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Derrick Stolee ba41112a63 commit-graph: clean up chains after flattened write
If we write a commit-graph file without the split option, then
we write to $OBJDIR/info/commit-graph and start to ignore
the chains in $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs/.

Unlink the commit-graph-chain file and expire the graph-{hash}.graph
files in $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs/ during every write.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19 20:46:26 -07:00
Derrick Stolee 3da4b609bb commit-graph: verify chains with --shallow mode
If we wrote a commit-graph chain, we only modified the tip file in
the chain. It is valuable to verify what we wrote, but not waste
time checking files we did not write.

Add a '--shallow' option to the 'git commit-graph verify' subcommand
and check that it does not read the base graph in a two-file chain.

Making the verify subcommand read from a chain of commit-graphs takes
some rearranging of the builtin code.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19 20:46:26 -07:00
Derrick Stolee c2bc6e6ab0 commit-graph: create options for split files
The split commit-graph feature is now fully implemented, but needs
some more run-time configurability. Allow direct callers to 'git
commit-graph write --split' to specify the values used in the
merge strategy and the expire time.

Update the documentation to specify these values.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19 20:46:26 -07:00
Derrick Stolee 8d84097f96 commit-graph: expire commit-graph files
As we merge commit-graph files in a commit-graph chain, we should clean
up the files that are no longer used.

This change introduces an 'expiry_window' value to the context, which is
always zero (for now). We then check the modified time of each
graph-{hash}.graph file in the $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs folder and
unlink the files that are older than the expiry_window.

Since this is always zero, this immediately clears all unused graph
files. We will update the value to match a config setting in a future
change.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19 20:46:26 -07:00
Derrick Stolee c523035cbd commit-graph: allow cross-alternate chains
In an environment like a fork network, it is helpful to have a
commit-graph chain that spans both the base repo and the fork repo. The
fork is usually a small set of data on top of the large repo, but
sometimes the fork is much larger. For example, git-for-windows/git has
almost double the number of commits as git/git because it rebases its
commits on every major version update.

To allow cross-alternate commit-graph chains, we need a few pieces:

1. When looking for a graph-{hash}.graph file, check all alternates.

2. When merging commit-graph chains, do not merge across alternates.

3. When writing a new commit-graph chain based on a commit-graph file
   in another object directory, do not allow success if the base file
   has of the name "commit-graph" instead of
   "commit-graphs/graph-{hash}.graph".

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19 20:46:26 -07:00
Derrick Stolee 1771be90c8 commit-graph: merge commit-graph chains
When searching for a commit in a commit-graph chain of G graphs with N
commits, the search takes O(G log N) time. If we always add a new tip
graph with every write, the linear G term will start to dominate and
slow the lookup process.

To keep lookups fast, but also keep most incremental writes fast, create
a strategy for merging levels of the commit-graph chain. The strategy is
detailed in the commit-graph design document, but is summarized by these
two conditions:

  1. If the number of commits we are adding is more than half the number
     of commits in the graph below, then merge with that graph.

  2. If we are writing more than 64,000 commits into a single graph,
     then merge with all lower graphs.

The numeric values in the conditions above are currently constant, but
can become config options in a future update.

As we merge levels of the commit-graph chain, check that the commits
still exist in the repository. A garbage-collection operation may have
removed those commits from the object store and we do not want to
persist them in the commit-graph chain. This is a non-issue if the
'git gc' process wrote a new, single-level commit-graph file.

After we merge levels, the old graph-{hash}.graph files are no longer
referenced by the commit-graph-chain file. We will expire these files in
a future change.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19 20:46:26 -07:00
Derrick Stolee 135a712375 commit-graph: add --split option to builtin
Add a new "--split" option to the 'git commit-graph write' subcommand. This
option allows the optional behavior of writing a commit-graph chain.

The current behavior will add a tip commit-graph containing any commits that
are not in the existing commit-graph or commit-graph chain. Later changes
will allow merging the chain and expiring out-dated files.

Add a new test script (t5324-split-commit-graph.sh) that demonstrates this
behavior.

Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19 20:46:26 -07:00