0} for an empty reflog
get_oid_basic(): special-case ref@{n} for oldest reflog entry
Revert "refs: allow @{n} to work with n-sized reflog"
The previous commit special-cased get_oid_basic()'s handling of ref@{n}
for a reflog with n entries. But its special case doesn't work for
ref@{0} in an empty reflog, because read_ref_at() dies when it notices
the empty reflog!
We can make this work by special-casing this in read_ref_at(). It's
somewhat gross, for two reasons:
1. We have no reflog entry to describe in the "msg" out-parameter. So
we have to leave it uninitialized or make something up.
2. Likewise, we have no oid to put in the "oid" out-parameter. Leaving
it untouched is actually the best thing here, as all of the callers
will have initialized it with the current ref value via
repo_dwim_log(). This is rather subtle, but it is how things worked
in 6436a20284 (refs: allow @{n} to work with n-sized reflog,
2021-01-07) before we reverted it.
The key difference from 6436a20284 here is that we'll return "1" to
indicate that we _didn't_ find the requested reflog entry. Coupled with
the special-casing in get_oid_basic() in the previous commit, that's
enough to make looking up ref@{0} work, and we can flip 6436a20284's
test back to expect_success.
It also means that the call in show-branch which segfaulted with
6436a20284 (and which is now tested in t3202) remains OK. The caller
notices that we could not find any reflog entry, and so it breaks out of
its loop, showing nothing. This is different from the current behavior
of producing an error, but it's just as reasonable (and is exactly what
we'd do if you asked it to walk starting at ref@{1} but there was only 1
entry).
Thus nobody should actually look at the reflog entry info we return. But
we'll still put in some fake values just to be on the safe side, since
this is such a subtle and confusing interface. Likewise, we'll document
what's going on in a comment above the function declaration. If this
were a function with a lot of callers, the footgun would probably not be
worth it. But it has only ever had two callers in its 18-year existence,
and it seems unlikely to grow more. So let's hold our noses and let
users enjoy the convenience of a simulated ref@{0}.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The goal of 6436a20284 (refs: allow @{n} to work with n-sized reflog,
2021-01-07) was that if we have "n" entries in a reflog, we should still
be able to resolve ref@{n} by looking at the "old" value of the oldest
entry.
Commit 6436a20284 tried to put the logic into read_ref_at() by shifting
its idea of "n" by one. But we reverted that in the previous commit,
since it led to bugs in other callers which cared about the details of
the reflog entry we found. Instead, let's put the special case into the
caller that resolves @{n}, as it cares only about the oid.
read_ref_at() is even kind enough to return the "old" value from the
final reflog; it just returns "1" to signal to us that we ran off the
end of the reflog. But we can notice in the caller that we read just
enough records for that "old" value to be the one we're looking for, and
use it.
Note that read_ref_at() could notice this case, too, and just return 0.
But we don't want to do that, because the caller must be made aware that
we only found the oid, not an actual reflog entry (and the call sites in
show-branch do care about this).
There is one complication, though. When read_ref_at() hits a truncated
reflog, it will return the "old" value of the oldest entry only if it is
not the null oid. Otherwise, it actually returns the "new" value from
that entry! This bit of fudging is due to d1a4489a56 (avoid null SHA1 in
oldest reflog, 2008-07-08), where asking for "ref@{20.years.ago}" for a
ref created recently will produce the initial value as a convenience
(even though technically it did not exist 20 years ago).
But this convenience is only useful for time-based cutoffs. For
count-based cutoffs, get_oid_basic() has always simply complained about
going too far back:
$ git rev-parse HEAD@{20}
fatal: log for 'HEAD' only has 16 entries
and we should continue to do so, rather than returning a nonsense value
(there's even a test in t1508 already which covers this). So let's have
the d1a4489a56 code kick in only when doing timestamp-based cutoffs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 6436a20284.
The idea of that commit is that if read_ref_at() is counting back to the
Nth reflog but the reflog is short by one entry (e.g., because it was
pruned), we can find the oid of the missing entry by looking at the
"before" oid value of the entry that comes after it (whereas before, we
looked at the "after" value of each entry and complained that we
couldn't find the one from before the truncation).
This works fine for resolving the oid of ref@{n}, as it is used by
get_oid_basic(), which does not look at any other aspect of the reflog
we found (e.g., its timestamp or message). But there's another caller of
read_ref_at(): in show-branch we use it to walk over the reflog, and we
do care about the reflog entry. And so that commit broke "show-branch
--reflog"; it shows the reflog message for ref@{0} as ref@{1}, ref@{1}
as ref@{2}, and so on.
For example, in the new test in t3202 we produce:
! [branch@{0}] (0 seconds ago) commit: three
! [branch@{1}] (0 seconds ago) commit: three
! [branch@{2}] (60 seconds ago) commit: two
! [branch@{3}] (2 minutes ago) reset: moving to HEAD^
instead of the correct:
! [branch@{0}] (0 seconds ago) commit: three
! [branch@{1}] (60 seconds ago) commit: two
! [branch@{2}] (2 minutes ago) reset: moving to HEAD^
! [branch@{3}] (2 minutes ago) commit: one
But there's another bug, too: because it is looking at the "old" value
of the reflog after the one we're interested in, it has to special-case
ref@{0} (since there isn't anything after it). That's why it doesn't
show the offset bug in the output above. But this special-case code
fails to handle the situation where the reflog is empty or missing; it
returns success even though the reflog message out-parameter has been
left uninitialized. You can't trigger this through get_oid_basic(), but
"show-branch --reflog" will pretty reliably segfault as it tries to
access the garbage pointer.
Fixing the segfault would be pretty easy. But the off-by-one problem is
inherent in this approach. So let's start by reverting the commit to
give us a clean slate to work with.
This isn't a pure revert; all of the code changes are reverted, but for
the tests:
1. We'll flip the cases in t1508 to expect_failure; making these work
was the goal of 6436a2028, and we'll want to use them for our
replacement approach.
2. There's a test in t3202 for "show-branch --reflog", but it expects
the broken output! It was added by f2463490c4 (show-branch: show
reflog message, 2021-12-02) which was fixing another bug, and I
think the author simply didn't notice that the second line showed
the wrong reflog.
Rather than fixing that test, let's replace it with one that is
more thorough (while still covering the reflog message fix from
that commit). We'll use a longer reflog, which lets us see more
entries (thus making the "off by one" pattern much more clear). And
we'll use a more recent timestamp for "now" so that our relative
dates have more resolution. That lets us see that the reflog dates
are correct (whereas when you are 4 years away, two entries that
are 60 seconds apart will have the same "4 years ago" relative
date). Because we're adjusting the repository state, I've moved
this new test to the end of the script, leaving the other tests
undisturbed.
We'll also add a new test which covers the missing reflog case;
previously it segfaulted, but now it reports the empty reflog).
Reported-by: Yasushi SHOJI <yasushi.shoji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new ref iteration flag `DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_ROOT_REFS`,
which will be used to iterate over regular refs plus pseudorefs and
HEAD.
Refs which fall outside the `refs/` and aren't either pseudorefs or HEAD
are more of a grey area. This is because we don't block the users from
creating such refs but they are not officially supported.
Introduce `refs_for_each_include_root_refs()` which calls
`do_for_each_ref()` with this newly introduced flag.
In `refs/files-backend.c`, introduce a new function
`add_pseudoref_and_head_entries()` to add pseudorefs and HEAD to the
`ref_dir`. We then finally call `add_pseudoref_and_head_entries()`
whenever the `DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_ROOT_REFS` flag is set. Any new ref
backend will also have to implement similar changes on its end.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce two new functions `is_pseudoref()` and `is_headref()`. This
provides the necessary functionality for us to add pseudorefs and HEAD
to the loose ref cache in the files backend, allowing us to build
tooling to print these refs.
The `is_pseudoref()` function internally calls `is_pseudoref_syntax()`
but adds onto it by also checking to ensure that the pseudoref either
ends with a "_HEAD" suffix or matches a list of exceptions. After which
we also parse the contents of the pseudoref to ensure that it conforms
to the ref format.
We cannot directly add the new syntax checks to `is_pseudoref_syntax()`
because the function is also used by `is_current_worktree_ref()` and
making it stricter to match only known pseudorefs might have unintended
consequences due to files like 'BISECT_START' which isn't a pseudoref
but sometimes contains object ID.
Keeping this in mind, we leave `is_pseudoref_syntax()` as is and create
`is_pseudoref()` which is stricter. Ideally we'd want to move the new
syntax checks to `is_pseudoref_syntax()` but a prerequisite for this
would be to actually remove the exception list by converting those
pseudorefs to also contain a '_HEAD' suffix and perhaps move bisect
related files like 'BISECT_START' to a new directory similar to the
'rebase-merge' directory.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ref and reflog iterators share much of the same underlying code to
iterate over the corresponding entries. This results in some weird code
because the reflog iterator also exposes an object ID as well as a flag
to the callback function. Neither of these fields do refer to the reflog
though -- they refer to the corresponding ref with the same name. This
is quite misleading. In practice at least the object ID cannot really be
implemented in any other way as a reflog does not have a specific object
ID in the first place. This is further stressed by the fact that none of
the callbacks except for our test helper make use of these fields.
Split up the infrastucture so that ref and reflog iterators use separate
callback signatures. This allows us to drop the nonsensical fields from
the reflog iterator.
Note that internally, the backends still use the same shared infra to
iterate over both types. As the backends should never end up being
called directly anyway, this is not much of a problem and thus kept
as-is for simplicity's sake.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the preceding commit we have converted the reflog iterator of the
"files" backend to be ordered, which was the only remaining ref iterator
that wasn't ordered. Refactor the ref iterator infrastructure so that we
always assume iterators to be ordered, thus simplifying the code.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to scalability issues, Shawn Pearce has originally proposed a new
"reftable" format more than six years ago [1]. Initially, this new
format was implemented in JGit with promising results. Around two years
ago, we have then added the "reftable" library to the Git codebase via
a4bbd13be3 (Merge branch 'hn/reftable', 2021-12-15). With this we have
landed all the low-level code to read and write reftables. Notably
missing though was the integration of this low-level code into the Git
code base in the form of a new ref backend that ties all of this
together.
This gap is now finally closed by introducing a new "reftable" backend
into the Git codebase. This new backend promises to bring some notable
improvements to Git repositories:
- It becomes possible to do truly atomic writes where either all refs
are committed to disk or none are. This was not possible with the
"files" backend because ref updates were split across multiple loose
files.
- The disk space required to store many refs is reduced, both compared
to loose refs and packed-refs. This is enabled both by the reftable
format being a binary format, which is more compact, and by prefix
compression.
- We can ignore filesystem-specific behaviour as ref names are not
encoded via paths anymore. This means there is no need to handle
case sensitivity on Windows systems or Unicode precomposition on
macOS.
- There is no need to rewrite the complete refdb anymore every time a
ref is being deleted like it was the case for packed-refs. This
means that ref deletions are now constant time instead of scaling
linearly with the number of refs.
- We can ignore file/directory conflicts so that it becomes possible
to store both "refs/heads/foo" and "refs/heads/foo/bar".
- Due to this property we can retain reflogs for deleted refs. We have
previously been deleting reflogs together with their refs to avoid
file/directory conflicts, which is not necessary anymore.
- We can properly enumerate all refs. With the "files" backend it is
not easily possible to distinguish between refs and non-refs because
they may live side by side in the gitdir.
Not all of these improvements are realized with the current "reftable"
backend implementation. At this point, the new backend is supposed to be
a drop-in replacement for the "files" backend that is used by basically
all Git repositories nowadays. It strives for 1:1 compatibility, which
means that a user can expect the same behaviour regardless of whether
they use the "reftable" backend or the "files" backend for most of the
part.
Most notably, this means we artificially limit the capabilities of the
"reftable" backend to match the limits of the "files" backend. It is not
possible to create refs that would end up with file/directory conflicts,
we do not retain reflogs, we perform stricter-than-necessary checks.
This is done intentionally due to two main reasons:
- It makes it significantly easier to land the "reftable" backend as
tests behave the same. It would be tough to argue for each and every
single test that doesn't pass with the "reftable" backend.
- It ensures compatibility between repositories that use the "files"
backend and repositories that use the "reftable" backend. Like this,
hosters can migrate their repositories to use the "reftable" backend
without causing issues for clients that use the "files" backend in
their clones.
It is expected that these artificial limitations may eventually go away
in the long term.
Performance-wise things very much depend on the actual workload. The
following benchmarks compare the "files" and "reftable" backends in the
current version:
- Creating N refs in separate transactions shows that the "files"
backend is ~50% faster. This is not surprising given that creating a
ref only requires us to create a single loose ref. The "reftable"
backend will also perform auto compaction on updates. In real-world
workloads we would likely also want to perform pack loose refs,
which would likely change the picture.
Benchmark 1: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.1 ms ± 0.3 ms [User: 0.6 ms, System: 1.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.8 ms … 4.3 ms 133 runs
Benchmark 2: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.7 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.6 ms, System: 2.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 2.4 ms … 2.9 ms 132 runs
Benchmark 3: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.975 s ± 0.006 s [User: 0.437 s, System: 1.535 s]
Range (min … max): 1.969 s … 1.980 s 3 runs
Benchmark 4: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.611 s ± 0.013 s [User: 0.782 s, System: 1.825 s]
Range (min … max): 2.597 s … 2.622 s 3 runs
Benchmark 5: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 100000)
Time (mean ± σ): 198.442 s ± 0.241 s [User: 43.051 s, System: 155.250 s]
Range (min … max): 198.189 s … 198.670 s 3 runs
Benchmark 6: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 100000)
Time (mean ± σ): 294.509 s ± 4.269 s [User: 104.046 s, System: 190.326 s]
Range (min … max): 290.223 s … 298.761 s 3 runs
- Creating N refs in a single transaction shows that the "files"
backend is significantly slower once we start to write many refs.
The "reftable" backend only needs to update two files, whereas the
"files" backend needs to write one file per ref.
Benchmark 1: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.9 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.8 ms … 2.6 ms 151 runs
Benchmark 2: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.5 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.7 ms, System: 1.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 2.4 ms … 3.4 ms 148 runs
Benchmark 3: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 152.5 ms ± 5.2 ms [User: 19.1 ms, System: 133.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 148.5 ms … 167.8 ms 15 runs
Benchmark 4: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 58.0 ms ± 2.5 ms [User: 28.4 ms, System: 29.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 56.3 ms … 72.9 ms 40 runs
Benchmark 5: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 152.752 s ± 0.710 s [User: 20.315 s, System: 131.310 s]
Range (min … max): 152.165 s … 153.542 s 3 runs
Benchmark 6: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 51.912 s ± 0.127 s [User: 26.483 s, System: 25.424 s]
Range (min … max): 51.769 s … 52.012 s 3 runs
- Deleting a ref in a fully-packed repository shows that the "files"
backend scales with the number of refs. The "reftable" backend has
constant-time deletions.
Benchmark 1: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.7 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.6 ms … 2.1 ms 316 runs
Benchmark 2: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.8 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.7 ms … 2.1 ms 294 runs
Benchmark 3: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.0 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.5 ms, System: 1.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.9 ms … 2.5 ms 287 runs
Benchmark 4: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.9 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.5 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.8 ms … 2.1 ms 217 runs
Benchmark 5: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 229.8 ms ± 7.9 ms [User: 182.6 ms, System: 46.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 224.6 ms … 245.2 ms 6 runs
Benchmark 6: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.0 ms ± 0.0 ms [User: 0.6 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 2.0 ms … 2.1 ms 3 runs
- Listing all refs shows no significant advantage for either of the
backends. The "files" backend is a bit faster, but not by a
significant margin. When repositories are not packed the "reftable"
backend outperforms the "files" backend because the "reftable"
backend performs auto-compaction.
Benchmark 1: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 2.0 ms 1729 runs
Benchmark 2: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 1.8 ms 1816 runs
Benchmark 3: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 4.3 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.9 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 4.1 ms … 4.6 ms 645 runs
Benchmark 4: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 4.5 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 1.0 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 4.2 ms … 5.9 ms 643 runs
Benchmark 5: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.537 s ± 0.034 s [User: 0.488 s, System: 2.048 s]
Range (min … max): 2.511 s … 2.627 s 10 runs
Benchmark 6: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.712 s ± 0.017 s [User: 0.653 s, System: 2.059 s]
Range (min … max): 2.692 s … 2.752 s 10 runs
Benchmark 7: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 1.9 ms 1834 runs
Benchmark 8: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.4 ms … 2.0 ms 1840 runs
Benchmark 9: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 13.8 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 2.8 ms, System: 10.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 13.3 ms … 14.5 ms 208 runs
Benchmark 10: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 4.5 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 1.2 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 4.3 ms … 6.2 ms 624 runs
Benchmark 11: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 12.127 s ± 0.129 s [User: 2.675 s, System: 9.451 s]
Range (min … max): 11.965 s … 12.370 s 10 runs
Benchmark 12: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.799 s ± 0.022 s [User: 0.735 s, System: 2.063 s]
Range (min … max): 2.769 s … 2.836 s 10 runs
- Printing a single ref shows no real difference between the "files"
and "reftable" backends.
Benchmark 1: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.5 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.0 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.4 ms … 1.8 ms 1779 runs
Benchmark 2: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.4 ms … 2.5 ms 1753 runs
Benchmark 3: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.5 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.3 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.4 ms … 1.9 ms 1840 runs
Benchmark 4: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 2.0 ms 1831 runs
Benchmark 5: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 2.1 ms 1848 runs
Benchmark 6: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 2.1 ms 1762 runs
So overall, performance depends on the usecases. Except for many
sequential writes the "reftable" backend is roughly on par or
significantly faster than the "files" backend though. Given that the
"files" backend has received 18 years of optimizations by now this can
be seen as a win. Furthermore, we can expect that the "reftable" backend
will grow faster over time when attention turns more towards
optimizations.
The complete test suite passes, except for those tests explicitly marked
to require the REFFILES prerequisite. Some tests in t0610 are marked as
failing because they depend on still-in-flight bug fixes. Tests can be
run with the new backend by setting the GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT
environment variable to "reftable".
There is a single known conceptual incompatibility with the dumb HTTP
transport. As "info/refs" SHOULD NOT contain the HEAD reference, and
because the "HEAD" file is not valid anymore, it is impossible for the
remote client to figure out the default branch without changing the
protocol. This shortcoming needs to be handled in a subsequent patch
series.
As the reftable library has already been introduced a while ago, this
commit message will not go into the details of how exactly the on-disk
format works. Please refer to our preexisting technical documentation at
Documentation/technical/reftable for this.
[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAJo=hJtyof=HRy=2sLP0ng0uZ4=S-DpZ5dR1aF+VHVETKG20OQ@mail.gmail.com/
Original-idea-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Based-on-patch-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Define "special ref" as a very narrow set that consists of
FETCH_HEAD and MERGE_HEAD, and clarify everything else that used to
be classified as such are actually just pseudorefs.
* ps/not-so-many-refs-are-special:
Documentation: add "special refs" to the glossary
refs: redefine special refs
refs: convert MERGE_AUTOSTASH to become a normal pseudo-ref
sequencer: introduce functions to handle autostashes via refs
refs: convert AUTO_MERGE to become a normal pseudo-ref
sequencer: delete REBASE_HEAD in correct repo when picking commits
sequencer: clean up pseudo refs with REF_NO_DEREF
Instead of manually creating refs/ hierarchy on disk upon a
creation of a secondary worktree, which is only usable via the
files backend, use the refs API to populate it.
* ps/worktree-refdb-initialization:
builtin/worktree: create refdb via ref backend
worktree: expose interface to look up worktree by name
builtin/worktree: move setup of commondir file earlier
refs/files: skip creation of "refs/{heads,tags}" for worktrees
setup: move creation of "refs/" into the files backend
refs: prepare `refs_init_db()` for initializing worktree refs
Now that our list of special refs really only contains refs which have
actually-special semantics, let's redefine what makes a special ref.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to the preceding conversion of the AUTO_MERGE pseudo-ref, let's
convert the MERGE_AUTOSTASH ref to become a normal pseudo-ref as well.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 70c70de616 (refs: complete list of special refs, 2023-12-14) we have
inrtoduced a new `is_special_ref()` function that classifies some refs
as being special. The rule is that special refs are exclusively read and
written via the filesystem directly, whereas normal refs exclucsively go
via the refs API.
The intent of that commit was to record the status quo so that we know
to route reads of such special refs consistently. Eventually, the list
should be reduced to its bare minimum of refs which really are special,
namely FETCH_HEAD and MERGE_HEAD.
Follow up on this promise and convert the AUTO_MERGE ref to become a
normal pseudo-ref by using the refs API to both read and write it
instead of accessing the filesystem directly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new extension "refstorage" so that we can mark a
repository that uses a non-default ref backend, like reftable.
* ps/refstorage-extension:
t9500: write "extensions.refstorage" into config
builtin/clone: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
builtin/init: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
builtin/rev-parse: introduce `--show-ref-format` flag
t: introduce GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
setup: introduce GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
setup: introduce "extensions.refStorage" extension
setup: set repository's formats on init
setup: start tracking ref storage format
refs: refactor logic to look up storage backends
worktree: skip reading HEAD when repairing worktrees
t: introduce DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT prereq
The purpose of `refs_init_db()` is to initialize the on-disk files of a
new ref database. The function is quite inflexible right now though, as
callers can neither specify the `struct ref_store` nor can they pass any
flags.
Refactor the interface to accept both of these. This will be required so
that we can start initializing per-worktree ref databases via the ref
backend instead of open-coding the initialization in "worktree.c".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Assorted changes around pseudoref handling.
* ps/pseudo-refs:
bisect: consistently write BISECT_EXPECTED_REV via the refdb
refs: complete list of special refs
refs: propagate errno when reading special refs fails
wt-status: read HEAD and ORIG_HEAD via the refdb
In order to discern which ref storage format a repository is supposed to
use we need to start setting up and/or discovering the format. This
needs to happen in two separate code paths.
- The first path is when we create a repository via `init_db()`. When
we are re-initializing a preexisting repository we need to retain
the previously used ref storage format -- if the user asked for a
different format then this indicates an error and we error out.
Otherwise we either initialize the repository with the format asked
for by the user or the default format, which currently is the
"files" backend.
- The second path is when discovering repositories, where we need to
read the config of that repository. There is not yet any way to
configure something other than the "files" backend, so we can just
blindly set the ref storage format to this backend.
Wire up this logic so that we have the ref storage format always readily
available when needed. As there is only a single backend and because it
is not configurable we cannot yet verify that this tracking works as
expected via tests, but tests will be added in subsequent commits. To
countermand this ommission now though, raise a BUG() in case the ref
storage format is not set up properly in `ref_store_init()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to look up ref storage backends, we're currently using a linked
list of backends, where each backend is expected to set up its `next`
pointer to the next ref storage backend. This is kind of a weird setup
as backends need to be aware of other backends without much of a reason.
Refactor the code so that the array of backends is centrally defined in
"refs.c", where each backend is now identified by an integer constant.
Expose functions to translate from those integer constants to the name
and vice versa, which will be required by subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're inconsistently writing BISECT_EXPECTED_REV both via the filesystem
and via the refdb, which violates the newly established rules for how
special refs must be treated. This works alright in practice with the
reffiles reference backend, but will cause bugs once we gain additional
backends.
Fix this issue and consistently write BISECT_EXPECTED_REV via the refdb
so that it is no longer a special ref.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have some references that are more special than others. The reason
for them being special is that they either do not follow the usual
format of references, or that they are written to the filesystem
directly by the respective owning subsystem and thus circumvent the
reference backend.
This works perfectly fine right now because the reffiles backend will
know how to read those refs just fine. But with the prospect of gaining
a new reference backend implementation we need to be a lot more careful
here:
- We need to make sure that we are consistent about how those refs are
written. They must either always be written via the filesystem, or
they must always be written via the reference backend. Any mixture
will lead to inconsistent state.
- We need to make sure that such special refs are always handled
specially when reading them.
We're already mostly good with regard to the first item, except for
`BISECT_EXPECTED_REV` which will be addressed in a subsequent commit.
But the current list of special refs is missing some refs that really
should be treated specially. Right now, we only treat `FETCH_HEAD` and
`MERGE_HEAD` specially here.
Introduce a new function `is_special_ref()` that contains all current
instances of special refs to fix the reading path.
Note that this is only a temporary measure where we record and rectify
the current state. Ideally, the list of special refs should in the end
only contain `FETCH_HEAD` and `MERGE_HEAD` again because they both may
reference multiple objects and can contain annotations, so they indeed
are special.
Based-on-patch-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some refs in Git are more special than others due to reasons explained
in the next commit. These refs are read via `refs_read_special_head()`,
but this function doesn't behave the same as when we try to read a
normal ref. Most importantly, we do not propagate `failure_errno` in the
case where the reference does not exist, which is behaviour that we rely
on in many parts of Git.
Fix this bug by propagating errno when `strbuf_read_file()` fails.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both the files and the packed-refs reference backends now use the same
generic transactions-based code to delete references. Let's pull these
implementations up into `refs_delete_refs()` to deduplicate the code.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark-up unused parameters in the code so that we can eventually
enable -Wunused-parameter by default.
* jk/unused-parameter:
t/helper: mark unused callback void data parameters
tag: mark unused parameters in each_tag_name_fn callbacks
rev-parse: mark unused parameter in for_each_abbrev callback
replace: mark unused parameter in each_mergetag_fn callback
replace: mark unused parameter in ref callback
merge-tree: mark unused parameter in traverse callback
fsck: mark unused parameters in various fsck callbacks
revisions: drop unused "opt" parameter in "tweak" callbacks
count-objects: mark unused parameter in alternates callback
am: mark unused keep_cr parameters
http-push: mark unused parameter in xml callback
http: mark unused parameters in curl callbacks
do_for_each_ref_helper(): mark unused repository parameter
test-ref-store: drop unimplemented reflog-expire command
Enumerating refs in the packed-refs file, while excluding refs that
match certain patterns, has been optimized.
* tb/refs-exclusion-and-packed-refs:
ls-refs.c: avoid enumerating hidden refs where possible
upload-pack.c: avoid enumerating hidden refs where possible
builtin/receive-pack.c: avoid enumerating hidden references
refs.h: implement `hidden_refs_to_excludes()`
refs.h: let `for_each_namespaced_ref()` take excluded patterns
revision.h: store hidden refs in a `strvec`
refs/packed-backend.c: add trace2 counters for jump list
refs/packed-backend.c: implement jump lists to avoid excluded pattern(s)
refs/packed-backend.c: refactor `find_reference_location()`
refs: plumb `exclude_patterns` argument throughout
builtin/for-each-ref.c: add `--exclude` option
ref-filter.c: parameterize match functions over patterns
ref-filter: add `ref_filter_clear()`
ref-filter: clear reachable list pointers after freeing
ref-filter.h: provide `REF_FILTER_INIT`
refs.c: rename `ref_filter`
This function gets a repository parameter because it's a callback for
do_for_each_repo_ref_iterator(). But it's just a wrapper that passes
along each call to a regular each_ref_fn callback, and the latter
doesn't accept a repository argument.
Probably in the long run all of the each_ref_fn callbacks should get a
repository parameter, too. But changing that now would require updates
all over the code base. Until that happens, let's annotate this wrapper
callback to quiet the compiler's -Wunused-parameter warning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In subsequent commits, we'll teach `receive-pack` and `upload-pack` to
use the new jump list feature in the packed-refs iterator by ignoring
references which are mentioned via its respective hideRefs lists.
However, the packed-ref jump lists cannot handle un-hiding rules (that
begin with '!'), or namespace comparisons (that begin with '^'). Add a
convenience function to the refs.h API to detect when either of these
conditions are met, and returns an appropriate value to pass as excluded
patterns.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A future commit will want to call `for_each_namespaced_ref()` with
a list of excluded patterns.
We could introduce a variant of that function, say,
`for_each_namespaced_ref_exclude()` which takes the extra parameter, and
reimplement the original function in terms of that. But all but one
caller (in `http-backend.c`) will supply the new parameter, so add the
new parameter to `for_each_namespaced_ref()` itself instead of
introducing a new function.
For now, supply NULL for the list of excluded patterns at all callers to
avoid changing behavior, which we will do in a future change.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In subsequent commits, it will be convenient to have a 'const char **'
of hidden refs (matching `transfer.hiderefs`, `uploadpack.hideRefs`,
etc.), instead of a `string_list`.
Convert spots throughout the tree that store the list of hidden refs
from a `string_list` to a `strvec`.
Note that in `parse_hide_refs_config()` there is an ugly const-cast used
to avoid an extra copy of each value before trimming any trailing slash
characters. This could instead be written as:
ref = xstrdup(value);
len = strlen(ref);
while (len && ref[len - 1] == '/')
ref[--len] = '\0';
strvec_push(hide_refs, ref);
free(ref);
but the double-copy (once when calling `xstrdup()`, and another via
`strvec_push()`) is wasteful.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The subsequent patch will want to access an optional `excluded_patterns`
array within `refs/packed-backend.c` that will cull out certain
references matching any of the given patterns on a best-effort basis.
To do so, the refs subsystem needs to be updated to pass this value
across a number of different locations.
Prepare for a future patch by introducing this plumbing now, passing
NULLs at top-level APIs in order to make that patch less noisy and more
easily readable.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.co>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The refs machinery has its own implementation of a `ref_filter` (used by
`for-each-ref`), which is distinct from the `ref-filter.h` API (also
used by `for-each-ref`, among other things).
Rename the one within refs.c to more clearly indicate its purpose.
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>
alloc_nr, ALLOC_GROW, and ALLOC_GROW_BY are commonly used macros for
dynamic array allocation. Moving these macros to git-compat-util.h with
the other alloc macros focuses alloc.[ch] to allocation for Git objects
and additionally allows us to remove inclusions to alloc.h from files
that solely used the above macros.
Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The vast majority of files including object-store.h did not need dir.h
nor khash.h. Split the header into two files, and let most just depend
upon object-store-ll.h, while letting the two callers that need it
depend on the full object-store.h.
After this patch:
$ git grep -h include..object-store | sort | uniq -c
2 #include "object-store.h"
129 #include "object-store-ll.h"
Diff best viewed with `--color-moved`.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The include of wildmatch.h in git-compat-util.h was added in cebcab189a
(Makefile: add USE_WILDMATCH to use wildmatch as fnmatch, 2013-01-01) as
a way to be able to compile-time force any calls to fnmatch() to instead
invoke wildmatch(). The defines and inline function were removed in
70a8fc999d (stop using fnmatch (either native or compat), 2014-02-15),
and this include in git-compat-util.h has been unnecessary ever since.
Remove the include from git-compat-util.h, but add it to the .c files
that had omitted the direct #include they needed.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This also made it clear that several .c files that depended upon path.h
were missing a #include for it; add the missing includes while at it.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
At GitLab, we have a system that creates ephemeral internal refs that
don't live long before getting deleted. Having an option to exclude
certain refs from a packed-refs file allows these internal references to
be deleted much more efficiently.
Add an --exclude option to the pack-refs builtin, and use the ref
exclusions API to exclude certain refs from being packed into the final
packed-refs file
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Dozens of files made use of advice functions, without explicitly
including advice.h. This made it more difficult to find which files
could remove a dependence on cache.h. Make C files explicitly include
advice.h if they are using it.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 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"
In preceding commits we changed many calls to macros that were
providing a "the_repository" argument to invoke corresponding repo_*()
function instead. Let's follow-up and adjust references to those in
comments, which coccinelle didn't (and inherently can't) catch.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Dozens of files made use of gettext functions, without explicitly
including gettext.h. This made it more difficult to find which files
could remove a dependence on cache.h. Make C files explicitly include
gettext.h if they are using it.
However, while compat/fsmonitor/fsm-ipc-darwin.c should also gain an
include of gettext.h, it was left out to avoid conflicting with an
in-flight topic.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since a64215b6cd ("object.h: stop depending on cache.h; make
cache.h depend on object.h", 2023-02-24), we have a few headers that
could have replaced their include of cache.h with an include of
object.h. Make that change now.
Some C files had to start including cache.h after this change (or some
smaller header it had brought in), because the C files were depending
on things from cache.h but were only formerly implicitly getting
cache.h through one of these headers being modified in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up to clarify the rule that "git-compat-util.h" must be
the first to be included.
* en/header-cleanup:
diff.h: remove unnecessary include of object.h
Remove unnecessary includes of builtin.h
treewide: replace cache.h with more direct headers, where possible
replace-object.h: move read_replace_refs declaration from cache.h to here
object-store.h: move struct object_info from cache.h
dir.h: refactor to no longer need to include cache.h
object.h: stop depending on cache.h; make cache.h depend on object.h
ident.h: move ident-related declarations out of cache.h
pretty.h: move has_non_ascii() declaration from commit.h
cache.h: remove dependence on hex.h; make other files include it explicitly
hex.h: move some hex-related declarations from cache.h
hash.h: move some oid-related declarations from cache.h
alloc.h: move ALLOC_GROW() functions from cache.h
treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h includes in source files
treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h includes
treewide: remove unnecessary git-compat-util.h includes in headers
treewide: ensure one of the appropriate headers is sourced first
sscanf(3) used in "git symbolic-ref --short" implementation found
to be not working reliably on macOS in UTF-8 locales. Rewrite the
code to avoid sscanf() altogether to work it around.
* jk/shorten-unambiguous-ref-wo-sscanf:
shorten_unambiguous_ref(): avoid sscanf()
shorten_unambiguous_ref(): use NUM_REV_PARSE_RULES constant
shorten_unambiguous_ref(): avoid integer truncation
This allows us to replace includes of cache.h with includes of the much
smaller alloc.h in many places. It does mean that we also need to add
includes of alloc.h in a number of C files.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To shorten a fully qualified ref (e.g., taking "refs/heads/foo" to just
"foo"), we munge the usual lookup rules ("refs/heads/%.*s", etc) to drop
the ".*" modifier (so "refs/heads/%s"), and then use sscanf() to match
that against the refname, pulling the "%s" content into a separate
buffer.
This has a few downsides:
- sscanf("%s") reportedly misbehaves on macOS with some input and
locale combinations, returning a partial or garbled string. See
this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAGF3oAcCi+fG12j-1U0hcrWwkF5K_9WhOi6ZPHBzUUzfkrZDxA@mail.gmail.com/
- scanf's matching of "%s" is greedy. So the "refs/remotes/%s/HEAD"
rule would never pull "origin" out of "refs/remotes/origin/HEAD".
Instead it always produced "origin/HEAD", which is redundant with
the "refs/remotes/%s" rule.
- scanf in general is an error-prone interface. For example, scanning
for "%s" will copy bytes into a destination string, which must have
been correctly sized ahead of time to avoid a buffer overflow. In
this case, the code is OK (the buffer is pessimistically sized to
match the original string, which should give us a maximum). But in
general, we do not want to encourage people to use scanf at all.
So instead, let's note that our lookup rules are not arbitrary format
strings, but all contain exactly one "%.*s" placeholder. We already rely
on this, both for lookup (we feed the lookup format along with exactly
one int/ptr combo to snprintf, etc) and for shortening (we munge "%.*s"
to "%s", and then insist that sscanf() finds exactly one result).
We can parse this manually by just matching the bytes that occur before
and after the "%.*s" placeholder. While we have a few extra lines of
parsing code, the result is arguably simpler, as can skip the
preprocessing step and its tricky memory management entirely.
The in-code comments should explain the parsing strategy, but there's
one subtle change here. The original code allocated a single buffer, and
then overwrote it in each loop iteration, since that's the only option
sscanf() gives us. But our parser can actually return a ptr/len combo
for the matched string, which is all we need (since we just feed it back
to the lookup rules with "%.*s"), and then copy it only when returning
to the caller.
There are a few new tests here, all using symbolic-ref (the code can be
triggered in many ways, but symrefs are convenient in that we don't need
to create a real ref, which avoids any complications from the filesystem
munging the name):
- the first covers the real-world case which misbehaved on macOS.
Setting LC_ALL is required to trigger the problem there (since
otherwise our tests use LC_ALL=C), and hopefully is at worst simply
ignored on other systems (and doesn't cause libc to complain, etc,
on systems without that locale).
- the second covers the "origin/HEAD" case as discussed above, which
is now fixed
- the remainder are for "weird" cases that work both before and after
this patch, but would be easy to get wrong with off-by-one problems
in the parsing (and came out of discussions and earlier iterations
of the patch that did get them wrong).
- absent here are tests of boring, expected-to-work cases like
"refs/heads/foo", etc. Those are covered all over the test suite
both explicitly (for-each-ref's refname:short) and implicitly (in
the output of git-status, etc).
Reported-by: 孟子易 <mengziyi540841@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ref_rev_parse_rules[] array is terminated with a NULL entry, and we
count it and store the result in the local nr_rules variable. But we
don't need to do so; since the array is a constant, we can compute its
size directly. The original code probably didn't do that because it was
written as part of for-each-ref, and saw the array only as a pointer. It
was migrated in 7c2b3029df (make get_short_ref a public function,
2009-04-07) and could have been updated then, but that subtlety was not
noticed.
We even have a constant that represents this value already, courtesy of
60650a48c0 (remote: make refspec follow the same disambiguation rule as
local refs, 2018-08-01), though again, nobody noticed at the time that
it could be used here, too.
The current count-up isn't a big deal, as we need to preprocess that
array anyway. But it will become more cumbersome as we refactor the
shortening code. So let's get rid of it and just use the constant
everywhere.
Note that there are two things here that aren't just simple text
replacements:
1. We also use nr_rules to see if a previous call has initialized the
static pre-processing variables. We can just use the scanf_fmts
pointer to do the same thing, as it is non-NULL only after we've
done that initialization.
2. If nr_rules is zero after we've counted it up, we bail from the
function. This code is unreachable, though, as the set of rules is
hard-coded and non-empty. And that becomes even more apparent now
that we are using the constant. So we can drop this conditional
completely (and ironically, the code would have the same output if
it _did_ trigger, as we'd simply skip the loop entirely and return
the whole refname).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We parse the shortened name "foo" out of the full refname
"refs/heads/foo", and then assign the result of strlen(short_name) to an
int, which may truncate or wrap to negative.
In practice, this should never happen, as it requires a 2GB refname. And
even somebody trying to do something malicious should at worst end up
with a confused answer (we use the size only to feed back as a
placeholder length to strbuf_addf() to see if there are any collisions
in the lookup rules).
And it may even be impossible to trigger this, as we parse the string
with sscanf(), and stdio formatting functions are not known for handling
large strings well. I didn't test, but I wouldn't be surprised if
sscanf() on many platforms simply reports no match here.
But even if it is not a problem in practice so far, it is worth fixing
for two reasons:
1. We'll shortly be replacing the sscanf() call with a real parser
which will handle arbitrary-sized strings.
2. Assigning strlen() to an int is an anti-pattern that requires
people to look twice when auditing for real overflow problems.
So we'll make this a size_t. Unfortunately we still have to cast to int
eventually for the strbuf_addf() call, but at least we can localize the
cast there, and check that it will be valid. I used our new cast helper
here, which will just bail completely. That should be OK, as anybody
with a 2GB refname is up to no good, but if we really wanted to, we
could detect it manually and just refuse to shorten the refname.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ls_refs() function (for the v2 protocol command of the same name)
takes a repository parameter (like all v2 commands), but ignores it. It
should use it to access the refs.
This isn't a bug in practice, since we only call this function when
serving upload-pack from the main repository. But it's an awkward
gotcha, and it causes -Wunused-parameter to complain.
The main reason we don't use the repository parameter is that the ref
iteration interface we call doesn't have a "refs_" variant that takes a
ref_store. However we can easily add one. In fact, since there is only
one other caller (in ref-filter.c), there is no need to maintain the
non-repository wrapper; that caller can just use the_repository. It's
still a long way from consistently using a repository object, but it's
one small step in the right direction.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're about to add a new argument to git-rev-list(1) that allows it to
add all references that are visible when taking `transfer.hideRefs` et
al into account. This will require us to potentially parse multiple sets
of hidden refs, which is not easily possible right now as there is only
a single, global instance of the list of parsed hidden refs.
Refactor `parse_hide_refs_config()` and `ref_is_hidden()` so that both
take the list of hidden references as input and adjust callers to keep a
local list, instead. This allows us to easily use multiple hidden-ref
lists. Furthermore, it allows us to properly free this list before we
exit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
When parsing the hideRefs configuration, we first duplicate the config
value so that we can modify it. We then subsequently append it to the
`hide_refs` string list, which is initialized with `strdup_strings`
enabled. As a consequence we again reallocate the string, but never
free the first duplicate and thus have a memory leak.
While we never clean up the static `hide_refs` variable anyway, this is
no excuse to make the leak worse by leaking every value twice. We are
also about to change the way this variable will be handled so that we do
indeed start to clean it up. So let's fix the memory leak by using the
`string_list_append_nodup()` so that we pass ownership of the allocated
string to `hide_refs`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The logic to handle worktree refs (worktrees/NAME/REF and
main-worktree/REF) existed in two places:
* ref_type() in refs.c
* parse_worktree_ref() in worktree.c
Collapse this logic together in one function parse_worktree_ref():
this avoids having to cross-check the result of parse_worktree_ref()
and ref_type().
Introduce enum ref_worktree_type, which is slightly different from
enum ref_type. The latter is a misleading name (one would think that
'ref_type' would have the symref option).
Instead, enum ref_worktree_type only makes explicit how a refname
relates to a worktree. From this point of view, HEAD and
refs/bisect/abc are the same: they specify the current worktree
implicitly.
The files-backend must avoid packing refs/bisect/* and friends into
packed-refs, so expose is_per_worktree_ref() separately.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Undoes 'jk/unused-annotation' topic and redoes it to work around
Coccinelle rules misfiring false positives in unrelated codepaths.
* ab/unused-annotation:
git-compat-util.h: use "deprecated" for UNUSED variables
git-compat-util.h: use "UNUSED", not "UNUSED(var)"
Annotate function parameters that are not used (but cannot be
removed for structural reasons), to prepare us to later compile
with -Wunused warning turned on.
* jk/unused-annotation:
is_path_owned_by_current_uid(): mark "report" parameter as unused
run-command: mark unused async callback parameters
mark unused read_tree_recursive() callback parameters
hashmap: mark unused callback parameters
config: mark unused callback parameters
streaming: mark unused virtual method parameters
transport: mark bundle transport_options as unused
refs: mark unused virtual method parameters
refs: mark unused reflog callback parameters
refs: mark unused each_ref_fn parameters
git-compat-util: add UNUSED macro
As reported in [1] the "UNUSED(var)" macro introduced in
2174b8c75d (Merge branch 'jk/unused-annotation' into next,
2022-08-24) breaks coccinelle's parsing of our sources in files where
it occurs.
Let's instead partially go with the approach suggested in [2] of
making this not take an argument. As noted in [1] "coccinelle" will
ignore such tokens in argument lists that it doesn't know about, and
it's less of a surprise to syntax highlighters.
This undoes the "help us notice when a parameter marked as unused is
actually use" part of 9b24034754 (git-compat-util: add UNUSED macro,
2022-08-19), a subsequent commit will further tweak the macro to
implement a replacement for that functionality.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220825.86ilmg4mil.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220819.868rnk54ju.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hashmap comparison functions must conform to a particular callback
interface, but many don't use all of their parameters. Especially the
void cmp_data pointer, but some do not use keydata either (because they
can easily form a full struct to pass when doing lookups). Let's mark
these to make -Wunused-parameter happy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions used with for_each_reflog_ent() need to conform to a
particular interface, but not every function needs all of the
parameters. Mark the unused ones to make -Wunused-parameter happy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions used with for_each_ref(), etc, need to conform to the
each_ref_fn interface. But most of them don't need every parameter;
let's annotate the unused ones to quiet -Wunused-parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git_replace_ref_base global is used to store the value of the
GIT_REPLACE_REF_BASE environment variable or the default of
"refs/replace/". This is initialized within setup_git_env().
The ref_namespaces array is a new centralized location for information
such as the ref namespace used for replace refs. Instead of having this
namespace stored in two places, use the ref_namespaces array instead.
For simplicity, create a local git_replace_ref_base variable wherever
the global was previously used.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git interprets different meanings to different refs based on their
names. Some meanings are cosmetic, like how refs in 'refs/remotes/*'
are colored differently from refs in 'refs/heads/*'. Others are more
critical, such as how replace refs are interpreted.
Before making behavior changes based on ref namespaces, collect all
known ref namespaces into a array of ref_namespace_info structs. This
array is indexed by the new ref_namespace enum for quick access.
As of this change, this array is purely documentation. Future changes
will add dependencies on this array.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The normalize_glob_ref() method was introduced in 65516f586b (log:
add option to choose which refs to decorate, 2017-11-21) to help with
decoration filters such as --decorate-refs=<filter> and
--decorate-refs-exclude=<filter>. The method has not been used anywhere
else.
At the moment, it is impossible to specify HEAD as a decoration filter
since normalize_glob_ref() prepends "refs/" to the filter if it isn't
already there.
Allow adding HEAD as a decoration filter by allowing the exact string
"HEAD" to not be prepended with "refs/". Add a test in t4202-log.sh that
would previously fail since the HEAD decoration would exist in the
output.
It is sufficient to only cover "HEAD" here and not include other special
refs like REBASE_HEAD. This is because HEAD is the only ref outside of
refs/* that is added to the list of decorations. However, we may want to
special-case these other refs in normalize_glob_ref() in the future.
Leave a NEEDSWORK comment for now.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cloning directly from a local repository, we load a list of refs
based on scanning the $GIT_DIR/refs/ directory of the "server"
repository. If files exist in that directory that do not parse as
hexadecimal hashes, then the ref array used by write_remote_refs()
ends up with some entries with null OIDs. This causes us to hit a BUG()
statement in ref_transaction_create():
BUG: create called without valid new_oid
This BUG() call used to be a die() until 033abf97f (Replace all
die("BUG: ...") calls by BUG() ones, 2018-05-02). Before that, the die()
was added by f04c5b552 (ref_transaction_create(): check that new_sha1 is
valid, 2015-02-17).
The original report for this bug [1] mentioned that this problem did not
exist in Git 2.27.0. The failure bisects unsurprisingly to 968f12fda
(refs: turn on GIT_REF_PARANOIA by default, 2021-09-24). When
GIT_REF_PARANOIA is enabled, this case always fails as far back as I am
able to successfully compile and test the Git codebase.
[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3781
There are two approaches to consider here. One would be to remove this
BUG() statement in favor of returning with an error. There are only two
callers to ref_transaction_create(), so this would have a limited
impact.
The other approach would be to add special casing in 'git clone' to
avoid this faulty input to the method.
While I originally started with changing 'git clone', I decided that
modifying ref_transaction_create() was a more complete solution. This
prevents failing with a BUG() statement when we already have a good way
to report an error (including a reason for that error) within the
method. Both callers properly check the return value and die() with the
error message, so this is an appropriate direction.
The added test helps check against a regression, but does check that our
intended error message is handled correctly.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In cd475b3b03 (refs: add ability for backends to special-case reading
of symbolic refs, 2022-03-01) when the "read_symbolic_ref" callback
was added we'd fall back on "refs_read_raw_ref" if there wasn't any
backend implementation of "read_symbolic_ref".
As discussed in the preceding commit this would only happen if we were
running the "debug" backend, e.g. in the "setup for ref completion"
test in t9902-completion.sh with:
GIT_TRACE_REFS=1 git fetch --no-tags other
Let's improve the trace output, but and also eliminate the
now-redundant refs_read_raw_ref() fallback case. As noted in the
preceding commit the "packed" backend will never call
refs_read_symbolic_ref() (nor is it ever going to). For any future
backend such as reftable it's OK to ask that they either implement
this (or a wrapper) themselves.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various optimization for "git fetch".
* ps/fetch-mirror-optim:
refs/files-backend: optimize reading of symbolic refs
remote: read symbolic refs via `refs_read_symbolic_ref()`
refs: add ability for backends to special-case reading of symbolic refs
fetch: avoid lookup of commits when not appending to FETCH_HEAD
upload-pack: look up "want" lines via commit-graph
"git fetch" can make two separate fetches, but ref updates coming
from them were in two separate ref transactions under "--atomic",
which has been corrected.
* ps/fetch-atomic:
fetch: make `--atomic` flag cover pruning of refs
fetch: make `--atomic` flag cover backfilling of tags
refs: add interface to iterate over queued transactional updates
fetch: report errors when backfilling tags fails
fetch: control lifecycle of FETCH_HEAD in a single place
fetch: backfill tags before setting upstream
fetch: increase test coverage of fetches
Reading of symbolic and non-symbolic references is currently treated the
same in reference backends: we always call `refs_read_raw_ref()` and
then decide based on the returned flags what type it is. This has one
downside though: symbolic references may be treated different from
normal references in a backend from normal references. The packed-refs
backend for example doesn't even know about symbolic references, and as
a result it is pointless to even ask it for one.
There are cases where we really only care about whether a reference is
symbolic or not, but don't care about whether it exists at all or may be
a non-symbolic reference. But it is not possible to optimize for this
case right now, and as a consequence we will always first check for a
loose reference to exist, and if it doesn't, we'll query the packed-refs
backend for a known-to-not-be-symbolic reference. This is inefficient
and requires us to search all packed references even though we know to
not care for the result at all.
Introduce a new function `refs_read_symbolic_ref()` which allows us to
fix this case. This function will only ever return symbolic references
and can thus optimize for the scenario layed out above. By default, if
the backend doesn't provide an implementation for it, we just use the
old code path and fall back to `read_raw_ref()`. But in case the backend
provides its own, more efficient implementation, we will use that one
instead.
Note that this function is explicitly designed to not distinguish
between missing references and non-symbolic references. If it did, we'd
be forced to always search the packed-refs backend to see whether the
symbolic reference the user asked for really doesn't exist, or if it
exists as a non-symbolic reference.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/fetch-atomic:
fetch: make `--atomic` flag cover pruning of refs
fetch: make `--atomic` flag cover backfilling of tags
refs: add interface to iterate over queued transactional updates
fetch: report errors when backfilling tags fails
fetch: control lifecycle of FETCH_HEAD in a single place
fetch: backfill tags before setting upstream
fetch: increase test coverage of fetches
Plug (some) memory leaks around parse_date_format().
* ab/date-mode-release:
date API: add and use a date_mode_release()
date API: add basic API docs
date API: provide and use a DATE_MODE_INIT
date API: create a date.h, split from cache.h
cache.h: remove always unused show_date_human() declaration
Because a deletion of ref would need to remove it from both the
loose ref store and the packed ref store, a delete-ref operation
that logically removes one ref may end up invoking ref-transaction
hook twice, which has been corrected.
* ps/avoid-unnecessary-hook-invocation-with-packed-refs:
refs: skip hooks when deleting uncovered packed refs
refs: do not execute reference-transaction hook on packing refs
refs: demonstrate excessive execution of the reference-transaction hook
refs: allow skipping the reference-transaction hook
refs: allow passing flags when beginning transactions
refs: extract packed_refs_delete_refs() to allow control of transaction
There is no way for a caller to see whether a reference update has
already been queued up for a given reference transaction. There are
multiple alternatives to provide this functionality:
- We may add a function that simply tells us whether a specific
reference has already been queued. If implemented naively then
this would potentially be quadratic in runtime behaviour if this
question is asked repeatedly because we have to iterate over all
references every time. The alternative would be to add a hashmap
of all queued reference updates to speed up the lookup, but this
adds overhead to all callers.
- We may add a flag to `ref_transaction_add_update()` that causes it
to skip duplicates, but this has the same runtime concerns as the
first alternative.
- We may add an interface which lets callers collect all updates
which have already been queued such that he can avoid re-adding
them. This is the most flexible approach and puts the burden on
the caller, but also allows us to not impact any of the existing
callsites which don't need this information.
This commit implements the last approach: it allows us to compute the
map of already-queued updates once up front such that we can then skip
all subsequent references which are already part of this map.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the declaration of the date.c functions from cache.h, and adjust
the relevant users to include the new date.h header.
The show_ident_date() function belonged in pretty.h (it's defined in
pretty.c), its two users outside of pretty.c didn't strictly need to
include pretty.h, as they get it indirectly, but let's add it to them
anyway.
Similarly, the change to "builtin/{fast-import,show-branch,tag}.c"
isn't needed as far as the compiler is concerned, but since they all
use the "DATE_MODE()" macro we now define in date.h, let's have them
include it.
We could simply include this new header in "cache.h", but as this
change shows these functions weren't common enough to warrant
including in it in the first place. By moving them out of cache.h
changes to this API will no longer cause a (mostly) full re-build of
the project when "make" is run.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the now-unused "failure_errno" parameter from the
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() signature. In my recent 96f6623ada (Merge
branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup', 2021-11-29) series we made all of its
callers explicitly request the errno via an output parameter.
As that series shows all but one caller ended up passing in a
boilerplate "ignore_errno", since they only cared about whether the
return value was NULL or not, i.e. if the ref could be resolved.
There was one small issue with that series fixed with a follow-up in
31e3912369 (Merge branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup', 2022-01-14) a small
bug in that series was fixed.
After those two there was one caller left in sequencer.c that used the
"failure_errno', but as of the preceding commit it uses a boilerplate
"ignore_errno" instead.
This leaves the public refs API without any use of "failure_errno" at
all. We could still do with a bit of cleanup and generalization
between refs.c and refs/files-backend.c before the "reftable"
integration lands, but that's all internal to the reference code
itself.
So let's remove this output parameter. Not only isn't it used now, but
it's unlikely that we'll want it again in the future. We'd like to
slowly move the refs API to a more file-backend independent way of
communicating error codes, having it use a "failure_errno" was only
the first step in that direction. If this or any other function needs
to communicate what specifically is wrong with the requested "refname"
it'll be better to have the function set some output enum of
well-defined error states than piggy-backend on "errno".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reference-transaction hook is executing whenever we prepare, commit
or abort a reference transaction. While this is mostly intentional, in
case of the files backend we're leaking the implementation detail that
the store is in fact a composite store with one loose and one packed
backend to the caller. So while we want to execute the hook for all
logical updates, executing it for such implementation details is
unexpected.
Prepare for a fix by adding a new flag which allows to skip execution of
the hook.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do not currently have any flags when creating reference transactions,
but we'll add one to disable execution of the reference transaction hook
in some cases.
Allow passing flags to `ref_store_transaction_begin()` to prepare for
this change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
