"sparse-checkout" learns to work well with the sparse-index
feature.
* ds/sparse-sparse-checkout:
sparse-checkout: integrate with sparse index
p2000: add test for 'git sparse-checkout [add|set]'
sparse-index: complete partial expansion
sparse-index: partially expand directories
sparse-checkout: --no-sparse-index needs a full index
cache-tree: implement cache_tree_find_path()
sparse-index: introduce partially-sparse indexes
sparse-index: create expand_index()
t1092: stress test 'git sparse-checkout set'
t1092: refactor 'sparse-index contents' test
Deprecate non-cone mode of the sparse-checkout feature.
* en/sparse-cone-becomes-default:
Documentation: some sparsity wording clarifications
git-sparse-checkout.txt: mark non-cone mode as deprecated
git-sparse-checkout.txt: flesh out pattern set sections a bit
git-sparse-checkout.txt: add a new EXAMPLES section
git-sparse-checkout.txt: shuffle some sections and mark as internal
git-sparse-checkout.txt: update docs for deprecation of 'init'
git-sparse-checkout.txt: wording updates for the cone mode default
sparse-checkout: make --cone the default
tests: stop assuming --no-cone is the default mode for sparse-checkout
When modifying the sparse-checkout definition, the sparse-checkout
builtin calls update_sparsity() to modify the SKIP_WORKTREE bits of all
cache entries in the index. Before, we needed the index to be fully
expanded in order to ensure we had the full list of files necessary that
match the new patterns.
Insert a call to reset_sparse_directories() that expands sparse
directories that are within the new pattern list, but only far enough
that every necessary file path now exists as a cache entry. The
remaining logic within update_sparsity() will modify the SKIP_WORKTREE
bits appropriately.
This allows us to disable command_requires_full_index within the
sparse-checkout builtin. Add tests that demonstrate that we are not
expanding to a full index unnecessarily.
We can see the improved performance in the p2000 test script:
Test HEAD~1 HEAD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
2000.24: git ... (sparse-v3) 2.14(1.55+0.58) 1.57(1.03+0.53) -26.6%
2000.25: git ... (sparse-v4) 2.20(1.62+0.57) 1.58(0.98+0.59) -28.2%
These reductions of 26-28% are small compared to most examples, but the
time is dominated by writing a new copy of the base repository to the
worktree and then deleting it again. The fact that the previous index
expansion was such a large portion of the time is telling how important
it is to complete this sparse index integration.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the --no-sparse-index option is supplied, the sparse-checkout
builtin should explicitly ask to expand a sparse index to a full one.
This is currently done implicitly due to the command_requires_full_index
protection, but that will be removed in an upcoming change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A future change will present a temporary, in-memory mode where the index
can both contain sparse directory entries but also not be completely
collapsed to the smallest possible sparse directories. This will be
necessary for modifying the sparse-checkout definition while using a
sparse index.
For now, convert the single-bit member 'sparse_index' in 'struct
index_state' to be a an 'enum sparse_index_mode' with three modes:
* INDEX_EXPANDED (0): No sparse directories exist. This is always the
case for repositories that do not use cone-mode sparse-checkout.
* INDEX_COLLAPSED: Sparse directories may exist. Files outside the
sparse-checkout cone are reduced to sparse directory entries whenever
possible.
* INDEX_PARTIALLY_SPARSE: Sparse directories may exist. Some file
entries outside the sparse-checkout cone may exist. Running
convert_to_sparse() may further reduce those files to sparse directory
entries.
The main reason to store this extra information is to allow
convert_to_sparse() to short-circuit when the index is already in
INDEX_EXPANDED mode but to actually do the necessary work when in
INDEX_PARTIALLY_SPARSE mode.
The INDEX_PARTIALLY_SPARSE mode will be used in an upcoming change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make cone mode the default, and update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Plug random memory leaks.
* ab/plug-random-leaks:
repository.c: free the "path cache" in repo_clear()
range-diff: plug memory leak in read_patches()
range-diff: plug memory leak in common invocation
lockfile API users: simplify and don't leak "path"
commit-graph: stop fill_oids_from_packs() progress on error and free()
commit-graph: fix memory leak in misused string_list API
submodule--helper: fix trivial leak in module_add()
transport: stop needlessly copying bundle header references
bundle: call strvec_clear() on allocated strvec
remote-curl.c: free memory in cmd_main()
urlmatch.c: add and use a *_release() function
diff.c: free "buf" in diff_words_flush()
merge-base: free() allocated "struct commit **" list
index-pack: fix memory leaks
Further polishing of "git sparse-checkout".
* en/sparse-checkout-fixes:
sparse-checkout: reject arguments in cone-mode that look like patterns
sparse-checkout: error or warn when given individual files
sparse-checkout: pay attention to prefix for {set, add}
sparse-checkout: correctly set non-cone mode when expected
sparse-checkout: correct reapply's handling of options
Fix a memory leak in code added in 6c622f9f0b (commit-graph: write
commit-graph chains, 2019-06-18). We needed to free the "lock_name" if
we encounter errors, and the "graph_name" after we'd run unlink() on
it.
For the case of write_commit_graph_file() refactoring the code to free
the "lock_name" after we were done using the "struct lock_file lk"
would have made the control flow more complex. Luckily we can free the
"lock_file" right after the hold_lock_file_for_update() call, if it
makes use of "path" at all it'll have copied its contents to a "struct
strbuf" of its own.
While I'm at it let's fix code added in fb10ca5b54 (sparse-checkout:
write using lockfile, 2019-11-21) in write_patterns_and_update() to
avoid the same complexity that I thought I needed when I wrote the
initial fix for write_commit_graph_file(). We can free the
"sparse_filename" right after calling hold_lock_file_for_update(), we
don't need to wait until we're exiting the function to do so.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unify more messages to help l10n.
* ja/i18n-common-messages:
i18n: fix some misformated placeholders in command synopsis
i18n: remove from i18n strings that do not hold translatable parts
i18n: factorize "invalid value" messages
i18n: factorize more 'incompatible options' messages
"git sparse-checkout" wants to work with per-worktree configuration,
but did not work well in a worktree attached to a bare repository.
* ds/sparse-checkout-requires-per-worktree-config:
config: make git_configset_get_string_tmp() private
worktree: copy sparse-checkout patterns and config on add
sparse-checkout: set worktree-config correctly
config: add repo_config_set_worktree_gently()
worktree: create init_worktree_config()
Documentation: add extensions.worktreeConfig details
In sparse-checkout add/set under cone mode, the arguments passed are
supposed to be directories rather than gitignore-style patterns.
However, given the amount of effort spent in the manual discussing
patterns, it is easy for users to assume they need to pass patterns such
as
/foo/*
or
!/bar/*/
or perhaps they really do ignore the directory rule and specify a
random gitignore-style pattern like
*.c
To help catch such mistakes, throw an error if any of the positional
arguments:
* starts with any of '/!'
* contains any of '*?[]'
Inform users they can pass --skip-checks if they have a directory that
really does have such special characters in its name. (We exclude '\'
because of sparse-checkout's special handling of backslashes; see
the MINGW test in t1091.46.)
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The set and add subcommands accept multiple positional arguments.
The meaning of these arguments differs slightly in the two modes:
Cone mode only accepts directories. If given a file, it would
previously treat it as a directory, causing not just the file itself to
be included but all sibling files as well -- likely against users'
expectations. Throw an error if the specified path is a file in the
index. Provide a --skip-checks argument to allow users to override
(e.g. for the case when the given path IS a directory on another
branch).
Non-cone mode accepts general gitignore patterns. There are many
reasons to avoid this mode, but one possible reason to use it instead of
cone mode: to be able to select individual files within a directory.
However, if a file is passed to set/add in non-cone mode, you won't be
selecting a single file, you'll be selecting a file with the same name
in any directory. Thus users will likely want to prefix any paths they
specify with a leading '/' character; warn users if the patterns they
specify exactly name a file because it means they are likely missing
such a leading slash.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In cone mode, non-option arguments to set & add are clearly paths, and
as such, we should pay attention to prefix.
In non-cone mode, it is not clear that folks intend to provide paths
since the inputs are gitignore-style patterns. Paying attention to
prefix would prevent folks from doing things like
git sparse-checkout add /.gitattributes
git sparse-checkout add '/toplevel-dir/*'
In fact, the former will result in
fatal: '/.gitattributes' is outside repository...
while the later will result in
fatal: Invalid path '/toplevel-dir': No such file or directory
despite the fact that both are valid gitignore-style patterns that would
select real files if added to the sparse-checkout file. This might lead
people to just use the path without the leading slash, potentially
resulting in them grabbing files with the same name throughout the
directory hierarchy contrary to their expectations. See also [1] and
[2]. Adding prefix seems to just be fraught with error; so for now
simply throw an error in non-cone mode when sparse-checkout set/add are
run from a subdirectory.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/e1934710-e228-adc4-d37c-f706883bd27c@gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BHXZ-XLxY0a3wCATfdq=6-EjW62RzbxKAoFPeXfJswD2w@mail.gmail.com/
Helped-by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
commit f2e3a218e8 ("sparse-checkout: enable `set` to initialize
sparse-checkout mode", 2021-12-14) made the `set` command able to
initialize sparse-checkout mode, but it also had to function when
sparse-checkout mode was already setup and the user just wanted to
change the sparsity paths. So, if the user passed --cone or --no-cone,
then we should override the current setting, but if they didn't pass
either, we should use whatever the current cone mode setting is.
Unfortunately, there was a small error in the logic in that it would not
set the in-memory cone mode value (core_sparse_checkout_one) when
--no-cone was specified, but since it did set the config setting on
disk, any subsequent git invocation would correctly get non-cone mode.
As such, the error did not previously matter. However, a subsequent
commit will add some logic that depends on core_sparse_checkout_cone
being set to the correct mode, so make sure it is set consistently with
the config values we will be writing to disk.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 4e256731d6 ("sparse-checkout: enable reapply to take
--[no-]{cone,sparse-index}", 2021-12-14) made it so that reapply could
take additional options but added no tests. Tests would have shown that
the feature doesn't work because the initial values are set AFTER
parsing the command line options instead of before. Add a test and set
the initial value at the appropriate time.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git sparse-checkout init" failed to write into $GIT_DIR/info
directory when the repository was created without one, which has
been corrected to auto-create it.
* jt/sparse-checkout-leading-dir-fix:
sparse-checkout: create leading directory
`git sparse-checkout set/init` enables worktree-specific
configuration[*] by setting extensions.worktreeConfig=true, but neglects
to perform the additional necessary bookkeeping of relocating
`core.bare=true` and `core.worktree` from $GIT_COMMON_DIR/config to
$GIT_COMMON_DIR/config.worktree, as documented in git-worktree.txt. As a
result of this oversight, these settings, which are nonsensical for
secondary worktrees, can cause Git commands to incorrectly consider a
worktree bare (in the case of `core.bare`) or operate on the wrong
worktree (in the case of `core.worktree`). Fix this problem by taking
advantage of the recently-added init_worktree_config() which enables
`extensions.worktreeConfig` and takes care of necessary bookkeeping.
While at it, for backward-compatibility reasons, also stop upgrading the
repository format to "1" since doing so is (unintentionally) not
required to take advantage of `extensions.worktreeConfig`, as explained
by 11664196ac ("Revert "check_repository_format_gently(): refuse
extensions for old repositories"", 2020-07-15).
[*] The main reason to use worktree-specific config for the
sparse-checkout builtin was to avoid enabling sparse-checkout patterns
in one and causing a loss of files in another. If a worktree does not
have a sparse-checkout patterns file, then the sparse-checkout logic
will not kick in on that worktree.
Reported-by: Sean Allred <allred.sean@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were introduced in commit 55dfcf9591 ("sparse-checkout: clear
tracked sparse dirs", 2021-09-08) and missed in my review at the time.
Plug the leaks.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating the sparse-checkout file, Git does not create the leading
directory, "$GIT_DIR/info", if it does not exist. This causes problems
if the repository does not have that directory. Therefore, ensure that
the leading directory is created.
This is the only "open" in builtin/sparse-checkout.c that does not have
a leading directory check. (The other one in write_patterns_and_update()
does.)
Note that the test needs to explicitly specify a template when running
"git init" because the default template used in the tests has the
"info/" directory included.
Helped-by: Jose Lopes <jabolopes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Certain sparse-checkout patterns that are valid in non-cone mode
led to segfault in cone mode, which has been corrected.
* ds/sparse-checkout-malformed-pattern-fix:
sparse-checkout: refuse to add to bad patterns
sparse-checkout: fix OOM error with mixed patterns
sparse-checkout: fix segfault on malformed patterns
When in cone mode sparse-checkout, it is unclear how 'git
sparse-checkout add <dir1> ...' should behave if the existing
sparse-checkout file does not match the cone mode patterns. Change the
behavior to fail with an error message about the existing patterns.
Also, all cone mode patterns start with a '/' character, so add that
restriction. This is necessary for our example test 'cone mode: warn on
bad pattern', but also requires modifying the example sparse-checkout
file we use to test the warnings related to recognizing cone mode
patterns.
This error checking would cause a failure further down the test script
because of a test that adds non-cone mode patterns without cleaning them
up. Perform that cleanup as part of the test now.
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a test to t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh that would result in an
infinite loop and out-of-memory error before this change. The issue
relies on having non-cone-mode patterns while trying to modify the
patterns in cone-mode.
The fix is simple, allowing us to break from the loop when the input
path does not contain a slash, as the "dir" pattern we added does not.
This is only a fix to the critical out-of-memory error. A better
response to such a strange state will follow in a later change.
Reported-by: Calbabreaker <calbabreaker@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Folks may want to switch to or from cone mode, or to or from a
sparse-index without changing their sparsity paths. Allow them to do so
using the reapply command.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previously suggested workflow:
git sparse-checkout init ...
git sparse-checkout set ...
Suffered from three problems:
1) It would delete nearly all files in the first step, then
restore them in the second. That was poor performance and
forced unnecessary rebuilds.
2) The two-step process resulted in two progress bars, which
was suboptimal from a UI point of view for wrappers that
invoked both of these commands but only exposed a single
command to their end users.
3) With cone mode, the first step would delete nearly all
ignored files everywhere, because everything was considered
to be outside of the specified sparsity paths. (The user was
not allowed to specify any sparsity paths in the `init` step.)
Avoid these problems by teaching `set` to understand the extra
parameters that `init` takes and performing any necessary initialization
if not already in a sparse checkout.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`init` has some code for handling updates to either cone mode or
the sparse-index setting. We would like to be able to reuse this
elsewhere, namely in `set` and `reapply`. Split this function out,
and make it slightly more general so it can handle being called from
the new callers.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We intentionally added --stdin as an option to `sparse-checkout set`,
but didn't intend for --no-stdin to be permitted as well.
Reported-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most sparse-checkout subcommands (list, add, reapply) only make sense
when already in a sparse state. Add a quick check that will error out
early if this is not the case.
Also document with a comment why we do not exit early in `disable` even
when core.sparseCheckout starts as false.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sparse_checkout_set() was reused by sparse_checkout_add() with the only
difference being a single parameter being passed to that function.
However, we would like sparse_checkout_set() to do the same work that
sparse_checkout_init() does if sparse checkouts are not already enabled.
To facilitate this transition, give each mode their own copy of the
function. This does not introduce any behavioral changes; that will
come in a subsequent patch.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
add_patterns_from_input() has relied on a global variable,
set_opts.use_stdin, which has been used by both the `set` and `add`
subcommands of sparse-checkout. Once we introduce an
add_opts.use_stdin, the hardcoding of set_opts.use_stdin will be
incorrect. Pass the value as function parameter instead to allow us to
make subsequent changes.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When changing the scope of a sparse-checkout using cone mode, we might
have some tracked directories go out of scope. The current logic removes
the tracked files from within those directories, but leaves the ignored
files within those directories. This is a bit unexpected to users who
have given input to Git saying they don't need those directories
anymore.
This is something that is new to the cone mode pattern type: the user
has explicitly said "I want these directories and _not_ those
directories." The typical sparse-checkout patterns more generally apply
to "I want files with with these patterns" so it is natural to leave
ignored files as they are. This focus on directories in cone mode
provides us an opportunity to change the behavior.
Leaving these ignored files in the sparse directories makes it
impossible to gain performance benefits in the sparse index. When we
track into these directories, we need to know if the files are ignored
or not, which might depend on the _tracked_ .gitignore file(s) within
the sparse directory. This depends on the indexed version of the file,
so the sparse directory must be expanded.
We must take special care to look for untracked, non-ignored files in
these directories before deleting them. We do not want to delete any
meaningful work that the users were doing in those directories and
perhaps forgot to add and commit before switching sparse-checkout
definitions. Since those untracked files might be code files that
generated ignored build output, also do not delete any ignored files
from these directories in that case. The users can recover their state
by resetting their sparse-checkout definition to include that directory
and continue. Alternatively, they can see the warning that is presented
and delete the directory themselves to regain the performance they
expect.
By deleting the sparse directories when changing scope (or running 'git
sparse-checkout reapply') we regain these performance benefits as if the
repository was in a clean state.
Since these ignored files are frequently build output or helper files
from IDEs, the users should not need the files now that the tracked
files are removed. If the tracked files reappear, then they will have
newer timestamps than the build artifacts, so the artifacts will need to
be regenerated anyway.
Use the sparse-index as a data structure in order to find the sparse
directories that can be safely deleted. Re-expand the index to a full
one if it was full before.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cf2dc1c238 (speed up alt_odb_usable() with many alternates, 2021-07-07)
introduced the function fspathhash() for calculating path hashes while
respecting the configuration option core.ignorecase. Call it instead of
open-coding it; the resulting code is shorter and less repetitive.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Builds on top of the sparse-index infrastructure to mark operations
that are not ready to mark with the sparse index, causing them to
fall back on fully-populated index that they always have worked with.
* ds/sparse-index-protections: (47 commits)
name-hash: use expand_to_path()
sparse-index: expand_to_path()
name-hash: don't add directories to name_hash
revision: ensure full index
resolve-undo: ensure full index
read-cache: ensure full index
pathspec: ensure full index
merge-recursive: ensure full index
entry: ensure full index
dir: ensure full index
update-index: ensure full index
stash: ensure full index
rm: ensure full index
merge-index: ensure full index
ls-files: ensure full index
grep: ensure full index
fsck: ensure full index
difftool: ensure full index
commit: ensure full index
checkout: ensure full index
...
We use 'git sparse-checkout init --cone --sparse-index' to toggle the
sparse-index feature. It makes sense to also disable it when running
'git sparse-checkout disable'. This is particularly important because it
removes the extensions.sparseIndex config option, allowing other tools
to use this Git repository again.
This does mean that 'git sparse-checkout init' will not re-enable the
sparse-index feature, even if it was previously enabled.
While testing this feature, I noticed that the sparse-index was not
being written on the first run, but by a second. This was caught by the
call to 'test-tool read-cache --table'. This requires adjusting some
assignments to core_apply_sparse_checkout and pl.use_cone_patterns in
the sparse_checkout_init() logic.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sparse index extension is used to signal that index writes should be
in sparse mode. This was only updated using GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=1.
Add a '--[no-]sparse-index' option to 'git sparse-checkout init' that
specifies if the sparse index should be used. It also updates the index
to use the correct format, either way. Add a warning in the
documentation that the use of a repository extension might reduce
compatibility with third-party tools. 'git sparse-checkout init' already
sets extension.worktreeConfig, which places most sparse-checkout users
outside of the scope of most third-party tools.
Update t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh to use this CLI instead of
GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=1.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we modify the sparse-checkout definition, we perform index operations
on a pattern_list that only exists in-memory. This allows easy backing
out in case the index update fails.
However, if the index write itself cares about the sparse-checkout
pattern set, we need access to that in-memory copy. Place a pointer to
a 'struct pattern_list' in the index so we can access this on-demand.
This will be used in the next change which uses the sparse-checkout
definition to filter out directories that are outside the sparse cone.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a number of callers of add_patterns() and its sibling
functions. Let's give them a "flags" parameter for adding new options
without having to touch each caller. We'll use this in a future patch to
add O_NOFOLLOW support. But for now each caller just passes 0.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A future feature will want to load the sparse-checkout patterns into a
pattern_list, but the current mechanism to do so is a bit complicated.
This is made difficult due to needing to find the sparse-checkout file
in different ways throughout the codebase.
The logic implemented in the new get_sparse_checkout_patterns() was
duplicated in populate_from_existing_patterns() in unpack-trees.c. Use
the new method instead, keeping the logic around handling the struct
unpack_trees_options.
The callers to get_sparse_checkout_filename() in
builtin/sparse-checkout.c manipulate the sparse-checkout file directly,
so it is not appropriate to replace logic in that file with
get_sparse_checkout_patterns().
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sparse-checkout passes along argv and argc to its sub-command helper
functions. Many of these sub-commands do not yet take any command-line
options, and ignore those parameters.
Let's instead add empty option lists and make sure we call
parse_options(). That will give a useful error message for something
like:
git sparse-checkout list --nonsense
which currently just silently ignores the unknown option.
As a bonus, it also silences some -Wunused-parameter warnings.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow runtime upgrade of the repository format version, which needs
to be done carefully.
There is a rather unpleasant backward compatibility worry with the
last step of this series, but it is the right thing to do in the
longer term.
* xl/upgrade-repo-format:
check_repository_format_gently(): refuse extensions for old repositories
sparse-checkout: upgrade repository to version 1 when enabling extension
fetch: allow adding a filter after initial clone
repository: add a helper function to perform repository format upgrade
The 'extensions' configuration variable gets special meaning in the new
repository version, so when enabling the extension we should upgrade the
repository to version 1.
Signed-off-by: Xin Li <delphij@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sparse-checkout's purpose is to update the working tree to have it
reflect a subset of the tracked files. As such, it shouldn't be
switching branches, making commits, downloading or uploading data, or
staging or unstaging changes. Other than updating the worktree, the
only thing sparse-checkout should touch is the SKIP_WORKTREE bit of the
index. In particular, this sets up a nice invariant: running
sparse-checkout will never change the status of any file in `git status`
(reflecting the fact that we only set the SKIP_WORKTREE bit if the file
is safe to delete, i.e. if the file is unmodified).
Traditionally, we did a _really_ bad job with this goal. The
predecessor to sparse-checkout involved manual editing of
.git/info/sparse-checkout and running `git read-tree -mu HEAD`. That
command would stage and unstage changes and overwrite dirty changes in
the working tree.
The initial implementation of the sparse-checkout command was no better;
it simply invoked `git read-tree -mu HEAD` as a subprocess and had the
same caveats, though this issue came up repeatedly in review comments
and workarounds for the problems were put in place before the feature
was merged[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; especially see 4 & 6].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BFT9A5n=_bx5LsjCvbogqwSjiwgr5amcjgbU1iAk4KLJg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BEmwSwg4tgJg6nVG8a3Hpn_g-=ZjApZF4EiJO+qVgu4uw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BFV7TA0qwZCQpHCqx9N+JifyRyuBQ-pZ_oGfe-NOgyh7A@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BHYCCD+Vx5fq35jH82eHc1-P53Lz_aGNpHJNcx9kg2K-A@mail.gmail.com/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BF+JWYZfDqp2Tn4AEKVp4b0YMA=Mbz4Nz62D-gGgiduYQ@mail.gmail.com/
[6] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20191121163706.GV23183@szeder.dev/
However, these workarounds, in addition to disabling the feature in a
number of important cases, also missed one special case. I'll get back
to it later.
In the 2.27.0 cycle, the disabling of the feature was lifted by finally
replacing the internal equivalent of `git read-tree -mu HEAD` with
something that did what we wanted: the new update_sparsity() function in
unpack-trees.c that only ever updates SKIP_WORKTREE bits in the index
and updates the working tree to match. This new function handles all
the cases that were problematic for the old implementation, except that
it breaks the same special case that avoided the workarounds of the old
implementation, but broke it in a different way.
So...that brings us to the special case: a git clone performed with
--no-checkout. As per the meaning of the flag, --no-checkout does not
check out any branch, with the implication that you aren't on one and
need to switch to one after the clone. Implementationally, HEAD is
still set (so in some sense you are partially on a branch), but
* the index is "unborn" (non-existent)
* there are no files in the working tree (other than .git/)
* the next time git switch (or git checkout) is run it will run
unpack_trees with `initial_checkout` flag set to true.
It is not until you run, e.g. `git switch <somebranch>` that the index
will be written and files in the working tree populated.
With this special --no-checkout case, the traditional `read-tree -mu
HEAD` behavior would have done the equivalent of acting like checkout --
switch to the default branch (HEAD), write out an index that matches
HEAD, and update the working tree to match. This special case slipped
through the avoid-making-changes checks in the original sparse-checkout
command and thus continued there.
After update_sparsity() was introduced and used (see commit f56f31af03
("sparse-checkout: use new update_sparsity() function", 2020-03-27)),
the behavior for the --no-checkout case changed: Due to git's
auto-vivification of an empty in-memory index (see do_read_index() and
note that `must_exist` is false), and due to sparse-checkout's
update_working_directory() code to always write out the index after it
was done, we got a new bug. That made it so that sparse-checkout would
switch the repository from a clone with an "unborn" index (i.e. still
needing an initial_checkout), to one that had a recorded index with no
entries. Thus, instead of all the files appearing deleted in `git
status` being known to git as a special artifact of not yet being on a
branch, our recording of an empty index made it suddenly look to git as
though it was definitely on a branch with ALL files staged for deletion!
A subsequent checkout or switch then had to contend with the fact that
it wasn't on an initial_checkout but had a bunch of staged deletions.
Make sure that sparse-checkout changes nothing in the index other than
the SKIP_WORKTREE bit; in particular, when the index is unborn we do not
have any branch checked out so there is no sparsification or
de-sparsification work to do. Simply return from
update_working_directory() early.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If commands like merge or rebase materialize files as part of their work,
or a previous sparse-checkout command failed to update individual files
due to dirty changes, users may want a command to simply 'reapply' the
sparsity rules. Provide one.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup_unpack_trees_porcelain() provides much improved error/warning
messages; instead of a message that assumes that there is only one path
with a given problem despite being used by code that intentionally is
grouping and showing errors together, it uses a message designed to be
used with groups of paths. For example, this transforms
error: Entry ' folder1/a
folder2/a
' not uptodate. Cannot update sparse checkout.
into
error: Cannot update sparse checkout: the following entries are not up to date:
folder1/a
folder2/a
In the past the suboptimal messages were never actually triggered
because we would error out if the working directory wasn't clean before
we even called unpack_trees(). The previous commit changed that,
though, so let's use the better error messages.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the equivalent of 'git read-tree -mu HEAD' in the sparse-checkout
codepaths for setting the SKIP_WORKTREE bits and instead use the new
update_sparsity() function.
Note that when an issue is hit, the error message splits 'error' and
'Cannot update sparse checkout' on separate lines. For now, we use two
greps to find both pieces of the error message but subsequent commits
will clean up the messages reported to the user.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
