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Patrick Steinhardt 43f70eaea0 refs/reftable: precompute prefix length
We're recomputing the prefix length on every iteration of the ref
iterator. Precompute it for another speedup when iterating over 1
million refs:

    Benchmark 1: show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD~)
      Time (mean ± σ):     100.3 ms ±   3.7 ms    [User: 97.3 ms, System: 2.8 ms]
      Range (min … max):    97.5 ms … 139.7 ms    1000 runs

    Benchmark 2: show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD)
      Time (mean ± σ):      95.8 ms ±   3.4 ms    [User: 92.9 ms, System: 2.8 ms]
      Range (min … max):    93.0 ms … 121.9 ms    1000 runs

    Summary
      show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD) ran
        1.05 ± 0.05 times faster than show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD~)

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-04 10:19:58 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt b0f6b6b523 refs/reftable: don't fail empty transactions in repo without HEAD
Under normal circumstances, it shouldn't ever happen that a repository
has no HEAD reference. In fact, git-update-ref(1) would fail any request
to delete the HEAD reference, and a newly initialized repository always
pre-creates it, too.

We have however changed git-clone(1) to partially initialize the
refdb just up to the point where remote helpers can find the
repository. With that change, we are going to run into a situation
where repositories have no refs at all.

Now there is a very particular edge case in this situation: when
preparing an empty ref transacton, we end up returning whatever value
`read_ref_without_reload()` returned to the caller. Under normal
conditions this would be fine: "HEAD" should usually exist, and thus the
function would return `0`. But if "HEAD" doesn't exist, the function
returns a positive value which we end up returning to the caller.

Fix this bug by resetting the return code to `0` and add a test.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-27 13:53:39 -08:00
Karthik Nayak 33d15b5435 for-each-ref: add new option to include root refs
The git-for-each-ref(1) command doesn't provide a way to print root refs
i.e pseudorefs and HEAD with the regular "refs/" prefixed refs.

This commit adds a new option "--include-root-refs" to
git-for-each-ref(1). When used this would also print pseudorefs and HEAD
for the current worktree.

Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-23 10:36:28 -08:00
Karthik Nayak d0f00c1ac1 refs: introduce refs_for_each_include_root_refs()
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>
2024-02-23 10:36:27 -08:00
Karthik Nayak f768296cf1 refs: extract out loose_fill_ref_dir_regular_file()
Extract out the code for adding a single file to the loose ref dir as
`loose_fill_ref_dir_regular_file()` from `loose_fill_ref_dir()` in
`refs/files-backend.c`.

This allows us to use this function independently in the following
commits where we add code to also add pseudorefs to the ref dir.

Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-23 10:36:27 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 59c50a96c5 refs: stop resolving ref corresponding to reflogs
The reflog iterator tries to resolve the corresponding ref for every
reflog that it is about to yield. Historically, this was done due to
multiple reasons:

  - It ensures that the refname is safe because we end up calling
    `check_refname_format()`. Also, non-conformant refnames are skipped
    altogether.

  - The iterator used to yield the resolved object ID as well as its
    flags to the callback. This info was never used though, and the
    corresponding parameters were dropped in the preceding commit.

  - When a ref is corrupt then the reflog is not emitted at all.

We're about to introduce a new `git reflog list` subcommand that will
print all reflogs that the refdb knows about. Skipping over reflogs
whose refs are corrupted would be quite counterproductive in this case
as the user would have no way to learn about reflogs which may still
exist in their repository to help and rescue such a corrupted ref. Thus,
the only remaining reason for why we'd want to resolve the ref is to
verify its refname.

Refactor the code to call `check_refname_format()` directly instead of
trying to resolve the ref. This is significantly more efficient given
that we don't have to hit the object database anymore to list reflogs.
And second, it ensures that we end up showing reflogs of broken refs,
which will help to make the reflog more useful.

Note that this really only impacts the case where the corresponding ref
is corrupt. Reflogs for nonexistent refs would have been returned to the
caller beforehand already as we did not pass `RESOLVE_REF_READING` to
the function, and thus `refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()` would have returned
successfully in that case.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21 09:58:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 31f898397b refs: drop unused params from the reflog iterator callback
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>
2024-02-21 09:58:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 5e01d83841 refs: always treat iterators as ordered
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>
2024-02-21 09:58:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 6f22780017 refs/files: sort merged worktree and common reflogs
When iterating through reflogs in a worktree we create a merged iterator
that merges reflogs from both refdbs. The resulting refs are ordered so
that instead we first return all worktree reflogs before we return all
common refs.

This is the only remaining case where a ref iterator returns entries in
a non-lexicographic order. The result would look something like the
following (listed with a command we introduce in a subsequent commit):

```
$ git reflog list
HEAD
refs/worktree/per-worktree
refs/heads/main
refs/heads/wt
```

So we first print the per-worktree reflogs in lexicographic order, then
the common reflogs in lexicographic order. This is confusing and not
consistent with how we print per-worktree refs, which are exclusively
sorted lexicographically.

Sort reflogs lexicographically in the same way as we sort normal refs.
As this is already implemented properly by the "reftable" backend via a
separate selection function, we simply pull out that logic and reuse it
for the "files" backend. As logs are properly sorted now, mark the
merged reflog iterator as sorted.

Tests will be added in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21 09:58:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt e69e8ffef7 refs/files: sort reflogs returned by the reflog iterator
We use a directory iterator to return reflogs via the reflog iterator.
This iterator returns entries in the same order as readdir(3P) would and
will thus yield reflogs with no discernible order.

Set the new `DIR_ITERATOR_SORTED` flag that was introduced in the
preceding commit so that the order is deterministic. While the effect of
this can only been observed in a test tool, a subsequent commit will
start to expose this functionality to users via a new `git reflog list`
subcommand.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21 09:58:05 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 8a0bebdeae refs/reftable: fix leak when copying reflog fails
When copying a ref with the reftable backend we also copy the
corresponding log records. When seeking the first log record that we're
about to copy fails though we directly return from `write_copy_table()`
without doing any cleanup, leaking several allocated data structures.

Fix this by exiting via our common cleanup logic instead.

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> via Coverity
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-07 21:30:43 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 57db2a094d refs: introduce reftable backend
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>
2024-02-07 08:28:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano dc8ce995a2 Merge branch 'ps/worktree-refdb-initialization'
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
2024-01-26 08:54:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 32c6fc3e30 Merge branch 'ps/refstorage-extension'
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
2024-01-16 10:11:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 492ee03f60 Merge branch 'en/header-cleanup'
Remove unused header "#include".

* en/header-cleanup:
  treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
  treewide: add direct includes currently only pulled in transitively
  trace2/tr2_tls.h: remove unnecessary include
  submodule-config.h: remove unnecessary include
  pkt-line.h: remove unnecessary include
  line-log.h: remove unnecessary include
  http.h: remove unnecessary include
  fsmonitor--daemon.h: remove unnecessary includes
  blame.h: remove unnecessary includes
  archive.h: remove unnecessary include
  treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
  treewide: remove unnecessary includes from header files
2024-01-08 14:05:15 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 2eb1d0c452 refs/files: skip creation of "refs/{heads,tags}" for worktrees
The files ref backend will create both "refs/heads" and "refs/tags" in
the Git directory. While this logic makes sense for normal repositories,
it does not for worktrees because those refs are "common" refs that
would always be contained in the main repository's ref database.

Introduce a new flag telling the backend that it is expected to create a
per-worktree ref database and skip creation of these dirs in the files
backend when the flag is set. No other backends (currently) need
worktree-specific logic, so this is the only required change to start
creating per-worktree ref databases via `refs_init_db()`.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-08 13:17:30 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt c358d165f2 setup: move creation of "refs/" into the files backend
When creating the ref database we unconditionally create the "refs/"
directory in "setup.c". This is a mandatory prerequisite for all Git
repositories regardless of the ref backend in use, because Git will be
unable to detect the directory as a repository if "refs/" doesn't exist.

We are about to add another new caller that will want to create a ref
database when creating worktrees. We would require the same logic to
create the "refs/" directory even though the caller really should not
care about such low-level details. Ideally, the ref database should be
fully initialized after calling `refs_init_db()`.

Move the code to create the directory into the files backend itself to
make it so. This means that future ref backends will also need to have
equivalent logic around to ensure that the directory exists, but it
seems a lot more sensible to have it this way round than to require
callers to create the directory themselves.

An alternative to this would be to create "refs/" in `refs_init_db()`
directly. This feels conceptually unclean though as the creation of the
refdb is now cluttered across different callsites. Furthermore, both the
"files" and the upcoming "reftable" backend write backend-specific data
into the "refs/" directory anyway, so splitting up this logic would only
make it harder to reason about.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-08 13:17:30 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 2e573d61ff refs: prepare refs_init_db() for initializing worktree refs
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>
2024-01-08 13:17:30 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 0fcc285c5e refs: refactor logic to look up storage backends
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>
2024-01-02 09:24:47 -08:00
Elijah Newren eea0e59ffb treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
Each of these were checked with
   gcc -E -I. ${SOURCE_FILE} | grep ${HEADER_FILE}
to ensure that removing the direct inclusion of the header actually
resulted in that header no longer being included at all (i.e. that
no other header pulled it in transitively).

...except for a few cases where we verified that although the header
was brought in transitively, nothing from it was directly used in
that source file.  These cases were:
  * builtin/credential-cache.c
  * builtin/pull.c
  * builtin/send-pack.c

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-26 12:04:31 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 29a186917b refs: remove delete_refs callback from backends
Now that `refs_delete_refs` is implemented in a generic way via the ref
transaction interfaces there are no callers left that invoke the
`delete_refs` callback anymore. Remove it from all of our backends.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-17 10:12:12 +09:00
Patrick Steinhardt d6f8e72982 refs: deduplicate code to delete references
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>
2023-11-17 10:12:12 +09:00
Patrick Steinhardt e85e5dd78a refs/files: use transactions to delete references
In the `files_delete_refs()` callback function of the files backend we
implement deletion of references. This is done in two steps:

    1. We lock the packed-refs file and delete all references from it in
       a single transaction.

    2. We delete all loose references via separate calls to
       `refs_delete_ref()`.

These steps essentially duplicate the logic around locking and deletion
order that we already have in the transactional interfaces, where we do
know to lock and evict references from the packed-refs file. Despite the
fact that we duplicate the logic, it's also less efficient than if we
used a single generic transaction:

    - The transactional interface knows to skip locking of the packed
      refs in case they don't contain any of the refs which are about to
      be deleted.

    - We end up creating N+1 separate reference transactions, one for
      the packed-refs file and N for the individual loose references.

Refactor the code to instead delete references via a single transaction.
As we don't assert the expected old object ID this is equivalent to the
previous behaviour, and we already do the same in the packed-refs
backend.

Despite the fact that the result is simpler to reason about, this change
also results in improved performance. The following benchmarks have been
executed in linux.git:

```
$ hyperfine -n '{rev}, packed={packed} refcount={refcount}' \
    -L packed true,false -L refcount 1,1000 -L rev master,pks-ref-store-generic-delete-refs \
    --setup 'git -C /home/pks/Development/git switch --detach {rev} && make -C /home/pks/Development/git -j17' \
    --prepare 'printf "create refs/heads/new-branch-%d HEAD\n" $(seq {refcount}) | git -C /home/pks/Reproduction/linux.git update-ref --stdin && if test {packed} = true; then git pack-refs --all; fi' \
    --warmup=10 \
    '/home/pks/Development/git/bin-wrappers/git -C /home/pks/Reproduction/linux.git branch -d new-branch-{1..{refcount}}'

Benchmark 1: master packed=true refcount=1
  Time (mean ± σ):       7.8 ms ±   1.6 ms    [User: 3.4 ms, System: 4.4 ms]
  Range (min … max):     5.5 ms …  11.0 ms    120 runs

Benchmark 2: master packed=false refcount=1
  Time (mean ± σ):       7.0 ms ±   1.1 ms    [User: 3.2 ms, System: 3.8 ms]
  Range (min … max):     5.7 ms …   9.8 ms    180 runs

Benchmark 3: master packed=true refcount=1000
  Time (mean ± σ):     283.8 ms ±   5.2 ms    [User: 45.7 ms, System: 231.5 ms]
  Range (min … max):   276.7 ms … 291.6 ms    10 runs

Benchmark 4: master packed=false refcount=1000
  Time (mean ± σ):     284.4 ms ±   5.3 ms    [User: 44.2 ms, System: 233.6 ms]
  Range (min … max):   277.1 ms … 293.3 ms    10 runs

Benchmark 5: generic-delete-refs packed=true refcount=1
  Time (mean ± σ):       6.2 ms ±   1.8 ms    [User: 2.3 ms, System: 3.9 ms]
  Range (min … max):     4.1 ms …  12.2 ms    142 runs

Benchmark 6: generic-delete-refs packed=false refcount=1
  Time (mean ± σ):       7.1 ms ±   1.4 ms    [User: 2.8 ms, System: 4.3 ms]
  Range (min … max):     4.2 ms …  10.8 ms    157 runs

Benchmark 7: generic-delete-refs packed=true refcount=1000
  Time (mean ± σ):     198.9 ms ±   1.7 ms    [User: 29.5 ms, System: 165.7 ms]
  Range (min … max):   196.1 ms … 201.4 ms    10 runs

Benchmark 8: generic-delete-refs packed=false refcount=1000
  Time (mean ± σ):     199.7 ms ±   7.8 ms    [User: 32.2 ms, System: 163.2 ms]
  Range (min … max):   193.8 ms … 220.7 ms    10 runs

Summary
  generic-delete-refs packed=true refcount=1 ran
    1.14 ± 0.37 times faster than master packed=false refcount=1
    1.15 ± 0.40 times faster than generic-delete-refs packed=false refcount=1
    1.26 ± 0.44 times faster than master packed=true refcount=1
   32.24 ± 9.17 times faster than generic-delete-refs packed=true refcount=1000
   32.36 ± 9.29 times faster than generic-delete-refs packed=false refcount=1000
   46.00 ± 13.10 times faster than master packed=true refcount=1000
   46.10 ± 13.13 times faster than master packed=false refcount=1000
```

Especially in the case where we have many references we can see a clear
performance speedup of nearly 30%.

This is in contrast to the stated objecive in a27dcf89b6 (refs: make
delete_refs() virtual, 2016-09-04), where the virtual `delete_refs()`
function was introduced with the intent to speed things up rather than
making things slower. So it seems like we have outlived the need for a
virtual function.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-17 10:12:12 +09:00
Victoria Dye 2cdb796101 files-backend.c: avoid stat in 'loose_fill_ref_dir'
Modify the 'readdir' loop in 'loose_fill_ref_dir' to, rather than 'stat' a
file to determine whether it is a directory or not, use 'get_dtype'.

Currently, the loop uses 'stat' to determine whether each dirent is a
directory itself or not in order to construct the appropriate ref cache
entry. If 'stat' fails (returning a negative value), the dirent is silently
skipped; otherwise, 'S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)' is used to check whether the entry
is a directory.

On platforms that include an entry's d_type in in the 'dirent' struct, this
extra 'stat' check is redundant. We can use the 'get_dtype' method to
extract this information on platforms that support it (i.e. where
NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT is unset), and derive it with 'stat' on platforms that
don't. Because 'stat' is an expensive call, this confers a
modest-but-noticeable performance improvement when iterating over large
numbers of refs (approximately 20% speedup in 'git for-each-ref' in a 30k
ref repo).

Unlike other existing usage of 'get_dtype', the 'follow_symlinks' arg is set
to 1 to replicate the existing handling of symlink dirents. This
unfortunately requires calling 'stat' on the associated entry regardless of
platform, but symlinks in the loose ref store are highly unlikely since
they'd need to be created manually by a user.

Note that this patch also changes the condition for skipping creation of a
ref entry from "when 'stat' fails" to "when the d_type is anything other
than DT_REG or DT_DIR". If a dirent's d_type is DT_UNKNOWN (either because
the platform doesn't support d_type in dirents or some other reason) or
DT_LNK, 'get_dtype' will try to derive the underlying type with 'stat'. If
the 'stat' fails, the d_type will remain 'DT_UNKNOWN' and dirent will be
skipped. However, it will also be skipped if it is any other valid d_type
(e.g. DT_FIFO for named pipes, DT_LNK for a nested symlink). Git does not
handle these properly anyway, so we can safely constrain accepted types to
directories and regular files.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 15:53:14 -07:00
Victoria Dye 5305474ec4 ref-cache.c: fix prefix matching in ref iteration
Update 'cache_ref_iterator_advance' to skip over refs that are not matched
by the given prefix.

Currently, a ref entry is considered "matched" if the entry name is fully
contained within the prefix:

* prefix: "refs/heads/v1"
* entry: "refs/heads/v1.0"

OR if the prefix is fully contained in the entry name:

* prefix: "refs/heads/v1.0"
* entry: "refs/heads/v1"

The first case is always correct, but the second is only correct if the ref
cache entry is a directory, for example:

* prefix: "refs/heads/example"
* entry: "refs/heads/"

Modify the logic in 'cache_ref_iterator_advance' to reflect these
expectations:

1. If 'overlaps_prefix' returns 'PREFIX_EXCLUDES_DIR', then the prefix and
   ref cache entry do not overlap at all. Skip this entry.
2. If 'overlaps_prefix' returns 'PREFIX_WITHIN_DIR', then the prefix matches
   inside this entry if it is a directory. Skip if the entry is not a
   directory, otherwise iterate over it.
3. Otherwise, 'overlaps_prefix' returned 'PREFIX_CONTAINS_DIR', indicating
   that the cache entry (directory or not) is fully contained by or equal to
   the prefix. Iterate over this entry.

Note that condition 2 relies on the names of directory entries having the
appropriate trailing slash. The existing function documentation of
'create_dir_entry' explicitly calls out the trailing slash requirement, so
this is a safe assumption to make.

This bug generally doesn't have any user-facing impact, since it requires:

1. using a non-empty prefix without a trailing slash in an iteration like
   'for_each_fullref_in',
2. the callback to said iteration not reapplying the original filter (as
   for-each-ref does) to ensure unmatched refs are skipped, and
3. the repository having one or more refs that match part of, but not all
   of, the prefix.

However, there are some niche scenarios that meet those criteria
(specifically, 'rev-parse --bisect' and '(log|show|shortlog) --bisect'). Add
tests covering those cases to demonstrate the fix in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 15:53:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 39fe402d67 Merge branch 'tb/refs-exclusion-and-packed-refs'
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`
2023-07-21 13:47:26 -07:00
Taylor Blau c489f47a64 refs/packed-backend.c: add trace2 counters for jump list
The previous commit added low-level tests to ensure that the packed-refs
iterator did not enumerate excluded sections of the refspace.

However, there was no guarantee that these sections weren't being
visited, only that they were being suppressed from the output. To harden
these tests, add a trace2 counter which tracks the number of regions
skipped by the packed-refs iterator, and assert on its value.

Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-10 14:48:55 -07:00
Taylor Blau 59c35fac54 refs/packed-backend.c: implement jump lists to avoid excluded pattern(s)
When iterating through the `packed-refs` file in order to answer a query
like:

    $ git for-each-ref --exclude=refs/__hidden__

it would be useful to avoid walking over all of the entries in
`refs/__hidden__/*` when possible, since we know that the ref-filter
code is going to throw them away anyways.

In certain circumstances, doing so is possible. The algorithm for doing
so is as follows:

  - For each excluded pattern, find the first record that matches it,
    and the first record that *doesn't* match it (i.e. the location
    you'd next want to consider when excluding that pattern).

  - Sort the set of excluded regions from the previous step in ascending
    order of the first location within the `packed-refs` file that
    matches.

  - Clean up the results from the previous step: discard empty regions,
    and combine adjacent regions. The set of regions which remains is
    referred to as the "jump list", and never contains any references
    which should be included in the result set.

Then when iterating through the `packed-refs` file, if `iter->pos` is
ever contained in one of the regions from the previous steps, advance
`iter->pos` past the end of that region, and continue enumeration.

Note that we only perform this optimization when none of the excluded
pattern(s) have special meta-characters in them. For a pattern like
"refs/foo[ac]", the excluded regions ("refs/fooa", "refs/fooc", and
everything underneath them) are not connected. A future implementation
that handles this case may split the character class (pretending as if
two patterns were excluded: "refs/fooa", and "refs/fooc").

There are a few other gotchas worth considering. First, note that the
jump list is sorted, so once we jump past a region, we can avoid
considering it (or any regions preceding it) again. The member
`jump_pos` is used to track the first next-possible region to jump
through.

Second, note that the jump list is best-effort, since we do not handle
loose references, and because of the meta-character issue above. The
jump list may not skip past all references which won't appear in the
results, but will never skip over a reference which does appear in the
result set.

In repositories with a large number of hidden references, the speed-up
can be significant. Tests here are done with a copy of linux.git with a
reference "refs/pull/N" pointing at every commit, as in:

    $ git rev-list HEAD | awk '{ print "create refs/pull/" NR " " $0 }' |
        git update-ref --stdin
    $ git pack-refs --all

, it is significantly faster to have `for-each-ref` jump over the
excluded references, as opposed to filtering them out after the fact:

    $ hyperfine \
      'git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" | grep -vE "^[0-9a-f]{40} refs/pull/"' \
      'git.prev for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"' \
      'git.compile for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"'
    Benchmark 1: git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" | grep -vE "^[0-9a-f]{40} refs/pull/"
      Time (mean ± σ):     798.1 ms ±   3.3 ms    [User: 687.6 ms, System: 146.4 ms]
      Range (min … max):   794.5 ms … 805.5 ms    10 runs

    Benchmark 2: git.prev for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"
      Time (mean ± σ):      98.9 ms ±   1.4 ms    [User: 93.1 ms, System: 5.7 ms]
      Range (min … max):    97.0 ms … 104.0 ms    29 runs

    Benchmark 3: git.compile for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"
      Time (mean ± σ):       4.5 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 0.7 ms, System: 3.8 ms]
      Range (min … max):     4.1 ms …   5.8 ms    524 runs

    Summary
      'git.compile for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"' ran
       21.87 ± 1.05 times faster than 'git.prev for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"'
      176.52 ± 8.19 times faster than 'git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" | grep -vE "^[0-9a-f]{40} refs/pull/"'

(Comparing stock git and this patch isn't quite fair, since an earlier
commit in this series adds a naive implementation of the `--exclude`
option. `git.prev` is built from the previous commit and includes this
naive implementation).

Using the jump list is fairly straightforward (see the changes to
`refs/packed-backend.c::next_record()`), but constructing the list is
not. To ensure that the construction is correct, add a new suite of
tests in t1419 covering various corner cases (overlapping regions,
partially overlapping regions, adjacent regions, etc.).

Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-10 14:48:55 -07:00
Taylor Blau d22d941ac0 refs/packed-backend.c: refactor find_reference_location()
The function `find_reference_location()` is used to perform a
binary search-like function over the contents of a repository's
`$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file.

The search it implements is unlike a standard binary search in that the
records it searches over are not of a fixed width, so the comparison
must locate the end of a record before comparing it.

Extract the core routine of `find_reference_location()` in order to
implement a function in the following patch which will find the first
location in the `packed-refs` file that *doesn't* match the given
pattern.

The behavior of `find_reference_location()` is unchanged.

Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-10 14:48:55 -07:00
Taylor Blau b269ac53c0 refs: plumb exclude_patterns argument throughout
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>
2023-07-10 14:48:55 -07:00
Elijah Newren c339932bd8 repository: remove unnecessary include of path.h
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>
2023-06-21 13:39:53 -07:00
Elijah Newren bc5c5ec044 cache.h: remove this no-longer-used header
Since this header showed up in some places besides just #include
statements, update/clean-up/remove those other places as well.

Note that compat/fsmonitor/fsm-path-utils-darwin.c previously got
away with violating the rule that all files must start with an include
of git-compat-util.h (or a short-list of alternate headers that happen
to include it first).  This change exposed the violation and caused it
to stop building correctly; fix it by having it include
git-compat-util.h first, as per policy.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-21 13:39:53 -07:00
Elijah Newren 90cbae9ce5 statinfo: move stat_{data,validity} functions from cache/read-cache
These functions do not depend upon struct cache_entry or struct
index_state in any way, and it seems more logical to break them out into
this file, especially since statinfo.h already has the struct stat_data
declaration.

Diff best viewed with `--color-moved`.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-21 13:39:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano cbc882ea38 Merge branch 'jc/pack-ref-exclude-include'
"git pack-refs" learns "--include" and "--exclude" to tweak the ref
hierarchy to be packed using pattern matching.

* jc/pack-ref-exclude-include:
  pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include option
  pack-refs: teach --exclude option to exclude refs from being packed
  docs: clarify git-pack-refs --all will pack all refs
2023-06-13 12:29:45 -07:00
John Cai 4fe42f326e pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include option
Allow users to be more selective over which refs to pack by adding an
--include option to git-pack-refs.

The existing options allow some measure of selectivity. By default
git-pack-refs packs all tags. --all can be used to include all refs,
and the previous commit added the ability to exclude certain refs with
--exclude.

While these knobs give the user some selection over which refs to pack,
it could be useful to give more control. For instance, a repository may
have a set of branches that are rarely updated and would benefit from
being packed. --include would allow the user to easily include a set of
branches to be packed while leaving everything else unpacked.

Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-05-12 14:54:14 -07:00
John Cai 826ae79fca pack-refs: teach --exclude option to exclude refs from being packed
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>
2023-05-12 14:54:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ccd12a3d6c Merge branch 'en/header-split-cache-h-part-2'
More header clean-up.

* en/header-split-cache-h-part-2: (22 commits)
  reftable: ensure git-compat-util.h is the first (indirect) include
  diff.h: reduce unnecessary includes
  object-store.h: reduce unnecessary includes
  commit.h: reduce unnecessary includes
  fsmonitor: reduce includes of cache.h
  cache.h: remove unnecessary headers
  treewide: remove cache.h inclusion due to previous changes
  cache,tree: move basic name compare functions from read-cache to tree
  cache,tree: move cmp_cache_name_compare from tree.[ch] to read-cache.c
  hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.h
  tree-diff.c: move S_DIFFTREE_IFXMIN_NEQ define from cache.h
  dir.h: move DTYPE defines from cache.h
  versioncmp.h: move declarations for versioncmp.c functions from cache.h
  ws.h: move declarations for ws.c functions from cache.h
  match-trees.h: move declarations for match-trees.c functions from cache.h
  pkt-line.h: move declarations for pkt-line.c functions from cache.h
  base85.h: move declarations for base85.c functions from cache.h
  copy.h: move declarations for copy.c functions from cache.h
  server-info.h: move declarations for server-info.c functions from cache.h
  packfile.h: move pack_window and pack_entry from cache.h
  ...
2023-05-09 16:45:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano d699e27bd4 Merge branch 'tb/ban-strtok'
Mark strtok() and strtok_r() to be banned.

* tb/ban-strtok:
  banned.h: mark `strtok()` and `strtok_r()` as banned
  t/helper/test-json-writer.c: avoid using `strtok()`
  t/helper/test-oidmap.c: avoid using `strtok()`
  t/helper/test-hashmap.c: avoid using `strtok()`
  string-list: introduce `string_list_setlen()`
  string-list: multi-delimiter `string_list_split_in_place()`
2023-05-02 10:13:35 -07:00
Taylor Blau 52acddf36c string-list: multi-delimiter string_list_split_in_place()
Enhance `string_list_split_in_place()` to accept multiple characters as
delimiters instead of a single character.

Instead of using `strchr(2)` to locate the first occurrence of the given
delimiter character, `string_list_split_in_place_multi()` uses
`strcspn(2)` to move past the initial segment of characters comprised of
any characters in the delimiting set.

When only a single delimiting character is provided, `strpbrk(2)` (which
is implemented with `strcspn(2)`) has equivalent performance to
`strchr(2)`. Modern `strcspn(2)` implementations treat an empty
delimiter or the singleton delimiter as a special case and fall back to
calling strchrnul(). Both glibc[1] and musl[2] implement `strcspn(2)`
this way.

This change is one step to removing `strtok(2)` from the tree. Note that
`string_list_split_in_place()` is not a strict replacement for
`strtok()`, since it will happily turn sequential delimiter characters
into empty entries in the resulting string_list. For example:

    string_list_split_in_place(&xs, "foo:;:bar:;:baz", ":;", -1)

would yield a string list of:

    ["foo", "", "", "bar", "", "", "baz"]

Callers that wish to emulate the behavior of strtok(2) more directly
should call `string_list_remove_empty_items()` after splitting.

To avoid regressions for the new multi-character delimter cases, update
t0063 in this patch as well.

[1]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=string/strcspn.c;hb=glibc-2.37#l35
[2]: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/string/strcspn.c?h=v1.2.3#n11

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-24 16:01:28 -07:00
Elijah Newren d4a4f9291d commit.h: reduce unnecessary includes
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-24 12:47:33 -07:00
Elijah Newren d1cbe1e6d8 hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.h
hash.h depends upon and includes repository.h, due to the definition and
use of the_hash_algo (defined as the_repository->hash_algo).  However,
most headers trying to include hash.h are only interested in the layout
of the structs like object_id.  Move the parts of hash.h that do not
depend upon repository.h into a new file hash-ll.h (the "low level"
parts of hash.h), and adjust other files to use this new header where
the convenience inline functions aren't needed.

This allows hash.h and object.h to be fairly small, minimal headers.  It
also exposes a lot of hidden dependencies on both path.h (which was
brought in by repository.h) and repository.h (which was previously
implicitly brought in by object.h), so also adjust other files to be
more explicit about what they depend upon.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-24 12:47:32 -07:00
Elijah Newren d5fff46f40 copy.h: move declarations for copy.c functions from cache.h
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-24 12:47:31 -07:00
Elijah Newren b7b189cd5a treewide: reduce includes of cache.h in other headers
We had a handful of headers including cache.h that didn't need to
anymore.  Drop those includes and replace them with includes of
smaller files, or forward declarations.  However, note that two .c
files now need to directly include cache.h, though they should have
been including it all along given they are directly using structs
defined in 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>
2023-04-11 08:52:11 -07:00
Elijah Newren 65156bb7ec treewide: remove double forward declaration of read_in_full
cache.h's nature of a dumping ground of includes prevented it from
being included in some compat/ files, forcing us into a workaround
of having a double forward declaration of the read_in_full() function
(see commit 14086b0a13 ("compat/pread.c: Add a forward declaration to
fix a warning", 2007-11-17)).  Now that we have moved functions like
read_in_full() from cache.h to wrapper.h, and wrapper.h isn't littered
with unrelated and scary #defines, get rid of the extra forward
declaration and just have compat/pread.c include wrapper.h.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-11 08:52:11 -07:00
Elijah Newren 87bed17907 object-file.h: move declarations for object-file.c functions from cache.h
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-11 08:52:10 -07:00
Elijah Newren d48be35ca6 write-or-die.h: move declarations for write-or-die.c functions from cache.h
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21 10:56:54 -07:00
Elijah Newren e38da487cc setup.h: move declarations for setup.c functions from cache.h
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21 10:56:54 -07:00
Elijah Newren 32a8f51061 environment.h: move declarations for environment.c functions from cache.h
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21 10:56:53 -07:00
Elijah Newren d5ebb50dcb wrapper.h: move declarations for wrapper.c functions from cache.h
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21 10:56:53 -07:00
Elijah Newren 4f6728d52d treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h inclusion from several sources
A number of files were apparently including cache.h solely to get
gettext.h.  By making those files explicitly include gettext.h, we can
already drop the include of cache.h in these files.  On top of that,
there were some files using cache.h that didn't need to for any reason.
Remove these unnecessary includes.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21 10:56:51 -07:00
Elijah Newren f394e093df treewide: be explicit about dependence on gettext.h
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>
2023-03-21 10:56:51 -07:00
Elijah Newren a6dc3d364c treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h inclusion from a few headers
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>
2023-03-21 10:56:50 -07:00
Elijah Newren b5fa608180 ident.h: move ident-related declarations out of cache.h
These functions were all defined in a separate ident.c already, so
create ident.h and move the declarations into that file.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-23 17:25:29 -08:00
Elijah Newren 41771fa435 cache.h: remove dependence on hex.h; make other files include it explicitly
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-23 17:25:29 -08:00
Elijah Newren 36bf195890 alloc.h: move ALLOC_GROW() functions from cache.h
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>
2023-02-23 17:25:28 -08:00
Elijah Newren ba3d1c73da treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h includes
We had several header files include cache.h unnecessarily.  Remove
those.  These have all been verified via both ensuring that
    gcc -E $HEADER | grep '"cache.h"'
found no hits and that
    cat >temp.c <<EOF &&
    #include "git-compat-util.h"
    #include "$HEADER"
    int main() {}
    EOF
    gcc -c temp.c
successfully compiles without warnings.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-23 17:25:28 -08:00
Elijah Newren 8bff5ca030 treewide: ensure one of the appropriate headers is sourced first
We had several C files ignoring the rule to include one of the
appropriate headers first; fix that.

While at it, the rule in Documentation/CodingGuidelines about which
header to include has also fallen out of sync, so update the wording to
mention other allowed headers.

Unfortunately, C files in reftable/ don't actually follow the previous
or updated rule.  If you follow the #include chain in its C files,
reftable/system.h _tends_ to be first (i.e. record.c first includes
record.h, which first includes basics.h, which first includees
system.h), but not always (e.g. publicbasics.c includes another header
first that does not include system.h).  However, I'm going to punt on
making actual changes to the C files in reftable/ since I do not want to
risk bringing it out-of-sync with any version being used externally.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-23 17:25:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 3ed91c5f22 Merge branch 'ps/fsync-refs-fix'
Fix the sequence to fsync $GIT_DIR/packed-refs file that forgot to
flush its output to the disk..

* ps/fsync-refs-fix:
  refs: fix corruption by not correctly syncing packed-refs to disk
2023-01-02 21:37:19 +09:00
Patrick Steinhardt ce54672f9b refs: fix corruption by not correctly syncing packed-refs to disk
At GitLab we have recently received a report where a repository was left
with a corrupted `packed-refs` file after the node hard-crashed even
though `core.fsync=reference` was set. This is something that in theory
should not happen if we correctly did the atomic-rename dance to:

    1. Write the data into a temporary file.

    2. Synchronize the temporary file to disk.

    3. Rename the temporary file into place.

So if we crash in the middle of writing the `packed-refs` file we should
only ever see either the old or the new state of the file.

And while we do the dance when writing the `packed-refs` file, there is
indeed one gotcha: we use a `FILE *` stream to write the temporary file,
but don't flush it before synchronizing it to disk. As a consequence any
data that is still buffered will not get synchronized and a crash of the
machine may cause corruption.

Fix this bug by flushing the file stream before we fsync.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-12-25 16:18:12 +09:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 71e5473493 refs: unify parse_worktree_ref() and ref_type()
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>
2022-09-19 11:11:11 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 5cf88fd8b0 git-compat-util.h: use "UNUSED", not "UNUSED(var)"
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>
2022-09-01 10:49:48 -07:00
Jeff King 7718827a2d refs: mark unused virtual method parameters
The refs code uses various polymorphic types (e.g., loose vs packed
ref_stores, abstracted iterators). Not every virtual function or
callback needs all of its parameters. Let's mark the unused ones to
quiet -Wunused-parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 12:18:55 -07:00
Jeff King 63e14ee2d6 refs: mark unused each_ref_fn parameters
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>
2022-08-19 12:18:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 538dc459a0 Merge branch 'ep/maint-equals-null-cocci'
Introduce and apply coccinelle rule to discourage an explicit
comparison between a pointer and NULL, and applies the clean-up to
the maintenance track.

* ep/maint-equals-null-cocci:
  tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
  tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
  contrib/coccinnelle: add equals-null.cocci
2022-05-20 15:26:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 2b0a58d164 Merge branch 'ep/maint-equals-null-cocci' for maint-2.35
* ep/maint-equals-null-cocci:
  tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
  contrib/coccinnelle: add equals-null.cocci
2022-05-02 10:06:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano afe8a9070b tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-02 09:50:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c6da34a610 Revert "Merge branch 'ps/avoid-unnecessary-hook-invocation-with-packed-refs'"
This reverts commit 991b4d47f0, reversing
changes made to bcd020f88e.
2022-04-13 15:51:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3d8046a820 Merge branch 'ab/refs-various-fixes'
Code clean-up.

* ab/refs-various-fixes:
  refs debug: add a wrapper for "read_symbolic_ref"
  packed-backend: remove stub BUG(...) functions
  misc *.c: use designated initializers for struct assignments
  refs: use designated initializers for "struct ref_iterator_vtable"
  refs: use designated initializers for "struct ref_storage_be"
2022-03-29 12:22:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6e1a8952e9 Merge branch 'ps/fsync-refs'
Updates to refs traditionally weren't fsync'ed, but we can
configure using core.fsync variable to do so.

* ps/fsync-refs:
  core.fsync: new option to harden references
2022-03-25 16:38:25 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 5b8754043c refs debug: add a wrapper for "read_symbolic_ref"
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>
2022-03-17 10:40:14 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ca40893a41 packed-backend: remove stub BUG(...) functions
Remove the stub BUG(...) functions previously used by the "struct
ref_storage_be refs_be_packed" backend.

We never call any functions in the packed backend by using it as a
"normal" primary ref store, instead we'll always initialize a "files"
backend ref-store.

It will then via the "packed_ref_store" member of "struct
files_ref_store" call selected functions in the "packed" backend, and
we'll in addition call others via wrappers in refs.c.

So while these would arguably give us *slightly* more meaningful error
messages we'll NULL the missing members in the initializer anyway, so
we'll reliably get a segfault if we're ever changing the backend and
having it call something it doesn't have.

So there's no need for this verbose boilerplate, and as shown in a
subsequent commit it might even lead to some confusion about the
packed backend being a "real" backend. Let's make it clear that it's
not.

As an aside, this also fixes a warning emitted by SunCC in at least
versions 12.5 and 12.6 of Oracle Developer Studio:

    "refs/packed-backend.c", line 1599: warning: Function has no return statement : packed_create_symref
    "refs/packed-backend.c", line 1606: warning: Function has no return statement : packed_rename_ref)
    "refs/packed-backend.c", line 1613: warning: Function has no return statement : packed_copy_ref
    "refs/packed-backend.c", line 1648: warning: Function has no return statement : packed_create_reflog

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-17 10:38:05 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason e2f8acb6a0 refs: use designated initializers for "struct ref_iterator_vtable"
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-17 10:36:11 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 32bff617c6 refs: use designated initializers for "struct ref_storage_be"
Change the definition of the three refs backends we currently carry to
use designated initializers.

The "= NULL" assignments being retained here are redundant, and could
be removed, but let's keep them for clarity. All of these backends
define almost all fields, so we're not saving much in terms of line
count by omitting these, but e.g. for "refs_be_debug" it's immediately
apparent that we're omitting "init" when comparing its assignment to
the others.

This is a follow-up to similar work merged in bd4232fac3 (Merge
branch 'ab/struct-init', 2021-07-16), a4b9fb6a5c (Merge branch
'ab/designated-initializers-more', 2021-10-18) and a30321b9ea (Merge
branch 'ab/designated-initializers' into
ab/designated-initializers-more, 2021-09-27).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-17 10:36:04 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt bc22d845c4 core.fsync: new option to harden references
When writing both loose and packed references to disk we first create a
lockfile, write the updated values into that lockfile, and on commit we
rename the file into place. According to filesystem developers, this
behaviour is broken because applications should always sync data to disk
before doing the final rename to ensure data consistency [1][2][3]. If
applications fail to do this correctly, a hard crash of the machine can
easily result in corrupted on-disk data.

This kind of corruption can in fact be easily observed with Git when the
machine hard-resets shortly after writing references to disk. On
machines with ext4, this will likely lead to the "empty files" problem:
the file has been renamed, but its data has not been synced to disk. The
result is that the reference is corrupt, and in the worst case this can
lead to data loss.

Implement a new option to harden references so that users and admins can
avoid this scenario by syncing locked loose and packed references to
disk before we rename them into place.

[1]: https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/
[2]: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ (What are the crash guarantees of overwrite-by-rename)
[3]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst (see auto_da_alloc)

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-15 13:30:58 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt 0a7b38707d refs/files-backend: optimize reading of symbolic refs
When reading references via `files_read_raw_ref()` we always consult
both the loose reference, and if that wasn't found, we also consult the
packed-refs file. While this makes sense to read a generic reference, it
is wasteful in the case where we only care about symbolic references:
the packed-refs backend does not support them, and thus it cannot ever
return one for us.

Special-case reading of symbolic references for the files backend such
that we always skip asking the packed-refs backend.

We use `refs_read_symbolic_ref()` extensively to determine whether we
need to skip updating local symbolic references during a fetch, which is
why the change results in a significant speedup when doing fetches in
repositories with huge numbers of references. The following benchmark
executes a mirror-fetch in a repository with about 2 million references
via `git fetch --prune --no-write-fetch-head +refs/*:refs/*`:

    Benchmark 1: HEAD~
      Time (mean ± σ):     68.372 s ±  2.344 s    [User: 65.629 s, System: 8.786 s]
      Range (min … max):   65.745 s … 70.246 s    3 runs

    Benchmark 2: HEAD
      Time (mean ± σ):     60.259 s ±  0.343 s    [User: 61.019 s, System: 7.245 s]
      Range (min … max):   60.003 s … 60.649 s    3 runs

    Summary
      'HEAD' ran
        1.13 ± 0.04 times faster than 'HEAD~'

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-01 10:13:46 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt cd475b3b03 refs: add ability for backends to special-case reading of symbolic refs
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>
2022-03-01 10:13:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 991b4d47f0 Merge branch 'ps/avoid-unnecessary-hook-invocation-with-packed-refs'
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
2022-02-18 13:53:27 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ce14de03db refs API: remove "failure_errno" from refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()
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>
2022-01-26 15:58:41 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 2ed1b64ebd refs: skip hooks when deleting uncovered packed refs
When deleting refs from the loose-files refs backend, then we need to be
careful to also delete the same ref from the packed refs backend, if it
exists. If we don't, then deleting the loose ref would "uncover" the
packed ref. We thus always have to queue up deletions of refs for both
the loose and the packed refs backend. This is done in two separate
transactions, where the end result is that the reference-transaction
hook is executed twice for the deleted refs.

This behaviour is quite misleading: it's exposing implementation details
of how the files backend works to the user, in contrast to the logical
updates that we'd really want to expose via the hook. Worse yet, whether
the hook gets executed once or twice depends on how well-packed the
repository is: if the ref only exists as a loose ref, then we execute it
once, otherwise if it is also packed then we execute it twice.

Fix this behaviour and don't execute the reference-transaction hook at
all when refs in the packed-refs backend if it's driven by the files
backend. This works as expected even in case the refs to be deleted only
exist in the packed-refs backend because the loose-backend always queues
refs in its own transaction even if they don't exist such that they can
be locked for concurrent creation. And it also does the right thing in
case neither of the backends has the ref because that would cause the
transaction to fail completely.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-17 11:01:45 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt ffad994138 refs: do not execute reference-transaction hook on packing refs
The reference-transaction hook is supposed to track logical changes to
references, but it currently also gets executed when packing refs in a
repository. This is unexpected and ultimately not all that useful:
packing refs is not supposed to result in any user-visible change to the
refs' state, and it ultimately is an implementation detail of how refs
stores work.

Fix this excessive execution of the hook when packing refs.

Reported-by: Waleed Khan <me@waleedkhan.name>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-17 11:01:45 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt fbe73f61cb refs: allow passing flags when beginning transactions
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>
2022-01-17 11:01:44 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt 69840cc0f7 refs: extract packed_refs_delete_refs() to allow control of transaction
When deleting loose refs, then we also have to delete the refs in the
packed backend. This is done by calling `refs_delete_refs()`, which
then uses the packed-backend's logic to delete refs. This doesn't allow
us to exercise any control over the reference transaction which is being
created in the packed backend, which is required in a subsequent commit.

Extract a new function `packed_refs_delete_refs()`, which hosts most of
the logic to delete refs except for creating the transaction itself.
Like this, we can easily create the transaction in the files backend
and thus exert more control over it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-17 11:01:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 31e3912369 Merge branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup'
A brown-paper-bag fix on top of a topic that was merged during this
cycle.

* ab/refs-errno-cleanup:
  refs API: use "failure_errno", not "errno"
2022-01-14 15:25:15 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason cac15b3fb4 refs API: use "failure_errno", not "errno"
Fix a logic error in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() introduced in a recent
series of mine to abstract the refs API away from errno. See
96f6623ada (Merge branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup', 2021-11-29)for that
series.

In that series introduction of "failure_errno" to
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe came in ef18119dec (refs API: add a version
of refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() with "errno", 2021-10-16). There we'd set
"errno = 0" immediately before refs_read_raw_ref(), and then set
"failure_errno" to "errno" if errno was non-zero afterwards.

Then in the next commit 8b72fea7e9 (refs API: make
refs_read_raw_ref() not set errno, 2021-10-16) we started expecting
"refs_read_raw_ref()" to set "failure_errno". It would do that if
refs_read_raw_ref() failed, but it wouldn't be the same errno.

So we might set the "errno" here to any arbitrary bad value, and end
up e.g. returning NULL when we meant to return the refname from
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(), or the other way around. Instrumenting this
code will reveal cases where refs_read_raw_ref() will fail, and
"errno" and "failure_errno" will be set to different values.

In practice I haven't found a case where this scary bug changed
anything in practice. The reason for that is that we'll not care about
the actual value of "errno" here per-se, but only whether:

 1. We have an errno
 2. If it's one of ENOENT, EISDIR or ENOTDIR. See the adjacent code
    added in a1c1d8170d (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f
    conflicts for writes, 2017-10-06)

I.e. if we clobber "failure_errno" with "errno", but it happened to be
one of those three, and we'll clobber it with another one of the three
we were OK.

Perhaps there are cases where the difference ended up mattering, but I
haven't found them. Instrumenting the test suite to fail if "errno"
and "failure_errno" are different shows a lot of failures, checking if
they're different *and* one is but not the other is outside that list
of three "errno" values yields no failures.

But let's fix the obvious bug. We should just stop paying attention to
"errno" in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(). In addition let's change the
partial resetting of "errno" in files_read_raw_ref() to happen just
before the "return", to ensure that any such bug will be more easily
spotted in the future.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-13 10:53:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 626f2cabe6 Merge branch 'ab/reflog-prep'
Code refactoring in the reflog part of refs API.

* ab/reflog-prep:
  reflog + refs-backend: move "verbose" out of the backend
  refs files-backend: assume cb->newlog if !EXPIRE_REFLOGS_DRY_RUN
  reflog: reduce scope of "struct rev_info"
  reflog expire: don't use lookup_commit_reference_gently()
  reflog expire: refactor & use "tip_commit" only for UE_NORMAL
  reflog expire: use "switch" over enum values
  reflog: change one->many worktree->refnames to use a string_list
  reflog expire: narrow scope of "cb" in cmd_reflog_expire()
  reflog delete: narrow scope of "cmd" passed to count_reflog_ent()
2022-01-10 11:52:52 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason fcd2c3d9d8 reflog + refs-backend: move "verbose" out of the backend
Move the handling of the "verbose" flag entirely out of
"refs/files-backend.c" and into "builtin/reflog.c". This allows the
backend to stop knowing about the EXPIRE_REFLOGS_VERBOSE flag.

The expire_reflog_ent() function shouldn't need to deal with the
implementation detail of whether or not we're emitting verbose output,
by doing this the --verbose output becomes backend-agnostic, so
reftable will get the same output.

I think the output is rather bad currently, and should e.g. be
implemented with some better future mode of progress.[ch], but that's
a topic for another improvement.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-22 16:24:14 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 7c28875bcd refs files-backend: assume cb->newlog if !EXPIRE_REFLOGS_DRY_RUN
It's not possible for "cb->newlog" to be NULL if
!EXPIRE_REFLOGS_DRY_RUN, since files_reflog_expire() would have
error()'d and taken the "goto failure" branch if it couldn't open the
file. By not using the "newlog" field private to "file-backend.c"'s
"struct expire_reflog_cb", we can move this verbosity logging to
"builtin/reflog.c" in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-22 16:24:14 -08:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys f9f7fd3b23 refs: centralize initialization of the base ref_store.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-22 13:51:38 -08:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys a6db572af6 refs: print error message in debug output
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-22 13:51:37 -08:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 99f0d97b73 refs: pass gitdir to packed_ref_store_create
This is consistent with the calling convention for ref backend creation, and
avoids storing ".git/packed-refs" (the name of a regular file) in a variable called
ref_store::gitdir.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-22 13:51:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano b174a3c014 Merge branch 'hn/allow-bogus-oid-in-ref-tests'
The test helper for refs subsystem learned to write bogus and/or
nonexistent object name to refs to simulate error situations we
want to test Git in.

* hn/allow-bogus-oid-in-ref-tests:
  t1430: create valid symrefs using test-helper
  t1430: remove refs using test-tool
  refs: introduce REF_SKIP_REFNAME_VERIFICATION flag
  refs: introduce REF_SKIP_OID_VERIFICATION flag
  refs: update comment.
  test-ref-store: plug memory leak in cmd_delete_refs
  test-ref-store: parse symbolic flag constants
  test-ref-store: remove force-create argument for create-reflog
2021-12-15 09:39:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 250ca49b4f Merge branch 'hn/reflog-tests'
Prepare tests on ref API to help testing reftable backends.

* hn/reflog-tests:
  refs/debug: trim trailing LF from reflog message
  test-ref-store: tweaks to for-each-reflog-ent format
  t1405: check for_each_reflog_ent_reverse() more thoroughly
  test-ref-store: don't add newline to reflog message
  show-branch: show reflog message
2021-12-15 09:39:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano b8148376a2 Merge branch 'hn/create-reflog-simplify'
A small simplification of API.

* hn/create-reflog-simplify:
  refs: drop force_create argument of create_reflog API
2021-12-10 14:35:13 -08:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys e9706a188f refs: introduce REF_SKIP_OID_VERIFICATION flag
This lets the ref-store test helper write non-existent or unparsable objects
into the ref storage.

Use this to make t1006 and t3800 independent of the files storage backend.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-07 13:15:19 -08:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 0464d0a134 refs: update comment.
REF_IS_PRUNING is right below this comment, so it clearly does not belong in
this comment. This was apparently introduced in commit 5ac95fee (Nov 5, 2017
"refs: tidy up and adjust visibility of the `ref_update` flags").

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-07 13:15:19 -08:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 65279256f3 refs/debug: trim trailing LF from reflog message
On iteration, the reflog message is always terminated by a newline. Trim it to
avoid clobbering the console with is this extra newline.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-02 11:14:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 96f6623ada Merge branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup'
The "remainder" of hn/refs-errno-cleanup topic.

* ab/refs-errno-cleanup: (21 commits)
  refs API: post-migration API renaming [2/2]
  refs API: post-migration API renaming [1/2]
  refs API: don't expose "errno" in run_transaction_hook()
  refs API: make expand_ref() & repo_dwim_log() not set errno
  refs API: make resolve_ref_unsafe() not set errno
  refs API: make refs_ref_exists() not set errno
  refs API: make refs_resolve_refdup() not set errno
  refs tests: ignore ignore errno in test-ref-store helper
  refs API: ignore errno in worktree.c's find_shared_symref()
  refs API: ignore errno in worktree.c's add_head_info()
  refs API: make files_copy_or_rename_ref() et al not set errno
  refs API: make loose_fill_ref_dir() not set errno
  refs API: make resolve_gitlink_ref() not set errno
  refs API: remove refs_read_ref_full() wrapper
  refs/files: remove "name exist?" check in lock_ref_oid_basic()
  reflog tests: add --updateref tests
  refs API: make refs_rename_ref_available() static
  refs API: make parse_loose_ref_contents() not set errno
  refs API: make refs_read_raw_ref() not set errno
  refs API: add a version of refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() with "errno"
  ...
2021-11-29 15:41:45 -08:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 7b089120d9 refs: drop force_create argument of create_reflog API
There is only one caller, builtin/checkout.c, and it hardcodes
force_create=1.

This argument was introduced in abd0cd3a30 (refs: new public ref function:
safe_create_reflog, 2015-07-21), which promised to immediately use it in a
follow-on commit, but that never happened.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-22 11:01:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 162a13b855 Merge branch 'jt/no-abuse-alternate-odb-for-submodules'
Follow through the work to use the repo interface to access
submodule objects in-process, instead of abusing the alternate
object database interface.

* jt/no-abuse-alternate-odb-for-submodules:
  submodule: trace adding submodule ODB as alternate
  submodule: pass repo to check_has_commit()
  object-file: only register submodule ODB if needed
  merge-{ort,recursive}: remove add_submodule_odb()
  refs: peeling non-the_repository iterators is BUG
  refs: teach arbitrary repo support to iterators
  refs: plumb repo into ref stores
2021-10-25 16:06:56 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason f1da24ca5e refs API: post-migration API renaming [2/2]
Rename the transitory refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() function to
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(), now that all callers of the old function
have learned to pass in a "failure_errno" parameter.

The coccinelle semantic patch added in the preceding commit works, but
I couldn't figure out how to get spatch(1) to re-flow these argument
lists (and sometimes make lines way too long), so this rename was done
with:

    perl -pi -e 's/refs_werrres_ref_unsafe/refs_resolve_ref_unsafe/g' \
    $(git grep -l refs_werrres_ref_unsafe -- '*.c')

But after that "make contrib/coccinelle/refs.cocci.patch" comes up
empty, so the result would have been the same. Let's remove that
transitory semantic patch file, we won't need to retain it for any
other in-flight changes, refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() only existed within
this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16 11:17:04 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ac0986e302 refs API: make files_copy_or_rename_ref() et al not set errno
None of the callers of rename_ref() and copy_ref() care about errno,
and as seen in the context here we already emit our own non-errno
using error() in the case where we'd use it.

So let's have it explicitly ignore errno, and do the same in
commit_ref_update(), which is only used within other code in
files_copy_or_rename_ref() itself which doesn't care about errno
either.

It might actually be sensible to have the callers use errno if the
failure was filesystem-specific, and with the upcoming reftable
backend we don't want to rely on that sort of thing, so let's keep
ignoring that for now.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16 11:17:03 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 096a7fbb97 refs API: make loose_fill_ref_dir() not set errno
Change the refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() invoked in loose_fill_ref_dir()
to a form that ignores errno. The only eventual caller of this
function is create_ref_cache(), whose callers in turn don't have their
failure depend on any errno set here.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16 11:17:03 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 76887df014 refs API: remove refs_read_ref_full() wrapper
Remove the refs_read_ref_full() wrapper in favor of migrating various
refs.c API users to the underlying refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() function.

A careful reading of these callers shows that the callers of this
function did not care about "errno", by moving away from the
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() wrapper we can be sure that nothing relies
on it anymore.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16 11:17:03 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 52106430dc refs/files: remove "name exist?" check in lock_ref_oid_basic()
In lock_ref_oid_basic() we'll happily lock a reference that doesn't
exist yet. That's normal, and is how references are initially born,
but we don't need to retain checks here in lock_ref_oid_basic() about
the state of the ref, when what we're checking is either checked
already, or something we're about to discover by trying to lock the
ref with raceproof_create_file().

The one exception is the caller in files_reflog_expire(), who passes
us a "type" to find out if the reference is a symref or not. We can
move the that logic over to that caller, which can now defer its
discovery of whether or not the ref is a symref until it's needed. In
the preceding commit an exhaustive regression test was added for that
case in a new test in "t1417-reflog-updateref.sh".

The improved diagnostics here were added in
5b2d8d6f21 (lock_ref_sha1_basic(): improve diagnostics for ref D/F
conflicts, 2015-05-11), and then much of the surrounding code went
away recently in my 245fbba46d (refs/files: remove unused "errno ==
EISDIR" code, 2021-08-23).

The refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() code being removed here looks like it
should be tasked with doing that, but it's actually redundant to other
code.

The reason for that is as noted in 245fbba46d this once widely used
function now only has a handful of callers left, which all handle this
case themselves.

To the extent that we're racy between their check and ours removing
this check actually improves the situation, as we'll be doing fewer
things between the not-under-lock initial check and acquiring the
lock.

Why this is OK for all the remaining callers of lock_ref_oid_basic()
is noted below. There are only two of those callers:

* "git branch -[cm] <oldbranch> <newbranch>":

  In files_copy_or_rename_ref() we'll call this when we copy or rename
  refs via rename_ref() and copy_ref(). but only after we've checked
  if the refname exists already via its own call to
  refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() and refs_rename_ref_available().

  As the updated comment to the latter here notes neither of those are
  actually needed. If we delete not only this code but also
  refs_rename_ref_available() we'll do just fine, we'll just emit a
  less friendly error message if e.g. "git branch -m A B/C" would have
  a D/F conflict with a "B" file.

  Actually we'd probably die before that in case reflogs for the
  branch existed, i.e. when the try to rename() or copy_file() the
  relevant reflog, since if we've got a D/F conflict with a branch
  name we'll probably also have the same with its reflogs (but not
  necessarily, we might have reflogs, but it might not).

  As some #leftoverbits that code seems buggy to me, i.e. the reflog
  "protocol" should be to get a lock on the main ref, and then perform
  ref and/or reflog operations. That code dates back to
  c976d415e5 (git-branch: add options and tests for branch renaming,
  2006-11-28) and probably pre-dated the solidifying of that
  convention. But in any case, that edge case is not our bug or
  problem right now.

* "git reflog expire <ref>":

  In files_reflog_expire() we'll call this without previous ref
  existence checking in files-backend.c, but that code is in turn
  called by code that's just finished checking if the refname whose
  reflog we're expiring exists.

  See ae35e16cd4 (reflog expire: don't lock reflogs using previously
  seen OID, 2021-08-23) for the current state of that code, and
  5e6f003ca8 (reflog_expire(): ignore --updateref for symbolic
  references, 2015-03-03) for the code we'd break if we only did a
  "update = !!ref" here, which is covered by the aforementioned
  regression test in "t1417-reflog-updateref.sh".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16 11:17:02 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason c339ff690f refs API: make refs_rename_ref_available() static
Move the refs_rename_ref_available() function into
"refs/files-backend.c". It is file-backend specific.

This function was added in 5fe7d825da (refs.c: pass a list of names
to skip to is_refname_available, 2014-05-01) as rename_ref_available()
and was only ever used in this one file-backend specific codepath. So
let's move it there.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16 11:17:02 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys df3458e957 refs API: make parse_loose_ref_contents() not set errno
Change the parse_loose_ref_contents() function to stop setting "errno"
and failure, and to instead pass up a "failure_errno" via a
parameter. This requires changing its callers to do the same.

The EINVAL error from parse_loose_ref_contents is used in files-backend
to create a custom error message.

In untangling this we discovered a tricky edge case. The
refs_read_special_head() function was relying on
parse_loose_ref_contents() setting EINVAL.

By converting it to use "saved_errno" we can migrate away from "errno"
in this part of the code entirely, and do away with an existing
"save_errno" pattern, its only purpose was to not clobber the "errno"
we previously needed at the end of files_read_raw_ref().

Let's assert that we can do that by not having files_read_raw_ref()
itself operate on *failure_errno in addition to passing it on. Instead
we'll assert that if we return non-zero we actually do set errno, thus
assuring ourselves and callers that they can trust the resulting
"failure_errno".

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16 11:17:02 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 8b72fea7e9 refs API: make refs_read_raw_ref() not set errno
Add a "failure_errno" to refs_read_raw_ref(), his allows
refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() to pass along its "failure_errno", as a
first step before its own callers are migrated to pass it further up
the chain.

We are leaving out out the refs_read_special_head() in
refs_read_raw_ref() for now, as noted in a subsequent commit moving it
to "failure_errno" will require some special consideration.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16 11:17:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f6c075ad71 Merge branch 'jk/ref-paranoia'
The ref iteration code used to optionally allow dangling refs to be
shown, which has been tightened up.

* jk/ref-paranoia:
  refs: drop "broken" flag from for_each_fullref_in()
  ref-filter: drop broken-ref code entirely
  ref-filter: stop setting FILTER_REFS_INCLUDE_BROKEN
  repack, prune: drop GIT_REF_PARANOIA settings
  refs: turn on GIT_REF_PARANOIA by default
  refs: omit dangling symrefs when using GIT_REF_PARANOIA
  refs: add DO_FOR_EACH_OMIT_DANGLING_SYMREFS flag
  refs-internal.h: reorganize DO_FOR_EACH_* flag documentation
  refs-internal.h: move DO_FOR_EACH_* flags next to each other
  t5312: be more assertive about command failure
  t5312: test non-destructive repack
  t5312: create bogus ref as necessary
  t5312: drop "verbose" helper
  t5600: provide detached HEAD for corruption failures
  t5516: don't use HEAD ref for invalid ref-deletion tests
  t7900: clean up some more broken refs
2021-10-11 10:21:47 -07:00
Jonathan Tan 8788195c88 refs: peeling non-the_repository iterators is BUG
There is currently no support for peeling the current ref of an iterator
iterating over a non-the_repository ref store, and none is needed. Thus,
for now, BUG() if that happens.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-08 15:06:06 -07:00
Jonathan Tan 9bc45a2802 refs: teach arbitrary repo support to iterators
Note that should_pack_ref() is called when writing refs, which is only
supported for the_repository, hence the_repository is hardcoded there.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-08 15:06:05 -07:00
Jonathan Tan 34224e14d6 refs: plumb repo into ref stores
In preparation for the next 2 patches that adds (partial) support for
arbitrary repositories to ref iterators, plumb a repository into all ref
stores. There are no changes to program logic.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-08 15:06:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 870de59af0 Merge branch 'ab/retire-refs-unused-funcs'
Code cleanup.

* ab/retire-refs-unused-funcs:
  refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove "incomplete" from create_dir_entry()
  refs/ref-cache.c: remove "mkdir" parameter from find_containing_dir()
  refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove unused add_ref_entry()
  refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove unused remove_entry_from_dir()
  refs.[ch]: remove unused ref_storage_backend_exists()
2021-10-06 13:40:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 92382d14cd Merge branch 'hn/refs-errno-cleanup'
Futz with the way 'errno' is relied on in the refs API to carry the
failure modes up the call chain.

* hn/refs-errno-cleanup:
  refs: make errno output explicit for read_raw_ref_fn
  refs/files-backend: stop setting errno from lock_ref_oid_basic
  refs: remove EINVAL errno output from specification of read_raw_ref_fn
  refs file backend: move raceproof_create_file() here
2021-10-03 21:49:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 842d45d293 Merge branch 'ab/refs-files-cleanup'
Continued work on top of the hn/refs-errno-cleanup topic.

* ab/refs-files-cleanup:
  refs/files: remove unused "errno != ENOTDIR" condition
  refs/files: remove unused "errno == EISDIR" code
  refs/files: remove unused "oid" in lock_ref_oid_basic()
  refs API: remove OID argument to reflog_expire()
  reflog expire: don't lock reflogs using previously seen OID
  refs/files: add a comment about refs_reflog_exists() call
  refs: make repo_dwim_log() accept a NULL oid
  refs/debug: re-indent argument list for "prepare"
  refs/files: remove unused "skip" in lock_raw_ref() too
  refs/files: remove unused "extras/skip" in lock_ref_oid_basic()
  refs: drop unused "flags" parameter to lock_ref_oid_basic()
  refs/files: remove unused REF_DELETING in lock_ref_oid_basic()
  refs/packet: add missing BUG() invocations to reflog callbacks
2021-10-03 21:49:18 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 750036c8f7 refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove "incomplete" from create_dir_entry()
Remove the now-unused "incomplete" parameter from create_dir_entry(),
all its callers specify it as "1", so let's drop the "incomplete=0"
case. The last caller to use it was search_for_subdir(), but that code
was removed in the preceding commit.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-28 15:12:04 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 5e4546d599 refs/ref-cache.c: remove "mkdir" parameter from find_containing_dir()
Remove the "mkdir" parameter from the find_containing_dir() function,
the add_ref_entry() function removed in the preceding commit was its
last user.

Since "mkdir" is always "0" we can also remove the parameter from
search_for_subdir(), which in turn means that we can delete most of
that function.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-28 15:12:04 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 6a99fa2e9e refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove unused add_ref_entry()
This function has not been used since 9dd389f3d8 (packed_ref_store:
get rid of the `ref_cache` entirely, 2017-09-25).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-28 15:12:04 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 34e8a20d76 refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove unused remove_entry_from_dir()
This function was missed in 9939b33d6a (packed-backend: rip out some
now-unused code, 2017-09-08), and has been orphaned since then. Let's
delete it.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-28 15:12:04 -07:00
Jeff King 8dccb2244c refs: add DO_FOR_EACH_OMIT_DANGLING_SYMREFS flag
When the DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_BROKEN flag is used, we include both actual
corrupt refs (illegal names, missing objects), but also symrefs that
point to nothing. This latter is not really a corruption, but just
something that may happen normally. For example, the symref at
refs/remotes/origin/HEAD may point to a tracking branch which is later
deleted. (The local HEAD may also be unborn, of course, but we do not
access it through ref iteration).

Most callers of for_each_ref() etc, do not care. They don't pass
INCLUDE_BROKEN, so don't see it at all. But for those which do pass it,
this somewhat-normal state causes extra warnings (e.g., from
for-each-ref) or even aborts operations (destructive repacks with
GIT_REF_PARANOIA set).

This patch just introduces the flag and the mechanism; there are no
callers yet (and hence no tests). Two things to note on the
implementation:

  - we actually skip any symref that does not resolve to a ref. This
    includes ones which point to an invalidly-named ref. You could argue
    this is a more serious breakage than simple dangling. But the
    overall effect is the same (we could not follow the symref), as well
    as the impact on things like REF_PARANOIA (either way, a symref we
    can't follow won't impact reachability, because we'll see the ref
    itself during iteration). The underlying resolution function doesn't
    distinguish these two cases (they both get REF_ISBROKEN).

  - we change the iterator in refs/files-backend.c where we check
    INCLUDE_BROKEN. There's a matching spot in refs/packed-backend.c,
    but we don't know need to do anything there. The packed backend does
    not support symrefs at all.

The resulting set of flags might be a bit easier to follow if we broke
this down into "INCLUDE_CORRUPT_REFS" and "INCLUDE_DANGLING_SYMREFS".
But there are a few reasons not do so:

  - adding a new OMIT_DANGLING_SYMREFS flag lets us leave existing
    callers intact, without changing their behavior (and some of them
    really do want to see the dangling symrefs; e.g., t5505 has a test
    which expects us to report when a symref becomes dangling)

  - they're not actually independent. You cannot say "include dangling
    symrefs" without also including refs whose objects are not
    reachable, because dangling symrefs by definition do not have an
    object. We could tweak the implementation to distinguish this, but
    in practice nobody wants to ask for that. Adding the OMIT flag keeps
    the implementation simple and makes sure we don't regress the
    current behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-27 12:36:45 -07:00
Jeff King 9aab952e85 refs-internal.h: reorganize DO_FOR_EACH_* flag documentation
The documentation for the DO_FOR_EACH_* flags is sprinkled over the
refs-internal.h file. We define the two flags in one spot, and then
describe them in more detail far away from there, in the definitions of
refs_ref_iterator_begin() and ref_iterator_advance_fn().

Let's try to organize this a bit better:

  - convert the #defines to an enum. This makes it clear that they are
    related, and that the enum shows the complete set of flags.

  - combine all descriptions for each flag in a single spot, next to the
    flag's definition

  - use the enum rather than a bare int for functions which take the
    flags. This helps readers realize which flags can be used.

  - clarify the mention of flags for ref_iterator_advance_fn(). It does
    not take flags itself, but is meant to depend on ones set up
    earlier.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-27 12:36:45 -07:00
Jeff King bf708add2e refs-internal.h: move DO_FOR_EACH_* flags next to each other
There are currently two DO_FOR_EACH_* flags, which must not have their
bits overlap. Yet they're defined hundreds of lines apart. Let's move
them next to each other to make it clear that they are related and are a
complete set (which matters if you are adding a new flag and would like
to know what the next available bit is).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-27 12:36:45 -07:00
René Scharfe 35cf94eaf6 refs/files-backend: remove unused open mode parameter
We only need to provide a mode if we are willing to let open(2) create
the file, which is not the case here, so drop the unnecessary parameter.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-09 17:40:28 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 5b12e16bb1 refs: make errno output explicit for read_raw_ref_fn
This makes it explicit how alternative ref backends should report errors in
read_raw_ref_fn.

read_raw_ref_fn needs to supply a credible errno for a number of cases. These
are primarily:

1) The files backend calls read_raw_ref from lock_raw_ref, and uses the
resulting error codes to create/remove directories as needed.

2) ENOENT should be translated in a zero OID, optionally with REF_ISBROKEN set,
returning the last successfully resolved symref. This is necessary so
read_raw_ref("HEAD") on an empty repo returns refs/heads/main (or the default branch
du-jour), and we know on which branch to create the first commit.

Make this information flow explicit by adding a failure_errno to the signature
of read_raw_ref. All errnos from the files backend are still propagated
unchanged, even though inspection suggests only ENOTDIR, EISDIR and ENOENT are
relevant.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:30:26 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 1ae6ed230a refs/files-backend: stop setting errno from lock_ref_oid_basic
refs/files-backend.c::lock_ref_oid_basic() tries to signal how it failed
to its callers using errno.

It is safe to stop setting errno here, because the callers of this
file-scope static function are

* files_copy_or_rename_ref()
* files_create_symref()
* files_reflog_expire()

None of them looks at errno after seeing a negative return from
lock_ref_oid_basic() to make any decision, and no caller of these three
functions looks at errno after they signal a failure by returning a
negative value. In particular,

* files_copy_or_rename_ref() - here, calls are followed by error()
(which performs I/O) or write_ref_to_lockfile() (which calls
parse_object() which may perform I/O)

* files_create_symref() - here, calls are followed by error() or
create_symref_locked() (which performs I/O and does not inspect
errno)

* files_reflog_expire() - here, calls are followed by error() or
refs_reflog_exists() (which calls a function in a vtable that is not
documented to use and/or preserve errno)

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:30:26 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 20d422cfd7 refs: remove EINVAL errno output from specification of read_raw_ref_fn
This commit does not change code; it documents the fact that an alternate ref
backend does not need to return EINVAL from read_raw_ref_fn to function
properly.

This is correct, because refs_read_raw_ref is only called from;

* resolve_ref_unsafe(), which does not care for the EINVAL errno result.

* refs_verify_refname_available(), which does not inspect errno.

* files-backend.c, where errno is overwritten on failure.

* packed-backend.c (is_packed_transaction_needed), which calls it for the
  packed ref backend, which never emits EINVAL.

A grep for EINVAL */*c reveals that no code checks errno against EINVAL after
reading references. In addition, the refs.h file does not mention errno at all.

A grep over resolve_ref_unsafe() turned up the following callers that inspect
errno:

* sequencer.c::print_commit_summary, which uses it for die_errno

* lock_ref_oid_basic(), which only treats EISDIR and ENOTDIR specially.

The files ref backend does use EINVAL. The files backend does not call into
the generic API (refs_read_raw), but into the files-specific function
(files_read_raw_ref), which we are not changing in this commit.

As the errno sideband is unintuitive and error-prone, remove EINVAL
value, as a step towards getting rid of the errno sideband altogether.

Spotted by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:30:26 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 3fa2e91d17 refs file backend: move raceproof_create_file() here
Move the raceproof_create_file() API added to cache.h and
object-file.c in 177978f56a (raceproof_create_file(): new function,
2017-01-06) to its only user, refs/files-backend.c.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:30:26 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 48cdcd9ca0 refs/files: remove unused "errno != ENOTDIR" condition
As a follow-up to the preceding commit where we removed the adjacent
"errno == EISDIR" condition in the same function, remove the
"last_errno != ENOTDIR" condition here.

It's not possible for us to hit this condition added in
5b2d8d6f21 (lock_ref_sha1_basic(): improve diagnostics for ref D/F
conflicts, 2015-05-11). Since a1c1d8170d (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe:
handle d/f conflicts for writes, 2017-10-06) we've explicitly caught
these in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() before returning NULL:

	if (errno != ENOENT &&
	    errno != EISDIR &&
	    errno != ENOTDIR)
		return NULL;

We'd then always return the refname from refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()
even if we were in a broken state as explained in the preceding
commit. The elided context here is a call to refs_resolve_ref_unsafe().

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 245fbba46d refs/files: remove unused "errno == EISDIR" code
When we lock a reference like "foo" we need to handle the case where
"foo" exists, but is an empty directory. That's what this code added
in bc7127ef0f (ref locking: allow 'foo' when 'foo/bar' used to exist
but not anymore., 2006-09-30) seems like it should be dealing with.

Except it doesn't, and we never take this branch. The reason is that
when bc7127ef0f was written this looked like:

	ref = resolve_ref([...]);
	if (!ref && errno == EISDIR) {
	[...]

And in resolve_ref() we had this code:

	fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
	if (fd < 0)
		return NULL;

I.e. we would attempt to read "foo" with open(), which would fail with
EISDIR and we'd return NULL. We'd then take this branch, call
remove_empty_directories() and continue.

Since a1c1d8170d (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for
writes, 2017-10-06) we don't. E.g. in the case of
files_copy_or_rename_ref() our callstack will look something like:

	[...] ->
	files_copy_or_rename_ref() ->
	lock_ref_oid_basic() ->
	refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()

At that point the first (now only) refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() call in
lock_ref_oid_basic() would do the equivalent of this in the resulting
call to refs_read_raw_ref() in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe():

	/* Via refs_read_raw_ref() */
	fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
	if (fd < 0)
		/* get errno == EISDIR */
	/* later, in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() */
	if ([...] && errno != EISDIR)
		return NULL;
	[...]
	/* returns the refs/heads/foo to the caller, even though it's a directory */
	return refname;

I.e. even though we got an "errno == EISDIR" we won't take this
branch, since in cases of EISDIR "resolved" is always
non-NULL. I.e. we pretend at this point as though everything's OK and
there is no "foo" directory.

We then proceed with the entire ref update and don't call
remove_empty_directories() until we call commit_ref_update(). See
5387c0d883 (commit_ref(): if there is an empty dir in the way, delete
it, 2016-05-05) for the addition of that code, and
a1c1d8170d (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes,
2017-10-06) for the commit that changed the original codepath added in
bc7127ef0f to use this "EISDIR" handling.

Further historical commentary:

Before the two preceding commits the caller in files_reflog_expire()
was the only one out of our 4 callers that would pass non-NULL as an
oid. We would then set a (now gone) "resolve_flags" to
"RESOLVE_REF_READING" and just before that "errno != EISDIR" check do:

	if (resolve_flags & RESOLVE_REF_READING)
		return NULL;

There may have been some case where this ended up mattering and we
couldn't safely make this change before we removed the "oid"
parameter, but I don't think there was, see [1] for some discussion on
that.

In any case, now that we've removed the "oid" parameter in a preceding
commit we can be sure that this code is redundant, so let's remove it.

1. http://lore.kernel.org/git/871r801yp6.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ff7a2e4dbb refs/files: remove unused "oid" in lock_ref_oid_basic()
In the preceding commit the last caller that passed a non-NULL OID was
changed to pass NULL to lock_ref_oid_basic(). As noted in preceding
commits use of this API has been going away (we should use ref
transactions, or lock_raw_ref()), so we're unlikely to gain new
callers that want to pass the "oid".

So let's remove it, doing so means we can remove the "mustexist"
condition, and therefore anything except the "flags =
RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE" case.

Furthermore, since the verify_lock() function we called did most of
its work when the "oid" was passed (as "old_oid") we can inline the
trivial part of it that remains in its only remaining caller. Without
a NULL "oid" passed it was equivalent to calling refs_read_ref_full()
followed by oidclr().

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason cc40b5ce13 refs API: remove OID argument to reflog_expire()
Since the the preceding commit the "oid" parameter to reflog_expire()
is always NULL, but it was not cleaned up to reduce the size of the
diff. Let's do that subsequent API and documentation cleanup now.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ae35e16cd4 reflog expire: don't lock reflogs using previously seen OID
During reflog expiry, the cmd_reflog_expire() function first iterates
over all reflogs in logs/*, and then one-by-one acquires the lock for
each one and expires it. This behavior has been with us since this
command was implemented in 4264dc15e1 ("git reflog expire",
2006-12-19).

Change this to stop calling lock_ref_oid_basic() with the OID we saw
when we looped over the logs, instead have it pass the OID it managed
to lock.

This mostly mitigates a race condition where e.g. "git gc" will fail
in a concurrently updated repository because the branch moved since
"git reflog expire --all" was started. I.e. with:

    error: cannot lock ref '<refname>': ref '<refname>' is at <OID-A> but expected <OID-B>

This behavior of passing in an "oid" was needed for an edge-case that
I've untangled in this and preceding commits though, namely that we
needed this OID because we'd:

 1. Lookup the reflog name/OID via dwim_log()
 2. With that OID, lock the reflog
 3. Later in builtin/reflog.c we use the OID we looked as input to
    lookup_commit_reference_gently(), assured that it's equal to the
    OID we got from dwim_log().

We can be sure that this change is safe to make because between
dwim_log (step #1) and lock_ref_oid_basic (step #2) there was no other
logic relevant to the OID or expiry run in the cmd_reflog_expire()
caller.

We can thus treat that code as a black box, before and after this
change it would get an OID that's been locked, the only difference is
that now we mostly won't be failing to get the lock due to the TOCTOU
race[0]. That failure was purely an implementation detail in how the
"current OID" was looked up, it was divorced from the locking
mechanism.

What do we mean with "mostly"? It mostly mitigates it because we'll
still run into cases where the ref is locked and being updated as we
want to expire it, and other git processes wanting to update the refs
will in turn race with us as we expire the reflog.

That remaining race can in turn be mitigated with the
core.filesRefLockTimeout setting, see 4ff0f01cb7 ("refs: retry
acquiring reference locks for 100ms", 2017-08-21). In practice if that
value is high enough we'll probably never have ref updates or reflog
expiry failing, since the clients involved will retry for far longer
than the time any of those operations could take.

See [1] for an initial report of how this impacted "git gc" and a
large discussion about this change in early 2019. In particular patch
looked good to Michael Haggerty, see his[2]. That message seems to not
have made it to the ML archive, its content is quoted in full in my
[3].

I'm leaving behind now-unused code the refs API etc. that takes the
now-NULL "unused_oid" argument, and other code that can be simplified now
that we never have on OID in that context, that'll be cleaned up in
subsequent commits, but for now let's narrowly focus on fixing the
"git gc" issue. As the modified assert() shows we always pass a NULL
oid to reflog_expire() now.

Unfortunately this sort of probabilistic contention is hard to turn
into a test. I've tested this by running the following three subshells
in concurrent terminals:

    (
        rm -rf /tmp/git &&
        git init /tmp/git &&
        while true
        do
            head -c 10 /dev/urandom | hexdump >/tmp/git/out &&
            git -C /tmp/git add out &&
            git -C /tmp/git commit -m"out"
        done
    )

    (
	rm -rf /tmp/git-clone &&
        git clone file:///tmp/git /tmp/git-clone &&
        while git -C /tmp/git-clone pull
        do
            date
        done
    )

    (
        while git -C /tmp/git-clone reflog expire --all
        do
            date
        done
    )

Before this change the "reflog expire" would fail really quickly with
the "but expected" error noted above.

After this change both the "pull" and "reflog expire" will run for a
while, but eventually fail because I get unlucky with
core.filesRefLockTimeout (the "reflog expire" is in a really tight
loop). As noted above that can in turn be mitigated with higher values
of core.filesRefLockTimeout than the 100ms default.

As noted in the commentary added in the preceding commit there's also
the case of branches being racily deleted, that can be tested by
adding this to the above:

    (
        while git -C /tmp/git-clone branch topic master &&
	      git -C /tmp/git-clone branch -D topic
        do
            date
        done
    )

With core.filesRefLockTimeout set to 10 seconds (it can probably be a
lot lower) I managed to run all four of these concurrently for about
an hour, and accumulated ~125k commits, auto-gc's and all, and didn't
have a single failure. The loops visibly stall while waiting for the
lock, but that's expected and desired behavior.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87tvg7brlm.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
2. http://lore.kernel.org/git/b870a17d-2103-41b8-3cbc-7389d5fff33a@alum.mit.edu
3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87pnqkco8v.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 7aa7829f75 refs/files: add a comment about refs_reflog_exists() call
Add a comment about why it is that we need to check for the the
existence of a reflog we're deleting after we've successfully acquired
the lock in files_reflog_expire(). As noted in [1] the lock protocol
for reflogs is somewhat intuitive.

This early exit code the comment applies to dates all the way back to
4264dc15e1 (git reflog expire, 2006-12-19).

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/54DCDA42.2060800@alum.mit.edu/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 81bc122589 refs/debug: re-indent argument list for "prepare"
Re-indent this argument list that's been mis-indented since it was
added in 34c319970d (refs/debug: trace into reflog expiry too,
2021-04-23). This makes a subsequent change smaller.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 640d9d55c3 refs/files: remove unused "skip" in lock_raw_ref() too
Remove the unused "skip" parameter to lock_raw_ref(), it was never
used. We do use it when passing "skip" to the
refs_rename_ref_available() function in files_copy_or_rename_ref(),
but not here.

This is part of a larger series that modifies lock_ref_oid_basic()
extensively, there will be no more modifications of this function in
this series, but since the preceding commit removed this unused
parameter from lock_ref_oid_basic(), let's do it here too for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 11e984da07 refs/files: remove unused "extras/skip" in lock_ref_oid_basic()
The lock_ref_oid_basic() function has gradually been replaced by use
of the file transaction API, there are only 4 remaining callers of
it.

None of those callers pass non-NULL "extras" and "skip" parameters,
the last such caller went away in 92b1551b1d (refs: resolve symbolic
refs first, 2016-04-25), so let's remove the parameters.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Jeff King 491ad946b2 refs: drop unused "flags" parameter to lock_ref_oid_basic()
In the last commit we removed the REF_DELETING flag from
lock_ref_oid_basic(). Since then all of the remaining callers do pass
REF_NO_DEREF, but that has been ignored completely since
7a418f3a17 (lock_ref_sha1_basic(): only handle REF_NODEREF mode,
2016-04-22).

So we can simply get rid of the parameter entirely.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 13:27:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 212631ed50 refs/files: remove unused REF_DELETING in lock_ref_oid_basic()
The lock_ref_oid_basic() function has gradually been replaced by
most callers no longer performing a low-level "acquire lock,
update and release", and instead using the ref transaction API.
So there are only 4 remaining callers of lock_ref_oid_basic().

None of those callers pass REF_DELETING anymore, the last caller went
away in 92b1551b1d (refs: resolve symbolic refs first,
2016-04-25).

Before that we'd refactored and moved this code in:

 - 8df4e51138 (struct ref_update: move "have_old" into "flags",
   2015-02-17)

 - 7bd9bcf372 (refs: split filesystem-based refs code into a new
   file, 2015-11-09)

 - 165056b2fc (lock_ref_for_update(): new function, 2016-04-24)

We then finally stopped using it in 92b1551b1d (noted above). So let's
remove the handling of this parameter.

By itself this change doesn't benefit us much, but it's the start of
even more removal of unused code in and around this function in
subsequent commits.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-19 19:06:38 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 881aebffcf refs/packet: add missing BUG() invocations to reflog callbacks
In e0cc8ac820 (packed_ref_store: make class into a subclass of
`ref_store`, 2017-06-23) a die() was added to packed_create_reflog(),
but not to any of the other reflog callbacks, let's do that.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-19 19:06:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano aaf113ed95 Merge branch 'hn/refs-debug-empty-prefix'
Debugging aid.

* hn/refs-debug-empty-prefix:
  refs/debug: quote prefix
2021-07-28 13:18:04 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys c510928a25 refs/debug: quote prefix
This makes the empty prefix ("") stand out better.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-19 14:32:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano bd4232fac3 Merge branch 'ab/struct-init'
Code cleanup around struct_type_init() functions.

* ab/struct-init:
  string-list.h users: change to use *_{nodup,dup}()
  string-list.[ch]: add a string_list_init_{nodup,dup}()
  dir.[ch]: replace dir_init() with DIR_INIT
  *.c *_init(): define in terms of corresponding *_INIT macro
  *.h: move some *_INIT to designated initializers
2021-07-16 17:42:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f0ade787ac Merge branch 'hn/refs-iterator-peel-returns-boolean'
Tiny API tweak.

* hn/refs-iterator-peel-returns-boolean:
  refs: make explicit that ref_iterator_peel returns boolean
2021-07-16 17:42:49 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason bc40dfb10a string-list.h users: change to use *_{nodup,dup}()
Change all in-tree users of the string_list_init(LIST, BOOL) API to
use string_list_init_{nodup,dup}(LIST) instead.

As noted in the preceding commit let's leave the now-unused
string_list_init() wrapper in-place for any in-flight users, it can be
removed at some later date.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-01 12:32:22 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 617480d75b refs: make explicit that ref_iterator_peel returns boolean
Use -1 as error return value throughout.

This removes spurious differences in the GIT_TRACE_REFS output, depending on the
ref storage backend active.

Before, the cached ref_iterator (but only that iterator!) would return
peel_object() output directly. No callers relied on the peel_status values
beyond success/failure. All calls to these functions go through
peel_iterated_oid(), which returns peel_object() as a fallback, but also
squashing the error values.

The iteration interface already passes REF_ISSYMREF and REF_ISBROKEN through the
flags argument, so the additional error values in enum peel_status provide no
value.

The ref iteration interface provides a separate peel() function because certain
formats (eg. packed-refs and reftable) can store the peeled object next to the
tag SHA1. Passing the peeled SHA1 as an optional argument to each_ref_fn maps
more naturally to the implementation of ref databases. Changing the code in this
way is left for a future refactoring.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-20 07:54:12 +09:00
Junio C Hamano 16f91451fa Merge branch 'wc/packed-ref-removal-cleanup'
When "git update-ref -d" removes a ref that is packed, it left
empty directories under $GIT_DIR/refs/ for

* wc/packed-ref-removal-cleanup:
  refs: cleanup directories when deleting packed ref
2021-05-16 21:05:24 +09:00
Will Chandler 5f03e5126d refs: cleanup directories when deleting packed ref
When deleting a packed ref via 'update-ref -d', a lockfile is made in
the directory that would contain the loose copy of that ref, creating
any directories in the ref's path that do not exist. When the
transaction completes, the lockfile is deleted, but any empty parent
directories made when creating the lockfile are left in place.  These
empty directories are not removed by 'pack-refs' or other housekeeping
tasks and will accumulate over time.

When deleting a loose ref, we remove all empty parent directories at the
end of the transaction.

This commit applies the parent directory cleanup logic used when
deleting loose refs to packed refs as well.

Signed-off-by: Will Chandler <wfc@wfchandler.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-11 13:59:57 +09:00
Junio C Hamano aaa3c8065d Merge branch 'bc/hash-transition-interop-part-1'
SHA-256 transition.

* bc/hash-transition-interop-part-1:
  hex: print objects using the hash algorithm member
  hex: default to the_hash_algo on zero algorithm value
  builtin/pack-objects: avoid using struct object_id for pack hash
  commit-graph: don't store file hashes as struct object_id
  builtin/show-index: set the algorithm for object IDs
  hash: provide per-algorithm null OIDs
  hash: set, copy, and use algo field in struct object_id
  builtin/pack-redundant: avoid casting buffers to struct object_id
  Use the final_oid_fn to finalize hashing of object IDs
  hash: add a function to finalize object IDs
  http-push: set algorithm when reading object ID
  Always use oidread to read into struct object_id
  hash: add an algo member to struct object_id
2021-05-10 16:59:46 +09:00
Junio C Hamano a850356d1b Merge branch 'hn/trace-reflog-expiry'
The reflog expiry machinery has been taught to emit trace events.

* hn/trace-reflog-expiry:
  refs/debug: trace into reflog expiry too
2021-05-07 12:47:38 +09:00
brian m. carlson 14228447c9 hash: provide per-algorithm null OIDs
Up until recently, object IDs did not have an algorithm member, only a
hash.  Consequently, it was possible to share one null (all-zeros)
object ID among all hash algorithms.  Now that we're going to be
handling objects from multiple hash algorithms, it's important to make
sure that all object IDs have a correct algorithm field.

Introduce a per-algorithm null OID, and add it to struct hash_algo.
Introduce a wrapper function as well, and use it everywhere we used to
use the null_oid constant.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-27 16:31:39 +09:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys 34c319970d refs/debug: trace into reflog expiry too
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-27 15:59:39 +09:00