git/git-deltafy-script
Nicolas Pitre 83ba99bc8c [PATCH] fix scalability problems with git-deltafy-script
Current version would spin forever and exhaust memory while attempting
to sort all files from all revisions at once, until it dies before even
doing any real work.  This is especially noticeable when used on a big
repository like the imported bkcvs repo for the Linux kernel.

This patch allows for batching the sort to put a bound on needed
resources and making progress early, as well as including some small
cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 08:58:56 -07:00

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#!/bin/bash
# Example script to deltify an entire GIT repository based on the commit list.
# The most recent version of a file is the reference and previous versions
# are made delta against the best earlier version available. And so on for
# successive versions going back in time. This way the increasing delta
# overhead is pushed towards older versions of any given file.
#
# The -d argument allows to provide a limit on the delta chain depth.
# If 0 is passed then everything is undeltafied. Limiting the delta
# depth is meaningful for subsequent access performance to old revisions.
# A value of 16 might be a good compromize between performance and good
# space saving. Current default is unbounded.
#
# The --max-behind=30 argument is passed to git-mkdelta so to keep
# combinations and memory usage bounded a bit. If you have lots of memory
# and CPU power you may remove it (or set to 0) to let git-mkdelta find the
# best delta match regardless of the number of revisions for a given file.
# You can also make the value smaller to make it faster and less
# memory hungry. A value of 5 ought to still give pretty good results.
# When set to 0 or ommitted then look behind is unbounded. Note that
# git-mkdelta might die with a segmentation fault in that case if it
# runs out of memory. Note that the GIT repository will still be consistent
# even if git-mkdelta dies unexpectedly.
set -e
max_depth=
[ "$1" == "-d" ] && max_depth="--max-depth=$2" && shift 2
overlap=30
max_behind="--max-behind=$overlap"
function process_list() {
if [ "$list" ]; then
echo "Processing $curr_file"
echo "$list" | xargs git-mkdelta $max_depth $max_behind -v
fi
}
rev_list=""
curr_file=""
git-rev-list HEAD |
while true; do
# Let's batch revisions into groups of 1000 to give it a chance to
# scale with repositories containing long revision lists. We also
# overlap with the previous batch the size of mkdelta's look behind
# value in order to account for the processing discontinuity.
rev_list="$(echo -e -n "$rev_list" | tail --lines=$overlap)"
for i in $(seq 1000); do
read rev || break
rev_list="$rev_list$rev\n"
done
echo -e -n "$rev_list" |
git-diff-tree -r -t --stdin |
awk '/^:/ { if ($5 == "M") printf "%s %s\n%s %s\n", $4, $6, $3, $6 }' |
LC_ALL=C sort -s -k 2 | uniq |
while read sha1 file; do
if [ "$file" == "$curr_file" ]; then
list="$list $sha1"
else
process_list
curr_file="$file"
list="$sha1"
fi
done
[ "$rev" ] || break
done
process_list
curr_file="root directory"
list="$(
git-rev-list HEAD |
while read commit; do
git-cat-file commit $commit |
sed -n 's/tree //p;Q'
done
)"
process_list