At the moment, some background jobs are getting blocked on credentials
during the 'prefetch' task. This leads to other tasks, such as
incremental repacks, getting blocked. Further, if a user manages to fix
their credentials, then they still need to cancel the background process
before their background maintenance can continue working.
Update the background schedules for our four scheduler integrations to
include these config options via '-c' options:
* 'credential.interactive=false' will stop Git and some credential
helpers from prompting in the UI (assuming the '-c' parameters are
carried through and respected by GCM).
* 'core.askPass=true' will replace the text fallback for a username
and password into the 'true' command, which will return a success in
its exit code, but Git will treat the empty string returned as an
invalid password and move on.
We can do some testing that the credentials are passed, at least in the
systemd case due to writing the service files.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
In https://github.com/microsoft/git/issues/623, it was reported that
maintenance stops on a missing repository, omitting the remaining
repositories that were scheduled for maintenance.
This is undesirable, as it should be a best effort type of operation.
It should still fail due to the missing repository, of course, but not
leave the non-missing repositories in unmaintained shapes.
Let's use `for-each-repo`'s shiny new `--keep-going` option that we just
introduced for that very purpose.
This change will be picked up when running `git maintenance start`,
which is run implicitly by `scalar reconfigure`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
`git maintenance register` registers the repository in the user's global
config. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` is supposed to be used if
`~/.gitconfig` does not exist. However, this command creates a
`~/.gitconfig` file and writes to that one even though the XDG variant
exists.
This used to work correctly until 50a044f1e4 (gc: replace config
subprocesses with API calls, 2022-09-27), when the command started calling
the config API instead of git-config(1).
Also change `unregister` accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update ref-related tests.
* ps/ref-tests-update:
t: mark several tests that assume the files backend with REFFILES
t7900: assert the absence of refs via git-for-each-ref(1)
t7300: assert exact states of repo
t4207: delete replace references via git-update-ref(1)
t1450: convert tests to remove worktrees via git-worktree(1)
t: convert tests to not access reflog via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not access symrefs via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not write references via the filesystem
t: allow skipping expected object ID in `ref-store update-ref`
Another step to deprecate test_i18ngrep.
* jc/test-i18ngrep:
tests: teach callers of test_i18ngrep to use test_grep
test framework: further deprecate test_i18ngrep
We're asserting that a prefetch of remotes via git-maintenance(1)
doesn't write any references in refs/remotes by validating that the
directory ".git/refs/remotes" is missing. This is quite roundabout: we
don't care about the directory existing, we care about the references
not existing, and the way these are stored is on the behest of the
reference database.
Convert the test to instead check via git-for-each-ref(1) whether any
remote reference exist.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
They are equivalents and the former still exists, so as long as the
only change this commit makes are to rewrite test_i18ngrep to
test_grep, there won't be any new bug, even if there still are
callers of test_i18ngrep remaining in the tree, or when merged to
other topics that add new uses of test_i18ngrep.
This patch was produced more or less with
git grep -l -e 'test_i18ngrep ' 't/t[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.sh' |
xargs perl -p -i -e 's/test_i18ngrep /test_grep /'
and a good way to sanity check the result yourself is to run the
above in a checkout of c4603c1c (test framework: further deprecate
test_i18ngrep, 2023-10-31) and compare the resulting working tree
contents with the result of applying this patch to the same commit.
You'll see that test_i18ngrep in a few t/lib-*.sh files corrected,
in addition to the manual reproduction.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running 'git maintenance start', the current pattern is to
configure global config settings to enable maintenance on the current
repository and set 'maintenance.auto' to false and _then_ to set up the
schedule with the system scheduler.
This has a problematic error condition: if the scheduler fails to
initialize, the repository still will not use automatic maintenance due
to the 'maintenance.auto' setting.
Fix this gap by swapping the order of operations. If Git fails to
initialize maintenance, then the config changes should never happen.
Reported-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The get_random_minute() method was created to allow maintenance
schedules to be fixed to a random minute of the hour. This randomness is
only intended to spread out the load from a number of clients, but each
client should have an hour between each maintenance cycle.
Add this random minute to the systemd integration.
This integration is more complicated than similar changes for other
schedulers because of a neat trick that systemd allows: templating.
The previous implementation generated two template files with names
of the form 'git-maintenance@.(timer|service)'. The '.timer' or
'.service' indicates that this is a template that is picked up when we
later specify '...@<schedule>.timer' or '...@<schedule>.service'. The
'<schedule>' string is then used to insert into the template both the
'OnCalendar' schedule setting and the '--schedule' parameter of the
'git maintenance run' command.
In order to set these schedules to a given minute, we can no longer use
the 'hourly', 'daily', or 'weekly' strings for '<schedule>' and instead
need to abandon the template model for the .timer files. We can still
use templates for the .service files. For this reason, we split these
writes into two methods.
Modify the template with a custom schedule in the 'OnCalendar' setting.
This schedule has some interesting differences from cron-like patterns,
but is relatively easy to figure out from context. The one that might be
confusing is that '*-*-*' is a date-based pattern, but this must be
omitted when using 'Mon' to signal that we care about the day of the
week. Monday is used since that matches the day used for the 'weekly'
schedule used previously.
Now that the timer files are not templates, we might want to abandon the
'@' symbol in the file names. However, this would cause users with
existing schedules to get two competing schedules due to different
names. The work to remove the old schedule name is one thing that we can
avoid by keeping the '@' symbol in our unit names. Since we are locked
into this name, it makes sense that we keep the template model for the
.service files.
The rest of the change involves making sure we are writing these .timer
and .service files before initializing the schedule with 'systemctl' and
deleting the files when we are done. Some changes are also made to share
the random minute along with a single computation of the execution path
of the current Git executable.
In addition, older Git versions may have written a
'git-maintenance@.timer' template file. Be sure to remove this when
successfully enabling maintenance (or disabling maintenance).
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix numerous and mostly long-standing segfaults in consumers of
the *_config_*value_multi() API. As discussed in the preceding commit
an empty key in the config syntax yields a "NULL" string, which these
users would give to strcmp() (or similar), resulting in segfaults.
As this change shows, most users users of the *_config_*value_multi()
API didn't really want such an an unsafe and low-level API, let's give
them something with the safety of git_config_get_string() instead.
This fix is similar to what the *_string() functions and others
acquired in[1] and [2]. Namely introducing and using a safer
"*_get_string_multi()" variant of the low-level "_*value_multi()"
function.
This fixes segfaults in code introduced in:
- d811c8e17c (versionsort: support reorder prerelease suffixes, 2015-02-26)
- c026557a37 (versioncmp: generalize version sort suffix reordering, 2016-12-08)
- a086f921a7 (submodule: decouple url and submodule interest, 2017-03-17)
- a6be5e6764 (log: add log.excludeDecoration config option, 2020-04-16)
- 92156291ca (log: add default decoration filter, 2022-08-05)
- 50a044f1e4 (gc: replace config subprocesses with API calls, 2022-09-27)
There are now two users ofthe low-level API:
- One in "builtin/for-each-repo.c", which we'll convert in a
subsequent commit.
- The "t/helper/test-config.c" code added in [3].
As seen in the preceding commit we need to give the
"t/helper/test-config.c" caller these "NULL" entries.
We could also alter the underlying git_configset_get_value_multi()
function to be "string safe", but doing so would leave no room for
other variants of "*_get_value_multi()" that coerce to other types.
Such coercion can't be built on the string version, since as we've
established "NULL" is a true value in the boolean context, but if we
coerced it to "" for use in a list of strings it'll be subsequently
coerced to "false" as a boolean.
The callback pattern being used here will make it easy to introduce
e.g. a "multi" variant which coerces its values to "bool", "int",
"path" etc.
1. 40ea4ed903 (Add config_error_nonbool() helper function,
2008-02-11)
2. 6c47d0e8f3 (config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL,
2008-02-11).
3. 4c715ebb96 (test-config: add tests for the config_set API,
2014-07-28)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we'll discuss in the subsequent commit these tests all
show *_get_value_multi() API users unable to handle there being a
value-less key in the config, which is represented with a "NULL" for
that entry in the "string" member of the returned "struct
string_list", causing a segfault.
These added tests exhaustively test for that issue, as we'll see in a
subsequent commit we'll need to change all of the API users
of *_get_value_multi(). These cases were discovered by triggering each
one individually, and then adding these tests.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
maintenance register currently records the maintenance repo exclusively
within the user's global configuration, but other configuration files
may be relevant when running maintenance if they are included from the
global config. This option allows the user to choose where maintenance
repos are recorded.
Signed-off-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@rjp.ie>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The 'git maintenance unregister' subcommand has a step that removes the
current repository from the multi-valued maitenance.repo config key.
This fails if the repository is not listed in that key. This makes
running 'git maintenance unregister' twice result in a failure in the
second instance.
This failure exit code is helpful, but its message is not. Add a new
die() message that explicitly calls out the failure due to the
repository not being registered.
In some cases, users may want to run 'git maintenance unregister' just
to make sure that background jobs will not start on this repository, but
they do not want to check to see if it is registered first. Add a new
'--force' option that will siltently succeed if the repository is not
already registered.
Also add an extra test of 'git maintenance unregister' at a point where
there are no registered repositories. This should fail without --force.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce the "subcommand" mode to parse-options API and update the
command line parser of Git commands with subcommands.
* sg/parse-options-subcommand: (23 commits)
remote: run "remote rm" argv through parse_options()
maintenance: add parse-options boilerplate for subcommands
pass subcommand "prefix" arguments to parse_options()
builtin/worktree.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/stash.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/sparse-checkout.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/remote.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/reflog.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/notes.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/hook.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/gc.c: let parse-options parse 'git maintenance's subcommands
builtin/commit-graph.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/bundle.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
parse-options: add support for parsing subcommands
parse-options: drop leading space from '--git-completion-helper' output
parse-options: clarify the limitations of PARSE_OPT_NODASH
parse-options: PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options
api-parse-options.txt: fix description of OPT_CMDMODE
t0040-parse-options: test parse_options() with various 'parse_opt_flags'
...
'git maintenanze' parses its subcommands with a couple of if
statements. parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands, so
let's use that facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code,
handling missing or unknown subcommands, and listing subcommands for
Bash completion.
This change makes 'git maintenance' consistent with other commands in
that the help text shown for '-h' goes to standard output, not error,
in the exit code and error message on unknown subcommand, and the
error message on missing subcommand. There is a test checking these,
which is now updated accordingly.
Note that some of the functions implementing each subcommand don't
accept any parameters, so add the (unused) 'argc', '**argv' and
'*prefix' parameters to make them match the type expected by
parse-options, and thus avoid casting function pointers.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 96eaffebbf (maintenance: set
log.excludeDecoration durin prefetch, 2021-01-19).
The previous change created a default decoration filter that does not
include refs/prefetch/, so this modification of the config is no longer
needed.
One issue that can happen from this point on is that users who ran the
prefetch task on previous versions of Git will still have a
log.excludeDecoration value and that will prevent the new default
decoration filter from being active. Thus, when we add the refs/bundle/
namespace as part of the bundle URI feature, those users will see
refs/bundle/ decorations.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin/gc.c has two ways of checking if multi-pack-index is enabled:
- git_config_get_bool() in incremental_repack_auto_condition()
- the_repository->settings.core_multi_pack_index in
maintenance_task_incremental_repack()
The two implementations have existed since the incremental-repack task
was introduced in e841a79a13 (maintenance: add incremental-repack auto
condition, 2020-09-25). These two values can diverge because
prepare_repo_settings() enables the feature in the_repository->settings
by default.
In the case where core.multiPackIndex is not set in the config, the auto
condition would fail, causing the incremental-repack task to not be
run. Because we always want to consider the default values, we should
always use the_repository->settings.
Standardize on using the_repository->settings.core_multi_pack_index to
check if multi-pack-index is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ref iteration code used to optionally allow dangling refs to be
shown, which has been tightened up.
* jk/ref-paranoia:
refs: drop "broken" flag from for_each_fullref_in()
ref-filter: drop broken-ref code entirely
ref-filter: stop setting FILTER_REFS_INCLUDE_BROKEN
repack, prune: drop GIT_REF_PARANOIA settings
refs: turn on GIT_REF_PARANOIA by default
refs: omit dangling symrefs when using GIT_REF_PARANOIA
refs: add DO_FOR_EACH_OMIT_DANGLING_SYMREFS flag
refs-internal.h: reorganize DO_FOR_EACH_* flag documentation
refs-internal.h: move DO_FOR_EACH_* flags next to each other
t5312: be more assertive about command failure
t5312: test non-destructive repack
t5312: create bogus ref as necessary
t5312: drop "verbose" helper
t5600: provide detached HEAD for corruption failures
t5516: don't use HEAD ref for invalid ref-deletion tests
t7900: clean up some more broken refs
Commit b681b191 introduced the support of systemd timers for git
maintenance.
A test is leveraging the `systemd-analyze verify` utility to verify the
correctness of the systemd unit files generated by git.
But on some systems, although the `systemd-analyze` tool is installed
and supports the `verify` subcommand, it fails with some permission
errors.
So, instead of only checking if the `verify` subcommand exists, a more
reliable way of detecting whether `systemd-analyze verify` can be used
is to try to use it.
The SYSTEMD_ANALYZE prerequisite is now trying to run `systemd-analyze
verify` on a systemd unit file which is shipped by systemd itself.
We can reasonably think that, on systemd hosts, this file is present and
valid.
Signed-off-by: Lénaïc Huard <lenaic@lhuard.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "incremental-repack task" test replaces the object directory with a
known state. As a result, some of our refs point to objects that are not
included in that state.
Commit 3cf5f221be (t7900: clean up some broken refs, 2021-01-19) cleaned
up some of those (that were causing warnings to stderr from the
maintenance process). But there are a few more that were missed. These
aren't hurting anything for now, but it's certainly an unexpected state
to leave the test repository in, and it will become a problem if repack
ever gets more picky about broken refs.
Let's clean up those additional refs (which are all in refs/remotes,
with nothing there that isn't broken), and add an extra "for-each-ref"
call to assert that we've got everything.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git maintenance" scheduler learned to use systemd timers as a
possible backend.
* lh/systemd-timers:
maintenance: add support for systemd timers on Linux
maintenance: `git maintenance run` learned `--scheduler=<scheduler>`
cache.h: Introduce a generic "xdg_config_home_for(…)" function
The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done
through cron. On Linux systems managed by systemd, systemd provides an
alternative to schedule recurring tasks: systemd timers.
The main motivations to implement systemd timers in addition to cron
are:
* cron is optional and Linux systems running systemd might not have it
installed.
* The execution of `crontab -l` can tell us if cron is installed but not
if the daemon is actually running.
* With systemd, each service is run in its own cgroup and its logs are
tagged by the service inside journald. With cron, all scheduled tasks
are running in the cron daemon cgroup and all the logs of the
user-scheduled tasks are pretended to belong to the system cron
service.
Concretely, a user that doesn’t have access to the system logs won’t
have access to the log of their own tasks scheduled by cron whereas
they will have access to the log of their own tasks scheduled by
systemd timer.
Although `cron` attempts to send email, that email may go unseen by
the user because these days, local mailboxes are not heavily used
anymore.
In order to schedule git maintenance, we need two unit template files:
* ~/.config/systemd/user/git-maintenance@.service
to define the command to be started by systemd and
* ~/.config/systemd/user/git-maintenance@.timer
to define the schedule at which the command should be run.
Those units are templates that are parameterized by the frequency.
Based on those templates, 3 timers are started:
* git-maintenance@hourly.timer
* git-maintenance@daily.timer
* git-maintenance@weekly.timer
The command launched by those three timers are the same as with the
other scheduling methods:
/path/to/git for-each-repo --exec-path=/path/to
--config=maintenance.repo maintenance run --schedule=%i
with the full path for git to ensure that the version of git launched
for the scheduled maintenance is the same as the one used to run
`maintenance start`.
The timer unit contains `Persistent=true` so that, if the computer is
powered down when a maintenance task should run, the task will be run
when the computer is back powered on.
Signed-off-by: Lénaïc Huard <lenaic@lhuard.fr>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Depending on the system, different schedulers can be used to schedule
the hourly, daily and weekly executions of `git maintenance run`:
* `launchctl` for MacOS,
* `schtasks` for Windows and
* `crontab` for everything else.
`git maintenance run` now has an option to let the end-user explicitly
choose which scheduler he wants to use:
`--scheduler=auto|crontab|launchctl|schtasks`.
When `git maintenance start --scheduler=XXX` is run, it not only
registers `git maintenance run` tasks in the scheduler XXX, it also
removes the `git maintenance run` tasks from all the other schedulers to
ensure we cannot have two schedulers launching concurrent identical
tasks.
The default value is `auto` which chooses a suitable scheduler for the
system.
`git maintenance stop` doesn't have any `--scheduler` parameter because
this command will try to remove the `git maintenance run` tasks from all
the available schedulers.
Signed-off-by: Lénaïc Huard <lenaic@lhuard.fr>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On macOS, we use launchctl to manage the background maintenance
schedule. This uses a set of .plist files to describe the schedule, but
these files are also registered with 'launchctl bootstrap'. If multiple
'git maintenance start' commands run concurrently, then they can collide
replacing these schedule files and registering them with launchctl.
To avoid extra launchctl commands, do a check for the .plist files on
disk and check if they are registered using 'launchctl list <name>'.
This command will return with exit code 0 if it exists, or exit code 113
if it does not.
We can test this behavior using the GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER environment
variable.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Preliminary clean-up of tests before the main reftable changes
hits the codebase.
* hn/prep-tests-for-reftable: (22 commits)
t1415: set REFFILES for test specific to storage format
t4202: mark bogus head hash test with REFFILES
t7003: check reflog existence only for REFFILES
t7900: stop checking for loose refs
t1404: mark tests that muck with .git directly as REFFILES.
t2017: mark --orphan/logAllRefUpdates=false test as REFFILES
t1414: mark corruption test with REFFILES
t1407: require REFFILES for for_each_reflog test
test-lib: provide test prereq REFFILES
t5304: use "reflog expire --all" to clear the reflog
t5304: restyle: trim empty lines, drop ':' before >
t7003: use rev-parse rather than FS inspection
t5000: inspect HEAD using git-rev-parse
t5000: reformat indentation to the latest fashion
t1301: fix typo in error message
t1413: use tar to save and restore entire .git directory
t1401-symbolic-ref: avoid direct filesystem access
t1401: use tar to snapshot and restore repo state
t5601: read HEAD using rev-parse
t9300: check ref existence using test-helper rather than a file system check
...
Given that git-maintenance simply calls out git-pack-refs, it seems superfluous
to test the functionality of pack-refs itself, as that is covered by
t3210-pack-refs.sh.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a remote has the skipFetchAll setting enabled, then that remote is
not intended for frequent fetching. It makes sense to not fetch that
data during the 'prefetch' maintenance task. Skip that remote in the
iteration without error. The skip_default_update member is initialized
in remote.c:handle_config() as part of initializing the 'struct remote'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'prefetch' maintenance task previously forced the following refspec
for each remote:
+refs/heads/*:refs/prefetch/<remote>/*
If a user has specified a more strict refspec for the remote, then this
prefetch task downloads more objects than necessary.
The previous change introduced the '--prefetch' option to 'git fetch'
which manipulates the remote's refspec to place all resulting refs into
refs/prefetch/, with further partitioning based on the destinations of
those refspecs.
Update the documentation to be more generic about the destination refs.
Do not mention custom refspecs explicitly, as that does not need to be
highlighted in this documentation. The important part of placing refs in
refs/prefetch/ remains.
Reported-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The periodic maintenance tasks configured by `git maintenance start`
invoke `git for-each-repo` to run `git maintenance run` on each path
specified by the multi-value global configuration variable
`maintenance.repo`. Because `git for-each-repo` will likely be run
outside of the repositories which require periodic maintenance, it is
mandatory that the repository paths specified by `maintenance.repo` are
absolute.
Unfortunately, however, `git maintenance register` does nothing to
ensure that the paths it assigns to `maintenance.repo` are indeed
absolute, and may in fact -- especially in the case of a bare repository
-- assign a relative path to `maintenance.repo` instead. Fix this
problem by converting all paths to absolute before assigning them to
`maintenance.repo`.
While at it, also fix `git maintenance unregister` to convert paths to
absolute, as well, in order to ensure that it can correctly remove from
`maintenance.repo` a path assigned via `git maintenance register`.
Reported-by: Clement Moyroud <clement.moyroud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the 'maintenance.strategy' config option is set to 'incremental',
a default maintenance schedule is enabled. Add the 'pack-refs' task to
that strategy at the weekly cadence.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is valuable to collect loose refs into a more compressed form. This
is typically the packed-refs file, although this could be the reftable
in the future. Having packed refs can be extremely valuable in repos
with many tags or remote branches that are not modified by the local
user, but still are necessary for other queries.
For instance, with many exploded refs, commands such as
git describe --tags --exact-match HEAD
can be very slow (multiple seconds). This command in particular is used
by terminal prompts to show when a detatched HEAD is pointing to an
existing tag, so having it be slow causes significant delays for users.
Add a new 'pack-refs' maintenance task. It runs 'git pack-refs --all
--prune' to move loose refs into a packed form. For now, that is the
packed-refs file, but could adjust to other file formats in the future.
This is the first of several sub-tasks of the 'gc' task that could be
extracted to their own tasks. In this process, we should not change the
behavior of the 'gc' task since that remains the default way to keep
repositories maintained. Creating a new task for one of these sub-tasks
only provides more customization options for those choosing to not use
the 'gc' task. It is certainly possible to have both the 'gc' and
'pack-refs' tasks enabled and run regularly. While they may repeat
effort, they do not conflict in a destructive way.
The 'auto_condition' function pointer is left NULL for now. We could
extend this in the future to have a condition check if pack-refs should
be run during 'git maintenance run --auto'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tests for the 'prefetch' task create remotes and fetch refs into
'refs/prefetch/<remote>/' and tags into 'refs/tags/'. These tests use
the remotes to create objects not intended to be seen by the "local"
repository.
In that sense, the incrmental-repack tasks did not have these objects
and refs in mind. That test replaces the object directory with a
specific pack-file layout for testing the batch-size logic. However,
this causes some operations to start showing warnings such as:
error: refs/prefetch/remote1/one does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/tags/one does not point to a valid object!
This only shows up if you run the tests verbosely and watch the output.
It caught my eye and I _thought_ that there was a bug where 'git gc' or
'git repack' wouldn't check 'refs/prefetch/' before pruning objects.
That is incorrect. Those commands do handle 'refs/prefetch/' correctly.
All that is left is to clean up the tests in t7900-maintenance.sh to
remove these tags and refs that are not being repacked for the
incremental-repack tests. Use update-ref to ensure this works with all
ref backends.
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'prefetch' task fetches refs from all remotes and places them in the
refs/prefetch/<remote>/ refspace. As this task is intended to run in the
background, this allows users to keep their local data very close to the
remote servers' data while not updating the users' understanding of the
remote refs in refs/remotes/<remote>/.
However, this can clutter 'git log' decorations with copies of the refs
with the full name 'refs/prefetch/<remote>/<branch>'.
The log.excludeDecoration config option was added in a6be5e67 (log: add
log.excludeDecoration config option, 2020-05-16) for exactly this
purpose.
Ensure we set this only for users that would benefit from it by
assigning it at the beginning of the prefetch task. Other alternatives
would be during 'git maintenance register' or 'git maintenance start',
but those might assign the config even when the prefetch task is
disabled by existing config. Further, users could run 'git maintenance
run --task=prefetch' using their own scripting or scheduling. This
provides the best coverage to automatically update the config when
valuable.
It is improbable, but possible, that users might want to run the
prefetch task _and_ see these refs in their log decorations. This seems
incredibly unlikely to me, but users can always opt-in on a
command-by-command basis using --decorate-refs=refs/prefetch/.
Test that this works in a few cases. In particular, ensure that our
assignment of log.excludeDecoration=refs/prefetch/ is additive to other
existing exclusions. Further, ensure we do not add multiple copies in
multiple runs.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Follow-up on the "maintenance part-3" which introduced scheduled
maintenance tasks to support platforms whose native scheduling
methods are not 'cron'.
* ds/maintenance-part-4:
maintenance: use Windows scheduled tasks
maintenance: use launchctl on macOS
maintenance: include 'cron' details in docs
maintenance: extract platform-specific scheduling
Git's background maintenance uses cron by default, but this is not
available on Windows. Instead, integrate with Task Scheduler.
Tasks can be scheduled using the 'schtasks' command. There are several
command-line options that can allow for some advanced scheduling, but
unfortunately these seem to all require authenticating using a password.
Instead, use the "/xml" option to pass an XML file that contains the
configuration for the necessary schedule. These XML files are based on
some that I exported after constructing a schedule in the Task Scheduler
GUI. These options only run background maintenance when the user is
logged in, and more fields are populated with the current username and
SID at run-time by 'schtasks'.
Since the GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER environment variable allows us to
specify 'schtasks' as the scheduler, we can test the Windows-specific
logic on other platforms. Thus, add a check that the XML file written
by Git is valid when xmllint exists on the system.
Since we use a temporary file for the XML files sent to 'schtasks', we
prefix the random characters with the frequency so it is easier to
examine the proper file during tests. Instead of an exact match on the
'args' file, we 'grep' for the arguments other than the filename.
There is a deficiency in the current design. Windows has two kinds of
applications: GUI applications that start by "winmain()" and console
applications that start by "main()". Console applications are attached
to a new Console window if they are not already associated with a GUI
application. This means that every hour the scheudled task launches a
command window for the scheduled tasks. Not only is this visually
obtrusive, but it also takes focus from whatever else the user is
doing!
A simple fix would be to insert a GUI application that acts as a shim
between the scheduled task and Git. This is currently possible in Git
for Windows by setting the <Command> tag equal to
C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe
with options "--hide --no-needs-console --command=cmd\git.exe"
followed by the arguments currently used. Since git-bash.exe is not
included in Windows builds of core Git, I chose to leave out this
feature. My plan is to submit a small patch to Git for Windows that
converts the use of git.exe with this use of git-bash.exe in the
short term. In the long term, we can consider creating this GUI
shim application within core Git, perhaps in contrib/.
Co-authored-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done
through cron. The 'crontab -e' command allows updating the schedule
while cron itself runs those commands. While this is technically
supported by macOS, it has some significant deficiencies:
1. Every run of 'crontab -e' must request elevated privileges through
the user interface. When running 'git maintenance start' from the
Terminal app, it presents a dialog box saying "Terminal.app would
like to administer your computer. Administration can include
modifying passwords, networking, and system settings." This is more
alarming than what we are hoping to achieve. If this alert had some
information about how "git" is trying to run "crontab" then we would
have some reason to believe that this dialog might be fine. However,
it also doesn't help that some scenarios just leave Git waiting for
a response without presenting anything to the user. I experienced
this when executing the command from a Bash terminal view inside
Visual Studio Code.
2. While cron initializes a user environment enough for "git config
--global --show-origin" to show the correct config file information,
it does not set up the environment enough for Git Credential Manager
Core to load credentials during a 'prefetch' task. My prefetches
against private repositories required re-authenticating through UI
pop-ups in a way that should not be required.
The solution is to switch from cron to the Apple-recommended [1]
'launchd' tool.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/ScheduledJobs.html
The basics of this tool is that we need to create XML-formatted
"plist" files inside "~/Library/LaunchAgents/" and then use the
'launchctl' tool to make launchd aware of them. The plist files
include all of the scheduling information, along with the command-line
arguments split across an array of <string> tags.
For example, here is my plist file for the weekly scheduled tasks:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0"><dict>
<key>Label</key><string>org.git-scm.git.weekly</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/local/libexec/git-core/git</string>
<string>--exec-path=/usr/local/libexec/git-core</string>
<string>for-each-repo</string>
<string>--config=maintenance.repo</string>
<string>maintenance</string>
<string>run</string>
<string>--schedule=weekly</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Day</key><integer>0</integer>
<key>Hour</key><integer>0</integer>
<key>Minute</key><integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
The schedules for the daily and hourly tasks are more complicated
since we need to use an array for the StartCalendarInterval with
an entry for each of the six days other than the 0th day (to avoid
colliding with the weekly task), and each of the 23 hours other
than the 0th hour (to avoid colliding with the daily task).
The "Label" value is currently filled with "org.git-scm.git.X"
where X is the frequency. We need a different plist file for each
frequency.
The launchctl command needs to be aligned with a user id in order
to initialize the command environment. This must be done using
the 'launchctl bootstrap' subcommand. This subcommand is new as
of macOS 10.11, which was released in September 2015. Before that
release the 'launchctl load' subcommand was recommended. The best
source of information on this transition I have seen is available
at [2]. The current design does not preclude a future version that
detects the available fatures of 'launchctl' to use the older
commands. However, it is best to rely on the newest version since
Apple might completely remove the deprecated version on short
notice.
[2] https://babodee.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/launchctl-2-0-syntax/
To remove a schedule, we must run 'launchctl bootout' with a valid
plist file. We also need to 'bootout' a task before the 'bootstrap'
subcommand will succeed, if such a task already exists.
The need for a user id requires us to run 'id -u' which works on
POSIX systems but not Windows. Further, the need for fully-qualitifed
path names including $HOME behaves differently in the Git internals and
the external test suite. The $HOME variable starts with "C:\..." instead
of the "/c/..." that is provided by Git in these subcommands. The test
therefore has a prerequisite that we are not on Windows. The cross-
platform logic still allows us to test the macOS logic on a Linux
machine.
We can verify the commands that were run by 'git maintenance start'
and 'git maintenance stop' by injecting a script that writes the
command-line arguments into GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER.
An earlier version of this patch accidentally had an opening
"<dict>" tag when it should have had a closing "</dict>" tag. This
was caught during manual testing with actual 'launchctl' commands,
but we do not want to update developers' tasks when running tests.
It appears that macOS includes the "xmllint" tool which can verify
the XML format. This is useful for any system that might contain
the tool, so use it whenever it is available.
We strive to make these tests work on all platforms, but Windows caused
some headaches. In particular, the value of getuid() called by the C
code is not guaranteed to be the same as `$(id -u)` invoked by a test.
This is because `git.exe` is a native Windows program, whereas the
utility programs run by the test script mostly utilize the MSYS2 runtime,
which emulates a POSIX-like environment. Since the purpose of the test
is to check that the input to the hook is well-formed, the actual user
ID is immaterial, thus we can work around the problem by making the the
test UID-agnostic. Another subtle issue is the $HOME environment
variable being a Windows-style path instead of a Unix-style path. We can
be more flexible here instead of expecting exact path matches.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we insert our "BEGIN" and "END" markers into the cron table, it's
so that a Git version from many years into the future would be able to
identify this region in the cron table. Let's add a test to make sure
that these markers don't ever change.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On `git maintenance start`, we add a few entries to the user's cron
table. We wrap our entries using two magic markers, "# BEGIN GIT
MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE" and "# END GIT MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE". At a later
`git maintenance stop`, we will go through the table and remove these
lines. Or rather, we will remove the "BEGIN" marker, the "END" marker
and everything between them.
Alas, we have a bug in how we detect the "END" marker: we don't. As we
loop through all the lines of the crontab, if we are in the "old
region", i.e., the region we're aiming to remove, we make an early
`continue` and don't get as far as checking for the "END" marker. Thus,
once we've seen our "BEGIN", we remove everything until the end of the
file.
Rewrite the logic for identifying these markers. There are four cases
that are mutually exclusive: The current line starts a region or it ends
it, or it's firmly within the region, or it's outside of it (and should
be printed).
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use --fixed-value in git-config calls in the git-maintenance tests, so
that the tests will continue to work even if the repo path contains
regexp metacharacters.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git maintenance run/start/stop" needed to be run in a repository
to hold the lockfile they use, but didn't make sure they are
actually in a repository, which has been corrected.
* rs/maintenance-run-outside-repo:
t7900: fix typo: "test_execpt_success"
maintenance: fix SEGFAULT when no repository
A test marked with EXPENSIVE creates two 2.5GB files and adds them to
the repository. This takes 194s to run on my machine, versus 2s when the
EXPENSIVE prereq isn't set. We can trim this down a bit by doing two
things:
- use "git commit --quiet" to avoid spending time generating a diff
summary (this actually only helps for the second commit, but I've
added it here to both for consistency). This shaves off 8s.
- set core.compression to 0. We know these files are full of random
bytes, and so won't compress (that's the point of the test!).
Spending cycles on zlib is pointless. This shaves off 122s.
After this, my total time to run the script is 64s. That won't help
normal runs without GIT_TEST_LONG set, of course, but it's easy enough
to do.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git maintenance run" and "git maintenance start/stop" commands
holds a file-based lock at the .git/maintenance.lock and
.git/schedule.lock respectively. These locks are used to ensure only
one maintenance process is executed at the time as both operations
involves writing data into the git repository.
The path to the lock file is built using
"the_repository->objects->odb->path" that results in SEGFAULT when we
have no repository available as "the_repository->objects->odb" is
set to NULL.
Let's teach maintenance command to use RUN_SETUP option that will
provide the validation and fail when running outside of a repository.
Hence fixing the SEGFAULT for all three operations and making the
behaviour consistent across all subcommands.
Setting the RUN_SETUP also provides the same protection for all
subcommands given that the "register" and "unregister" also requires to
be executed inside a repository.
Furthermore let's remove the local validation implemented by the
"register" and "unregister" as this will not be required anymore with
the new option.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Silva <rafaeloliveira.cs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a repository's leading directories contain regex metacharacters,
the config calls for 'git maintenance register' and 'git maintenance
unregister' are not careful enough. Use the new --fixed-value option
to direct the config machinery to use exact string matches. This is a
more robust option than escaping these arguments in a piecemeal fashion.
For the test, require that we are not running on Windows since the '+'
and '*' characters are not allowed on that filesystem.
Reported-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing schedule mechanism using 'cron' is supported by POSIX
platforms, but not Windows. It also works slightly differently on
macOS to significant detriment of the user experience. To allow for
new implementations on these platforms, extract a method that
performs the platform-specific scheduling mechanism. This will be
swapped at compile time with new implementations on specialized
platforms.
As we add this generality, rename GIT_TEST_CRONTAB to
GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER. Further, this variable is now parsed as
"<scheduler>:<command>" so we can test platform-specific scheduling
logic even when not on the correct platform. By specifying the
<scheduler> in this string, we will be able to test all three sets of
Git logic from a Linux machine.
Co-authored-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Parts of "git maintenance" to ease writing crontab entries (and
other scheduling system configuration) for it.
* ds/maintenance-part-3:
maintenance: add troubleshooting guide to docs
maintenance: use 'incremental' strategy by default
maintenance: create maintenance.strategy config
maintenance: add start/stop subcommands
maintenance: add [un]register subcommands
for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos
maintenance: add --schedule option and config
maintenance: optionally skip --auto process
Test-coverage enhancement of running commit-graph task "git
maintenance" as needed led to discovery and fix of a bug.
* ds/maintenance-commit-graph-auto-fix:
maintenance: core.commitGraph=false prevents writes
maintenance: test commit-graph auto condition
Derrick Stolee
Johannes Schindelin
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
Junio C Hamano
Patrick Steinhardt
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Ronan Pigott
SZEDER Gábor
Glen Choo
Lénaïc Huard
Jeff King
Derrick Stolee
Han-Wen Nienhuys
Eric Sunshine
Martin Ågren
Josh Steadmon
Rafael Silva