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Junio C Hamano 7f109ef54e Merge branch 'ks/pack-objects-bitmap'
Some codepaths in "git pack-objects" were not ready to use an
existing pack bitmap; now they are and as the result they have
become faster.

* ks/pack-objects-bitmap:
  pack-objects: use reachability bitmap index when generating non-stdout pack
  pack-objects: respect --local/--honor-pack-keep/--incremental when bitmap is in use
2016-09-21 15:15:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9883ec2c73 Merge branch 'jk/pack-tag-of-tag'
"git pack-objects --include-tag" was taught that when we know that
we are sending an object C, we want a tag B that directly points at
C but also a tag A that points at the tag B.  We used to miss the
intermediate tag B in some cases.

* jk/pack-tag-of-tag:
  pack-objects: walk tag chains for --include-tag
  t5305: simplify packname handling
  t5305: use "git -C"
  t5305: drop "dry-run" of unpack-objects
  t5305: move cleanup into test block
2016-09-15 14:11:14 -07:00
Kirill Smelkov 645c432d61 pack-objects: use reachability bitmap index when generating non-stdout pack
Starting from 6b8fda2d (pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objects)
if a repository has bitmap index, pack-objects can nicely speedup
"Counting objects" graph traversal phase. That however was done only for
case when resultant pack is sent to stdout, not written into a file.

The reason here is for on-disk repack by default we want:

- to produce good pack (with bitmap index not-yet-packed objects are
  emitted to pack in suboptimal order).

- to use more robust pack-generation codepath (avoiding possible
  bugs in bitmap code and possible bitmap index corruption).

Jeff King further explains:

    The reason for this split is that pack-objects tries to determine how
    "careful" it should be based on whether we are packing to disk or to
    stdout. Packing to disk implies "git repack", and that we will likely
    delete the old packs after finishing. We want to be more careful (so
    as not to carry forward a corruption, and to generate a more optimal
    pack), and we presumably run less frequently and can afford extra CPU.
    Whereas packing to stdout implies serving a remote via "git fetch" or
    "git push". This happens more frequently (e.g., a server handling many
    fetching clients), and we assume the receiving end takes more
    responsibility for verifying the data.

    But this isn't always the case. One might want to generate on-disk
    packfiles for a specialized object transfer. Just using "--stdout" and
    writing to a file is not optimal, as it will not generate the matching
    pack index.

    So it would be useful to have some way of overriding this heuristic:
    to tell pack-objects that even though it should generate on-disk
    files, it is still OK to use the reachability bitmaps to do the
    traversal.

So we can teach pack-objects to use bitmap index for initial object
counting phase when generating resultant pack file too:

- if we take care to not let it be activated under git-repack:

  See above about repack robustness and not forward-carrying corruption.

- if we know bitmap index generation is not enabled for resultant pack:

  The current code has singleton bitmap_git, so it cannot work
  simultaneously with two bitmap indices.

  We also want to avoid (at least with current implementation)
  generating bitmaps off of bitmaps. The reason here is: when generating
  a pack, not-yet-packed objects will be emitted into pack in
  suboptimal order and added to tail of the bitmap as "extended entries".
  When the resultant pack + some new objects in associated repository
  are in turn used to generate another pack with bitmap, the situation
  repeats: new objects are again not emitted optimally and just added to
  bitmap tail - not in recency order.

  So the pack badness can grow over time when at each step we have
  bitmapped pack + some other objects. That's why we want to avoid
  generating bitmaps off of bitmaps, not to let pack badness grow.

- if we keep pack reuse enabled still only for "send-to-stdout" case:

  Because pack-to-file needs to generate index for destination pack, and
  currently on pack reuse raw entries are directly written out to the
  destination pack by write_reused_pack(), bypassing needed for pack index
  generation bookkeeping done by regular codepath in write_one() and
  friends.

  ( In the future we might teach pack-reuse code about cases when index
    also needs to be generated for resultant pack and remove
    pack-reuse-only-for-stdout limitation )

This way for pack-objects -> file we get nice speedup:

    erp5.git[1] (~230MB) extracted from ~ 5GB lab.nexedi.com backup
    repository managed by git-backup[2] via

    time echo 0186ac99 | git pack-objects --revs erp5pack

before:  37.2s
after:   26.2s

And for `git repack -adb` packed git.git

    time echo 5c589a73 | git pack-objects --revs gitpack

before:   7.1s
after:    3.6s

i.e. it can be 30% - 50% speedup for pack extraction.

git-backup extracts many packs on repositories restoration. That was my
initial motivation for the patch.

[1] https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/erp5
[2] https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/git-backup

NOTE

Jeff also suggests that pack.useBitmaps was probably a mistake to
introduce originally. This way we are not adding another config point,
but instead just always default to-file pack-objects not to use bitmap
index: Tools which need to generate on-disk packs with using bitmap, can
pass --use-bitmap-index explicitly. And git-repack does never pass
--use-bitmap-index, so this way we can be sure regular on-disk repacking
remains robust.

NOTE2

`git pack-objects --stdout >file.pack` + `git index-pack file.pack` is much slower
than `git pack-objects file.pack`. Extracting erp5.git pack from
lab.nexedi.com backup repository:

    $ time echo 0186ac99 | git pack-objects --stdout --revs >erp5pack-stdout.pack

    real    0m22.309s
    user    0m21.148s
    sys     0m0.932s

    $ time git index-pack erp5pack-stdout.pack

    real    0m50.873s   <-- more than 2 times slower than time to generate pack itself!
    user    0m49.300s
    sys     0m1.360s

So the time for

    `pack-object --stdout >file.pack` + `index-pack file.pack`  is  72s,

while

    `pack-objects file.pack` which does both pack and index     is  27s.

And even

    `pack-objects --no-use-bitmap-index file.pack`              is  37s.

Jeff explains:

    The packfile does not carry the sha1 of the objects. A receiving
    index-pack has to compute them itself, including inflating and applying
    all of the deltas.

that's why for `git-backup restore` we want to teach `git pack-objects
file.pack` to use bitmaps instead of using `git pack-objects --stdout
>file.pack` + `git index-pack file.pack`.

NOTE3

The speedup is now tracked via t/perf/p5310-pack-bitmaps.sh

    Test                                    56dfeb62          this tree
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    5310.2: repack to disk                  8.98(8.05+0.29)   9.05(8.08+0.33) +0.8%
    5310.3: simulated clone                 2.02(2.27+0.09)   2.01(2.25+0.08) -0.5%
    5310.4: simulated fetch                 0.81(1.07+0.02)   0.81(1.05+0.04) +0.0%
    5310.5: pack to file                    7.58(7.04+0.28)   7.60(7.04+0.30) +0.3%
    5310.6: pack to file (bitmap)           7.55(7.02+0.28)   3.25(2.82+0.18) -57.0%
    5310.8: clone (partial bitmap)          1.83(2.26+0.12)   1.82(2.22+0.14) -0.5%
    5310.9: pack to file (partial bitmap)   6.86(6.58+0.30)   2.87(2.74+0.20) -58.2%

More context:

    http://marc.info/?t=146792101400001&r=1&w=2
    http://public-inbox.org/git/20160707190917.20011-1-kirr@nexedi.com/T/#t

Cc: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-12 13:47:41 -07:00
Kirill Smelkov 702d1b9583 pack-objects: respect --local/--honor-pack-keep/--incremental when bitmap is in use
Since 6b8fda2d (pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objects) there
are two codepaths in pack-objects: with & without using bitmap
reachability index.

However add_object_entry_from_bitmap(), despite its non-bitmapped
counterpart add_object_entry(), in no way does check for whether --local
or --honor-pack-keep or --incremental should be respected. In
non-bitmapped codepath this is handled in want_object_in_pack(), but
bitmapped codepath has simply no such checking at all.

The bitmapped codepath however was allowing to pass in all those options
and with bitmap indices still being used under such conditions -
potentially giving wrong output (e.g. including objects from non-local or
.keep'ed pack).

We can easily fix this by noting the following: when an object comes to
add_object_entry_from_bitmap() it can come for two reasons:

    1. entries coming from main pack covered by bitmap index, and
    2. object coming from, possibly alternate, loose or other packs.

"2" can be already handled by want_object_in_pack() and to cover
"1" we can teach want_object_in_pack() to expect that *found_pack can be
non-NULL, meaning calling client already found object's pack entry.

In want_object_in_pack() we care to start the checks from already found
pack, if we have one, this way determining the answer right away
in case neither --local nor --honour-pack-keep are active. In
particular, as p5310-pack-bitmaps.sh shows (3 consecutive runs), we do
not do harm to served-with-bitmap clones performance-wise:

    Test                      56dfeb62          this tree
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    5310.2: repack to disk    9.08(8.20+0.25)   9.09(8.14+0.32) +0.1%
    5310.3: simulated clone   1.92(2.12+0.08)   1.93(2.12+0.09) +0.5%
    5310.4: simulated fetch   0.82(1.07+0.04)   0.82(1.06+0.04) +0.0%
    5310.6: partial bitmap    1.96(2.42+0.13)   1.95(2.40+0.15) -0.5%

    Test                      56dfeb62          this tree
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    5310.2: repack to disk    9.11(8.16+0.32)   9.11(8.19+0.28) +0.0%
    5310.3: simulated clone   1.93(2.14+0.07)   1.92(2.11+0.10) -0.5%
    5310.4: simulated fetch   0.82(1.06+0.04)   0.82(1.04+0.05) +0.0%
    5310.6: partial bitmap    1.95(2.38+0.16)   1.94(2.39+0.14) -0.5%

    Test                      56dfeb62          this tree
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    5310.2: repack to disk    9.13(8.17+0.31)   9.07(8.13+0.28) -0.7%
    5310.3: simulated clone   1.92(2.13+0.07)   1.91(2.12+0.06) -0.5%
    5310.4: simulated fetch   0.82(1.08+0.03)   0.82(1.08+0.03) +0.0%
    5310.6: partial bitmap    1.96(2.43+0.14)   1.96(2.42+0.14) +0.0%

with delta timings showing they are all within noise from run to run.

In the general case we do not want to call find_pack_entry_one() more than
once, because it is expensive. This patch splits the loop in
want_object_in_pack() into two parts: finding the object and seeing if it
impacts our choice to include it in the pack. We may call the inexpensive
want_found_object() twice, but we will never call find_pack_entry_one() if we
do not need to.

I appreciate help and discussing this change with Junio C Hamano and
Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-12 13:47:41 -07:00
Jeff King b773ddea2c pack-objects: walk tag chains for --include-tag
When pack-objects is given --include-tag, it peels each tag
ref down to a non-tag object, and if that non-tag object is
going to be packed, we include the tag, too. But what
happens if we have a chain of tags (e.g., tag "A" points to
tag "B", which points to commit "C")?

We'll peel down to "C" and realize that we want to include
tag "A", but we do not ever consider tag "B", leading to a
broken pack (assuming "B" was not otherwise selected).
Instead, we have to walk the whole chain, adding any tags we
find to the pack.

Interestingly, it doesn't seem possible to trigger this
problem with "git fetch", but you can with "git clone
--single-branch". The reason is that we generate the correct
pack when the client explicitly asks for "A" (because we do
a real reachability analysis there), and "fetch" is more
willing to do so. There are basically two cases:

  1. If "C" is already a ref tip, then the client can deduce
     that it needs "A" itself (via find_non_local_tags), and
     will ask for it explicitly rather than relying on the
     include-tag capability. Everything works.

  2. If "C" is not already a ref tip, then we hope for
     include-tag to send us the correct tag. But it doesn't;
     it generates a broken pack. However, the next step is
     to do a follow-up run of find_non_local_tags(),
     followed by fetch_refs() to backfill any tags we
     learned about.

     In the normal case, fetch_refs() calls quickfetch(),
     which does a connectivity check and sees we have no
     new objects to fetch. We just write the refs.

     But for the broken-pack case, the connectivity check
     fails, and quickfetch will follow-up with the remote,
     asking explicitly for each of the ref tips. This picks
     up the missing object in a new pack.

For a regular "git clone", we are similarly OK, because we
explicitly request all of the tag refs, and get a correct
pack. But with "--single-branch", we kick in tag
auto-following via "include-tag", but do _not_ do a
follow-up backfill. We just take whatever the server sent us
via include-tag and write out tag refs for any tag objects
we were sent. So prior to c6807a4 (clone: open a shortcut
for connectivity check, 2013-05-26), we actually claimed the
clone was a success, but the result was silently
corrupted!  Since c6807a4, index-pack's connectivity
check catches this case, and we correctly complain.

The included test directly checks that pack-objects does not
generate a broken pack, but also confirms that "clone
--single-branch" does not hit the bug.

Note that tag chains introduce another interesting question:
if we are packing the tag "B" but not the commit "C", should
"A" be included?

Both before and after this patch, we do not include "A",
because the initial peel_ref() check only knows about the
bottom-most level, "C". To realize that "B" is involved at
all, we would have to switch to an incremental peel, in
which we examine each tagged object, asking if it is being
packed (and including the outer tag if so).

But that runs contrary to the optimizations in peel_ref(),
which avoid accessing the objects at all, in favor of using
the value we pull from packed-refs. It's OK to walk the
whole chain once we know we're going to include the tag (we
have to access it anyway, so the effort is proportional to
the pack we're generating). But for the initial selection,
we have to look at every ref. If we're only packing a few
objects, we'd still have to parse every single referenced
tag object just to confirm that it isn't part of a tag
chain.

This could be addressed if packed-refs stored the complete
tag chain for each peeled ref (in most cases, this would be
the same cost as now, as each "chain" is only a single
link). But given the size of that project, it's out of scope
for this fix (and probably nobody cares enough anyway, as
it's such an obscure situation). This commit limits itself
to just avoiding the creation of a broken pack.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07 11:45:31 -07:00
Jeff King c9af708b1a pack-objects: use mru list when iterating over packs
In the original implementation of want_object_in_pack(), we
always looked for the object in every pack, so the order did
not matter for performance.

As of the last few patches, however, we can now often break
out of the loop early after finding the first instance, and
avoid looking in the other packs at all. In this case, pack
order can make a big difference, because we'd like to find
the objects by looking at as few packs as possible.

This patch switches us to the same packed_git_mru list that
is now used by normal object lookups.

Here are timings for p5303 on linux.git:

Test                      HEAD^                HEAD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
5303.3: rev-list (1)      31.31(31.07+0.23)    31.28(31.00+0.27) -0.1%
5303.4: repack (1)        40.35(38.84+2.60)    40.53(39.31+2.32) +0.4%
5303.6: rev-list (50)     31.37(31.15+0.21)    31.41(31.16+0.24) +0.1%
5303.7: repack (50)       58.25(68.54+2.03)    47.28(57.66+1.89) -18.8%
5303.9: rev-list (1000)   31.91(31.57+0.33)    31.93(31.64+0.28) +0.1%
5303.10: repack (1000)    304.80(376.00+3.92)  87.21(159.54+2.84) -71.4%

The rev-list numbers are unchanged, which makes sense (they
are not exercising this code at all). The 50- and 1000-pack
repack cases show considerable improvement.

The single-pack repack case doesn't, of course; there's
nothing to improve. In fact, it gives us a baseline for how
fast we could possibly go. You can see that though rev-list
can approach the single-pack case even with 1000 packs,
repack doesn't. The reason is simple: the loop we are
optimizing is only part of what the repack is doing. After
the "counting" phase, we do delta compression, which is much
more expensive when there are multiple packs, because we
have fewer deltas we can reuse (you can also see that these
numbers come from a multicore machine; the CPU times are
much higher than the wall-clock times due to the delta
phase).

So the good news is that in cases with many packs, we used
to be dominated by the "counting" phase, and now we are
dominated by the delta compression (which is faster, and
which we have already parallelized).

Here are similar numbers for git.git:

Test                      HEAD^               HEAD
---------------------------------------------------------------------
5303.3: rev-list (1)      1.55(1.51+0.02)     1.54(1.53+0.00) -0.6%
5303.4: repack (1)        1.82(1.80+0.08)     1.82(1.78+0.09) +0.0%
5303.6: rev-list (50)     1.58(1.57+0.00)     1.58(1.56+0.01) +0.0%
5303.7: repack (50)       2.50(3.12+0.07)     2.31(2.95+0.06) -7.6%
5303.9: rev-list (1000)   2.22(2.20+0.02)     2.23(2.19+0.03) +0.5%
5303.10: repack (1000)    10.47(16.78+0.22)   7.50(13.76+0.22) -28.4%

Not as impressive in terms of percentage, but still
measurable wins.  If you look at the wall-clock time
improvements in the 1000-pack case, you can see that linux
improved by roughly 10x as many seconds as git. That's
because it has roughly 10x as many objects, and we'd expect
this improvement to scale linearly with the number of
objects (since the number of packs is kept constant). It's
just that the "counting" phase is a smaller percentage of
the total time spent for a git.git repack, and hence the
percentage win is smaller.

The implementation itself is a straightforward use of the
MRU code. We only bother marking a pack as used when we know
that we are able to break early out of the loop, for two
reasons:

  1. If we can't break out early, it does no good; we have
     to visit each pack anyway, so we might as well avoid
     even the minor overhead of managing the cache order.

  2. The mru_mark() function reorders the list, which would
     screw up our traversal. So it is only safe to mark when
     we are about to break out of the loop. We could record
     the found pack and mark it after the loop finishes, of
     course, but that's more complicated and it doesn't buy
     us anything due to (1).

Note that this reordering does have a potential impact on
the final pack, as we store only a single "found" pack for
each object, even if it is present in multiple packs. In
principle, any copy is acceptable, as they all refer to the
same content. But in practice, they may differ in whether
they are stored as deltas, against which base, etc. This may
have an impact on delta reuse, and even the delta search
(since we skip pairs that were already in the same pack).

It's not clear whether this change of order would hurt or
even help average cases, though. The most likely reason to
have duplicate objects is from the completion of thin packs
(e.g., you have some objects in a "base" pack, then receive
several pushes; the packs you receive may be thin on the
wire, with deltas that refer to bases outside the pack, but
we complete them with duplicate base objects when indexing
them).

In such a case the current code would always find the thin
duplicates (because we currently walk the packs in reverse
chronological order). Whereas with this patch, some of those
duplicates would be found in the base pack instead.

In my tests repacking a real-world case of linux.git with
3600 thin-pack pushes (on top of a large "base" pack), the
resulting pack was about 0.04% larger with this patch. On
the other hand, because we were more likely to hit the base
pack, there were more opportunities for delta reuse, and we
had 50,000 fewer objects to examine in the delta search.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-11 10:44:23 -07:00
Jeff King 4cf2143e02 pack-objects: break delta cycles before delta-search phase
We do not allow cycles in the delta graph of a pack (i.e., A
is a delta of B which is a delta of A) for the obvious
reason that you cannot actually access any of the objects in
such a case.

There's a last-ditch attempt to notice cycles during the
write phase, during which we issue a warning to the user and
write one of the objects out in full. However, this is
"last-ditch" for two reasons:

  1. By this time, it's too late to find another delta for
     the object, so the resulting pack is larger than it
     otherwise could be.

  2. The warning is there because this is something that
     _shouldn't_ ever happen. If it does, then either:

       a. a pack we are reusing deltas from had its own
          cycle

       b. we are reusing deltas from multiple packs, and
          we found a cycle among them (i.e., A is a delta of
          B in one pack, but B is a delta of A in another,
          and we choose to use both deltas).

       c. there is a bug in the delta-search code

     So this code serves as a final check that none of these
     things has happened, warns the user, and prevents us
     from writing a bogus pack.

Right now, (2b) should never happen because of the static
ordering of packs in want_object_in_pack(). If two objects
have a delta relationship, then they must be in the same
pack, and therefore we will find them from that same pack.

However, a future patch would like to change that static
ordering, which will make (2b) a common occurrence. In
preparation, we should be able to handle those kinds of
cycles better. This patch does by introducing a
cycle-breaking step during the get_object_details() phase,
when we are deciding which deltas can be reused. That gives
us the chance to feed the objects into the delta search as
if the cycle did not exist.

We'll leave the detection and warning in the write_object()
phase in place, as it still serves as a check for case (2c).

This does mean we will stop warning for (2a). That case is
caused by bogus input packs, and we ideally would warn the
user about it.  However, since those cycles show up after
picking reusable deltas, they look the same as (2b) to us;
our new code will break the cycles early and the last-ditch
check will never see them.

We could do analysis on any cycles that we find to
distinguish the two cases (i.e., it is a bogus pack if and
only if every delta in the cycle is in the same pack), but
we don't need to. If there is a cycle inside a pack, we'll
run into problems not only reusing the delta, but accessing
the object data at all. So when we try to dig up the actual
size of the object, we'll hit that same cycle and kick in
our usual complain-and-try-another-source code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-11 10:44:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 78849622ec Merge branch 'jk/pack-objects-optim'
"git pack-objects" has a few options that tell it not to pack
objects found in certain packfiles, which require it to scan .idx
files of all available packs.  The codepaths involved in these
operations have been optimized for a common case of not having any
non-local pack and/or any .kept pack.

* jk/pack-objects-optim:
  pack-objects: compute local/ignore_pack_keep early
  pack-objects: break out of want_object loop early
  find_pack_entry: replace last_found_pack with MRU cache
  add generic most-recently-used list
  sha1_file: drop free_pack_by_name
  t/perf: add tests for many-pack scenarios
2016-08-08 14:48:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano aa9136a87e Merge branch 'nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit' into maint
"git pack-objects" and "git index-pack" mostly operate with off_t
when talking about the offset of objects in a packfile, but there
were a handful of places that used "unsigned long" to hold that
value, leading to an unintended truncation.

* nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit:
  fsck: use streaming interface for large blobs in pack
  pack-objects: do not truncate result in-pack object size on 32-bit systems
  index-pack: correct "offset" type in unpack_entry_data()
  index-pack: report correct bad object offsets even if they are large
  index-pack: correct "len" type in unpack_data()
  sha1_file.c: use type off_t* for object_info->disk_sizep
  pack-objects: pass length to check_pack_crc() without truncation
2016-08-08 14:21:36 -07:00
Jeff King 56dfeb6263 pack-objects: compute local/ignore_pack_keep early
In want_object_in_pack(), we can exit early from our loop if
neither "local" nor "ignore_pack_keep" are set. If they are,
however, we must examine each pack to see if it has the
object and is non-local or has a ".keep".

It's quite common for there to be no non-local or .keep
packs at all, in which case we know ahead of time that
looking further will be pointless. We can pre-compute this
by simply iterating over the list of packs ahead of time,
and dropping the flags if there are no packs that could
match.

Another similar strategy would be to modify the loop in
want_object_in_pack() to notice that we have already found
the object once, and that we are looping only to check for
"local" and "keep" attributes. If a pack has neither of
those, we can skip the call to find_pack_entry_one(), which
is the expensive part of the loop.

This has two advantages:

  - it isn't all-or-nothing; we still get some improvement
    when there's a small number of kept or non-local packs,
    and a large number of non-kept local packs

  - it eliminates any possible race where we add new
    non-local or kept packs after our initial scan. In
    practice, I don't think this race matters; we already
    cache the packed_git information, so somebody who adds a
    new pack or .keep file after we've started will not be
    noticed at all, unless we happen to need to call
    reprepare_packed_git() because a lookup fails.

    In other words, we're already racy, and the race is not
    a big deal (losing the race means we might include an
    object in the pack that would not otherwise be, which is
    an acceptable outcome).

However, it also has a disadvantage: we still loop over the
rest of the packs for each object to check their flags. This
is much less expensive than doing the object lookup, but
still not free. So if we wanted to implement that strategy
to cover the non-all-or-nothing cases, we could do so in
addition to this one (so you get the most speedup in the
all-or-nothing case, and the best we can do in the other
cases). But given that the all-or-nothing case is likely the
most common, it is probably not worth the trouble, and we
can revisit this later if evidence points otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-29 11:05:08 -07:00
Jeff King cd37996795 pack-objects: break out of want_object loop early
When pack-objects collects the list of objects to pack
(either from stdin, or via its internal rev-list), it
filters each one through want_object_in_pack().

This function loops through each existing packfile, looking
for the object. When we find it, we mark the pack/offset
combo for later use. However, we can't just return "yes, we
want it" at that point. If --honor-pack-keep is in effect,
we must keep looking to find it in _all_ packs, to make sure
none of them has a .keep. Likewise, if --local is in effect,
we must make sure it is not present in any non-local pack.

As a result, the sum effort of these calls is effectively
O(nr_objects * nr_packs). In an ordinary repository, we have
only a handful of packs, and this doesn't make a big
difference. But in pathological cases, it can slow the
counting phase to a crawl.

This patch notices the case that we have neither "--local"
nor "--honor-pack-keep" in effect and breaks out of the loop
early, after finding the first instance. Note that our worst
case is still "objects * packs" (i.e., we might find each
object in the last pack we look in), but in practice we will
often break out early. On an "average" repo, my git.git with
8 packs, this shows a modest 2% (a few dozen milliseconds)
improvement in the counting-objects phase of "git
pack-objects --all <foo" (hackily instrumented by sticking
exit(0) right after list_objects).

But in a much more pathological case, it makes a bigger
difference. I ran the same command on a real-world example
with ~9 million objects across 1300 packs. The counting time
dropped from 413s to 45s, an improvement of about 89%.

Note that this patch won't do anything by itself for a
normal "git gc", as it uses both --honor-pack-keep and
--local.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-29 11:05:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ad2d777604 Merge branch 'nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit'
"git pack-objects" and "git index-pack" mostly operate with off_t
when talking about the offset of objects in a packfile, but there
were a handful of places that used "unsigned long" to hold that
value, leading to an unintended truncation.

* nd/pack-ofs-4gb-limit:
  fsck: use streaming interface for large blobs in pack
  pack-objects: do not truncate result in-pack object size on 32-bit systems
  index-pack: correct "offset" type in unpack_entry_data()
  index-pack: report correct bad object offsets even if they are large
  index-pack: correct "len" type in unpack_data()
  sha1_file.c: use type off_t* for object_info->disk_sizep
  pack-objects: pass length to check_pack_crc() without truncation
2016-07-28 10:34:42 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy af92a645d3 pack-objects: do not truncate result in-pack object size on 32-bit systems
A typical diff will not show what's going on and you need to see full
functions. The core code is like this, at the end of of write_one()

	e->idx.offset = *offset;
	size = write_object(f, e, *offset);
	if (!size) {
		e->idx.offset = recursing;
		return WRITE_ONE_BREAK;
	}
	written_list[nr_written++] = &e->idx;

	/* make sure off_t is sufficiently large not to wrap */
	if (signed_add_overflows(*offset, size))
		die("pack too large for current definition of off_t");
	*offset += size;

Here we can see that the in-pack object size is returned by
write_object (or indirectly by write_reuse_object). And it's used to
calculate object offsets, which end up in the pack index file,
generated at the end.

If "size" overflows (on 32-bit sytems, unsigned long is 32-bit while
off_t can be 64-bit), we got wrong offsets and produce incorrect .idx
file, which may make it look like the .pack file is corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-13 09:15:17 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 211c61c6cf pack-objects: pass length to check_pack_crc() without truncation
On 32 bit systems with large file support, unsigned long is 32-bit
while the two offsets in the subtraction expression (pack-objects has
the exact same expression as in sha1_file.c but not shown in diff) are
in 64-bit. If an in-pack object is larger than 2^32 len/datalen is
truncated and we get a misleading "error: bad packed object CRC for
..." as a result.

Use off_t for len and datalen. check_pack_crc() already accepts this
argument as off_t and can deal with 4+ GB.

Noticed-by: Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-12 10:14:29 -07:00
Jeff King e26a8c4721 repack: extend --keep-unreachable to loose objects
If you use "repack -adk" currently, we will pack all objects
that are already packed into the new pack, and then drop the
old packs. However, loose unreachable objects will be left
as-is. In theory these are meant to expire eventually with
"git prune". But if you are using "repack -k", you probably
want to keep things forever and therefore do not run "git
prune" at all. Meaning those loose objects may build up over
time and end up fooling any object-count heuristics (such as
the one done by "gc --auto", though since git-gc does not
support "repack -k", this really applies to whatever custom
scripts people might have driving "repack -k").

With this patch, we instead stuff any loose unreachable
objects into the pack along with the already-packed
unreachable objects. This may seem wasteful, but it is
really no more so than using "repack -k" in the first place.
We are at a slight disadvantage, in that we have no useful
ordering for the result, or names to hand to the delta code.
However, this is again no worse than what "repack -k" is
already doing for the packed objects. The packing of these
objects doesn't matter much because they should not be
accessed frequently (unless they actually _do_ become
referenced, but then they would get moved to a different
part of the packfile during the next repack).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-14 13:57:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 40cfc95856 Merge branch 'nd/error-errno'
The code for warning_errno/die_errno has been refactored and a new
error_errno() reporting helper is introduced.

* nd/error-errno: (41 commits)
  wrapper.c: use warning_errno()
  vcs-svn: use error_errno()
  upload-pack.c: use error_errno()
  unpack-trees.c: use error_errno()
  transport-helper.c: use error_errno()
  sha1_file.c: use {error,die,warning}_errno()
  server-info.c: use error_errno()
  sequencer.c: use error_errno()
  run-command.c: use error_errno()
  rerere.c: use error_errno() and warning_errno()
  reachable.c: use error_errno()
  mailmap.c: use error_errno()
  ident.c: use warning_errno()
  http.c: use error_errno() and warning_errno()
  grep.c: use error_errno()
  gpg-interface.c: use error_errno()
  fast-import.c: use error_errno()
  entry.c: use error_errno()
  editor.c: use error_errno()
  diff-no-index.c: use error_errno()
  ...
2016-05-17 14:38:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 54c2af5aa3 Merge branch 'ew/doc-split-pack-disables-bitmap'
Doc update.

* ew/doc-split-pack-disables-bitmap:
  pack-objects: warn on split packs disabling bitmaps
2016-05-10 13:40:28 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 54d47394b4 builtin/pack-objects.c: use die_errno() and warning_errno()
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-09 12:29:08 -07:00
Eric Wong 9cea46cdda pack-objects: warn on split packs disabling bitmaps
It can be tempting for a server admin to want a stable set of
long-lived packs for dumb clients; but also want to enable bitmaps
to serve smart clients more quickly.

Unfortunately, such a configuration is impossible; so at least warn
users of this incompatibility since commit 21134714 (pack-objects:
turn off bitmaps when we split packs, 2014-10-16).

Tested the warning by inspecting the output of:

	make -C t t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh GIT_TEST_OPTS=-v

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-28 09:58:14 -07:00
brian m. carlson 7d924c9139 struct name_entry: use struct object_id instead of unsigned char sha1[20]
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-25 14:23:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 11529ecec9 Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc'
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().

* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
  ...
2016-02-26 13:37:16 -08:00
Jeff King b32fa95fd8 convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
Each of these cases can be converted to use ALLOC_ARRAY or
REALLOC_ARRAY, which has two advantages:

  1. It automatically checks the array-size multiplication
     for overflow.

  2. It always uses sizeof(*array) for the element-size,
     so that it can never go out of sync with the declared
     type of the array.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 14:51:09 -08:00
Jeff King de1e67d070 list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacks
When we find a blob at "a/b/c", we currently pass this to
our show_object_fn callbacks as two components: "a/b/" and
"c". Callbacks which want the full value then call
path_name(), which concatenates the two. But this is an
inefficient interface; the path is a strbuf, and we could
simply append "c" to it temporarily, then roll back the
length, without creating a new copy.

So we could improve this by teaching the callsites of
path_name() this trick (and there are only 3). But we can
also notice that no callback actually cares about the
broken-down representation, and simply pass each callback
the full path "a/b/c" as a string. The callback code becomes
even simpler, then, as we do not have to worry about freeing
an allocated buffer, nor rolling back our modification to
the strbuf.

This is theoretically less efficient, as some callbacks
would not bother to format the final path component. But in
practice this is not measurable. Since we use the same
strbuf over and over, our work to grow it is amortized, and
we really only pay to memcpy a few bytes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-12 12:51:17 -08:00
Jeff King bd64516aca list-objects: drop name_path entirely
In the previous commit, we left name_path as a thin wrapper
around a strbuf. This patch drops it entirely. As a result,
every show_object_fn callback needs to be adjusted. However,
none of their code needs to be changed at all, because the
only use was to pass it to path_name(), which now handles
the bare strbuf.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-12 12:51:15 -08:00
brian m. carlson ed1c9977cb Remove get_object_hash.
Convert all instances of get_object_hash to use an appropriate reference
to the hash member of the oid member of struct object.  This provides no
functional change, as it is essentially a macro substitution.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20 08:02:05 -05:00
brian m. carlson f2fd0760f6 Convert struct object to object_id
struct object is one of the major data structures dealing with object
IDs.  Convert it to use struct object_id instead of an unsigned char
array.  Convert get_object_hash to refer to the new member as well.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20 08:02:05 -05:00
brian m. carlson 7999b2cf77 Add several uses of get_object_hash.
Convert most instances where the sha1 member of struct object is
dereferenced to use get_object_hash.  Most instances that are passed to
functions that have versions taking struct object_id, such as
get_sha1_hex/get_oid_hex, or instances that can be trivially converted
to use struct object_id instead, are not converted.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-20 08:02:05 -05:00
Junio C Hamano 8746e30541 Merge branch 'ah/pack-objects-usage-strings'
Usage string fix.

* ah/pack-objects-usage-strings:
  pack-objects: place angle brackets around placeholders in usage strings
2015-09-01 16:31:12 -07:00
Alex Henrie b8c1d27577 pack-objects: place angle brackets around placeholders in usage strings
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-28 11:59:10 -07:00
Charles Bailey 2a514ed805 parse-options: move unsigned long option parsing out of pack-objects.c
The unsigned long option parsing (including 'k'/'m'/'g' suffix
parsing) is more widely applicable.  Add support for OPT_MAGNITUDE
to parse-options.h and change pack-objects.c use this support.

The error behavior on parse errors follows that of OPT_INTEGER.  The
name of the option that failed to parse is reported with a brief
message describing the expect format for the option argument and
then the full usage message for the command invoked.

This differs from the previous behavior for OPT_ULONG used in
pack-objects for --max-pack-size and --window-memory which used to
display the value supplied in the error message and did not display
the full usage message.

Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-22 15:07:21 -07:00
Michael Haggerty d155254c73 builtin/pack-objects: rewrite to take an object_id argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25 12:19:29 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 2b2a5be394 each_ref_fn: change to take an object_id parameter
Change typedef each_ref_fn to take a "const struct object_id *oid"
parameter instead of "const unsigned char *sha1".

To aid this transition, implement an adapter that can be used to wrap
old-style functions matching the old typedef, which is now called
"each_ref_sha1_fn"), and make such functions callable via the new
interface. This requires the old function and its cb_data to be
wrapped in a "struct each_ref_fn_sha1_adapter", and that object to be
used as the cb_data for an adapter function, each_ref_fn_adapter().

This is an enormous diff, but most of it consists of simple,
mechanical changes to the sites that call any of the "for_each_ref"
family of functions. Subsequent to this change, the call sites can be
rewritten one by one to use the new interface.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25 12:19:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano cedeffeee0 Merge branch 'jk/sha1-file-reduce-useless-warnings'
* jk/sha1-file-reduce-useless-warnings:
  sha1_file: squelch "packfile cannot be accessed" warnings
2015-05-11 14:23:41 -07:00
Jeff King 319b678a7b sha1_file: squelch "packfile cannot be accessed" warnings
When we find an object in a packfile index, we make sure we
can still open the packfile itself (or that it is already
open), as it might have been deleted by a simultaneous
repack. If we can't access the packfile, we print a warning
for the user and tell the caller that we don't have the
object (we can then look in other packfiles, or find a loose
version, before giving up).

The warning we print to the user isn't really accomplishing
anything, and it is potentially confusing to users. In the
normal case, it is complete noise; we find the object
elsewhere, and the user does not have to care that we racily
saw a packfile index that became stale. It didn't affect the
operation at all.

A possibly more interesting case is when we later can't find
the object, and report failure to the user. In this case the
warning could be considered a clue toward that ultimate
failure. But it's not really a useful clue in practice. We
wouldn't even print it consistently (since we are racing
with another process, we might not even see the .idx file,
or we might win the race and open the packfile, completing
the operation).

This patch drops the warning entirely (not only from the
fill_pack_entry site, but also from an identical use in
pack-objects). If we did find the warning interesting in the
error case, we could stuff it away and reveal it to the user
when we later die() due to the broken object. But that
complexity just isn't worth it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-30 21:47:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6902c4da58 Merge branch 'rs/deflate-init-cleanup'
Code simplification.

* rs/deflate-init-cleanup:
  zlib: initialize git_zstream in git_deflate_init{,_gzip,_raw}
2015-03-17 16:01:26 -07:00
René Scharfe 9a6f1287fb zlib: initialize git_zstream in git_deflate_init{,_gzip,_raw}
Clear the git_zstream variable at the start of git_deflate_init() etc.
so that callers don't have to do that.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-05 15:46:03 -08:00
brian m. carlson 2dacf26d09 pack-objects: use --objects-edge-aggressive for shallow repos
When fetching into or pushing from a shallow repository, we want to
aggressively mark edges as uninteresting, since this decreases the pack
size.  However, aggressively marking edges can negatively affect
performance on large non-shallow repositories with lots of refs.

Teach pack-objects a --shallow option to indicate that we're pushing
from or fetching into a shallow repository.  Use
--objects-edge-aggressive only for shallow repositories and otherwise
use --objects-edge, which performs better in the general case.  Update
the callers to pass the --shallow option when they are dealing with a
shallow repository.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-29 09:58:25 -08:00
brian m. carlson 1684c1b219 rev-list: add an option to mark fewer edges as uninteresting
In commit fbd4a70 (list-objects: mark more commits as edges in
mark_edges_uninteresting - 2013-08-16), we marked an increasing number
of edges uninteresting.  This change, and the subsequent change to make
this conditional on --objects-edge, are used by --thin to make much
smaller packs for shallow clones.

Unfortunately, they cause a significant performance regression when
pushing non-shallow clones with lots of refs (23.322 seconds vs.
4.785 seconds with 22400 refs).  Add an option to git rev-list,
--objects-edge-aggressive, that preserves this more aggressive behavior,
while leaving --objects-edge to provide more performant behavior.
Preserve the current behavior for the moment by using the aggressive
option.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-29 09:57:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano d70e331c0e Merge branch 'jk/prune-mtime'
Tighten the logic to decide that an unreachable cruft is
sufficiently old by covering corner cases such as an ancient object
becoming reachable and then going unreachable again, in which case
its retention period should be prolonged.

* jk/prune-mtime: (28 commits)
  drop add_object_array_with_mode
  revision: remove definition of unused 'add_object' function
  pack-objects: double-check options before discarding objects
  repack: pack objects mentioned by the index
  pack-objects: use argv_array
  reachable: use revision machinery's --indexed-objects code
  rev-list: add --indexed-objects option
  rev-list: document --reflog option
  t5516: test pushing a tag of an otherwise unreferenced blob
  traverse_commit_list: support pending blobs/trees with paths
  make add_object_array_with_context interface more sane
  write_sha1_file: freshen existing objects
  pack-objects: match prune logic for discarding objects
  pack-objects: refactor unpack-unreachable expiration check
  prune: keep objects reachable from recent objects
  sha1_file: add for_each iterators for loose and packed objects
  count-objects: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
  count-objects: do not use xsize_t when counting object size
  prune-packed: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
  reachable: mark index blobs as SEEN
  ...
2014-10-29 10:07:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano e4da4fbe0e Merge branch 'eb/no-pthreads'
Allow us build with NO_PTHREADS=NoThanks compilation option.

* eb/no-pthreads:
  Handle atexit list internaly for unthreaded builds
  pack-objects: set number of threads before checking and warning
  index-pack: fix compilation with NO_PTHREADS
2014-10-24 14:59:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 26a22d8d00 Merge branch 'jk/pack-objects-no-bitmap-when-splitting'
Splitting pack-objects output into multiple packs is incompatible
with the use of reachability bitmap.

* jk/pack-objects-no-bitmap-when-splitting:
  pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when we split packs
2014-10-24 14:56:10 -07:00
Jeff King 2113471478 pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when we split packs
If a pack.packSizeLimit is set, we may split the pack data
across multiple packfiles. This means we cannot generate
.bitmap files, as they require that all of the reachable
objects are in the same pack. We check that condition when
we are generating the list of objects to pack (and disable
bitmaps if we are not packing everything), but we forgot to
update it when we notice that we needed to split (which
doesn't happen until the actual write phase).

The resulting bitmaps are quite bogus (they mention entries
that do not exist in the pack!) and can cause a fetch or
push to send insufficient objects.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-19 15:08:38 -07:00
Jeff King b1e757f363 pack-objects: double-check options before discarding objects
When we are given an expiration time like
--unpack-unreachable=2.weeks.ago, we avoid writing out old,
unreachable loose objects entirely, under the assumption
that running "prune" would simply delete them immediately
anyway. However, this is only valid if we computed the same
set of reachable objects as prune would.

In practice, this is the case, because only git-repack uses
the --unpack-unreachable option with an expiration, and it
always feeds as many objects into the pack as possible. But
we can double-check at runtime just to be sure.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-19 15:07:07 -07:00
Jeff King c90f9e13ab repack: pack objects mentioned by the index
When we pack all objects, we use only the objects reachable
from references and reflogs. This misses any objects which
are reachable from the index, but not yet referenced.

By itself this isn't a big deal; the objects can remain
loose until they are actually used in a commit. However, it
does create a problem when we drop packed but unreachable
objects. We try to optimize out the writing of objects that
we will immediately prune, which means we must follow the
same rules as prune in determining what is reachable. And
prune uses the index for this purpose.

This is rather uncommon in practice, as objects in the index
would not usually have been packed in the first place. But
it could happen in a sequence like:

  1. You make a commit on a branch that references blob X.

  2. You repack, moving X into the pack.

  3. You delete the branch (and its reflog), so that X is
     unreferenced.

  4. You "git add" blob X so that it is now referenced only
     by the index.

  5. You repack again with git-gc. The pack-objects we
     invoke will see that X is neither referenced nor
     recent and not bother loosening it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-19 15:07:07 -07:00
Jeff King edfbb2aa53 pack-objects: use argv_array
This saves us from having to bump the rp_av count when we
add new traversal options.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-19 15:07:07 -07:00
Jeff King abcb86553d pack-objects: match prune logic for discarding objects
A recent commit taught git-prune to keep non-recent objects
that are reachable from recent ones. However, pack-objects,
when loosening unreachable objects, tries to optimize out
the write in the case that the object will be immediately
pruned. It now gets this wrong, since its rule does not
reflect the new prune code (and this can be seen by running
t6501 with a strategically placed repack).

Let's teach pack-objects similar logic.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-16 10:10:43 -07:00
Jeff King d0d46abc16 pack-objects: refactor unpack-unreachable expiration check
When we are loosening unreachable packed objects, we do not
bother to process objects that would simply be pruned
immediately anyway. The "would be pruned" check is a simple
comparison, but is about to get more complicated. Let's pull
it out into a separate function.

Note that this is slightly less efficient than the original,
which avoided even opening old packs, since no object in
them could pass the current check, which cares only about
the pack mtime.  But the new rules will depend on the exact
object, so we need to perform the check even for old packs.

Note also that we fix a minor buglet when the pack mtime is
exactly the same as the expiration time. The prune code
considers that worth pruning, whereas our check here
considered it worth keeping. This wasn't a big deal. Besides
being unlikely to happen, the result was simply that the
object was loosened and then pruned, missing the
optimization. Still, we can easily fix it while we are here.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-16 10:10:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0c45d258ec pack-objects: set number of threads before checking and warning
Under NO_PTHREADS build, we warn when delta_search_threads is not
set to 1, because that is the only sensible value on a single
threaded build.

However, the auto detection that kicks in when that variable is set
to 0 (e.g. there is no configuration variable or command line option,
or an explicit --threads=0 is given from the command line to override
the pack.threads configuration to force auto-detection) was not done
before the condition to issue this warning was tested.

Move the auto-detection code and place it at an appropriate spot.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-13 12:53:46 -07:00
René Scharfe 2756ca4347 use REALLOC_ARRAY for changing the allocation size of arrays
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-18 09:13:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a3d54f9a1f Merge branch 'jk/pack-shallow-always-without-bitmap'
Reachability bitmaps do not work with shallow operations.
Fixes regression in 2.0.

* jk/pack-shallow-always-without-bitmap:
  pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when we see --shallow lines
2014-08-26 11:16:25 -07:00
Jeff King f7f91086a3 pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when we see --shallow lines
Reachability bitmaps do not work with shallow operations,
because they cache a view of the object reachability that
represents the true objects. Whereas a shallow repository
(or a shallow operation in a repository) is inherently
cutting off the object graph with a graft.

We explicitly disallow the use of bitmaps in shallow
repositories by checking is_repository_shallow(), and we
should continue to do that. However, we also want to
disallow bitmaps when we are serving a fetch to a shallow
client, since we momentarily take on their grafted view of
the world.

It used to be enough to call is_repository_shallow at the
start of pack-objects.  Upload-pack wrote the other side's
shallow state to a temporary file and pointed the whole
pack-objects process at this state with "git --shallow-file",
and from the perspective of pack-objects, we really were
in a shallow repo.  But since b790e0f (upload-pack: send
shallow info over stdin to pack-objects, 2014-03-11), we do
it differently: we send --shallow lines to pack-objects over
stdin, and it registers them itself.

This means that our is_repository_shallow check is way too
early (we have not been told about the shallowness yet), and
that it is insufficient (calling is_repository_shallow is
not enough, as the shallow grafts we register do not change
its return value). Instead, we can just turn off bitmaps
explicitly when we see these lines.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-12 12:17:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 25f3119000 Merge branch 'jk/repack-pack-writebitmaps-config'
* jk/repack-pack-writebitmaps-config:
  t7700: drop explicit --no-pack-kept-objects from .keep test
  repack: introduce repack.writeBitmaps config option
  repack: simplify handling of --write-bitmap-index
  pack-objects: stop respecting pack.writebitmaps
2014-06-25 12:23:19 -07:00
Jeff King 15a906c5e9 pack-objects: stop respecting pack.writebitmaps
The handling of the pack.writebitmaps config option
originally happened in pack-objects, which is quite
low-level. It would make more sense for drivers of
pack-objects to read the config, and then manipulate
pack-objects with command-line options.

Recently, repack learned to do so, making the low-level read
of pack.writebitmaps redundant here. Other callers, like
upload-pack, would not generally want to write bitmaps
anyway.

This could be considered a regression for somebody who is
driving pack-objects themselves outside of repack and
expects the config option to be used. However, such users
seem rather unlikely given how new the bitmap code is (and
the fact that they would basically be reimplementing repack
in the first place).

Note that we do not do anything with pack.writeBitmapHashCache
here. That option is not about "do we write bimaps", but
rather "when we are writing bitmaps, how do we do it?". You
would want that to kick in anytime you decide to write them,
similar to how pack.indexVersion is used.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-10 14:01:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 967f8c9184 Merge branch 'jk/pack-bitmap'
* jk/pack-bitmap:
  pack-objects: do not reuse packfiles without --delta-base-offset
  add `ignore_missing_links` mode to revwalk
2014-04-08 12:00:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano d59c12d7ad Merge branch 'jl/nor-or-nand-and'
Eradicate mistaken use of "nor" (that is, essentially "nor" used
not in "neither A nor B" ;-)) from in-code comments, command output
strings, and documentations.

* jl/nor-or-nand-and:
  code and test: fix misuses of "nor"
  comments: fix misuses of "nor"
  contrib: fix misuses of "nor"
  Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
2014-04-08 12:00:28 -07:00
Jeff King 69e4b3426a pack-objects: do not reuse packfiles without --delta-base-offset
When we are sending a packfile to a remote, we currently try
to reuse a whole chunk of packfile without bothering to look
at the individual objects. This can make things like initial
clones much lighter on the server, as we can just dump the
packfile bytes.

However, it's possible that the other side cannot read our
packfile verbatim. For example, we may have objects stored
as OFS_DELTA, but the client is an antique version of git
that only understands REF_DELTA. We negotiate this
capability over the fetch protocol. A normal pack-objects
run will convert OFS_DELTA into REF_DELTA on the fly, but
the "reuse pack" code path never even looks at the objects.

This patch disables packfile reuse if the other side is
missing any capabilities that we might have used in the
on-disk pack. Right now the only one is OFS_DELTA, but we
may need to expand in the future (e.g., if packv4 introduces
new object types).

We could be more thorough and only disable reuse in this
case when we actually have an OFS_DELTA to send, but:

  1. We almost always will have one, since we prefer
     OFS_DELTA to REF_DELTA when possible. So this case
     would almost never come up.

  2. Looking through the objects defeats the purpose of the
     optimization, which is to do as little work as possible
     to get the bytes to the remote.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-04 15:29:44 -07:00
Justin Lebar 01689909eb comments: fix misuses of "nor"
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31 15:29:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0ddcc9cfba Merge branch 'jk/pack-bitmap-progress'
The progress output while repacking and transferring objects showed
an apparent large silence while writing the objects out of existing
packfiles, when the reachability bitmap was in use.

* jk/pack-bitmap-progress:
  pack-objects: show reused packfile objects in "Counting objects"
  pack-objects: show progress for reused packfiles
2014-03-28 13:50:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano e2450e1245 Merge branch 'jk/pack-bitmap'
Instead of dying when asked to (re)pack with the reachability
bitmap when a bitmap cannot be built, just (re)pack without
producing a bitmap in such a case, with a warning.

* jk/pack-bitmap:
  pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when skipping objects
2014-03-28 13:50:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 1ddb4d7e5e Merge branch 'nd/upload-pack-shallow'
Serving objects from a shallow repository needs to write a
temporary file to be used, but the serving upload-pack may not have
write access to the repository which is meant to be read-only.

Instead feed these temporary shallow bounds from the standard input
of pack-objects so that we do not have to use a temporary file.

* nd/upload-pack-shallow:
  upload-pack: send shallow info over stdin to pack-objects
2014-03-21 12:49:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f4eec8ce05 Merge branch 'sh/finish-tmp-packfile'
* sh/finish-tmp-packfile:
  finish_tmp_packfile():use strbuf for pathname construction
2014-03-18 13:50:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano fe9122a352 Merge branch 'dd/use-alloc-grow'
Replace open-coded reallocation with ALLOC_GROW() macro.

* dd/use-alloc-grow:
  sha1_file.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in pretend_sha1_file()
  read-cache.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_index_entry()
  builtin/mktree.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in append_to_tree()
  attr.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in handle_attr_line()
  dir.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in create_simplify()
  reflog-walk.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
  replace_object.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in register_replace_object()
  patch-ids.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_commit()
  diffcore-rename.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
  diff.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
  commit.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in register_commit_graft()
  cache-tree.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in find_subtree()
  bundle.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_to_ref_list()
  builtin/pack-objects.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in check_pbase_path()
2014-03-18 13:50:21 -07:00
Jeff King 373c67da1d pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when skipping objects
The pack bitmap format requires that we have a single bit
for each object in the pack, and that each object's bitmap
represents its complete set of reachable objects. Therefore
we have no way to represent the bitmap of an object which
references objects outside the pack.

We notice this problem while generating the bitmaps, as we
try to find the offset of a particular object and realize
that we do not have it. In this case we die, and neither the
bitmap nor the pack is generated. This is correct, but
perhaps a little unfriendly. If you have bitmaps turned on
in the config, many repacks will fail which would otherwise
succeed. E.g., incremental repacks, repacks with "-l" when
you have alternates, ".keep" files.

Instead, this patch notices early that we are omitting some
objects from the pack and turns off bitmaps (with a
warning). Note that this is not strictly correct, as it's
possible that the object being omitted is not reachable from
any other object in the pack. In practice, this is almost
never the case, and there are two advantages to doing it
this way:

  1. The code is much simpler, as we do not have to cleanly
     abort the bitmap-generation process midway through.

  2. We do not waste time partially generating bitmaps only
     to find out that some object deep in the history is not
     being packed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-17 15:02:39 -07:00
Jeff King 78d2214eb4 pack-objects: show reused packfile objects in "Counting objects"
When we are sending a pack for push or fetch, we may reuse a
chunk of packfile without even parsing it. The progress
meter then looks like this:

  Reusing existing pack: 3440489, done.
  Counting objects: 3, done.

The first line shows that we are reusing a large chunk of
objects, and then we further count any objects not included
in the reused portion with an actual traversal.

These are all implementation details that the user does not
need to care about. Instead, we can show the reused objects
in the normal "counting..." progress meter (which will
simply go much faster than normal), and then continue to add
to it as we traverse.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-17 15:01:27 -07:00
Jeff King 657673f125 pack-objects: show progress for reused packfiles
When the "--all-progress" option is in effect, pack-objects
shows a progress report for the "writing" phase. If the
repository has bitmaps and we are reusing a packfile, the
user sees no progress update until the whole packfile is
sent.  Since this is typically the bulk of what is being
written, it can look like git hangs during this phase, even
though the transfer is proceeding.

This generally only happens with "git push" from a
repository with bitmaps. We do not use "--all-progress" for
fetch (since the result is going to index-pack on the
client, which takes care of progress reporting). And for
regular repacks to disk, we do not reuse packfiles.

We already have the progress meter setup during
write_reused_pack; we just need to call display_progress
whiel we are writing out the pack. The progress meter is
attached to our output descriptor, so it automatically
handles the throughput measurements.

However, we need to update the object count as we go, since
that is what feeds the percentage we show. We aren't
actually parsing the packfile as we send it, so we have no
idea how many objects we have sent; we only know that at the
end of N bytes, we will have sent M objects. So we cheat a
little and assume each object is M/N bytes (i.e., the mean
of the objects we are sending). While this isn't strictly
true, it actually produces a more pleasing progress meter
for the user, as it moves smoothly and predictably (and
nobody really cares about the object count; they care about
the percentage, and the object count is a proxy for that).

One alternative would be to actually show two progress
meters: one for the reused pack, and one for the rest of the
objects. That would more closely reflect the data we have
(the first would be measured in bytes, and the second
measured in objects). But it would also be more complex and
annoying to the user; rather than seeing one progress meter
counting up to 100%, they would finish one meter, then start
another one at zero.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-17 15:01:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 56e2874a81 Merge branch 'sh/write-pack-file-warning-message-fix'
A warning from "git pack-objects" were generated by referring to an
incorrect variable when forming the filename that we had trouble
with.

* sh/write-pack-file-warning-message-fix:
  write_pack_file: use correct variable in diagnostic
2014-03-14 14:27:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3e30cb0fbf Merge branch 'mh/replace-refs-variable-rename'
* mh/replace-refs-variable-rename:
  Document some functions defined in object.c
  Add docstrings for lookup_replace_object() and do_lookup_replace_object()
  rename read_replace_refs to check_replace_refs
2014-03-14 14:27:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0963008cbf Merge branch 'nd/i18n-progress'
Mark the progress indicators from various time-consuming commands
for i18n/l10n.

* nd/i18n-progress:
  i18n: mark all progress lines for translation
2014-03-14 14:26:31 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy b790e0f67c upload-pack: send shallow info over stdin to pack-objects
Before cdab485 (upload-pack: delegate rev walking in shallow fetch to
pack-objects - 2013-08-16) upload-pack does not write to the source
repository. cdab485 starts to write $GIT_DIR/shallow_XXXXXX if it's a
shallow fetch, so the source repo must be writable.

git:// servers do not need write access to repos and usually don't
have it, which means cdab485 breaks shallow clone over git://

Instead of using a temporary file as the media for shallow points, we
can send them over stdin to pack-objects as well. Prepend shallow
SHA-1 with --shallow so pack-objects knows what is what.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-11 13:32:10 -07:00
Dmitry S. Dolzhenko 25e1940709 builtin/pack-objects.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in check_pbase_path()
Signed-off-by: Dmitry S. Dolzhenko <dmitrys.dolzhenko@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-03 14:44:11 -08:00
Sun He 5889271114 finish_tmp_packfile():use strbuf for pathname construction
The old version fixes a maximum length on the buffer, which could be a problem
if one is not certain of the length of get_object_directory().
Using strbuf can avoid the protential bug.

Helped-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sun He <sunheehnus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-03 12:15:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 2156a98045 Merge branch 'sh/write-pack-file-warning-message-fix' into sh/finish-tmp-packfile
* sh/write-pack-file-warning-message-fix:
  write_pack_file: use correct variable in diagnostic
2014-03-03 12:13:20 -08:00
Sun He 0eea5a6e91 write_pack_file: use correct variable in diagnostic
'pack_tmp_name' is the subject of the utime() check, so report it in the
warning, not the uninitialized 'tmpname'

Signed-off-by: Sun He <sunheehnus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-03 10:43:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 0f9e62e084 Merge branch 'jk/pack-bitmap'
Borrow the bitmap index into packfiles from JGit to speed up
enumeration of objects involved in a commit range without having to
fully traverse the history.

* jk/pack-bitmap: (26 commits)
  ewah: unconditionally ntohll ewah data
  ewah: support platforms that require aligned reads
  read-cache: use get_be32 instead of hand-rolled ntoh_l
  block-sha1: factor out get_be and put_be wrappers
  do not discard revindex when re-preparing packfiles
  pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cache
  t/perf: add tests for pack bitmaps
  t: add basic bitmap functionality tests
  count-objects: recognize .bitmap in garbage-checking
  repack: consider bitmaps when performing repacks
  repack: handle optional files created by pack-objects
  repack: turn exts array into array-of-struct
  repack: stop using magic number for ARRAY_SIZE(exts)
  pack-objects: implement bitmap writing
  rev-list: add bitmap mode to speed up object lists
  pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objects
  pack-objects: split add_object_entry
  pack-bitmap: add support for bitmap indexes
  documentation: add documentation for the bitmap format
  ewah: compressed bitmap implementation
  ...
2014-02-27 14:01:48 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 754dbc43f0 i18n: mark all progress lines for translation
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24 09:08:37 -08:00
Michael Haggerty afc711b8e1 rename read_replace_refs to check_replace_refs
The semantics of this flag was changed in commit

    e1111cef23 inline lookup_replace_object() calls

but wasn't renamed at the time to minimize code churn.  Rename it now,
and add a comment explaining its use.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-20 14:16:55 -08:00
Vicent Marti ae4f07fbcc pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cache
When we use pack bitmaps rather than walking the object
graph, we end up with the list of objects to include in the
packfile, but we do not know the path at which any tree or
blob objects would be found.

In a recently packed repository, this is fine. A fetch would
use the paths only as a heuristic in the delta compression
phase, and a fully packed repository should not need to do
much delta compression.

As time passes, though, we may acquire more objects on top
of our large bitmapped pack. If clients fetch frequently,
then they never even look at the bitmapped history, and all
works as usual. However, a client who has not fetched since
the last bitmap repack will have "have" tips in the
bitmapped history, but "want" newer objects.

The bitmaps themselves degrade gracefully in this
circumstance. We manually walk the more recent bits of
history, and then use bitmaps when we hit them.

But we would also like to perform delta compression between
the newer objects and the bitmapped objects (both to delta
against what we know the user already has, but also between
"new" and "old" objects that the user is fetching). The lack
of pathnames makes our delta heuristics much less effective.

This patch adds an optional cache of the 32-bit name_hash
values to the end of the bitmap file. If present, a reader
can use it to match bitmapped and non-bitmapped names during
delta compression.

Here are perf results for p5310:

Test                      origin/master       HEAD^                      HEAD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5310.2: repack to disk    36.81(37.82+1.43)   47.70(48.74+1.41) +29.6%   47.75(48.70+1.51) +29.7%
5310.3: simulated clone   30.78(29.70+2.14)   1.08(0.97+0.10) -96.5%     1.07(0.94+0.12) -96.5%
5310.4: simulated fetch   3.16(6.10+0.08)     3.54(10.65+0.06) +12.0%    1.70(3.07+0.06) -46.2%
5310.6: partial bitmap    36.76(43.19+1.81)   6.71(11.25+0.76) -81.7%    4.08(6.26+0.46) -88.9%

You can see that the time spent on an incremental fetch goes
down, as our delta heuristics are able to do their work.
And we save time on the partial bitmap clone for the same
reason.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:23 -08:00
Vicent Marti 7cc8f97108 pack-objects: implement bitmap writing
This commit extends more the functionality of `pack-objects` by allowing
it to write out a `.bitmap` index next to any written packs, together
with the `.idx` index that currently gets written.

If bitmap writing is enabled for a given repository (either by calling
`pack-objects` with the `--write-bitmap-index` flag or by having
`pack.writebitmaps` set to `true` in the config) and pack-objects is
writing a packfile that would normally be indexed (i.e. not piping to
stdout), we will attempt to write the corresponding bitmap index for the
packfile.

Bitmap index writing happens after the packfile and its index has been
successfully written to disk (`finish_tmp_packfile`). The process is
performed in several steps:

    1. `bitmap_writer_set_checksum`: this call stores the partial
       checksum for the packfile being written; the checksum will be
       written in the resulting bitmap index to verify its integrity

    2. `bitmap_writer_build_type_index`: this call uses the array of
       `struct object_entry` that has just been sorted when writing out
       the actual packfile index to disk to generate 4 type-index bitmaps
       (one for each object type).

       These bitmaps have their nth bit set if the given object is of
       the bitmap's type. E.g. the nth bit of the Commits bitmap will be
       1 if the nth object in the packfile index is a commit.

       This is a very cheap operation because the bitmap writing code has
       access to the metadata stored in the `struct object_entry` array,
       and hence the real type for each object in the packfile.

    3. `bitmap_writer_reuse_bitmaps`: if there exists an existing bitmap
       index for one of the packfiles we're trying to repack, this call
       will efficiently rebuild the existing bitmaps so they can be
       reused on the new index. All the existing bitmaps will be stored
       in a `reuse` hash table, and the commit selection phase will
       prioritize these when selecting, as they can be written directly
       to the new index without having to perform a revision walk to
       fill the bitmap. This can greatly speed up the repack of a
       repository that already has bitmaps.

    4. `bitmap_writer_select_commits`: if bitmap writing is enabled for
       a given `pack-objects` run, the sequence of commits generated
       during the Counting Objects phase will be stored in an array.

       We then use that array to build up the list of selected commits.
       Writing a bitmap in the index for each object in the repository
       would be cost-prohibitive, so we use a simple heuristic to pick
       the commits that will be indexed with bitmaps.

       The current heuristics are a simplified version of JGit's
       original implementation. We select a higher density of commits
       depending on their age: the 100 most recent commits are always
       selected, after that we pick 1 commit of each 100, and the gap
       increases as the commits grow older. On top of that, we make sure
       that every single branch that has not been merged (all the tips
       that would be required from a clone) gets their own bitmap, and
       when selecting commits between a gap, we tend to prioritize the
       commit with the most parents.

       Do note that there is no right/wrong way to perform commit
       selection; different selection algorithms will result in
       different commits being selected, but there's no such thing as
       "missing a commit". The bitmap walker algorithm implemented in
       `prepare_bitmap_walk` is able to adapt to missing bitmaps by
       performing manual walks that complete the bitmap: the ideal
       selection algorithm, however, would select the commits that are
       more likely to be used as roots for a walk in the future (e.g.
       the tips of each branch, and so on) to ensure a bitmap for them
       is always available.

    5. `bitmap_writer_build`: this is the computationally expensive part
       of bitmap generation. Based on the list of commits that were
       selected in the previous step, we perform several incremental
       walks to generate the bitmap for each commit.

       The walks begin from the oldest commit, and are built up
       incrementally for each branch. E.g. consider this dag where A, B,
       C, D, E, F are the selected commits, and a, b, c, e are a chunk
       of simplified history that will not receive bitmaps.

            A---a---B--b--C--c--D
                     \
                      E--e--F

       We start by building the bitmap for A, using A as the root for a
       revision walk and marking all the objects that are reachable
       until the walk is over. Once this bitmap is stored, we reuse the
       bitmap walker to perform the walk for B, assuming that once we
       reach A again, the walk will be terminated because A has already
       been SEEN on the previous walk.

       This process is repeated for C, and D, but when we try to
       generate the bitmaps for E, we can reuse neither the current walk
       nor the bitmap we have generated so far.

       What we do now is resetting both the walk and clearing the
       bitmap, and performing the walk from scratch using E as the
       origin. This new walk, however, does not need to be completed.
       Once we hit B, we can lookup the bitmap we have already stored
       for that commit and OR it with the existing bitmap we've composed
       so far, allowing us to limit the walk early.

       After all the bitmaps have been generated, another iteration
       through the list of commits is performed to find the best XOR
       offsets for compression before writing them to disk. Because of
       the incremental nature of these bitmaps, XORing one of them with
       its predecesor results in a minimal "bitmap delta" most of the
       time. We can write this delta to the on-disk bitmap index, and
       then re-compose the original bitmaps by XORing them again when
       loaded.

       This is a phase very similar to pack-object's `find_delta` (using
       bitmaps instead of objects, of course), except the heuristics
       have been greatly simplified: we only check the 10 bitmaps before
       any given one to find best compressing one. This gives good
       results in practice, because there is locality in the ordering of
       the objects (and therefore bitmaps) in the packfile.

     6. `bitmap_writer_finish`: the last step in the process is
	serializing to disk all the bitmap data that has been generated
	in the two previous steps.

	The bitmap is written to a tmp file and then moved atomically to
	its final destination, using the same process as
	`pack-write.c:write_idx_file`.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:22 -08:00
Vicent Marti 6b8fda2db1 pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objects
In this patch, we use the bitmap API to perform the `Counting Objects`
phase in pack-objects, rather than a traditional walk through the object
graph. For a reasonably-packed large repo, the time to fetch and clone
is often dominated by the full-object revision walk during the Counting
Objects phase. Using bitmaps can reduce the CPU time required on the
server (and therefore start sending the actual pack data with less
delay).

For bitmaps to be used, the following must be true:

  1. We must be packing to stdout (as a normal `pack-objects` from
     `upload-pack` would do).

  2. There must be a .bitmap index containing at least one of the
     "have" objects that the client is asking for.

  3. Bitmaps must be enabled (they are enabled by default, but can be
     disabled by setting `pack.usebitmaps` to false, or by using
     `--no-use-bitmap-index` on the command-line).

If any of these is not true, we fall back to doing a normal walk of the
object graph.

Here are some sample timings from a full pack of `torvalds/linux` (i.e.
something very similar to what would be generated for a clone of the
repository) that show the speedup produced by various
methods:

    [existing graph traversal]
    $ time git pack-objects --all --stdout --no-use-bitmap-index \
			    </dev/null >/dev/null
    Counting objects: 3237103, done.
    Compressing objects: 100% (508752/508752), done.
    Total 3237103 (delta 2699584), reused 3237103 (delta 2699584)

    real    0m44.111s
    user    0m42.396s
    sys     0m3.544s

    [bitmaps only, without partial pack reuse; note that
     pack reuse is automatic, so timing this required a
     patch to disable it]
    $ time git pack-objects --all --stdout </dev/null >/dev/null
    Counting objects: 3237103, done.
    Compressing objects: 100% (508752/508752), done.
    Total 3237103 (delta 2699584), reused 3237103 (delta 2699584)

    real    0m5.413s
    user    0m5.604s
    sys     0m1.804s

    [bitmaps with pack reuse (what you get with this patch)]
    $ time git pack-objects --all --stdout </dev/null >/dev/null
    Reusing existing pack: 3237103, done.
    Total 3237103 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

    real    0m1.636s
    user    0m1.460s
    sys     0m0.172s

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:22 -08:00
Jeff King ce2bc42456 pack-objects: split add_object_entry
This function actually does three things:

  1. Check whether we've already added the object to our
     packing list.

  2. Check whether the object meets our criteria for adding.

  3. Actually add the object to our packing list.

It's a little hard to see these three phases, because they
happen linearly in the rather long function. Instead, this
patch breaks them up into three separate helper functions.

The result is a little easier to follow, though it
unfortunately suffers from some optimization
interdependencies between the stages (e.g., during step 3 we
use the packing list index from step 1 and the packfile
information from step 2).

More importantly, though, the various parts can be
composed differently, as they will be in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:22 -08:00
Jeff King 9af270e8c2 do not pretend sha1write returns errors
The sha1write function returns an int, but it will always be
"0". The failure-prone parts of the function happen in the
"flush" callback, which cannot pass an error back to us. So
we just end up calling die() during the flush.

Let's just drop the return value altogether, as it only
confuses callers into thinking that it might be useful.

Only one call site actually checked the return value. We can
drop that check, since it just led to a die() anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-26 11:50:20 -08:00
Christian Couder 5955654823 replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.

The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:

    $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
      grep -v strbuf\\.c |
      xargs perl -pi -e '
        s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
        s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
        s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
        s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
      '

on the result of preparatory changes in this series.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05 14:13:21 -08:00
Vicent Marti 68fb36eb92 pack-objects: factor out name_hash
As the pack-objects system grows beyond the single
pack-objects.c file, more parts (like the soon-to-exist
bitmap code) will need to compute hashes for matching
deltas. Factor out name_hash to make it available to other
files.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-24 15:44:52 -07:00
Vicent Marti 2834bc27c1 pack-objects: refactor the packing list
The hash table that stores the packing list for a given `pack-objects`
run was tightly coupled to the pack-objects code.

In this commit, we refactor the hash table and the underlying storage
array into a `packing_data` struct. The functionality for accessing and
adding entries to the packing list is hence accessible from other parts
of Git besides the `pack-objects` builtin.

This refactoring is a requirement for further patches in this series
that will require accessing the commit packing list from outside of
`pack-objects`.

The hash table implementation has been minimally altered: we now
use table sizes which are always a power of two, to ensure a uniform
index distribution in the array.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-24 15:44:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano eeb8e8373f Merge branch 'jc/pack-objects'
* jc/pack-objects:
  pack-objects: shrink struct object_entry
2013-10-23 13:21:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 238504b014 Merge branch 'nd/fetch-into-shallow'
When there is no sufficient overlap between old and new history
during a fetch into a shallow repository, we unnecessarily sent
objects the sending side knows the receiving end has.

* nd/fetch-into-shallow:
  Add testcase for needless objects during a shallow fetch
  list-objects: mark more commits as edges in mark_edges_uninteresting
  list-objects: reduce one argument in mark_edges_uninteresting
  upload-pack: delegate rev walking in shallow fetch to pack-objects
  shallow: add setup_temporary_shallow()
  shallow: only add shallow graft points to new shallow file
  move setup_alternate_shallow and write_shallow_commits to shallow.c
2013-09-20 12:25:32 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy e76a5fb459 list-objects: reduce one argument in mark_edges_uninteresting
mark_edges_uninteresting() is always called with this form

  mark_edges_uninteresting(revs->commits, revs, ...);

Remove the first argument and let mark_edges_uninteresting figure that
out by itself. It helps answer the question "are this commit list and
revs related in any way?" when looking at mark_edges_uninteresting
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-28 11:54:18 -07:00
Brandon Casey 7c3ecb3254 Don't close pack fd when free'ing pack windows
Now that close_one_pack() has been introduced to handle file
descriptor pressure, it is not strictly necessary to close the
pack file descriptor in unuse_one_window() when we're under memory
pressure.

Jeff King provided a justification for leaving the pack file open:

   If you close packfile descriptors, you can run into racy situations
   where somebody else is repacking and deleting packs, and they go away
   while you are trying to access them. If you keep a descriptor open,
   you're fine; they last to the end of the process. If you don't, then
   they disappear from under you.

   For normal object access, this isn't that big a deal; we just rescan
   the packs and retry. But if you are packing yourself (e.g., because
   you are a pack-objects started by upload-pack for a clone or fetch),
   it's much harder to recover (and we print some warnings).

Let's do so (or uh, not do so).

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-02 09:27:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 63cdcfa40f pack-objects: shrink struct object_entry
Turn some boolean fields into bitfields and use uint32_t for name
hash.  This shrinks the size of the structure from 128 bytes to 120
bytes.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-04 15:23:35 -08:00
Jeff King 315ea32f1b Merge branch 'jk/peel-ref'
Speeds up "git upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the
other side of the connection) by reducing the cost to advertise the
branches and tags that are available in the repository.

* jk/peel-ref:
  upload-pack: use peel_ref for ref advertisements
  peel_ref: check object type before loading
  peel_ref: do not return a null sha1
  peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify
2012-10-25 06:42:27 -04:00
Jeff King e6dbffa67b peel_ref: do not return a null sha1
The idea of the peel_ref function is to dereference tag
objects recursively until we hit a non-tag, and return the
sha1. Conceptually, it should return 0 if it is successful
(and fill in the sha1), or -1 if there was nothing to peel.

However, the current behavior is much more confusing. For a
regular loose ref, the behavior is as described above. But
there is an optimization to reuse the peeled-ref value for a
ref that came from a packed-refs file. If we have such a
ref, we return its peeled value, even if that peeled value
is null (indicating that we know the ref definitely does
_not_ peel).

It might seem like such information is useful to the caller,
who would then know not to bother loading and trying to peel
the object. Except that they should not bother loading and
trying to peel the object _anyway_, because that fallback is
already handled by peel_ref. In other words, the whole point
of calling this function is that it handles those details
internally, and you either get a sha1, or you know that it
is not peel-able.

This patch catches the null sha1 case internally and
converts it into a -1 return value (i.e., there is nothing
to peel). This simplifies callers, which do not need to
bother checking themselves.

Two callers are worth noting:

  - in pack-objects, a comment indicates that there is a
    difference between non-peelable tags and unannotated
    tags. But that is not the case (before or after this
    patch). Whether you get a null sha1 has to do with
    internal details of how peel_ref operated.

  - in show-ref, if peel_ref returns a failure, the caller
    tries to decide whether to try peeling manually based on
    whether the REF_ISPACKED flag is set. But this doesn't
    make any sense. If the flag is set, that does not
    necessarily mean the ref came from a packed-refs file
    with the "peeled" extension. But it doesn't matter,
    because even if it didn't, there's no point in trying to
    peel it ourselves, as peel_ref would already have done
    so. In other words, the fallback peeling is guaranteed
    to fail.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-04 20:34:28 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 4c6881204b i18n: pack-objects: mark parseopt strings for translation
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-20 12:23:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0958a24d73 Merge branch 'jc/sha1-name-more'
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output
is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish,
and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to
prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names.

* jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits)
  t1512: match the "other" object names
  t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output
  rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>
  rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish
  reset: the command takes committish
  commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits
  apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs
  sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types
  revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish
  revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags
  sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish()
  sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context()
  sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish
  sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags
  sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits
  sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option
  sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags
  get_sha1(): fix error status regression
  sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names
  sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res"
  ...
2012-07-22 12:55:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 8e676e8ba5 revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags
The existing "cant_be_filename" that tells the function that the
caller knows the arg is not a path (hence it does not have to be
checked for absense of the file whose name matches it) is made into
a bit in the flag word.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-09 16:42:22 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy cf2ba13ac6 pack-objects: use streaming interface for reading large loose blobs
git usually streams large blobs directly to packs. But there are cases
where git can create large loose blobs (unpack-objects or hash-object
over pipe). Or they can come from other git implementations.
core.bigfilethreshold can also be lowered down and introduce a new
wave of large loose blobs.

Use streaming interface to read/compress/write these blobs in one
go. Fall back to normal way if somehow streaming interface cannot be
used.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-29 10:50:56 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy c9018b0305 pack-objects: refactor write_object() into helper functions
The function first decides if we want to copy data taken from existing
pack verbatim or we want to encode the data ourselves for the packfile
we are creating and then carries out the decision.  Separate the latter
phase into two helper functions, one for the case the data is reused,
the other for the case the data is produced anew.

A little twist is that it can later turn out that we cannot reuse the
data after we initially decide to do so; in such a case, the "reuse"
helper makes a call to "generate" helper.  It is easier to follow than
the current fallback code that uses "goto" inside a single large
function.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-18 14:22:15 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 754980d023 pack-objects, streaming: turn "xx >= big_file_threshold" to ".. > .."
This is because all other places do "xx > big_file_threshold"

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-18 14:21:19 -07:00
Jeff King 7e52f5660e gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately pruned
When we pack everything into one big pack with "git repack
-Ad", any unreferenced objects in to-be-deleted packs are
exploded into loose objects, with the intent that they will
be examined and possibly cleaned up by the next run of "git
prune".

Since the exploded objects will receive the mtime of the
pack from which they come, if the source pack is old, those
loose objects will end up pruned immediately. In that case,
it is much more efficient to skip the exploding step
entirely for these objects.

This patch teaches pack-objects to receive the expiration
information and avoid writing these objects out. It also
teaches "git gc" to pass the value of gc.pruneexpire to
repack (which in turn learns to pass it along to
pack-objects) so that this optimization happens
automatically during "git gc" and "git gc --auto".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-11 11:09:49 -07:00
Michał Kiedrowicz 2b34e486bc pack-objects: Fix compilation with NO_PTHREDS
It looks like commit 99fb6e04 (pack-objects: convert to use
parse_options(), 2012-02-01) moved the #ifdef NO_PTHREDS around but
hasn't noticed that the 'arg' variable no longer is available.

Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-26 17:46:00 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 99fb6e04cb pack-objects: convert to use parse_options()
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-01 13:05:00 -08:00