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Victoria Dye 7b5c93c6c6 scalar: include in standard Git build & installation
Move 'scalar' out of 'contrib/' and into the root of the Git tree. The goal
of this change is to build 'scalar' as part of the standard Git build &
install processes.

This patch includes both the physical move of Scalar's files out of
'contrib/' ('scalar.c', 'scalar.txt', and 't9xxx-scalar.sh'), and the
changes to the build definitions in 'Makefile' and 'CMakelists.txt' to
accommodate the new program.

At a high level, Scalar is built so that:
- there is a 'scalar-objs' target (similar to those created in 029bac01a8
  (Makefile: add {program,xdiff,test,git,fuzz}-objs & objects targets,
  2021-02-23)) for debugging purposes.
- it appears in the root of the install directory (rather than the
  gitexecdir).
- it is included in the 'bin-wrappers/' directory for use in tests.
- it receives a platform-specific executable suffix (e.g., '.exe'), if
  applicable.
- 'scalar.txt' is installed as 'man1' documentation.
- the 'clean' target removes the 'scalar' executable.

Additionally, update the root level '.gitignore' file to ignore the Scalar
executable.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-02 10:02:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano bc820cf9e6 Merge branch 'vd/scalar-enables-fsmonitor'
"scalar" now enables built-in fsmonitor on enlisted repositories,
when able.

* vd/scalar-enables-fsmonitor:
  scalar: update technical doc roadmap with FSMonitor support
  scalar unregister: stop FSMonitor daemon
  scalar: enable built-in FSMonitor on `register`
  scalar: move config setting logic into its own function
  scalar-delete: do not 'die()' in 'delete_enlistment()'
  scalar-[un]register: clearly indicate source of error
  scalar-unregister: handle error codes greater than 0
  scalar: constrain enlistment search
2022-08-29 14:55:12 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin ec4c23116b scalar unregister: stop FSMonitor daemon
Especially on Windows, we will need to stop that daemon, just in case
that the directory needs to be removed (the daemon would otherwise hold
a handle to that directory, preventing it from being deleted).

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:32 -07:00
Matthew John Cheetham 3f1917dc60 scalar: enable built-in FSMonitor on register
Using the built-in FSMonitor makes many common commands quite a bit
faster. So let's teach the `scalar register` command to enable the
built-in FSMonitor and kick-start the fsmonitor--daemon process (for
convenience).

For simplicity, we only support the built-in FSMonitor (and no external
file system monitor such as e.g. Watchman).

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:32 -07:00
Victoria Dye d934a11c71 scalar: move config setting logic into its own function
Create function 'set_scalar_config()' to contain the logic used in setting
Scalar-defined Git config settings, including how to handle reconfiguring &
overwriting existing values. This function allows future patches to set
config values in parts of 'scalar.c' other than 'set_recommended_config()'.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:32 -07:00
Victoria Dye 9b24bb9205 scalar-delete: do not 'die()' in 'delete_enlistment()'
Rather than exiting with 'die()' when 'delete_enlistment()' encounters an
error, return an error code with the appropriate message. There's no need
for an abrupt exit with 'die()' in 'delete_enlistment()' because its only
caller ('cmd_delete()') properly cleans up allocated resources and returns
the 'delete_enlistment()' return value as its own exit code.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:32 -07:00
Victoria Dye d2a79bc953 scalar-[un]register: clearly indicate source of error
When a step in 'register_dir()' or 'unregister_dir()' fails, indicate which
step failed with an error message, rather than silently assigning a nonzero
return code.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:32 -07:00
Victoria Dye adedcee811 scalar-unregister: handle error codes greater than 0
When 'scalar unregister' tries to disable maintenance and remove an
enlistment, ensure that the return value is nonzero if either operation
produces *any* nonzero return value, not just when they return a value less
than 0.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:31 -07:00
Victoria Dye 65f6a9eb0b scalar: constrain enlistment search
Make the search for repository and enlistment root in
'setup_enlistment_directory()' more constrained to simplify behavior and
adhere to 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES'.

Previously, 'setup_enlistment_directory()' would check whether the provided
path (or current working directory) '<dir>' or its subdirectory '<dir>/src'
was a repository root. If not, the process would repeat on the parent of
'<dir>' until the repository was found or it reached the root of the
filesystem. This meant that a user could specify a path *anywhere* inside an
enlistment (including paths not in the repository contained within the
enlistment) and it would be found.

The downside to this process is that the search would not account for
'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES', so the upward search could result in modifying
repository contents past 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES'. Similarly, operations
like 'scalar delete' could end up unintentionally deleting the parent of a
repo if its root was named 'src'.

To make this 'setup_enlistment_directory()' both adhere to
'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES' and avoid unwanted deletions, the search for an
enlistment directory is simplified to:

- if '<dir>/src' is a repository root, '<dir>' is the enlistment root
- if '<dir>' is either the repository root or contained within a repository,
  the repository root is the enlistment root

Now, only 'setup_git_directory()' (called by 'setup_enlistment_directory()')
searches upwards from the 'scalar' specified path, enforcing
'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES' in the process. Additionally, 'scalar delete
<dir>/src' will not delete '<dir>' (if users would like to delete it, they
can still specify the enlistment root with 'scalar delete <dir>'). This is
true of any 'scalar' operation; users can invoke 'scalar' on the enlistment
root, but paths must otherwise be inside the repository to be valid.

To help clarify the updated behavior, new tests are added to
't9099-scalar.sh'.

Finally, this change leaves 'strbuf_parent_directory()' with only a single,
WIN32-specific caller in 'delete_enlistment()'. Rather than wrap
'strbuf_parent_directory()' in '#ifdef WIN32' to avoid the "unused function"
compiler error, move the contents of 'strbuf_parent_directory()' into
'delete_enlistment()' and remove the function.

Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:31 -07:00
Victoria Dye 672196a307 scalar-diagnose: use 'git diagnose --mode=all'
Replace implementation of 'scalar diagnose' with an internal invocation of
'git diagnose --mode=all'. This simplifies the implementation of
'cmd_diagnose' by making it a direct alias of 'git diagnose' and removes
some code in 'scalar.c' that is duplicated in 'builtin/diagnose.c'. The
simplicity of the alias also sets up a clean deprecation path for 'scalar
diagnose' (in favor of 'git diagnose'), if that is desired in the future.

This introduces one minor change to the output of 'scalar diagnose', which
is that the prefix of the created zip archive is changed from 'scalar_' to
'git-diagnostics-'.

Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-12 13:20:02 -07:00
Victoria Dye 33cba726f0 diagnose.c: add option to configure archive contents
Update 'create_diagnostics_archive()' to take an argument 'mode'. When
archiving diagnostics for a repository, 'mode' is used to selectively
include/exclude information based on its value. The initial options for
'mode' are:

* DIAGNOSE_NONE: do not collect any diagnostics or create an archive
  (no-op).
* DIAGNOSE_STATS: collect basic repository metadata (Git version, repo path,
  filesystem available space) as well as sizing and count statistics for the
  repository's objects and packfiles.
* DIAGNOSE_ALL: collect basic repository metadata, sizing/count statistics,
  and copies of the '.git', '.git/hooks', '.git/info', '.git/logs', and
  '.git/objects/info' directories.

These modes are introduced to provide users the option to collect
diagnostics without the sensitive information included in copies of '.git'
dir contents. At the moment, only 'scalar diagnose' uses
'create_diagnostics_archive()' (with a hardcoded 'DIAGNOSE_ALL' mode to
match existing functionality), but more callers will be introduced in
subsequent patches.

Finally, refactor from a hardcoded set of 'add_directory_to_archiver()'
calls to iterative invocations gated by 'DIAGNOSE_ALL'. This allows for
easier future modification of the set of directories to archive and improves
error reporting when 'add_directory_to_archiver()' fails.

Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-12 13:20:02 -07:00
Victoria Dye bb2c34956a scalar-diagnose: move functionality to common location
Move the core functionality of 'scalar diagnose' into a new 'diagnose.[c,h]'
library to prepare for new callers in the main Git tree generating
diagnostic archives. These callers will be introduced in subsequent patches.

While this patch appears large, it is mostly made up of moving code out of
'scalar.c' and into 'diagnose.c'. Specifically, the functions

- dir_file_stats_objects()
- dir_file_stats()
- count_files()
- loose_objs_stats()
- add_directory_to_archiver()

are all copied verbatim from 'scalar.c'. The 'create_diagnostics_archive()'
function is a mostly identical (partial) copy of 'cmd_diagnose()', with the
primary changes being that 'zip_path' is an input and "Enlistment root" is
corrected to "Repository root" in the archiver log.

Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-12 13:20:02 -07:00
Victoria Dye 435a2535b7 scalar-diagnose: move 'get_disk_info()' to 'compat/'
Move 'get_disk_info()' function into 'compat/'. Although Scalar-specific
code is generally not part of the main Git tree, 'get_disk_info()' will be
used in subsequent patches by additional callers beyond 'scalar diagnose'.
This patch prepares for that change, at which point this platform-specific
code should be part of 'compat/' as a matter of convention.

The function is copied *mostly* verbatim, with two exceptions:

* '#ifdef WIN32' is replaced with '#ifdef GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE' to allow
  'statvfs' to be used with Cygwin.
* the 'struct strbuf buf' and 'int res' (as well as their corresponding
  cleanup & return) are moved outside of the '#ifdef' block.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-12 13:20:02 -07:00
Victoria Dye ba307a5046 scalar-diagnose: add directory to archiver more gently
If a directory added to the 'scalar diagnose' archiver does not exist, warn
and return 0 from 'add_directory_to_archiver()' rather than failing with a
fatal error. This handles a failure edge case where the '.git/logs' has not
yet been created when running 'scalar diagnose', but extends to any
situation where a directory may be missing in the '.git' dir.

Now, when a directory is missing a warning is captured in the diagnostic
logs. This provides a user with more complete information than if 'scalar
diagnose' simply failed with an error.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-12 13:20:02 -07:00
Victoria Dye 91be401945 scalar-diagnose: avoid 32-bit overflow of size_t
Avoid 32-bit size_t overflow when reporting the available disk space in
'get_disk_info' by casting the block size and available block count to
'off_t' before multiplying them. Without this change, 'st_mult' would
(correctly) report a size_t overflow on 32-bit systems at or exceeding 2^32
bytes of available space.

Note that 'off_t' is a 64-bit integer even on 32-bit systems due to the
inclusion of '#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64' in 'git-compat-util.h' (see
b97e911643 (Support for large files on 32bit systems., 2007-02-17)).

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-12 13:20:02 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 4f40f6cb73 cocci: add and apply a rule to find "unused" strbufs
Add a coccinelle rule to remove "struct strbuf" initialization
followed by calling "strbuf_release()" function, without any uses of
the strbuf in the same function.

See the tests in contrib/coccinelle/tests/unused.{c,res} for what it's
intended to find and replace.

The inclusion of "contrib/scalar/scalar.c" is because "spatch" was
manually run on it (we don't usually run spatch on contrib).

Per the "buggy code" comment we also match a strbuf_init() before the
xmalloc(), but we're not seeking to be so strict as to make checks
that the compiler will catch for us redundant. Saying we'll match
either "init" or "xmalloc" lines makes the rule simpler.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-07-06 12:24:43 -07:00
Matthew John Cheetham 15d8adccab scalar: teach diagnose to gather loose objects information
When operating at the scale that Scalar wants to support, certain data
shapes are more likely to cause undesirable performance issues, such as
large numbers of loose objects.

By including statistics about this, `scalar diagnose` now makes it
easier to identify such scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-30 23:07:31 -07:00
Matthew John Cheetham 93e804b278 scalar: teach diagnose to gather packfile info
It's helpful to see if there are other crud files in the pack
directory. Let's teach the `scalar diagnose` command to gather
file size information about pack files.

While at it, also enumerate the pack files in the alternate
object directories, if any are registered.

Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-30 23:07:31 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 0ed5b13f24 scalar diagnose: include disk space information
When analyzing problems with large worktrees/repositories, it is useful
to know how close to a "full disk" situation Scalar/Git operates. Let's
include this information.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-30 23:07:31 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin aa5c79a331 scalar: implement scalar diagnose
Over the course of Scalar's development, it became obvious that there is
a need for a command that can gather all kinds of useful information
that can help identify the most typical problems with large
worktrees/repositories.

The `diagnose` command is the culmination of this hard-won knowledge: it
gathers the installed hooks, the config, a couple statistics describing
the data shape, among other pieces of information, and then wraps
everything up in a tidy, neat `.zip` archive.

Note: originally, Scalar was implemented in C# using the .NET API, where
we had the luxury of a comprehensive standard library that includes
basic functionality such as writing a `.zip` file. In the C version, we
lack such a commodity. Rather than introducing a dependency on, say,
libzip, we slightly abuse Git's `archive` machinery: we write out a
`.zip` of the empty try, augmented by a couple files that are added via
the `--add-file*` options. We are careful trying not to modify the
current repository in any way lest the very circumstances that required
`scalar diagnose` to be run are changed by the `diagnose` run itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-30 23:07:31 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin b44855743b scalar: validate the optional enlistment argument
The `scalar` command needs a Scalar enlistment for many subcommands, and
looks in the current directory for such an enlistment (traversing the
parent directories until it finds one).

These is subcommands can also be called with an optional argument
specifying the enlistment. Here, too, we traverse parent directories as
needed, until we find an enlistment.

However, if the specified directory does not even exist, or is not a
directory, we should stop right there, with an error message.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-30 23:07:31 -07:00
Victoria Dye 2efc9b84e5 reset: remove 'reset.quiet' config option
Remove the 'reset.quiet' config option, remove '--no-quiet' documentation in
'Documentation/git-reset.txt'. In 4c3abd0551 (reset: add new reset.quiet
config setting, 2018-10-23), 'reset.quiet' was introduced as a way to
globally change the default behavior of 'git reset --mixed' to skip index
refresh.

However, now that '--quiet' does not affect index refresh, 'reset.quiet'
would only serve to globally silence logging. This was not the original
intention of the config setting, and there's no precedent for such a setting
in other commands with a '--quiet' option, so it appears to be obsolete.

In addition to the options & its documentation, remove 'reset.quiet' from
the recommended config for 'scalar'.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-23 14:39:45 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 2ae8eb5d71 scalar: accept -C and -c options before the subcommand
The `git` executable has these two very useful options:

-C <directory>:
	switch to the specified directory before performing any actions

-c <key>=<value>:
	temporarily configure this setting for the duration of the
	specified scalar subcommand

With this commit, we teach the `scalar` executable the same trick.

Note: It might look like a good idea to try to reuse the
`handle_options()` function in `git.c` instead of replicating only the
`-c`/`-C` part. However, that function is not only not in `libgit.a`, it
is also intricately entangled with the rest of the code in `git.c` that
is necessary e.g. to handle `--paginate`. Besides, no other option
handled by that `handle_options()` function is relevant to Scalar,
therefore the cost of refactoring vastly would outweigh the benefit.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-28 15:14:38 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin ddc35d833d scalar: implement the version command
The .NET version of Scalar has a `version` command. This was necessary
because it was versioned independently of Git.

Since Scalar is now tightly coupled with Git, it does not make sense for
them to show different versions. Therefore, it shows the same output as
`git version`. For backwards-compatibility with the .NET version,
`scalar version` prints to `stderr`, though (`git version` prints to
`stdout` instead).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:24 -08:00
Matthew John Cheetham d85ada7cbd scalar: implement the delete command
Delete an enlistment by first unregistering the repository and then
deleting the enlistment directory (usually the directory containing the
worktree `src/` directory).

On Windows, if the current directory is inside the enlistment's
directory, change to the parent of the enlistment directory, to allow us
to delete the enlistment (directories used by processes e.g. as current
working directories cannot be deleted on Windows).

Co-authored-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:24 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin 4582676075 scalar: teach 'reconfigure' to optionally handle all registered enlistments
After a Scalar upgrade, it can come in really handy if there is an easy
way to reconfigure all Scalar enlistments. This new option offers this
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:24 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin cb59d55ec1 scalar: allow reconfiguring an existing enlistment
This comes in handy during Scalar upgrades, or when config settings were
messed up by mistake.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:24 -08:00
Derrick Stolee 7020c88c30 scalar: implement the run command
Note: this subcommand is provided primarily for backwards-compatibility,
for existing Scalar uses. It is mostly just a shim for `git
maintenance`, mapping task names from the way Scalar called them to the
way Git calls them.

The reason why those names differ? The background maintenance was first
implemented in Scalar, and when it was contributed as a patch series
implementing the `git maintenance` command, reviewers suggested better
names, those suggestions were accepted before the patches were
integrated into core Git.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:24 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin 4368e40bef scalar: teach 'clone' to support the --single-branch option
Just like `git clone`, the `scalar clone` command now also offers to
restrict the clone to a single branch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:24 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin 546f822d53 scalar: implement the clone subcommand
This implements Scalar's opinionated `clone` command: it tries to use a
partial clone and sets up a sparse checkout by default. In contrast to
`git clone`, `scalar clone` sets up the worktree in the `src/`
subdirectory, to encourage a separation between the source files and the
build output (which helps Git tremendously because it avoids untracked
files that have to be specifically ignored when refreshing the index).

Also, it registers the repository for regular, scheduled maintenance,
and configures a flurry of configuration settings based on the
experience and experiments of the Microsoft Windows and the Microsoft
Office development teams.

Note: since the `scalar clone` command is by far the most commonly
called `scalar` subcommand, we document it at the top of the manual
page.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:23 -08:00
Derrick Stolee 2b7104573c scalar: implement 'scalar list'
The produced list simply consists of those repositories registered under
the multi-valued `scalar.repo` config setting in the user's Git config.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:23 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin f5f0842d0b scalar: let 'unregister' handle a deleted enlistment directory gracefully
When a user deleted an enlistment manually, let's be generous and
_still_ unregister it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:23 -08:00
Derrick Stolee c76a53eb71 scalar: 'unregister' stops background maintenance
Just like `scalar register` starts the scheduled background maintenance,
`scalar unregister` stops it. Note that we use `git maintenance start`
in `scalar register`, but we do not use `git maintenance stop` in
`scalar unregister`: this would stop maintenance for _all_ repositories,
not just for the one we want to unregister.

The `unregister` command also removes the corresponding entry from the
`[scalar]` section in the global Git config.

Co-authored-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:23 -08:00
Derrick Stolee d0feac4e8c scalar: 'register' sets recommended config and starts maintenance
Let's start implementing the `register` command. With this commit,
recommended settings are configured upon `scalar register`, and Git's
background maintenance is started.

The recommended config settings may very well change in the future. For
example, once the built-in FSMonitor is available, we will want to
enable it upon `scalar register`. For that reason, we explicitly support
running `scalar register` in an already-registered enlistment.

Co-authored-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:23 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin 0a43fb2202 scalar: create a rudimentary executable
The idea of Scalar (https://github.com/microsoft/scalar), and before
that, of VFS for Git, has always been to prove that Git _can_ scale, and
to upstream whatever strategies have been demonstrated to help.

With this patch, we start the journey from that C# project to move what
is left to Git's own `contrib/` directory, reimplementing it in pure C,
with the intention to facilitate integrating the functionality into core
Git all while maintaining backwards-compatibility for existing Scalar
users (which will be much easier when both live in the same worktree).
It has always been the plan to contribute all of the proven strategies
back to core Git.

For example, while the virtual filesystem provided by VFS for Git helped
the team developing the Windows operating system to move onto Git, while
trying to upstream it we realized that it cannot be done: getting the
virtual filesystem to work (which we only managed to implement fully on
Windows, but not on, say, macOS or Linux), and the required server-side
support for the GVFS protocol, made this not quite feasible.

The Scalar project learned from that and tackled the problem with
different tactics: instead of pretending to Git that the working
directory is fully populated, it _specifically_ teaches Git about
partial clone (which is based on VFS for Git's cache server), about
sparse checkout (which VFS for Git tried to do transparently, in the
file system layer), and regularly runs maintenance tasks to keep the
repository in a healthy state.

With partial clone, sparse checkout and `git maintenance` having been
upstreamed, there is little left that `scalar.exe` does which `git.exe`
cannot do. One such thing is that `scalar clone <url>` will
automatically set up a partial, sparse clone, and configure
known-helpful settings from the start.

So let's bring this convenience into Git's tree.

The idea here is that you can (optionally) build Scalar via

	make -C contrib/scalar/

This will build the `scalar` executable and put it into the
contrib/scalar/ subdirectory.

The slightly awkward addition of the `contrib/scalar/*` bits to the
top-level `Makefile` are actually really required: we want to link to
`libgit.a`, which means that we will need to use the very same `CFLAGS`
and `LDFLAGS` as the rest of Git.

An early development version of this patch tried to replicate all the
conditional code in `contrib/scalar/Makefile` (e.g. `NO_POLL`) just like
`contrib/svn-fe/Makefile` used to do before it was retired. It turned
out to be quite the whack-a-mole game: the SHA-1-related flags, the
flags enabling/disabling `compat/poll/`, `compat/regex/`,
`compat/win32mmap.c` & friends depending on the current platform... To
put it mildly: it was a major mess.

Instead, this patch makes minimal changes to the top-level `Makefile` so
that the bits in `contrib/scalar/` can be compiled and linked, and
adds a `contrib/scalar/Makefile` that uses the top-level `Makefile` in a
most minimal way to do the actual compiling.

Note: With this commit, we only establish the infrastructure, no
Scalar functionality is implemented yet; We will do that incrementally
over the next few commits.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04 21:52:23 -08:00