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Justin Tobler
7c8eb5928f reftable/stack: add env to disable autocompaction
In future tests it will be neccesary to create repositories with a set
number of tables. To make this easier, introduce the
`GIT_TEST_REFTABLE_AUTOCOMPACTION` environment variable that, when set
to false, disables autocompaction of reftables.

Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-04-08 12:11:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7424fb7797 Merge branch 'ps/pack-refs-auto' into jt/reftable-geometric-compaction
* ps/pack-refs-auto:
  builtin/gc: pack refs when using `git maintenance run --auto`
  builtin/gc: forward git-gc(1)'s `--auto` flag when packing refs
  t6500: extract objects with "17" prefix
  builtin/gc: move `struct maintenance_run_opts`
  builtin/pack-refs: introduce new "--auto" flag
  builtin/pack-refs: release allocated memory
  refs/reftable: expose auto compaction via new flag
  refs: remove `PACK_REFS_ALL` flag
  refs: move `struct pack_refs_opts` to where it's used
  t/helper: drop pack-refs wrapper
  refs/reftable: print errors on compaction failure
  reftable/stack: gracefully handle failed auto-compaction due to locks
  reftable/stack: use error codes when locking fails during compaction
  reftable/error: discern locked/outdated errors
  reftable/stack: fix error handling in `reftable_stack_init_addition()`
2024-04-05 10:34:23 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
f89356db4a refs/reftable: expose auto compaction via new flag
Under normal circumstances, the "reftable" backend will automatically
perform compaction after appending to the stack. It is thus not
necessary and may even be considered wasteful to run git-pack-refs(1) in
"reftable"-backed repositories as it will cause the backend to compact
all tables into a single one. We do exactly that though when running
`git maintenance run --auto` or `git gc --auto`, which gets spawned by
Git after running some specific commands.

The `--auto` mode is typically only executing optimizations as needed.
To do so, we already use several heuristics for the various different
data structures in Git to determine whether to optimize them or not.
We do not use any heuristics for refs though and instead always optimize
them.

Introduce a new `PACK_REFS_AUTO` flag that can be passed to the backend.
When not handled by the backend we will continue to behave the exact
same as we do right now, that is we optimize refs unconditionally. This
is done for the "files" backend for now to retain current behaviour,
even though we may eventually also want to introduce heuristics here.
For the "reftable" backend though we already do have auto-compaction, so
we can easily reuse that logic to implement the new auto-packing flag.

Note that under normal circumstances, this should always end up being a
no-op. After all, we already invoke the code for every single addition
to the stack. But there are special cases where it can still be helpful
to execute the auto-compaction code explicitly:

  - Concurrent writers may cause compaction to not run due to locks.

  - Callers may decide to disable compaction altogether and then pack
    refs at a later point due to various reasons.

  - Other implementations of the reftable format may do compaction
    differently or even not at all.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-25 09:54:07 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
4ccf7060d8 refs/reftable: print errors on compaction failure
When git-pack-refs(1) fails in the reftable backend we end up printing
no error message at all, leaving the caller puzzled as to why compaction
has failed. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-25 09:54:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e8c1cda9a9 Merge branch 'ps/reftable-reflog-iteration-perf'
The code to iterate over reflogs in the reftable has been optimized
to reduce memory allocation and deallocation.

Reviewed-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
cf. <Ze9eX-aaWoVaqsPP@google.com>

* ps/reftable-reflog-iteration-perf:
  refs/reftable: track last log record name via strbuf
  reftable/record: use scratch buffer when decoding records
  reftable/record: reuse message when decoding log records
  reftable/record: reuse refnames when decoding log records
  reftable/record: avoid copying author info
  reftable/record: convert old and new object IDs to arrays
  refs/reftable: reload correct stack when creating reflog iter
2024-03-21 14:55:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
448a74e151 Merge branch 'ps/reftable-iteration-perf-part2'
The code to iterate over refs with the reftable backend has seen
some optimization.

* ps/reftable-iteration-perf-part2:
  refs/reftable: precompute prefix length
  reftable: allow inlining of a few functions
  reftable/record: decode keys in place
  reftable/record: reuse refname when copying
  reftable/record: reuse refname when decoding
  reftable/merged: avoid duplicate pqueue emptiness check
  reftable/merged: circumvent pqueue with single subiter
  reftable/merged: handle subiter cleanup on close only
  reftable/merged: remove unnecessary null check for subiters
  reftable/merged: make subiters own their records
  reftable/merged: advance subiter on subsequent iteration
  reftable/merged: make `merged_iter` structure private
  reftable/pq: use `size_t` to track iterator index
2024-03-14 14:05:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
963a277a52 Merge branch 'ps/reftable-repo-init-fix'
Clear the fallout from a fix for 2.44 regression.

* ps/reftable-repo-init-fix:
  t0610: remove unused variable assignment
  refs/reftable: don't fail empty transactions in repo without HEAD
2024-03-07 15:59:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d037212d97 Merge branch 'kn/for-all-refs'
"git for-each-ref" learned "--include-root-refs" option to show
even the stuff outside the 'refs/' hierarchy.

* kn/for-all-refs:
  for-each-ref: add new option to include root refs
  ref-filter: rename 'FILTER_REFS_ALL' to 'FILTER_REFS_REGULAR'
  refs: introduce `refs_for_each_include_root_refs()`
  refs: extract out `loose_fill_ref_dir_regular_file()`
  refs: introduce `is_pseudoref()` and `is_headref()`
2024-03-05 09:44:44 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
fcacc2b161 refs/reftable: track last log record name via strbuf
The reflog iterator enumerates all reflogs known to a ref backend. In
the "reftable" backend there is no way to list all existing reflogs
directly. Instead, we have to iterate through all reflog entries and
discard all those redundant entries for which we have already returned a
reflog entry.

This logic is implemented by tracking the last reflog name that we have
emitted to the iterator's user. If the next log record has the same name
we simply skip it until we find another record with a different refname.

This last reflog name is stored in a simple C string, which requires us
to free and reallocate it whenever we need to update the reflog name.
Convert it to use a `struct strbuf` instead, which reduces the number of
allocations. Before:

    HEAP SUMMARY:
        in use at exit: 13,473 bytes in 122 blocks
      total heap usage: 1,068,485 allocs, 1,068,363 frees, 281,122,886 bytes allocated

After:

    HEAP SUMMARY:
        in use at exit: 13,473 bytes in 122 blocks
      total heap usage: 68,485 allocs, 68,363 frees, 256,234,072 bytes allocated

Note that even after this change we still allocate quite a lot of data,
even though the number of allocations does not scale with the number of
log records anymore. This remainder comes mostly from decompressing the
log blocks, where we decompress each block into newly allocated memory.
This will be addressed at a later point in time.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-05 09:10:07 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
87ff723018 reftable/record: convert old and new object IDs to arrays
In 7af607c58d (reftable/record: store "val1" hashes as static arrays,
2024-01-03) and b31e3cc620 (reftable/record: store "val2" hashes as
static arrays, 2024-01-03) we have converted ref records to store their
object IDs in a static array. Convert log records to do the same so that
their old and new object IDs are arrays, too.

This change results in two allocations less per log record that we're
iterating over. Before:

    HEAP SUMMARY:
        in use at exit: 13,473 bytes in 122 blocks
      total heap usage: 8,068,495 allocs, 8,068,373 frees, 401,011,862 bytes allocated

After:

    HEAP SUMMARY:
        in use at exit: 13,473 bytes in 122 blocks
      total heap usage: 6,068,489 allocs, 6,068,367 frees, 361,011,822 bytes allocated

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-05 09:10:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
eea0d11d6d refs/reftable: reload correct stack when creating reflog iter
When creating a new reflog iterator, we first have to reload the stack
that the iterator is being created. This is done so that any concurrent
writes to the stack are reflected. But `reflog_iterator_for_stack()`
always reloads the main stack, which is wrong.

Fix this and reload the correct stack.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-05 09:10:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2efe7958d6 Merge branch 'ps/reftable-iteration-perf-part2' into ps/reftable-reflog-iteration-perf
* ps/reftable-iteration-perf-part2:
  refs/reftable: precompute prefix length
  reftable: allow inlining of a few functions
  reftable/record: decode keys in place
  reftable/record: reuse refname when copying
  reftable/record: reuse refname when decoding
  reftable/merged: avoid duplicate pqueue emptiness check
  reftable/merged: circumvent pqueue with single subiter
  reftable/merged: handle subiter cleanup on close only
  reftable/merged: remove unnecessary null check for subiters
  reftable/merged: make subiters own their records
  reftable/merged: advance subiter on subsequent iteration
  reftable/merged: make `merged_iter` structure private
  reftable/pq: use `size_t` to track iterator index
2024-03-05 09:09:46 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
43f70eaea0 refs/reftable: precompute prefix length
We're recomputing the prefix length on every iteration of the ref
iterator. Precompute it for another speedup when iterating over 1
million refs:

    Benchmark 1: show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD~)
      Time (mean ± σ):     100.3 ms ±   3.7 ms    [User: 97.3 ms, System: 2.8 ms]
      Range (min … max):    97.5 ms … 139.7 ms    1000 runs

    Benchmark 2: show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD)
      Time (mean ± σ):      95.8 ms ±   3.4 ms    [User: 92.9 ms, System: 2.8 ms]
      Range (min … max):    93.0 ms … 121.9 ms    1000 runs

    Summary
      show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD) ran
        1.05 ± 0.05 times faster than show-ref: single matching ref (revision = HEAD~)

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-04 10:19:58 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
b0f6b6b523 refs/reftable: don't fail empty transactions in repo without HEAD
Under normal circumstances, it shouldn't ever happen that a repository
has no HEAD reference. In fact, git-update-ref(1) would fail any request
to delete the HEAD reference, and a newly initialized repository always
pre-creates it, too.

We have however changed git-clone(1) to partially initialize the
refdb just up to the point where remote helpers can find the
repository. With that change, we are going to run into a situation
where repositories have no refs at all.

Now there is a very particular edge case in this situation: when
preparing an empty ref transacton, we end up returning whatever value
`read_ref_without_reload()` returned to the caller. Under normal
conditions this would be fine: "HEAD" should usually exist, and thus the
function would return `0`. But if "HEAD" doesn't exist, the function
returns a positive value which we end up returning to the caller.

Fix this bug by resetting the return code to `0` and add a test.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-27 13:53:39 -08:00
Karthik Nayak
33d15b5435 for-each-ref: add new option to include root refs
The git-for-each-ref(1) command doesn't provide a way to print root refs
i.e pseudorefs and HEAD with the regular "refs/" prefixed refs.

This commit adds a new option "--include-root-refs" to
git-for-each-ref(1). When used this would also print pseudorefs and HEAD
for the current worktree.

Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-23 10:36:28 -08:00
Karthik Nayak
d0f00c1ac1 refs: introduce refs_for_each_include_root_refs()
Introduce a new ref iteration flag `DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_ROOT_REFS`,
which will be used to iterate over regular refs plus pseudorefs and
HEAD.

Refs which fall outside the `refs/` and aren't either pseudorefs or HEAD
are more of a grey area. This is because we don't block the users from
creating such refs but they are not officially supported.

Introduce `refs_for_each_include_root_refs()` which calls
`do_for_each_ref()` with this newly introduced flag.

In `refs/files-backend.c`, introduce a new function
`add_pseudoref_and_head_entries()` to add pseudorefs and HEAD to the
`ref_dir`. We then finally call `add_pseudoref_and_head_entries()`
whenever the `DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_ROOT_REFS` flag is set. Any new ref
backend will also have to implement similar changes on its end.

Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-23 10:36:27 -08:00
Karthik Nayak
f768296cf1 refs: extract out loose_fill_ref_dir_regular_file()
Extract out the code for adding a single file to the loose ref dir as
`loose_fill_ref_dir_regular_file()` from `loose_fill_ref_dir()` in
`refs/files-backend.c`.

This allows us to use this function independently in the following
commits where we add code to also add pseudorefs to the ref dir.

Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-23 10:36:27 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
59c50a96c5 refs: stop resolving ref corresponding to reflogs
The reflog iterator tries to resolve the corresponding ref for every
reflog that it is about to yield. Historically, this was done due to
multiple reasons:

  - It ensures that the refname is safe because we end up calling
    `check_refname_format()`. Also, non-conformant refnames are skipped
    altogether.

  - The iterator used to yield the resolved object ID as well as its
    flags to the callback. This info was never used though, and the
    corresponding parameters were dropped in the preceding commit.

  - When a ref is corrupt then the reflog is not emitted at all.

We're about to introduce a new `git reflog list` subcommand that will
print all reflogs that the refdb knows about. Skipping over reflogs
whose refs are corrupted would be quite counterproductive in this case
as the user would have no way to learn about reflogs which may still
exist in their repository to help and rescue such a corrupted ref. Thus,
the only remaining reason for why we'd want to resolve the ref is to
verify its refname.

Refactor the code to call `check_refname_format()` directly instead of
trying to resolve the ref. This is significantly more efficient given
that we don't have to hit the object database anymore to list reflogs.
And second, it ensures that we end up showing reflogs of broken refs,
which will help to make the reflog more useful.

Note that this really only impacts the case where the corresponding ref
is corrupt. Reflogs for nonexistent refs would have been returned to the
caller beforehand already as we did not pass `RESOLVE_REF_READING` to
the function, and thus `refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()` would have returned
successfully in that case.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21 09:58:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
31f898397b refs: drop unused params from the reflog iterator callback
The ref and reflog iterators share much of the same underlying code to
iterate over the corresponding entries. This results in some weird code
because the reflog iterator also exposes an object ID as well as a flag
to the callback function. Neither of these fields do refer to the reflog
though -- they refer to the corresponding ref with the same name. This
is quite misleading. In practice at least the object ID cannot really be
implemented in any other way as a reflog does not have a specific object
ID in the first place. This is further stressed by the fact that none of
the callbacks except for our test helper make use of these fields.

Split up the infrastucture so that ref and reflog iterators use separate
callback signatures. This allows us to drop the nonsensical fields from
the reflog iterator.

Note that internally, the backends still use the same shared infra to
iterate over both types. As the backends should never end up being
called directly anyway, this is not much of a problem and thus kept
as-is for simplicity's sake.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21 09:58:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
5e01d83841 refs: always treat iterators as ordered
In the preceding commit we have converted the reflog iterator of the
"files" backend to be ordered, which was the only remaining ref iterator
that wasn't ordered. Refactor the ref iterator infrastructure so that we
always assume iterators to be ordered, thus simplifying the code.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21 09:58:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
6f22780017 refs/files: sort merged worktree and common reflogs
When iterating through reflogs in a worktree we create a merged iterator
that merges reflogs from both refdbs. The resulting refs are ordered so
that instead we first return all worktree reflogs before we return all
common refs.

This is the only remaining case where a ref iterator returns entries in
a non-lexicographic order. The result would look something like the
following (listed with a command we introduce in a subsequent commit):

```
$ git reflog list
HEAD
refs/worktree/per-worktree
refs/heads/main
refs/heads/wt
```

So we first print the per-worktree reflogs in lexicographic order, then
the common reflogs in lexicographic order. This is confusing and not
consistent with how we print per-worktree refs, which are exclusively
sorted lexicographically.

Sort reflogs lexicographically in the same way as we sort normal refs.
As this is already implemented properly by the "reftable" backend via a
separate selection function, we simply pull out that logic and reuse it
for the "files" backend. As logs are properly sorted now, mark the
merged reflog iterator as sorted.

Tests will be added in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21 09:58:06 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
e69e8ffef7 refs/files: sort reflogs returned by the reflog iterator
We use a directory iterator to return reflogs via the reflog iterator.
This iterator returns entries in the same order as readdir(3P) would and
will thus yield reflogs with no discernible order.

Set the new `DIR_ITERATOR_SORTED` flag that was introduced in the
preceding commit so that the order is deterministic. While the effect of
this can only been observed in a test tool, a subsequent commit will
start to expose this functionality to users via a new `git reflog list`
subcommand.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21 09:58:05 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
8a0bebdeae refs/reftable: fix leak when copying reflog fails
When copying a ref with the reftable backend we also copy the
corresponding log records. When seeking the first log record that we're
about to copy fails though we directly return from `write_copy_table()`
without doing any cleanup, leaking several allocated data structures.

Fix this by exiting via our common cleanup logic instead.

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> via Coverity
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-07 21:30:43 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
57db2a094d refs: introduce reftable backend
Due to scalability issues, Shawn Pearce has originally proposed a new
"reftable" format more than six years ago [1]. Initially, this new
format was implemented in JGit with promising results. Around two years
ago, we have then added the "reftable" library to the Git codebase via
a4bbd13be3 (Merge branch 'hn/reftable', 2021-12-15). With this we have
landed all the low-level code to read and write reftables. Notably
missing though was the integration of this low-level code into the Git
code base in the form of a new ref backend that ties all of this
together.

This gap is now finally closed by introducing a new "reftable" backend
into the Git codebase. This new backend promises to bring some notable
improvements to Git repositories:

  - It becomes possible to do truly atomic writes where either all refs
    are committed to disk or none are. This was not possible with the
    "files" backend because ref updates were split across multiple loose
    files.

  - The disk space required to store many refs is reduced, both compared
    to loose refs and packed-refs. This is enabled both by the reftable
    format being a binary format, which is more compact, and by prefix
    compression.

  - We can ignore filesystem-specific behaviour as ref names are not
    encoded via paths anymore. This means there is no need to handle
    case sensitivity on Windows systems or Unicode precomposition on
    macOS.

  - There is no need to rewrite the complete refdb anymore every time a
    ref is being deleted like it was the case for packed-refs. This
    means that ref deletions are now constant time instead of scaling
    linearly with the number of refs.

  - We can ignore file/directory conflicts so that it becomes possible
    to store both "refs/heads/foo" and "refs/heads/foo/bar".

  - Due to this property we can retain reflogs for deleted refs. We have
    previously been deleting reflogs together with their refs to avoid
    file/directory conflicts, which is not necessary anymore.

  - We can properly enumerate all refs. With the "files" backend it is
    not easily possible to distinguish between refs and non-refs because
    they may live side by side in the gitdir.

Not all of these improvements are realized with the current "reftable"
backend implementation. At this point, the new backend is supposed to be
a drop-in replacement for the "files" backend that is used by basically
all Git repositories nowadays. It strives for 1:1 compatibility, which
means that a user can expect the same behaviour regardless of whether
they use the "reftable" backend or the "files" backend for most of the
part.

Most notably, this means we artificially limit the capabilities of the
"reftable" backend to match the limits of the "files" backend. It is not
possible to create refs that would end up with file/directory conflicts,
we do not retain reflogs, we perform stricter-than-necessary checks.
This is done intentionally due to two main reasons:

  - It makes it significantly easier to land the "reftable" backend as
    tests behave the same. It would be tough to argue for each and every
    single test that doesn't pass with the "reftable" backend.

  - It ensures compatibility between repositories that use the "files"
    backend and repositories that use the "reftable" backend. Like this,
    hosters can migrate their repositories to use the "reftable" backend
    without causing issues for clients that use the "files" backend in
    their clones.

It is expected that these artificial limitations may eventually go away
in the long term.

Performance-wise things very much depend on the actual workload. The
following benchmarks compare the "files" and "reftable" backends in the
current version:

  - Creating N refs in separate transactions shows that the "files"
    backend is ~50% faster. This is not surprising given that creating a
    ref only requires us to create a single loose ref. The "reftable"
    backend will also perform auto compaction on updates. In real-world
    workloads we would likely also want to perform pack loose refs,
    which would likely change the picture.

        Benchmark 1: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.1 ms ±   0.3 ms    [User: 0.6 ms, System: 1.7 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.8 ms …   4.3 ms    133 runs

        Benchmark 2: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.7 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.6 ms, System: 2.2 ms]
          Range (min … max):     2.4 ms …   2.9 ms    132 runs

        Benchmark 3: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):      1.975 s ±  0.006 s    [User: 0.437 s, System: 1.535 s]
          Range (min … max):    1.969 s …  1.980 s    3 runs

        Benchmark 4: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):      2.611 s ±  0.013 s    [User: 0.782 s, System: 1.825 s]
          Range (min … max):    2.597 s …  2.622 s    3 runs

        Benchmark 5: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 100000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     198.442 s ±  0.241 s    [User: 43.051 s, System: 155.250 s]
          Range (min … max):   198.189 s … 198.670 s    3 runs

        Benchmark 6: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 100000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     294.509 s ±  4.269 s    [User: 104.046 s, System: 190.326 s]
          Range (min … max):   290.223 s … 298.761 s    3 runs

  - Creating N refs in a single transaction shows that the "files"
    backend is significantly slower once we start to write many refs.
    The "reftable" backend only needs to update two files, whereas the
    "files" backend needs to write one file per ref.

        Benchmark 1: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.9 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.4 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.8 ms …   2.6 ms    151 runs

        Benchmark 2: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.5 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.7 ms, System: 1.7 ms]
          Range (min … max):     2.4 ms …   3.4 ms    148 runs

        Benchmark 3: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     152.5 ms ±   5.2 ms    [User: 19.1 ms, System: 133.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):   148.5 ms … 167.8 ms    15 runs

        Benchmark 4: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):      58.0 ms ±   2.5 ms    [User: 28.4 ms, System: 29.4 ms]
          Range (min … max):    56.3 ms …  72.9 ms    40 runs

        Benchmark 5: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     152.752 s ±  0.710 s    [User: 20.315 s, System: 131.310 s]
          Range (min … max):   152.165 s … 153.542 s    3 runs

        Benchmark 6: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     51.912 s ±  0.127 s    [User: 26.483 s, System: 25.424 s]
          Range (min … max):   51.769 s … 52.012 s    3 runs

  - Deleting a ref in a fully-packed repository shows that the "files"
    backend scales with the number of refs. The "reftable" backend has
    constant-time deletions.

        Benchmark 1: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.7 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.2 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.6 ms …   2.1 ms    316 runs

        Benchmark 2: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.8 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.7 ms …   2.1 ms    294 runs

        Benchmark 3: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.0 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.5 ms, System: 1.4 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.9 ms …   2.5 ms    287 runs

        Benchmark 4: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.9 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.5 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.8 ms …   2.1 ms    217 runs

        Benchmark 5: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):     229.8 ms ±   7.9 ms    [User: 182.6 ms, System: 46.8 ms]
          Range (min … max):   224.6 ms … 245.2 ms    6 runs

        Benchmark 6: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       2.0 ms ±   0.0 ms    [User: 0.6 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     2.0 ms …   2.1 ms    3 runs

  - Listing all refs shows no significant advantage for either of the
    backends. The "files" backend is a bit faster, but not by a
    significant margin. When repositories are not packed the "reftable"
    backend outperforms the "files" backend because the "reftable"
    backend performs auto-compaction.

        Benchmark 1: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   2.0 ms    1729 runs

        Benchmark 2: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   1.8 ms    1816 runs

        Benchmark 3: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):       4.3 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.9 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     4.1 ms …   4.6 ms    645 runs

        Benchmark 4: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):       4.5 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 1.0 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     4.2 ms …   5.9 ms    643 runs

        Benchmark 5: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):      2.537 s ±  0.034 s    [User: 0.488 s, System: 2.048 s]
          Range (min … max):    2.511 s …  2.627 s    10 runs

        Benchmark 6: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000, packed = true)
          Time (mean ± σ):      2.712 s ±  0.017 s    [User: 0.653 s, System: 2.059 s]
          Range (min … max):    2.692 s …  2.752 s    10 runs

        Benchmark 7: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   1.9 ms    1834 runs

        Benchmark 8: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.4 ms …   2.0 ms    1840 runs

        Benchmark 9: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):      13.8 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 2.8 ms, System: 10.8 ms]
          Range (min … max):    13.3 ms …  14.5 ms    208 runs

        Benchmark 10: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):       4.5 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 1.2 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
          Range (min … max):     4.3 ms …   6.2 ms    624 runs

        Benchmark 11: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):     12.127 s ±  0.129 s    [User: 2.675 s, System: 9.451 s]
          Range (min … max):   11.965 s … 12.370 s    10 runs

        Benchmark 12: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000, packed = false)
          Time (mean ± σ):      2.799 s ±  0.022 s    [User: 0.735 s, System: 2.063 s]
          Range (min … max):    2.769 s …  2.836 s    10 runs

  - Printing a single ref shows no real difference between the "files"
    and "reftable" backends.

        Benchmark 1: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.5 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.0 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.4 ms …   1.8 ms    1779 runs

        Benchmark 2: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.4 ms …   2.5 ms    1753 runs

        Benchmark 3: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.5 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.3 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.4 ms …   1.9 ms    1840 runs

        Benchmark 4: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   2.0 ms    1831 runs

        Benchmark 5: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   2.1 ms    1848 runs

        Benchmark 6: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
          Time (mean ± σ):       1.6 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
          Range (min … max):     1.5 ms …   2.1 ms    1762 runs

So overall, performance depends on the usecases. Except for many
sequential writes the "reftable" backend is roughly on par or
significantly faster than the "files" backend though. Given that the
"files" backend has received 18 years of optimizations by now this can
be seen as a win. Furthermore, we can expect that the "reftable" backend
will grow faster over time when attention turns more towards
optimizations.

The complete test suite passes, except for those tests explicitly marked
to require the REFFILES prerequisite. Some tests in t0610 are marked as
failing because they depend on still-in-flight bug fixes. Tests can be
run with the new backend by setting the GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT
environment variable to "reftable".

There is a single known conceptual incompatibility with the dumb HTTP
transport. As "info/refs" SHOULD NOT contain the HEAD reference, and
because the "HEAD" file is not valid anymore, it is impossible for the
remote client to figure out the default branch without changing the
protocol. This shortcoming needs to be handled in a subsequent patch
series.

As the reftable library has already been introduced a while ago, this
commit message will not go into the details of how exactly the on-disk
format works. Please refer to our preexisting technical documentation at
Documentation/technical/reftable for this.

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAJo=hJtyof=HRy=2sLP0ng0uZ4=S-DpZ5dR1aF+VHVETKG20OQ@mail.gmail.com/

Original-idea-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Based-on-patch-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-07 08:28:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dc8ce995a2 Merge branch 'ps/worktree-refdb-initialization'
Instead of manually creating refs/ hierarchy on disk upon a
creation of a secondary worktree, which is only usable via the
files backend, use the refs API to populate it.

* ps/worktree-refdb-initialization:
  builtin/worktree: create refdb via ref backend
  worktree: expose interface to look up worktree by name
  builtin/worktree: move setup of commondir file earlier
  refs/files: skip creation of "refs/{heads,tags}" for worktrees
  setup: move creation of "refs/" into the files backend
  refs: prepare `refs_init_db()` for initializing worktree refs
2024-01-26 08:54:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
32c6fc3e30 Merge branch 'ps/refstorage-extension'
Introduce a new extension "refstorage" so that we can mark a
repository that uses a non-default ref backend, like reftable.

* ps/refstorage-extension:
  t9500: write "extensions.refstorage" into config
  builtin/clone: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
  builtin/init: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
  builtin/rev-parse: introduce `--show-ref-format` flag
  t: introduce GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
  setup: introduce GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
  setup: introduce "extensions.refStorage" extension
  setup: set repository's formats on init
  setup: start tracking ref storage format
  refs: refactor logic to look up storage backends
  worktree: skip reading HEAD when repairing worktrees
  t: introduce DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT prereq
2024-01-16 10:11:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
492ee03f60 Merge branch 'en/header-cleanup'
Remove unused header "#include".

* en/header-cleanup:
  treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
  treewide: add direct includes currently only pulled in transitively
  trace2/tr2_tls.h: remove unnecessary include
  submodule-config.h: remove unnecessary include
  pkt-line.h: remove unnecessary include
  line-log.h: remove unnecessary include
  http.h: remove unnecessary include
  fsmonitor--daemon.h: remove unnecessary includes
  blame.h: remove unnecessary includes
  archive.h: remove unnecessary include
  treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
  treewide: remove unnecessary includes from header files
2024-01-08 14:05:15 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
2eb1d0c452 refs/files: skip creation of "refs/{heads,tags}" for worktrees
The files ref backend will create both "refs/heads" and "refs/tags" in
the Git directory. While this logic makes sense for normal repositories,
it does not for worktrees because those refs are "common" refs that
would always be contained in the main repository's ref database.

Introduce a new flag telling the backend that it is expected to create a
per-worktree ref database and skip creation of these dirs in the files
backend when the flag is set. No other backends (currently) need
worktree-specific logic, so this is the only required change to start
creating per-worktree ref databases via `refs_init_db()`.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-08 13:17:30 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
c358d165f2 setup: move creation of "refs/" into the files backend
When creating the ref database we unconditionally create the "refs/"
directory in "setup.c". This is a mandatory prerequisite for all Git
repositories regardless of the ref backend in use, because Git will be
unable to detect the directory as a repository if "refs/" doesn't exist.

We are about to add another new caller that will want to create a ref
database when creating worktrees. We would require the same logic to
create the "refs/" directory even though the caller really should not
care about such low-level details. Ideally, the ref database should be
fully initialized after calling `refs_init_db()`.

Move the code to create the directory into the files backend itself to
make it so. This means that future ref backends will also need to have
equivalent logic around to ensure that the directory exists, but it
seems a lot more sensible to have it this way round than to require
callers to create the directory themselves.

An alternative to this would be to create "refs/" in `refs_init_db()`
directly. This feels conceptually unclean though as the creation of the
refdb is now cluttered across different callsites. Furthermore, both the
"files" and the upcoming "reftable" backend write backend-specific data
into the "refs/" directory anyway, so splitting up this logic would only
make it harder to reason about.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-08 13:17:30 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
2e573d61ff refs: prepare refs_init_db() for initializing worktree refs
The purpose of `refs_init_db()` is to initialize the on-disk files of a
new ref database. The function is quite inflexible right now though, as
callers can neither specify the `struct ref_store` nor can they pass any
flags.

Refactor the interface to accept both of these. This will be required so
that we can start initializing per-worktree ref databases via the ref
backend instead of open-coding the initialization in "worktree.c".

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-08 13:17:30 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
0fcc285c5e refs: refactor logic to look up storage backends
In order to look up ref storage backends, we're currently using a linked
list of backends, where each backend is expected to set up its `next`
pointer to the next ref storage backend. This is kind of a weird setup
as backends need to be aware of other backends without much of a reason.

Refactor the code so that the array of backends is centrally defined in
"refs.c", where each backend is now identified by an integer constant.
Expose functions to translate from those integer constants to the name
and vice versa, which will be required by subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-02 09:24:47 -08:00
Elijah Newren
eea0e59ffb treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
Each of these were checked with
   gcc -E -I. ${SOURCE_FILE} | grep ${HEADER_FILE}
to ensure that removing the direct inclusion of the header actually
resulted in that header no longer being included at all (i.e. that
no other header pulled it in transitively).

...except for a few cases where we verified that although the header
was brought in transitively, nothing from it was directly used in
that source file.  These cases were:
  * builtin/credential-cache.c
  * builtin/pull.c
  * builtin/send-pack.c

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-26 12:04:31 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
29a186917b refs: remove delete_refs callback from backends
Now that `refs_delete_refs` is implemented in a generic way via the ref
transaction interfaces there are no callers left that invoke the
`delete_refs` callback anymore. Remove it from all of our backends.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-17 10:12:12 +09:00
Patrick Steinhardt
d6f8e72982 refs: deduplicate code to delete references
Both the files and the packed-refs reference backends now use the same
generic transactions-based code to delete references. Let's pull these
implementations up into `refs_delete_refs()` to deduplicate the code.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-17 10:12:12 +09:00
Patrick Steinhardt
e85e5dd78a refs/files: use transactions to delete references
In the `files_delete_refs()` callback function of the files backend we
implement deletion of references. This is done in two steps:

    1. We lock the packed-refs file and delete all references from it in
       a single transaction.

    2. We delete all loose references via separate calls to
       `refs_delete_ref()`.

These steps essentially duplicate the logic around locking and deletion
order that we already have in the transactional interfaces, where we do
know to lock and evict references from the packed-refs file. Despite the
fact that we duplicate the logic, it's also less efficient than if we
used a single generic transaction:

    - The transactional interface knows to skip locking of the packed
      refs in case they don't contain any of the refs which are about to
      be deleted.

    - We end up creating N+1 separate reference transactions, one for
      the packed-refs file and N for the individual loose references.

Refactor the code to instead delete references via a single transaction.
As we don't assert the expected old object ID this is equivalent to the
previous behaviour, and we already do the same in the packed-refs
backend.

Despite the fact that the result is simpler to reason about, this change
also results in improved performance. The following benchmarks have been
executed in linux.git:

```
$ hyperfine -n '{rev}, packed={packed} refcount={refcount}' \
    -L packed true,false -L refcount 1,1000 -L rev master,pks-ref-store-generic-delete-refs \
    --setup 'git -C /home/pks/Development/git switch --detach {rev} && make -C /home/pks/Development/git -j17' \
    --prepare 'printf "create refs/heads/new-branch-%d HEAD\n" $(seq {refcount}) | git -C /home/pks/Reproduction/linux.git update-ref --stdin && if test {packed} = true; then git pack-refs --all; fi' \
    --warmup=10 \
    '/home/pks/Development/git/bin-wrappers/git -C /home/pks/Reproduction/linux.git branch -d new-branch-{1..{refcount}}'

Benchmark 1: master packed=true refcount=1
  Time (mean ± σ):       7.8 ms ±   1.6 ms    [User: 3.4 ms, System: 4.4 ms]
  Range (min … max):     5.5 ms …  11.0 ms    120 runs

Benchmark 2: master packed=false refcount=1
  Time (mean ± σ):       7.0 ms ±   1.1 ms    [User: 3.2 ms, System: 3.8 ms]
  Range (min … max):     5.7 ms …   9.8 ms    180 runs

Benchmark 3: master packed=true refcount=1000
  Time (mean ± σ):     283.8 ms ±   5.2 ms    [User: 45.7 ms, System: 231.5 ms]
  Range (min … max):   276.7 ms … 291.6 ms    10 runs

Benchmark 4: master packed=false refcount=1000
  Time (mean ± σ):     284.4 ms ±   5.3 ms    [User: 44.2 ms, System: 233.6 ms]
  Range (min … max):   277.1 ms … 293.3 ms    10 runs

Benchmark 5: generic-delete-refs packed=true refcount=1
  Time (mean ± σ):       6.2 ms ±   1.8 ms    [User: 2.3 ms, System: 3.9 ms]
  Range (min … max):     4.1 ms …  12.2 ms    142 runs

Benchmark 6: generic-delete-refs packed=false refcount=1
  Time (mean ± σ):       7.1 ms ±   1.4 ms    [User: 2.8 ms, System: 4.3 ms]
  Range (min … max):     4.2 ms …  10.8 ms    157 runs

Benchmark 7: generic-delete-refs packed=true refcount=1000
  Time (mean ± σ):     198.9 ms ±   1.7 ms    [User: 29.5 ms, System: 165.7 ms]
  Range (min … max):   196.1 ms … 201.4 ms    10 runs

Benchmark 8: generic-delete-refs packed=false refcount=1000
  Time (mean ± σ):     199.7 ms ±   7.8 ms    [User: 32.2 ms, System: 163.2 ms]
  Range (min … max):   193.8 ms … 220.7 ms    10 runs

Summary
  generic-delete-refs packed=true refcount=1 ran
    1.14 ± 0.37 times faster than master packed=false refcount=1
    1.15 ± 0.40 times faster than generic-delete-refs packed=false refcount=1
    1.26 ± 0.44 times faster than master packed=true refcount=1
   32.24 ± 9.17 times faster than generic-delete-refs packed=true refcount=1000
   32.36 ± 9.29 times faster than generic-delete-refs packed=false refcount=1000
   46.00 ± 13.10 times faster than master packed=true refcount=1000
   46.10 ± 13.13 times faster than master packed=false refcount=1000
```

Especially in the case where we have many references we can see a clear
performance speedup of nearly 30%.

This is in contrast to the stated objecive in a27dcf89b6 (refs: make
delete_refs() virtual, 2016-09-04), where the virtual `delete_refs()`
function was introduced with the intent to speed things up rather than
making things slower. So it seems like we have outlived the need for a
virtual function.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-17 10:12:12 +09:00
Victoria Dye
2cdb796101 files-backend.c: avoid stat in 'loose_fill_ref_dir'
Modify the 'readdir' loop in 'loose_fill_ref_dir' to, rather than 'stat' a
file to determine whether it is a directory or not, use 'get_dtype'.

Currently, the loop uses 'stat' to determine whether each dirent is a
directory itself or not in order to construct the appropriate ref cache
entry. If 'stat' fails (returning a negative value), the dirent is silently
skipped; otherwise, 'S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)' is used to check whether the entry
is a directory.

On platforms that include an entry's d_type in in the 'dirent' struct, this
extra 'stat' check is redundant. We can use the 'get_dtype' method to
extract this information on platforms that support it (i.e. where
NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT is unset), and derive it with 'stat' on platforms that
don't. Because 'stat' is an expensive call, this confers a
modest-but-noticeable performance improvement when iterating over large
numbers of refs (approximately 20% speedup in 'git for-each-ref' in a 30k
ref repo).

Unlike other existing usage of 'get_dtype', the 'follow_symlinks' arg is set
to 1 to replicate the existing handling of symlink dirents. This
unfortunately requires calling 'stat' on the associated entry regardless of
platform, but symlinks in the loose ref store are highly unlikely since
they'd need to be created manually by a user.

Note that this patch also changes the condition for skipping creation of a
ref entry from "when 'stat' fails" to "when the d_type is anything other
than DT_REG or DT_DIR". If a dirent's d_type is DT_UNKNOWN (either because
the platform doesn't support d_type in dirents or some other reason) or
DT_LNK, 'get_dtype' will try to derive the underlying type with 'stat'. If
the 'stat' fails, the d_type will remain 'DT_UNKNOWN' and dirent will be
skipped. However, it will also be skipped if it is any other valid d_type
(e.g. DT_FIFO for named pipes, DT_LNK for a nested symlink). Git does not
handle these properly anyway, so we can safely constrain accepted types to
directories and regular files.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 15:53:14 -07:00
Victoria Dye
5305474ec4 ref-cache.c: fix prefix matching in ref iteration
Update 'cache_ref_iterator_advance' to skip over refs that are not matched
by the given prefix.

Currently, a ref entry is considered "matched" if the entry name is fully
contained within the prefix:

* prefix: "refs/heads/v1"
* entry: "refs/heads/v1.0"

OR if the prefix is fully contained in the entry name:

* prefix: "refs/heads/v1.0"
* entry: "refs/heads/v1"

The first case is always correct, but the second is only correct if the ref
cache entry is a directory, for example:

* prefix: "refs/heads/example"
* entry: "refs/heads/"

Modify the logic in 'cache_ref_iterator_advance' to reflect these
expectations:

1. If 'overlaps_prefix' returns 'PREFIX_EXCLUDES_DIR', then the prefix and
   ref cache entry do not overlap at all. Skip this entry.
2. If 'overlaps_prefix' returns 'PREFIX_WITHIN_DIR', then the prefix matches
   inside this entry if it is a directory. Skip if the entry is not a
   directory, otherwise iterate over it.
3. Otherwise, 'overlaps_prefix' returned 'PREFIX_CONTAINS_DIR', indicating
   that the cache entry (directory or not) is fully contained by or equal to
   the prefix. Iterate over this entry.

Note that condition 2 relies on the names of directory entries having the
appropriate trailing slash. The existing function documentation of
'create_dir_entry' explicitly calls out the trailing slash requirement, so
this is a safe assumption to make.

This bug generally doesn't have any user-facing impact, since it requires:

1. using a non-empty prefix without a trailing slash in an iteration like
   'for_each_fullref_in',
2. the callback to said iteration not reapplying the original filter (as
   for-each-ref does) to ensure unmatched refs are skipped, and
3. the repository having one or more refs that match part of, but not all
   of, the prefix.

However, there are some niche scenarios that meet those criteria
(specifically, 'rev-parse --bisect' and '(log|show|shortlog) --bisect'). Add
tests covering those cases to demonstrate the fix in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 15:53:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
39fe402d67 Merge branch 'tb/refs-exclusion-and-packed-refs'
Enumerating refs in the packed-refs file, while excluding refs that
match certain patterns, has been optimized.

* tb/refs-exclusion-and-packed-refs:
  ls-refs.c: avoid enumerating hidden refs where possible
  upload-pack.c: avoid enumerating hidden refs where possible
  builtin/receive-pack.c: avoid enumerating hidden references
  refs.h: implement `hidden_refs_to_excludes()`
  refs.h: let `for_each_namespaced_ref()` take excluded patterns
  revision.h: store hidden refs in a `strvec`
  refs/packed-backend.c: add trace2 counters for jump list
  refs/packed-backend.c: implement jump lists to avoid excluded pattern(s)
  refs/packed-backend.c: refactor `find_reference_location()`
  refs: plumb `exclude_patterns` argument throughout
  builtin/for-each-ref.c: add `--exclude` option
  ref-filter.c: parameterize match functions over patterns
  ref-filter: add `ref_filter_clear()`
  ref-filter: clear reachable list pointers after freeing
  ref-filter.h: provide `REF_FILTER_INIT`
  refs.c: rename `ref_filter`
2023-07-21 13:47:26 -07:00
Taylor Blau
c489f47a64 refs/packed-backend.c: add trace2 counters for jump list
The previous commit added low-level tests to ensure that the packed-refs
iterator did not enumerate excluded sections of the refspace.

However, there was no guarantee that these sections weren't being
visited, only that they were being suppressed from the output. To harden
these tests, add a trace2 counter which tracks the number of regions
skipped by the packed-refs iterator, and assert on its value.

Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-10 14:48:55 -07:00
Taylor Blau
59c35fac54 refs/packed-backend.c: implement jump lists to avoid excluded pattern(s)
When iterating through the `packed-refs` file in order to answer a query
like:

    $ git for-each-ref --exclude=refs/__hidden__

it would be useful to avoid walking over all of the entries in
`refs/__hidden__/*` when possible, since we know that the ref-filter
code is going to throw them away anyways.

In certain circumstances, doing so is possible. The algorithm for doing
so is as follows:

  - For each excluded pattern, find the first record that matches it,
    and the first record that *doesn't* match it (i.e. the location
    you'd next want to consider when excluding that pattern).

  - Sort the set of excluded regions from the previous step in ascending
    order of the first location within the `packed-refs` file that
    matches.

  - Clean up the results from the previous step: discard empty regions,
    and combine adjacent regions. The set of regions which remains is
    referred to as the "jump list", and never contains any references
    which should be included in the result set.

Then when iterating through the `packed-refs` file, if `iter->pos` is
ever contained in one of the regions from the previous steps, advance
`iter->pos` past the end of that region, and continue enumeration.

Note that we only perform this optimization when none of the excluded
pattern(s) have special meta-characters in them. For a pattern like
"refs/foo[ac]", the excluded regions ("refs/fooa", "refs/fooc", and
everything underneath them) are not connected. A future implementation
that handles this case may split the character class (pretending as if
two patterns were excluded: "refs/fooa", and "refs/fooc").

There are a few other gotchas worth considering. First, note that the
jump list is sorted, so once we jump past a region, we can avoid
considering it (or any regions preceding it) again. The member
`jump_pos` is used to track the first next-possible region to jump
through.

Second, note that the jump list is best-effort, since we do not handle
loose references, and because of the meta-character issue above. The
jump list may not skip past all references which won't appear in the
results, but will never skip over a reference which does appear in the
result set.

In repositories with a large number of hidden references, the speed-up
can be significant. Tests here are done with a copy of linux.git with a
reference "refs/pull/N" pointing at every commit, as in:

    $ git rev-list HEAD | awk '{ print "create refs/pull/" NR " " $0 }' |
        git update-ref --stdin
    $ git pack-refs --all

, it is significantly faster to have `for-each-ref` jump over the
excluded references, as opposed to filtering them out after the fact:

    $ hyperfine \
      'git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" | grep -vE "^[0-9a-f]{40} refs/pull/"' \
      'git.prev for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"' \
      'git.compile for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"'
    Benchmark 1: git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" | grep -vE "^[0-9a-f]{40} refs/pull/"
      Time (mean ± σ):     798.1 ms ±   3.3 ms    [User: 687.6 ms, System: 146.4 ms]
      Range (min … max):   794.5 ms … 805.5 ms    10 runs

    Benchmark 2: git.prev for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"
      Time (mean ± σ):      98.9 ms ±   1.4 ms    [User: 93.1 ms, System: 5.7 ms]
      Range (min … max):    97.0 ms … 104.0 ms    29 runs

    Benchmark 3: git.compile for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"
      Time (mean ± σ):       4.5 ms ±   0.2 ms    [User: 0.7 ms, System: 3.8 ms]
      Range (min … max):     4.1 ms …   5.8 ms    524 runs

    Summary
      'git.compile for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"' ran
       21.87 ± 1.05 times faster than 'git.prev for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"'
      176.52 ± 8.19 times faster than 'git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" | grep -vE "^[0-9a-f]{40} refs/pull/"'

(Comparing stock git and this patch isn't quite fair, since an earlier
commit in this series adds a naive implementation of the `--exclude`
option. `git.prev` is built from the previous commit and includes this
naive implementation).

Using the jump list is fairly straightforward (see the changes to
`refs/packed-backend.c::next_record()`), but constructing the list is
not. To ensure that the construction is correct, add a new suite of
tests in t1419 covering various corner cases (overlapping regions,
partially overlapping regions, adjacent regions, etc.).

Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-10 14:48:55 -07:00
Taylor Blau
d22d941ac0 refs/packed-backend.c: refactor find_reference_location()
The function `find_reference_location()` is used to perform a
binary search-like function over the contents of a repository's
`$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file.

The search it implements is unlike a standard binary search in that the
records it searches over are not of a fixed width, so the comparison
must locate the end of a record before comparing it.

Extract the core routine of `find_reference_location()` in order to
implement a function in the following patch which will find the first
location in the `packed-refs` file that *doesn't* match the given
pattern.

The behavior of `find_reference_location()` is unchanged.

Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-10 14:48:55 -07:00
Taylor Blau
b269ac53c0 refs: plumb exclude_patterns argument throughout
The subsequent patch will want to access an optional `excluded_patterns`
array within `refs/packed-backend.c` that will cull out certain
references matching any of the given patterns on a best-effort basis.

To do so, the refs subsystem needs to be updated to pass this value
across a number of different locations.

Prepare for a future patch by introducing this plumbing now, passing
NULLs at top-level APIs in order to make that patch less noisy and more
easily readable.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.co>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-10 14:48:55 -07:00
Elijah Newren
c339932bd8 repository: remove unnecessary include of path.h
This also made it clear that several .c files that depended upon path.h
were missing a #include for it; add the missing includes while at it.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-21 13:39:53 -07:00
Elijah Newren
bc5c5ec044 cache.h: remove this no-longer-used header
Since this header showed up in some places besides just #include
statements, update/clean-up/remove those other places as well.

Note that compat/fsmonitor/fsm-path-utils-darwin.c previously got
away with violating the rule that all files must start with an include
of git-compat-util.h (or a short-list of alternate headers that happen
to include it first).  This change exposed the violation and caused it
to stop building correctly; fix it by having it include
git-compat-util.h first, as per policy.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-21 13:39:53 -07:00
Elijah Newren
90cbae9ce5 statinfo: move stat_{data,validity} functions from cache/read-cache
These functions do not depend upon struct cache_entry or struct
index_state in any way, and it seems more logical to break them out into
this file, especially since statinfo.h already has the struct stat_data
declaration.

Diff best viewed with `--color-moved`.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-21 13:39:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cbc882ea38 Merge branch 'jc/pack-ref-exclude-include'
"git pack-refs" learns "--include" and "--exclude" to tweak the ref
hierarchy to be packed using pattern matching.

* jc/pack-ref-exclude-include:
  pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include option
  pack-refs: teach --exclude option to exclude refs from being packed
  docs: clarify git-pack-refs --all will pack all refs
2023-06-13 12:29:45 -07:00
John Cai
4fe42f326e pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include option
Allow users to be more selective over which refs to pack by adding an
--include option to git-pack-refs.

The existing options allow some measure of selectivity. By default
git-pack-refs packs all tags. --all can be used to include all refs,
and the previous commit added the ability to exclude certain refs with
--exclude.

While these knobs give the user some selection over which refs to pack,
it could be useful to give more control. For instance, a repository may
have a set of branches that are rarely updated and would benefit from
being packed. --include would allow the user to easily include a set of
branches to be packed while leaving everything else unpacked.

Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-05-12 14:54:14 -07:00
John Cai
826ae79fca pack-refs: teach --exclude option to exclude refs from being packed
At GitLab, we have a system that creates ephemeral internal refs that
don't live long before getting deleted. Having an option to exclude
certain refs from a packed-refs file allows these internal references to
be deleted much more efficiently.

Add an --exclude option to the pack-refs builtin, and use the ref
exclusions API to exclude certain refs from being packed into the final
packed-refs file

Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-05-12 14:54:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ccd12a3d6c Merge branch 'en/header-split-cache-h-part-2'
More header clean-up.

* en/header-split-cache-h-part-2: (22 commits)
  reftable: ensure git-compat-util.h is the first (indirect) include
  diff.h: reduce unnecessary includes
  object-store.h: reduce unnecessary includes
  commit.h: reduce unnecessary includes
  fsmonitor: reduce includes of cache.h
  cache.h: remove unnecessary headers
  treewide: remove cache.h inclusion due to previous changes
  cache,tree: move basic name compare functions from read-cache to tree
  cache,tree: move cmp_cache_name_compare from tree.[ch] to read-cache.c
  hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.h
  tree-diff.c: move S_DIFFTREE_IFXMIN_NEQ define from cache.h
  dir.h: move DTYPE defines from cache.h
  versioncmp.h: move declarations for versioncmp.c functions from cache.h
  ws.h: move declarations for ws.c functions from cache.h
  match-trees.h: move declarations for match-trees.c functions from cache.h
  pkt-line.h: move declarations for pkt-line.c functions from cache.h
  base85.h: move declarations for base85.c functions from cache.h
  copy.h: move declarations for copy.c functions from cache.h
  server-info.h: move declarations for server-info.c functions from cache.h
  packfile.h: move pack_window and pack_entry from cache.h
  ...
2023-05-09 16:45:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d699e27bd4 Merge branch 'tb/ban-strtok'
Mark strtok() and strtok_r() to be banned.

* tb/ban-strtok:
  banned.h: mark `strtok()` and `strtok_r()` as banned
  t/helper/test-json-writer.c: avoid using `strtok()`
  t/helper/test-oidmap.c: avoid using `strtok()`
  t/helper/test-hashmap.c: avoid using `strtok()`
  string-list: introduce `string_list_setlen()`
  string-list: multi-delimiter `string_list_split_in_place()`
2023-05-02 10:13:35 -07:00