When pushing into a repository that borrows its objects from an
alternate object store, "git receive-pack" that responds to the
push request on the other side lists the tips of refs in the
alternate to reduce the amount of objects transferred. This
sometimes is detrimental when the number of refs in the alternate
is absurdly large, in which case the bandwidth saved in potentially
fewer objects transferred is wasted in excessively large ref
advertisement. The alternate refs that are advertised are now
configurable with a pair of configuration variables.
* tb/filter-alternate-refs:
transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes
transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsCommand
transport.c: extract 'fill_alternate_refs_command'
transport: drop refnames from for_each_alternate_ref
Unlike "grep", "git grep" by default recurses to the whole tree.
The command learned "git grep --recursive" option, so that "git
grep --no-recursive" can serve as a synonym to setting the
max-depth to 0.
* rs/grep-no-recursive:
grep: add -r/--[no-]recursive
"git help -a" and "git help -av" give different pieces of
information, and generally the "verbose" version is more friendly
to the new users. "git help -a" by default now uses the more
verbose output (with "--no-verbose", you can go back to the
original). Also "git help -av" now lists aliases and external
commands, which it did not used to.
* nd/help-commands-verbose-by-default:
help -a: improve and make --verbose default
A new extension to the index file has been introduced, which allows
the file to be read in parallel.
* bp/read-cache-parallel:
read-cache: load cache entries on worker threads
ieot: add Index Entry Offset Table (IEOT) extension
read-cache: load cache extensions on a worker thread
config: add new index.threads config setting
eoie: add End of Index Entry (EOIE) extension
read-cache: clean up casting and byte decoding
read-cache.c: optimize reading index format v4
Various codepaths in the core-ish part learn to work on an
arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default
instance "the_index".
* nd/the-index: (23 commits)
revision.c: reduce implicit dependency the_repository
revision.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
ws.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
tree-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
submodule.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
line-range.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
userdiff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
rerere.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
sha1-file.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
patch-ids.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
merge-blobs.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
ll-merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff-lib.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
read-cache.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
grep.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff.c: remove the_index dependency in textconv() functions
blame.c: rename "repo" argument to "r"
combine-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
...
Doc update.
* ma/commit-graph-docs:
Doc: refer to the "commit-graph file" with dash
git-commit-graph.txt: refer to "*commit*-graph file"
git-commit-graph.txt: typeset more in monospace
git-commit-graph.txt: fix bullet lists
"gc --auto" ended up calling exit(-1) upon error, which has been
corrected to use exit(1). Also the error reporting behaviour when
daemonized has been updated to exit with zero status when stopping
due to a previously discovered error (which implies there is no
point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with
failure in such a case.
* jn/gc-auto:
gc: do not return error for prior errors in daemonized mode
Various test scripts have been updated for style and also correct
handling of exit status of various commands.
* md/test-cleanup:
tests: order arguments to git-rev-list properly
t9109: don't swallow Git errors upstream of pipes
tests: don't swallow Git errors upstream of pipes
t/*: fix ordering of expected/observed arguments
tests: standardize pipe placement
Documentation: add shell guidelines
t/README: reformat Do, Don't, Keep in mind lists
Doc updates.
* fe/doc-updates:
git-describe.1: clarify that "human readable" is also git-readable
git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples
git-archimport.1: specify what kind of Arch we're talking about
The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable
nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations
based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
incompatible features are in use in the repository.
* ds/commit-graph-with-grafts:
commit-graph: close_commit_graph before shallow walk
commit-graph: not compatible with uninitialized repo
commit-graph: not compatible with grafts
commit-graph: not compatible with replace objects
test-repository: properly init repo
commit-graph: update design document
refs.c: upgrade for_each_replace_ref to be a each_repo_ref_fn callback
refs.c: migrate internal ref iteration to pass thru repository argument
This patch enables addressing the CPU cost of loading the index by adding
additional data to the index that will allow us to efficiently multi-
thread the loading and conversion of cache entries.
It accomplishes this by adding an (optional) index extension that is a
table of offsets to blocks of cache entries in the index file. To make
this work for V4 indexes, when writing the cache entries, it periodically
"resets" the prefix-compression by encoding the current entry as if the
path name for the previous entry is completely different and saves the
offset of that entry in the IEOT. Basically, with V4 indexes, it
generates offsets into blocks of prefix-compressed entries.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for a new index.threads config setting which will be used to
control the threading code in do_read_index(). A value of 0 will tell the
index code to automatically determine the correct number of threads to use.
A value of 1 will make the code single threaded. A value greater than 1
will set the maximum number of threads to use.
For testing purposes, this setting can be overwritten by setting the
GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS=<n> environment variable to a value greater than 0.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The End of Index Entry (EOIE) is used to locate the end of the variable
length index entries and the beginning of the extensions. Code can take
advantage of this to quickly locate the index extensions without having
to parse through all of the index entries.
The EOIE extension is always written out to the index file including to
the shared index when using the split index feature. Because it is always
written out, the SHA checksums in t/t1700-split-index.sh were updated
to reflect its inclusion.
It is written as an optional extension to ensure compatibility with other
git implementations that do not yet support it. It is always written out
to ensure it is available as often as possible to speed up index operations.
Because it must be able to be loaded before the variable length cache
entries and other index extensions, this extension must be written last.
The signature for this extension is { 'E', 'O', 'I', 'E' }.
The extension consists of:
- 32-bit offset to the end of the index entries
- 160-bit SHA-1 over the extension types and their sizes (but not
their contents). E.g. if we have "TREE" extension that is N-bytes
long, "REUC" extension that is M-bytes long, followed by "EOIE",
then the hash would be:
SHA-1("TREE" + <binary representation of N> +
"REUC" + <binary representation of M>)
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I noticed that git-merge-base was unlikely to actually be a git command,
and tried it in my shell. Seeing that it doesn't work, I cleaned up two
places in the docs where it appears.
Signed-off-by: Mihir Mehta <mihir@cs.utexas.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update fsck.skipList implementation and documentation.
* ab/fsck-skiplist:
fsck: support comments & empty lines in skipList
fsck: use oidset instead of oid_array for skipList
fsck: use strbuf_getline() to read skiplist file
fsck: add a performance test for skipList
fsck: add a performance test
fsck: document that skipList input must be unabbreviated
fsck: document and test commented & empty line skipList input
fsck: document and test sorted skipList input
fsck tests: add a test for no skipList input
fsck tests: setup of bogus commit object
"git multi-pack-index" learned to detect corruption in the .midx
file it uses, and this feature has been integrated into "git fsck".
* ds/multi-pack-verify:
fsck: verify multi-pack-index
multi-pack-index: report progress during 'verify'
multi-pack-index: verify object offsets
multi-pack-index: fix 32-bit vs 64-bit size check
multi-pack-index: verify oid lookup order
multi-pack-index: verify oid fanout order
multi-pack-index: verify missing pack
multi-pack-index: verify packname order
multi-pack-index: verify corrupt chunk lookup table
multi-pack-index: verify bad header
multi-pack-index: add 'verify' verb
Split Documentation/config.txt for easier maintenance.
* nd/config-split:
config.txt: move submodule part out to a separate file
config.txt: move sequence.editor out of "core" part
config.txt: move sendemail part out to a separate file
config.txt: move receive part out to a separate file
config.txt: move push part out to a separate file
config.txt: move pull part out to a separate file
config.txt: move gui part out to a separate file
config.txt: move gitcvs part out to a separate file
config.txt: move format part out to a separate file
config.txt: move fetch part out to a separate file
config.txt: follow camelCase naming
The recently-introduced "core.alternateRefsCommand" allows callers to
specify with high flexibility the tips that they wish to advertise from
alternates. This flexibility comes at the cost of some inconvenience
when the caller only wishes to limit the advertisement to one or more
prefixes.
For example, to advertise only tags, a caller using
'core.alternateRefsCommand' would have to do:
$ git config core.alternateRefsCommand ' \
f() { git -C "$1" for-each-ref \
refs/tags --format="%(objectname)" }; f "$@"'
The above is cumbersome to write, so let's introduce a
"core.alternateRefsPrefixes" to address this common case. Instead, the
caller can run:
$ git config core.alternateRefsPrefixes 'refs/tags'
Which will behave identically to the longer example using
"core.alternateRefsCommand".
Since the value of "core.alternateRefsPrefixes" is appended to 'git
for-each-ref' and then executed, include a "--" before taking the
configured value to avoid misinterpreting arguments as flags to 'git
for-each-ref'.
In the case that the caller wishes to specify multiple prefixes, they
may separate them by whitespace. If "core.alternateRefsCommand" is set,
it will take precedence over "core.alternateRefsPrefixes".
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When in a repository containing one or more alternates, Git would
sometimes like to list references from those alternates. For example,
'git receive-pack' lists the "tips" pointed to by references in those
alternates as special ".have" references.
Listing ".have" references is designed to make pushing changes from
upstream to a fork a lightweight operation, by advertising to the pusher
that the fork already has the objects (via its alternate). Thus, the
client can avoid sending them.
However, when the alternate (upstream, in the previous example) has a
pathologically large number of references, the initial advertisement is
too expensive. In fact, it can dominate any such optimization where the
pusher avoids sending certain objects.
Introduce "core.alternateRefsCommand" in order to provide a facility to
limit or filter alternate references. This can be used, for example, to
filter out references the alternate does not wish to send (for space
concerns, or otherwise) during the initial advertisement.
Let the repository that has alternates configure this command to avoid
trusting the alternate to provide us a safe command to run in the shell.
To find the alternate, pass its absolute path as the first argument.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sample code calls `get_revision()' followed by `graph_update()',
but the documentation and source code indicate that `get_revision()'
already calls `graph_update()' for you.
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the following guideline to Documentation/CodingGuidelines:
Break overlong lines after "&&", "||", and "|", not before
them; that way the command can continue to subsequent lines
without backslash at the end.
And the following to t/README (since it is specific to writing tests):
Pipes and $(git ...) should be avoided when they swallow exit
codes of Git processes
Signed-off-by: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recognize -r and --recursive as synonyms for --max-depth=-1 for
compatibility with GNU grep; it's still the default for git grep.
This also adds --no-recursive as synonym for --max-depth=0 for free,
which is welcome for completeness and consistency.
Fix the description for --max-depth, while we're at it -- negative
values other than -1 actually disable recursion, i.e. they are
equivalent to --max-depth=0.
Requested-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Initial-patch-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you type "git help" (or just "git") you are greeted with a list
with commonly used commands and their short description and are
suggested to use "git help -a" or "git help -g" for more details.
"git help -av" would be more friendly and inline with what is shown
with "git help" since it shows list of commands with description as
well, and commands are properly grouped.
"help -av" does not show everything "help -a" shows though. Add
external command section in "help -av" for this. While at there, add a
section for aliases as well (until now aliases have no UI, just "git
config").
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document for uploadpack.packObjectsHook is added in [1] and consists
of two paragraphs, the second one is quite important about where this
variable can stay.
When the paragraph about uploadpack.allowFilter is added in [2], it's
added in between the two paragraphs. This makes the "this is non-repo
level config" note incorrectly apply to allowFilter instead of
packObjectsHook. Move allowFilter paragraph down to fix this.
[1] 20b20a22f8 (upload-pack: provide a hook for running pack-objects -
2016-05-18)
[2] 10ac85c785 (upload-pack: add object filtering for partial clone -
2017-12-08)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The mailing list archive can help a user encountering a bug to tell
whether a recent regression has already been reported and whether a
longstanding bug has already had some discussion to start their
thinking.
Based-on-patch-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It makes it harder to let the API description and the reality drift
apart if the doc is kept close to the implementation or the header
of the API. We have been slowly migrating API docs out of the
Documentation/technical/api-* to *.h files, and the development
community generally considers that how inline docs in strbuf.h is
done the best current practice.
We recommend documenting in the header over documenting near the
implementation to encourage people to write the docs that are
readable without peeking at the implemention.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The file processed by `git commit-graph` is referred to as the
"commit-graph file", also with a dash. We have a few references to the
"commit graph file", though, without the dash. These occur in
git-commit-graph.txt as well as in Doc/technical/commit-graph.txt. Fix
them.
Do not change the references to the "commit graph" (without "... file")
as a data structure.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This document sometimes refers to the "commit-graph file" as just "the
graph file". This saves a couple of words here and there at the risk of
confusion. In particular, the documentation for `git commit-graph read`
appears to suggest that there are indeed different types of graph files.
Let's just write out the full name everywhere.
The full name, by the way, is not the dash-less "commit graph file".
Use the dashed form. (The next commit will fix the remaining few
instances of the "commit graph file" in this document.)
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While we're here, fix an instance of "folder" to be "directory".
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have a couple of bullet items which span multiple lines, and where we
have prefixed each line with a `*`. (This might be the result of a text
editor trying to help.) This results in each line being typeset as a
separate bullet item. Drop the extra `*`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The gitcredentials documentation implied that the config file's
"pattern" URL might include a path component, but did not explain that
it must match exactly (potentially leaving readers with the false hope
that it would support a more flexible prefix match).
Signed-off-by: David Zych <dmrz@illinois.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Git 2.19.1
Git 2.18.1
Git 2.17.2
fsck: detect submodule paths starting with dash
fsck: detect submodule urls starting with dash
Git 2.16.5
Git 2.15.3
Git 2.14.5
submodule-config: ban submodule paths that start with a dash
submodule-config: ban submodule urls that start with dash
submodule--helper: use "--" to signal end of clone options
* maint-2.18:
Git 2.18.1
Git 2.17.2
fsck: detect submodule paths starting with dash
fsck: detect submodule urls starting with dash
Git 2.16.5
Git 2.15.3
Git 2.14.5
submodule-config: ban submodule paths that start with a dash
submodule-config: ban submodule urls that start with dash
submodule--helper: use "--" to signal end of clone options
* maint-2.17:
Git 2.17.2
fsck: detect submodule paths starting with dash
fsck: detect submodule urls starting with dash
Git 2.16.5
Git 2.15.3
Git 2.14.5
submodule-config: ban submodule paths that start with a dash
submodule-config: ban submodule urls that start with dash
submodule--helper: use "--" to signal end of clone options
