As part of the multi-pack reuse effort, we will want to add some tests
that assert that we reused a certain number of objects from a certain
number of packs.
We could do this by grepping through the stderr output of
`pack-objects`, but doing so would be brittle in case the output format
changed.
Instead, let's use the trace2 mechanism to log various pieces of
information about the generated packfile, which we can then use to
compare against desired values.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that the pack-objects code is equipped to handle reusing objects
from multiple packs, prepare the pack-bitmap code to mark objects from
multiple packs as reuse candidates.
In order to prepare the pack-bitmap code for this change, remove the
same set of assumptions we unwound in previous commits from the helper
function `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap_1()`, in preparation for it
to be called in a loop over the set of bitmapped packs in a following
commit.
Most importantly, we can no longer assume that the bit position
corresponding to the first object in a given reuse pack candidate is at
the beginning of the bitmap itself.
For the single pack that this assumption is still true for (in MIDX
bitmaps, this is the preferred pack, in single-pack bitmaps it is the
pack the bitmap is tied to), we can still use our whole-words
optimization.
But for all subsequent packs, we can not make use of this optimization,
since it assumes that all delta bases are being sent from the same pack,
which would break if we are sending OFS_DELTAs down to the client. To
understand why, consider two packs, P1 and P2 where:
- P1 has object A which is a delta on base B
- P2 has its own copy of B, in addition to other objects
Suppose that the MIDX which covers P1 and P2 selected its copy of A from
P1, but selected its copy of B from P2. Since A is a delta of B, but the
base was selected from a different pack, sending the bytes corresponding
to A as an OFS_DELTA verbatim from P1 would be incorrect, since we don't
guarantee that B is in the same place relative to A in the generated
pack as in P1.
For now, we detect and reject these cross-pack deltas by searching for
the (pack_id, offset) pair for the delta's base object (using the same
pack_id as the pack containing the delta'd object) in the MIDX. If we
find a match, that means that the MIDX did indeed pick the base object
from the same pack, and we are OK to reuse the delta.
If we don't find a match, however, that means that the base object was
selected from a different pack in the MIDX, and we can let the slower
path handle re-delta'ing our candidate object.
In the future, there are a couple of other things we could do, namely:
- Turn any cross-pack deltas (which are stored as OFS_DELTAs) into
REF_DELTAs. We already do this today when reusing an OFS_DELTA
without `--delta-base-offset` enabled, so it's not a huge stretch to
do the same for cross-pack deltas even when `--delta-base-offset` is
enabled.
This would work, but would obviously result in larger-than-necessary
packs, as we in theory *could* represent these cross-pack deltas by
patching an existing OFS_DELTA. But it's not clear how much that
would matter in practice. I suspect it would have a lot to do with
how you pack your repository in the first place.
- Finally, we could patch OFS_DELTAs across packs in a similar fashion
as we do today for OFS_DELTAs within a single pack on either side of
a gap. This would result in the smallest packs of the three options
here, but implementing this would be more involved.
At minimum, you'd have to keep the reusable chunks list for all
reused packs, not just the one we're currently processing. And you'd
have to ensure that any bases which are a part of cross-pack deltas
appear before the delta. I think this is possible to do, but would
require assembling the reusable chunks list potentially in a
different order than they appear in the source packs.
For now, let's pursue the simplest approach and reject any cross-pack
deltas.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we have extracted the `midx_key_to_pack_pos()` function, we can
implement the `midx_pair_to_pack_pos()` function which accepts (pack_id,
offset) tuples and returns an index into the psuedo-pack order.
This will be used in a following commit in order to figure out whether
or not the MIDX chose a given delta's base object from the same pack as
the delta resides in. It will do so by locating the base object's offset
in the pack, and then performing a binary search using the same pack ID
with the base object's offset.
If (and only if) it finds a match (at any position) we can guarantee
that the MIDX selected both halves of the delta/base pair from the same
pack.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `midx_to_pack_pos()` function implements a binary search over
objects in the MIDX between lexical and pseudo-pack order. It does this
by taking in an index into the lexical order (i.e. the same argument
you'd use for `nth_midxed_object_id()` and similar) and spits out a
position in the pseudo-pack order.
This works for all callers, since they currently all are translating
from lexical order to pseudo-pack order. But future callers may want to
translate a known (offset, pack_id) tuple into an index into the
psuedo-pack order, without knowing where that (offset, pack_id) tuple
appears in lexical order.
Prepare for implementing a function that translates between a (offset,
pack_id) tuple into an index into the psuedo-pack order by extracting a
helper function which does just that, and then reimplementing
midx_to_pack_pos() in terms of it.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When performing a binary search over the objects in a MIDX's bitmap
(i.e. in pseudo-pack order), the reader reconstructs the pseudo-pack
ordering using a combination of (a) the preferred pack, (b) the pack's
lexical position in the MIDX based on pack names, and (c) the object
offset within the pack.
In order to perform this binary search, the reader must know the
identity of the preferred pack. This could be stored in the MIDX, but
isn't for historical reasons, mostly because it can easily be inferred
at read-time by looking at the object in the first bit position and
finding out which pack it was selected from in the MIDX, like so:
nth_midxed_pack_int_id(m, pack_pos_to_midx(m, 0));
In midx_to_pack_pos() which performs this binary search, we look up the
identity of the preferred pack before each search. This is relatively
quick, since it involves two table-driven lookups (one in the MIDX's
revindex for `pack_pos_to_midx()`, and another in the MIDX's object
table for `nth_midxed_pack_int_id()`).
But since the preferred pack does not change after the MIDX is written,
it is safe to cache this value on the MIDX itself.
Write a helper to do just that, and rewrite all of the existing
call-sites that care about the identity of the preferred pack in terms
of this new helper.
This will prepare us for a subsequent patch where we will need to binary
search through the MIDX's pseudo-pack order multiple times.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a similar fashion as other checked cast functions in this header
(such as `cast_size_t_to_ulong()` and `cast_size_t_to_int()`), implement
a checked cast function for going from a size_t to a uint32_t value.
This function will be utilized in a future commit which needs to make
such a conversion.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to including the number of objects reused verbatim from a
reuse-pack, include the number of packs from which objects were reused.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `write_reused_pack_verbatim()` within
`builtin/pack-objects.c` is responsible for writing out a continuous
set of objects beginning at the start of the reuse packfile.
In the existing implementation, we did something like:
while (pos < reuse_packfile_bitmap->word_alloc &&
reuse_packfile_bitmap->words[pos] == (eword_t)~0)
pos++;
if (pos)
/* write first `pos * BITS_IN_WORD` objects from pack */
as an optimization to record a single chunk for the longest continuous
prefix of objects wanted out of the reuse pack, instead of having a
chunk for each individual object. For more details, see bb514de356
(pack-objects: improve partial packfile reuse, 2019-12-18).
In order to retain this optimization in a multi-pack reuse world, we can
no longer assume that the first object in a pack is on a word boundary
in the bitmap storing the set of reusable objects.
Assuming that all objects from the beginning of the reuse packfile up to
the object corresponding to the first bit on a word boundary are part of
the result, consume whole words at a time until the last whole word
belonging to the reuse packfile. Copy those objects to the resulting
packfile, and track that we reused them by recording a single chunk.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `write_reused_pack()` within `builtin/pack-objects.c` is
responsible for performing pack-reuse on a single pack, and has two main
functions:
- it dispatches a call to `write_reused_pack_verbatim()` to see if we
can reuse portions of the packfile in whole-word chunks
- for any remaining objects (that is, any objects that appear after
the first "gap" in the bitmap), call write_reused_pack_one() on that
object to record it for reuse.
Prepare this function for multi-pack reuse by removing the assumption
that the bit position corresponding to the first object being reused
from a given pack must be at bit position zero.
The changes in this function are mostly straightforward. Initialize `i`
to the position of the first word to contain bits corresponding to that
reuse pack. In most situations, we throw the initialized value away,
since we end up replacing it with the return value from
write_reused_pack_verbatim(), moving us past the section of whole words
that we reused.
Likewise, modify the per-object loop to ignore any bits at the beginning
of the first word that do not belong to the pack currently being reused,
as well as skip to the "done" section once we have processed the last
bit corresponding to this pack.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Further prepare pack-objects to perform verbatim pack-reuse over
multiple packfiles by converting functions that take in a pointer to a
`struct packed_git` to instead take in a pointer to a `struct
bitmapped_pack`.
The additional information found in the bitmapped_pack struct (such as
the bit position corresponding to the beginning of the pack) will be
necessary in order to perform verbatim pack-reuse.
Note that we don't use any of the extra pieces of information contained
in the bitmapped_pack struct, so this step is merely preparatory and
does not introduce any functional changes.
Note further that we do not change the argument type to
write_reused_pack_one(). That function is responsible for copying
sections of the packfile directly and optionally patching any OFS_DELTAs
to account for not reusing sections of the packfile in between a delta
and its base.
As such, that function is (and should remain) oblivious to multi-pack
reuse, and does not require any of the extra pieces of information
stored in the bitmapped_pack struct.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When reusing objects from a pack, we keep track of a set of one or more
`reused_chunk`s, corresponding to sections of one or more object(s) from
a source pack that we are reusing. Each chunk contains two pieces of
information:
- the offset of the first object in the source pack (relative to the
beginning of the source pack)
- the difference between that offset, and the corresponding offset in
the pack we're generating
The purpose of keeping track of these is so that we can patch an
OFS_DELTAs that cross over a section of the reuse pack that we didn't
take.
For instance, consider a hypothetical pack as shown below:
(chunk #2)
__________...
/
/
+--------+---------+-------------------+---------+
... | <base> | <other> | (unused) | <delta> | ...
+--------+---------+-------------------+---------+
\ /
\______________/
(chunk #1)
Suppose that we are sending objects "base", "other", and "delta", and
that the "delta" object is stored as an OFS_DELTA, and that its base is
"base". If we don't send any objects in the "(unused)" range, we can't
copy the delta'd object directly, since its delta offset includes a
range of the pack that we didn't copy, so we have to account for that
difference when patching and reassembling the delta.
In order to compute this value correctly, we need to know not only where
we are in the packfile we're assembling (with `hashfile_total(f)`) but
also the position of the first byte of the packfile that we are
currently reusing. Currently, this works just fine, since when reusing
only a single pack those two values are always identical (because
verbatim reuse is the first thing pack-objects does when enabled after
writing the pack header).
But when reusing multiple packs which have one or more gaps, we'll need
to account for these two values diverging.
Together, these two allow us to compute the reused chunk's offset
difference relative to the start of the reused pack, as desired.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The routines pack-objects uses to perform verbatim pack-reuse are:
- write_reused_pack_one()
- write_reused_pack_verbatim()
- write_reused_pack()
, all of which assume that there is exactly one packfile being reused:
the global constant `reuse_packfile`.
Prepare for reusing objects from multiple packs by making reuse packfile
a parameter of each of the above functions in preparation for calling
these functions in a loop with multiple packfiles.
Note that we still have the global "reuse_packfile", but pass it through
each of the above function's parameter lists, eliminating all but one
direct access (the top-level caller in `write_pack_file()`). Even after
this series, we will still have a global, but it will hold the array of
reusable packfiles, and we'll pass them one at a time to these functions
in a loop.
Note also that we will eventually need to pass a `bitmapped_pack`
instead of a `packed_git` in order to hold onto additional information
required for reuse (such as the bit position of the first object
belonging to that pack). But that change will be made in a future commit
so as to minimize the noise below as much as possible.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Further prepare for enabling verbatim pack-reuse over multiple packfiles
by changing the signature of reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap() to
populate an array of `struct bitmapped_pack *`'s instead of a pointer to
a single packfile.
Since the array we're filling out is sized dynamically[^1], add an
additional `size_t *` parameter which will hold the number of reusable
packs (equal to the number of elements in the array).
Note that since we still have not implemented true multi-pack reuse,
these changes aren't propagated out to the rest of the caller in
builtin/pack-objects.c.
In the interim state, we expect that the array has a single element, and
we use that element to fill out the static `reuse_packfile` variable
(which is a bog-standard `struct packed_git *`). Future commits will
continue to push this change further out through the pack-objects code.
[^1]: That is, even though we know the number of packs which are
candidates for pack-reuse, we do not know how many of those
candidates we can actually reuse.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The signature of `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` currently takes
in a bitmap, as well as three output parameters (filled through
pointers, and passed as arguments), and also returns an integer result.
The output parameters are filled out with: (a) the packfile used for
pack-reuse, (b) the number of objects from that pack that we can reuse,
and (c) a bitmap indicating which objects we can reuse. The return value
is either -1 (when there are no objects to reuse), or 0 (when there is
at least one object to reuse).
Some of these parameters are redundant. Notably, we can infer from the
bitmap how many objects are reused by calling bitmap_popcount(). And we
can similar compute the return value based on that number as well.
As such, clean up the signature of this function to drop the "*entries"
parameter, as well as the int return value, since the single caller of
this function can infer these values themself.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a future commit, we will want to check whether or not a bitmap has
any bits set in any of its words. The best way to do this (prior to the
existence of this patch) is to call `bitmap_popcount()` and check
whether the result is non-zero.
But this is semi-wasteful, since we do not need to know the exact number
of bits set, only whether or not there is at least one of them.
Implement a new helper function to check just that.
Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When trying to assemble a pack with bitmaps using `--use-bitmap-index`,
`pack-objects` asks the pack-bitmap machinery for a bitmap which
indicates the set of objects we can "reuse" verbatim from on-disk.
This set is roughly comprised of: a prefix of objects in the bitmapped
pack (or preferred pack, in the case of a multi-pack reachability
bitmap), plus any other objects not included in the prefix, excluding
any deltas whose base we are not sending in the resulting pack.
The pack-bitmap machinery is responsible for computing this bitmap, and
does so with the following functions:
- reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()
- try_partial_reuse()
In the existing implementation, the first function is responsible for
(a) marking the prefix of objects in the reusable pack, and then (b)
calling try_partial_reuse() on any remaining objects to ensure that they
are also reusable (and removing them from the bitmapped set if they are
not).
Likewise, the `try_partial_reuse()` function is responsible for checking
whether an isolated object (that is, an object from the bitmapped
pack/preferred pack not contained in the prefix from earlier) may be
reused, i.e. that it isn't a delta of an object that we are not sending
in the resulting pack.
These functions are based on two core assumptions, which we will unwind
in this and the following commits:
1. There is only a single pack from the bitmap which is eligible for
verbatim pack-reuse. For single-pack bitmaps, this is trivially the
bitmapped pack. For multi-pack bitmaps, this is (currently) the
MIDX's preferred pack.
2. The pack eligible for reuse has its first object in bit position 0,
and all objects from that pack follow in pack-order from that first
bit position.
In order to perform verbatim pack reuse over multiple packs, we must
unwind these two assumptions. Most notably, in order to reuse bits from
a given packfile, we need to know the first bit position occupied by
an object form that packfile. To propagate this information around, pass
a `struct bitmapped_pack *` anywhere we previously passed a `struct
packed_git *`, since the former contains the bitmap position we're
interested in (as well as a pointer to the latter).
As an additional step, factor out a sub-routine from the main
`reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` function, called
`reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap_1()`. This new function will be
responsible for figuring out which objects may be reused from a single
pack, and the existing function will dispatch multiple calls to its new
helper function for each reusable pack.
Consequently, `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` will now maintain
an array of reusable packs instead of a single such pack. We currently
expect that array to have only a single element, so this awkward state
is short-lived. It will serve as useful scaffolding in subsequent
commits as we begin to work towards enabling multi-pack reuse.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack index API exposes a `midx_contains_pack()` function that
takes in a string ending in either ".idx" or ".pack" and returns whether
or not the MIDX contains a given pack corresponding to that string.
There is no corresponding function to locate the position of a pack
within the MIDX's pack order (sorted lexically by pack filename).
We could add an optional out parameter to `midx_contains_pack()` that is
filled out with the pack's position when the parameter is non-NULL. To
minimize the amount of fallout from this change, instead introduce a new
function by renaming `midx_contains_pack()` to `midx_locate_pack()`,
adding that output parameter, and then reimplementing
`midx_contains_pack()` in terms of it.
Future patches will make use of this new function.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a multi-pack bitmap is used to implement verbatim pack reuse (that
is, when verbatim chunks from an on-disk packfile are copied
directly[^1]), it does so by using its "preferred pack" as the source
for pack-reuse.
This allows repositories to pack the majority of their objects into a
single (often large) pack, and then use it as the single source for
verbatim pack reuse. This increases the amount of objects that are
reused verbatim (and consequently, decrease the amount of time it takes
to generate many packs). But this performance comes at a cost, which is
that the preferred packfile must pace its growth with that of the entire
repository in order to maintain the utility of verbatim pack reuse.
As repositories grow beyond what we can reasonably store in a single
packfile, the utility of verbatim pack reuse diminishes. Or, at the very
least, it becomes increasingly more expensive to maintain as the pack
grows larger and larger.
It would be beneficial to be able to perform this same optimization over
multiple packs, provided some modest constraints (most importantly, that
the set of packs eligible for verbatim reuse are disjoint with respect
to the subset of their objects being sent).
If we assume that the packs which we treat as candidates for verbatim
reuse are disjoint with respect to any of their objects we may output,
we need to make only modest modifications to the verbatim pack-reuse
code itself. Most notably, we need to remove the assumption that the
bits in the reachability bitmap corresponding to objects from the single
reuse pack begin at the first bit position.
Future patches will unwind these assumptions and reimplement their
existing functionality as special cases of the more general assumptions
(e.g. that reuse bits can start anywhere within the bitset, but happen
to start at 0 for all existing cases).
This patch does not yet relax any of those assumptions. Instead, it
implements a foundational data-structure, the "Bitampped Packs" (`BTMP`)
chunk of the multi-pack index. The `BTMP` chunk's contents are described
in detail here. Importantly, the `BTMP` chunk contains information to
map regions of a multi-pack index's reachability bitmap to the packs
whose objects they represent.
For now, this chunk is only written, not read (outside of the test-tool
used in this patch to test the new chunk's behavior). Future patches
will begin to make use of this new chunk.
[^1]: Modulo patching any `OFS_DELTA`'s that cross over a region of the
pack that wasn't used verbatim.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When selecting which packfiles will be written while generating a MIDX,
the MIDX internals fill out a 'struct pack_info' with various pieces of
book-keeping.
Instead of filling out each field of the `pack_info` structure
individually in each of the two spots that modify the array of such
structures (`ctx->info`), extract a common routine that does this for
us.
This reduces the code duplication by a modest amount. But more
importantly, it zero-initializes the structure before assigning values
into it. This hardens us for a future change which will add additional
fields to this structure which (until this patch) was not
zero-initialized.
As a result, any new fields added to the `pack_info` structure need only
be updated in a single location, instead of at each spot within midx.c.
There are no functional changes in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `find_objects()` function creates an object_list for any tips of the
reachability query which do not have corresponding bitmaps.
The object_list is not used outside of `find_objects()`, but we never
free it with `object_list_free()`, resulting in a leak. Let's plug that
leak by calling `object_list_free()`, which results in t6113 becoming
leak-free.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `bb_commit` commit slab is used by the pack-bitmap-write machinery
to track various pieces of bookkeeping used to generate reachability
bitmaps.
Even though we clear the slab when freeing the bitmap_builder struct
(with `bitmap_builder_clear()`), there are still pointers which point to
locations in memory that have not yet been freed, resulting in a leak.
Plug the leak by introducing a suitable `free_fn` for the `struct
bb_commit` type, and make sure it is called on each member of the slab
via the `deep_clear_bb_data()` function.
Note that it is possible for both of the arguments to `bitmap_free()` to
be NULL, but `bitmap_free()` is a noop for NULL arguments, so it is OK
to pass them unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-objects internals use a packing_data struct to track what
objects are part of the pack(s) being formed.
Since these structures contain allocated fields, failing to
appropriately free() them results in a leak. Plug that leak by
introducing a clear_packing_data() function, and call it in the
appropriate spots.
This is a fairly straightforward leak to plug, since none of the callers
expect to read any values or have any references to parts of the address
space being freed.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our
(ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version
requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow
simplifying our implementation.
* tz/send-email-negatable-options:
send-email: avoid duplicate specification warnings
perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0
"git rebase --autosquash" is now enabled for non-interactive rebase,
but it is still incompatible with the apply backend.
* ak/rebase-autosquash:
rebase: rewrite --(no-)autosquash documentation
rebase: support --autosquash without -i
rebase: fully ignore rebase.autoSquash without -i
"git for-each-ref --no-sort" still sorted the refs alphabetically
which paid non-trivial cost. It has been redefined to show output
in an unspecified order, to allow certain optimizations to take
advantage of.
* vd/for-each-ref-unsorted-optimization:
t/perf: add perf tests for for-each-ref
ref-filter.c: use peeled tag for '*' format fields
for-each-ref: clean up documentation of --format
ref-filter.c: filter & format refs in the same callback
ref-filter.c: refactor to create common helper functions
ref-filter.c: rename 'ref_filter_handler()' to 'filter_one()'
ref-filter.h: add functions for filter/format & format-only
ref-filter.h: move contains caches into filter
ref-filter.h: add max_count and omit_empty to ref_format
ref-filter.c: really don't sort when using --no-sort
Test and shell scripts clean-up.
* ps/ban-a-or-o-operator-with-test:
Makefile: stop using `test -o` when unlinking duplicate executables
contrib/subtree: convert subtree type check to use case statement
contrib/subtree: stop using `-o` to test for number of args
global: convert trivial usages of `test <expr> -a/-o <expr>`
"git format-patch --encode-email-headers" ignored the option when
preparing the cover letter, which has been corrected.
* ss/format-patch-use-encode-headers-for-cover-letter:
format-patch: fix ignored encode_email_headers for cover letter
Update ref-related tests.
* ps/ref-tests-update:
t: mark several tests that assume the files backend with REFFILES
t7900: assert the absence of refs via git-for-each-ref(1)
t7300: assert exact states of repo
t4207: delete replace references via git-update-ref(1)
t1450: convert tests to remove worktrees via git-worktree(1)
t: convert tests to not access reflog via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not access symrefs via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not write references via the filesystem
t: allow skipping expected object ID in `ref-store update-ref`
"git add" and "git stash" learned to support the ":(attr:...)"
magic pathspec.
* jw/git-add-attr-pathspec:
attr: enable attr pathspec magic for git-add and git-stash
Code clean-up for jk/chunk-bounds topic.
* jk/chunk-bounds-more:
commit-graph: mark chunk error messages for translation
commit-graph: drop verify_commit_graph_lite()
commit-graph: check order while reading fanout chunk
commit-graph: use fanout value for graph size
commit-graph: abort as soon as we see a bogus chunk
commit-graph: clarify missing-chunk error messages
commit-graph: drop redundant call to "lite" verification
midx: check consistency of fanout table
commit-graph: handle overflow in chunk_size checks
The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test
suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected.
* js/ci-discard-prove-state:
ci: avoid running the test suite _twice_
Add support for GitLab CI.
* ps/ci-gitlab:
ci: add support for GitLab CI
ci: install test dependencies for linux-musl
ci: squelch warnings when testing with unusable Git repo
ci: unify setup of some environment variables
ci: split out logic to set up failed test artifacts
ci: group installation of Docker dependencies
ci: make grouping setup more generic
ci: reorder definitions for grouping functions
Update the base topic to work with CMake builds.
* js/doc-unit-tests-with-cmake:
cmake: handle also unit tests
cmake: use test names instead of full paths
cmake: fix typo in variable name
artifacts-tar: when including `.dll` files, don't forget the unit-tests
unit-tests: do show relative file paths
unit-tests: do not mistake `.pdb` files for being executable
cmake: also build unit tests
Process to add some form of low-level unit tests has started.
* js/doc-unit-tests:
ci: run unit tests in CI
unit tests: add TAP unit test framework
unit tests: add a project plan document
"To dereference" and "to peel" were sometimes used in in-code
comments and documentation but without description in the glossary.
* vd/glossary-dereference-peel:
glossary: add definitions for dereference & peel
