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
Generation of (experimental) commit-graph files have so far been
fairly silent, even though it takes noticeable amount of time in a
meaningfully large repository. The users will now see progress
output.
* ab/commit-graph-progress:
gc: fix regression in 7b0f229222 impacting --quiet
commit-graph verify: add progress output
commit-graph write: add progress output
The code for computing history reachability has been shuffled,
obtained a bunch of new tests to cover them, and then being
improved.
* ds/reachable:
commit-reach: correct accidental #include of C file
commit-reach: use can_all_from_reach
commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear
commit-reach: replace ref_newer logic
test-reach: test commit_contains
test-reach: test can_all_from_reach_with_flags
test-reach: test reduce_heads
test-reach: test get_merge_bases_many
test-reach: test is_descendant_of
test-reach: test in_merge_bases
test-reach: create new test tool for ref_newer
commit-reach: move can_all_from_reach_with_flags
upload-pack: generalize commit date cutoff
upload-pack: refactor ok_to_give_up()
upload-pack: make reachable() more generic
commit-reach: move commit_contains from ref-filter
commit-reach: move ref_newer from remote.c
commit.h: remove method declarations
commit-reach: move walk methods from commit.c
Before this change the "commit-graph write" command didn't report any
progress. On my machine this command takes more than 10 seconds to
write the graph for linux.git, and around 1m30s on the
2015-04-03-1M-git.git[1] test repository (a test case for a large
monorepository).
Furthermore, since the gc.writeCommitGraph setting was added in
d5d5d7b641 ("gc: automatically write commit-graph files", 2018-06-27),
there was no indication at all from a "git gc" run that anything was
different. This why one of the progress bars being added here uses
start_progress() instead of start_delayed_progress(), so that it's
guaranteed to be seen. E.g. on my tiny 867 commit dotfiles.git
repository:
$ git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true gc
Enumerating objects: 2821, done.
[...]
Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (867/867), done.
On larger repositories, such as linux.git the delayed progress bar(s)
will kick in, and we'll show what's going on instead of, as was
previously happening, printing nothing while we write the graph:
$ git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true gc
[...]
Annotating commits in commit graph: 1565573, done.
Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (782484/782484), done.
Note that here we don't show "Finding commits for commit graph", this
is because under "git gc" we seed the search with the commit
references in the repository, and that set is too small to show any
progress, but would e.g. on a smaller repo such as git.git with
--stdin-commits:
$ git rev-list --all | git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true write --stdin-commits
Finding commits for commit graph: 100% (162576/162576), done.
Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (162576/162576), done.
With --stdin-packs we don't show any estimation of how much is left to
do. This is because we might be processing more than one pack. We
could be less lazy here and show progress, either by detecting that
we're only processing one pack, or by first looping over the packs to
discover how many commits they have. I don't see the point in doing
that work. So instead we get (on 2015-04-03-1M-git.git):
$ echo pack-<HASH>.idx | git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true --exec-path=$PWD commit-graph write --stdin-packs
Finding commits for commit graph: 13064614, done.
Annotating commits in commit graph: 3001341, done.
Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (1000447/1000447), done.
No GC mode uses --stdin-packs. It's what they use at Microsoft to
manually compute the generation numbers for their collection of large
packs which are never coalesced.
The reason we need a "report_progress" variable passed down from "git
gc" is so that we don't report this output when we're running in the
process "git gc --auto" detaches from the terminal.
Since we write the commit graph from the "git gc" process itself (as
opposed to what we do with say the "git repack" phase), we'd end up
writing the output to .git/gc.log and reporting it to the user next
time as part of the "The last gc run reported the following[...]"
error, see 329e6e8794 ("gc: save log from daemonized gc --auto and
print it next time", 2015-09-19).
So we must keep track of whether or not we're running in that
demonized mode, and if so print no progress.
See [2] and subsequent replies for a discussion of an approach not
taken in compute_generation_numbers(). I.e. we're saying "Computing
commit graph generation numbers", even though on an established
history we're mostly skipping over all the work we did in the
past. This is similar to the white lie we tell in the "Writing
objects" phase (not all are objects being written).
Always showing progress is considered more important than
accuracy. I.e. on a repository like 2015-04-03-1M-git.git we'd hang
for 6 seconds with no output on the second "git gc" if no changes were
made to any objects in the interim if we'd take the approach in [2].
1. https://github.com/avar/2015-04-03-1M-git
2. <c6960252-c095-fb2b-e0bc-b1e6bb261614@gmail.com>
(https://public-inbox.org/git/c6960252-c095-fb2b-e0bc-b1e6bb261614@gmail.com/)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-graph feature is tested in isolation by
t5318-commit-graph.sh and t6600-test-reach.sh, but there are many
more interesting scenarios involving commit walks. Many of these
scenarios are covered by the existing test suite, but we need to
maintain coverage when the optional commit-graph structure is not
present.
To allow running the full test suite with the commit-graph present,
add a new test environment variable, GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH. Similar
to GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX, this variable makes every Git command try
to load the commit-graph when parsing commits, and writes the
commit-graph file after every 'git commit' command.
There are a few tests that rely on commits not existing in
pack-files to trigger important events, so manually set
GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH to false for the necessary commands.
There is one test in t6024-recursive-merge.sh that relies on the
merge-base algorithm picking one of two ambiguous merge-bases, and
the commit-graph feature changes which merge-base is picked.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Call close_commit_graph() when about to start a rev-list walk that
includes shallow commits. This is necessary in code paths that "fake"
shallow commits for the sake of fetch. Specifically, test 351 in
t5500-fetch-pack.sh runs
git fetch --shallow-exclude one origin
with a file-based transfer. When the "remote" has a commit-graph, we do
not prevent the commit-graph from being loaded, but then the commits are
intended to be dynamically transferred into shallow commits during
get_shallow_commits_by_rev_list(). By closing the commit-graph before
this call, we prevent this interaction.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I looped over the toplevel header files, creating a temporary two-line C
program for each consisting of
#include "git-compat-util.h"
#include $HEADER
This patch is the result of manually fixing errors in compiling those
tiny programs.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The is_descendant_of method previously used in_merge_bases() to check if
the commit can reach any of the commits in the provided list. This had
two performance problems:
1. The performance is quadratic in worst-case.
2. A single in_merge_bases() call requires walking beyond the target
commit in order to find the full set of boundary commits that may be
merge-bases.
The can_all_from_reach method avoids this quadratic behavior and can
limit the search beyond the target commits using generation numbers. It
requires a small prototype adjustment to stop using commit-date as a
cutoff, as that optimization is no longer appropriate here.
Since in_merge_bases() uses paint_down_to_common(), is_descendant_of()
naturally found cutoffs to avoid walking the entire commit graph. Since
we want to always return the correct result, we cannot use the
min_commit_date cutoff in can_all_from_reach. We then rely on generation
numbers to provide the cutoff.
Since not all repos will have a commit-graph file, nor will we always
have generation numbers computed for a commit-graph file, create a new
method, generation_numbers_enabled(), that checks for a commit-graph
file and sees if the first commit in the file has a non-zero generation
number. In the case that we do not have generation numbers, use the old
logic for is_descendant_of().
Performance was meausured on a copy of the Linux repository using the
'test-tool reach is_descendant_of' command using this input:
A:v4.9
X:v4.10
X:v4.11
X:v4.12
X:v4.13
X:v4.14
X:v4.15
X:v4.16
X:v4.17
X.v3.0
Note that this input is tailored to demonstrate the quadratic nature of
the previous method, as it will compute merge-bases for v4.9 versus all
of the later versions before checking against v4.1.
Before: 0.26 s
After: 0.21 s
Since we previously used the is_descendant_of method in the ref_newer
method, we also measured performance there using
'test-tool reach ref_newer' with this input:
A:v4.9
B:v3.19
Before: 0.10 s
After: 0.08 s
By adding a new commit with parent v3.19, we test the non-reachable case
of ref_newer:
Before: 0.09 s
After: 0.08 s
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a struct repository argument to the functions in commit-graph.h that
read the commit graph. (This commit does not affect functions that write
commit graphs.)
Because the commit graph functions can now read the commit graph of any
repository, the global variable core_commit_graph has been removed.
Instead, the config option core.commitGraph is now read on the first
time in a repository that a commit is attempted to be parsed using its
commit graph.
This commit includes a test that exercises the functionality on an
arbitrary repository that is not the_repository.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When writing commit-graph files, it can be convenient to ask for all
reachable commits (starting at the ref set) in the resulting file. This
is particularly helpful when writing to stdin is complicated, such as a
future integration with 'git gc'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the commit-graph file becomes corrupt, we need a way to verify
that its contents match the object database. In the manner of
'git fsck' we will implement a 'git commit-graph verify' subcommand
to report all issues with the file.
Add the 'verify' subcommand to the 'commit-graph' builtin and its
documentation. The subcommand is currently a no-op except for
loading the commit-graph into memory, which may trigger run-time
errors that would be caught by normal use. Add a simple test that
ensures the command returns a zero error code.
If no commit-graph file exists, this is an acceptable state. Do
not report any errors.
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most code paths load commits using lookup_commit() and then
parse_commit(). In some cases, including some branch lookups, the commit
is parsed using parse_object_buffer() which side-steps parse_commit() in
favor of parse_commit_buffer().
With generation numbers in the commit-graph, we need to ensure that any
commit that exists in the commit-graph file has its generation number
loaded.
Create new load_commit_graph_info() method to fill in the information
for a commit that exists only in the commit-graph file. Call it from
parse_commit_buffer() after loading the other commit information from
the given buffer. Only fill this information when specified by the
'check_graph' parameter.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-graph file provides quick access to commit data, including
the OID of the root tree for each commit in the graph. When performing
a deep commit-graph walk, we may not need to load most of the trees
for these commits.
Delay loading the tree object for a commit loaded from the graph
until requested via get_commit_tree(). Do not lazy-load trees for
commits not in the graph, since that requires duplicate parsing
and the relative peformance improvement when trees are not needed
is small.
On the Linux repository, performance tests were run for the following
command:
git log --graph --oneline -1000
Before: 0.92s
After: 0.66s
Rel %: -28.3%
Adding '-- kernel/' to the command requires loading the root tree
for every commit that is walked. There was no measureable performance
change as a result of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach git-commit-graph to add all commits from the existing
commit-graph file to the file about to be written. This should be
used when adding new commits without performing garbage collection.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach git-commit-graph to read commits from stdin when the
--stdin-commits flag is specified. Commits reachable from these
commits are added to the graph. This is a much faster way to construct
the graph than inspecting all packed objects, but is restricted to
known tips.
For the Linux repository, 700,000+ commits were added to the graph
file starting from 'master' in 7-9 seconds, depending on the number
of packfiles in the repo (1, 24, or 120).
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach git-commit-graph to inspect the objects only in a certain list
of pack-indexes within the given pack directory. This allows updating
the commit graph iteratively.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach Git to inspect a commit graph file to supply the contents of a
struct commit when calling parse_commit_gently(). This implementation
satisfies all post-conditions on the struct commit, including loading
parents, the root tree, and the commit date.
If core.commitGraph is false, then do not check graph files.
In test script t5318-commit-graph.sh, add output-matching conditions on
read-only graph operations.
By loading commits from the graph instead of parsing commit buffers, we
save a lot of time on long commit walks. Here are some performance
results for a copy of the Linux repository where 'master' has 678,653
reachable commits and is behind 'origin/master' by 59,929 commits.
| Command | Before | After | Rel % |
|----------------------------------|--------|--------|-------|
| log --oneline --topo-order -1000 | 8.31s | 0.94s | -88% |
| branch -vv | 1.02s | 0.14s | -86% |
| rev-list --all | 5.89s | 1.07s | -81% |
| rev-list --all --objects | 66.15s | 58.45s | -11% |
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach git-commit-graph to read commit graph files and summarize their contents.
Use the read subcommand to verify the contents of a commit graph file in the
tests.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach Git to write a commit graph file by checking all packed objects
to see if they are commits, then store the file in the given object
directory.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Derrick Stolee
Elijah Newren
Jonathan Tan