Instead of immediately printing ll-merge warnings to stderr, we save
them in our output strbuf. Besides allowing us to move these warnings
to a special file for --remerge-diff, this has two other benefits for
regular merges done by merge-ort:
* The deferral of messages ensures we can print all messages about
any given path together (merge-recursive was known to sometimes
intersperse messages about other paths, particularly when renames
were involved).
* The deferral of messages means we can avoid printing spurious
conflict messages when we just end up aborting due to local user
modifications in the way. (In contrast to merge-recursive.c which
prematurely checks for local modifications in the way via
unpack_trees() and gets the check wrong both in terms of false
positives and false negatives relative to renames, merge-ort does
not perform the local modifications in the way check until the
checkout() step after the full merge has been computed.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since some callers may want to send warning messages to somewhere other
than stdout/stderr, stop printing "warning: Cannot merge binary files"
from ll-merge and instead modify the return status of ll_merge() to
indicate when a merge of binary files has occurred. Message printing
probably does not belong in a "low-level merge" anyway.
This commit continues printing the message as-is, just from the callers
instead of within ll_merge(). Future changes will start handling the
message differently in the merge-ort codepath.
There was one special case here: the callers in rerere.c do NOT check
for and print such a message; since those code paths explicitly skip
over binary files, there is no reason to check for a return status of
LL_MERGE_BINARY_CONFLICT or print the related message.
Note that my methodology included first modifying ll_merge() to return
a struct, so that the compiler would catch all the callers for me and
ensure I had modified all of them. After modifying all of them, I then
changed the struct to an enum.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Follow through the work to use the repo interface to access
submodule objects in-process, instead of abusing the alternate
object database interface.
* jt/no-abuse-alternate-odb-for-submodules:
submodule: trace adding submodule ODB as alternate
submodule: pass repo to check_has_commit()
object-file: only register submodule ODB if needed
merge-{ort,recursive}: remove add_submodule_odb()
refs: peeling non-the_repository iterators is BUG
refs: teach arbitrary repo support to iterators
refs: plumb repo into ref stores
Various fixes in code paths that move untracked files away to make room.
* en/removing-untracked-fixes:
Documentation: call out commands that nuke untracked files/directories
Comment important codepaths regarding nuking untracked files/dirs
unpack-trees: avoid nuking untracked dir in way of locally deleted file
unpack-trees: avoid nuking untracked dir in way of unmerged file
Change unpack_trees' 'reset' flag into an enum
Remove ignored files by default when they are in the way
unpack-trees: make dir an internal-only struct
unpack-trees: introduce preserve_ignored to unpack_trees_options
read-tree, merge-recursive: overwrite ignored files by default
checkout, read-tree: fix leak of unpack_trees_options.dir
t2500: add various tests for nuking untracked files
After the parent commit and some of its ancestors, the only place
commits are being accessed through alternates is in the user-facing
message formatting code. Fix those, and remove the add_submodule_odb()
calls.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
More code paths that use the hack to add submodule's object
database to the set of alternate object store have been cleaned up.
* jt/add-submodule-odb-clean-up:
revision: remove "submodule" from opt struct
repository: support unabsorbed in repo_submodule_init
submodule: remove unnecessary unabsorbed fallback
Change several commands to remove ignored files by default when they are
in the way. Since some commands (checkout, merge) take a
--no-overwrite-ignore option to allow the user to configure this, and it
may make sense to add that option to more commands (and in the case of
merge, actually plumb that configuration option through to more of the
backends than just the fast-forwarding special case), add little
comments about where such flags would be used.
Incidentally, this fixes a test failure in t7112.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, every caller of unpack_trees() that wants to ensure ignored
files are overwritten by default needs to:
* allocate unpack_trees_options.dir
* flip the DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag in unpack_trees_options.dir->flags
* call setup_standard_excludes
AND then after the call to unpack_trees() needs to
* call dir_clear()
* deallocate unpack_trees_options.dir
That's a fair amount of boilerplate, and every caller uses identical
code. Make this easier by instead introducing a new boolean value where
the default value (0) does what we want so that new callers of
unpack_trees() automatically get the appropriate behavior. And move all
the handling of unpack_trees_options.dir into unpack_trees() itself.
While preserve_ignored = 0 is the behavior we feel is the appropriate
default, we defer fixing commands to use the appropriate default until a
later commit. So, this commit introduces several locations where we
manually set preserve_ignored=1. This makes it clear where code paths
were previously preserving ignored files when they should not have been;
a future commit will flip these to instead use a value of 0 to get the
behavior we want.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various mergy operations have been prepared to work efficiently
with the sparse index.
* ds/mergies-with-sparse-index:
sparse-index: integrate with cherry-pick and rebase
sequencer: ensure full index if not ORT strategy
t1092: add cherry-pick, rebase tests
merge-ort: expand only for out-of-cone conflicts
merge: make sparse-aware with ORT
diff: ignore sparse paths in diffstat
Not sure what happened, but the comment is describing code elsewhere in
the file. Fix the comment to actually discuss the code that follows.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge conflicts happen often enough to want to avoid expanding a sparse
index when they happen, as long as those conflicts are within the
sparse-checkout cone. If a conflict exists outside of the
sparse-checkout cone, then we still need to expand before iterating over
the index entries. This is critical to do in advance because of how the
original_cache_nr is tracked to allow inserting and replacing cache
entries.
Iterate over the conflicted files and check if any paths are outside of
the sparse-checkout cone. If so, then expand the full index.
Add a test that demonstrates that we do not expand the index, even when
we hit a conflict within the sparse-checkout cone.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow 'git merge' to operate without expanding a sparse index, at least
not immediately. The index still will be expanded in a few cases:
1. If the merge strategy is 'recursive', then we enable
command_requires_full_index at the start of the merge_recursive()
method. We expect sparse-index users to also have the 'ort' strategy
enabled.
2. With the 'ort' strategy, if the merge results in a conflicted file,
then we expand the index before updating the working tree. The loop
that iterates over the worktree replaces index entries and tracks
'origintal_cache_nr' which can become completely wrong if the index
expands in the middle of the operation. This safety valve is
important before that loop starts. A later change will focus this
to only expand if we indeed have a conflict outside of the
sparse-checkout cone.
3. Other merge strategies are executed as a 'git merge-X' subcommand,
and those strategies are currently protected with the
'command_requires_full_index' guard.
Some test updates are required, including a mistaken 'git checkout -b'
that did not specify the base branch, causing merges to be fast-forward
merges.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clean up a TODO in revision.h by removing the "submodule" field from
struct setup_revision_opt. This field is only used to specify the ref
store to use, so use rev_info->repo to determine the ref store instead.
The only users of this field are merge-ort.c and merge-recursive.c.
However, both these files specify the superproject as rev_info->repo and
the submodule as setup_revision_opt->submodule. In order to be able to
pass the submodule as rev_info->repo, all commits must be parsed with
the submodule explicitly specified; this patch does that as well. (An
incremental solution in which only some commits are parsed with explicit
submodule will not work, because if the same commit is parsed twice in
different repositories, there will be 2 heap-allocated object structs
corresponding to that commit, and any flag set by the revision walking
mechanism on one of them will not be reflected onto the other.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Final batch for "merge -sort" optimization.
* en/ort-perf-batch-15:
merge-ort: remove compile-time ability to turn off usage of memory pools
merge-ort: reuse path strings in pool_alloc_filespec
merge-ort: store filepairs and filespecs in our mem_pool
diffcore-rename, merge-ort: add wrapper functions for filepair alloc/dealloc
merge-ort: switch our strmaps over to using memory pools
merge-ort: set up a memory pool
merge-ort: add pool_alloc, pool_calloc, and pool_strndup wrappers
diffcore-rename: use a mem_pool for exact rename detection's hashmap
merge-ort: rename str{map,intmap,set}_func()
Further optimization on "merge -sort" backend.
* en/ort-perf-batch-14:
merge-ort: restart merge with cached renames to reduce process entry cost
merge-ort: avoid recursing into directories when we don't need to
merge-ort: defer recursing into directories when merge base is matched
merge-ort: add a handle_deferred_entries() helper function
merge-ort: add data structures for allowable trivial directory resolves
merge-ort: add some more explanations in collect_merge_info_callback()
merge-ort: resolve paths early when we have sufficient information
Simplify code maintenance by removing the ability to toggle between
usage of memory pools and direct allocations. This allows us to also
remove paths_to_free since it was solely about bookkeeping to make sure
we freed the necessary paths, and allows us to remove some auxiliary
functions.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pool_alloc_filespec() was written so that the code when pool != NULL
mimicked the code from alloc_filespec(), which including allocating
enough extra space for the path and then copying it. However, the path
passed to pool_alloc_filespec() is always going to already be in the
same memory pool, so we may as well reuse it instead of copying it.
For the testcases mentioned in commit 557ac0350d ("merge-ort: begin
performance work; instrument with trace2_region_* calls", 2020-10-28),
this change improves the performance as follows:
Before After
no-renames: 198.5 ms ± 3.4 ms 198.3 ms ± 2.9 ms
mega-renames: 679.1 ms ± 5.6 ms 661.8 ms ± 5.9 ms
just-one-mega: 271.9 ms ± 2.8 ms 264.6 ms ± 2.5 ms
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For the testcases mentioned in commit 557ac0350d ("merge-ort: begin
performance work; instrument with trace2_region_* calls", 2020-10-28),
this change improves the performance as follows:
Before After
no-renames: 198.1 ms ± 2.6 ms 198.5 ms ± 3.4 ms
mega-renames: 715.8 ms ± 4.0 ms 679.1 ms ± 5.6 ms
just-one-mega: 276.8 ms ± 4.2 ms 271.9 ms ± 2.8 ms
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We want to be able to allocate filespecs and filepairs using a mem_pool.
However, filespec data will still remain outside the pool (perhaps in
the future we could plumb the pool through the various diff APIs to
allocate the filespec data too, but for now we are limiting the scope).
Add some extra functions to allocate these appropriately based on the
non-NULL-ness of opt->priv->pool, as well as some extra functions to
handle correctly deallocating the relevant parts of them. A future
commit will make use of these new functions.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For all the strmaps (including strintmaps and strsets) whose memory is
unconditionally freed as part of clear_or_reinit_internal_opts(), switch
them over to using our new memory pool.
For the testcases mentioned in commit 557ac0350d ("merge-ort: begin
performance work; instrument with trace2_region_* calls", 2020-10-28),
this change improves the performance as follows:
Before After
no-renames: 202.5 ms ± 3.2 ms 198.1 ms ± 2.6 ms
mega-renames: 1.072 s ± 0.012 s 715.8 ms ± 4.0 ms
just-one-mega: 357.3 ms ± 3.9 ms 276.8 ms ± 4.2 ms
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge-ort has a lot of data structures, and they all tend to be freed
together in clear_or_reinit_internal_opts(). Set up a memory pool to
allow us to make these allocations and deallocations faster. Future
commits will adjust various callers to make use of this memory pool.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the code more flexible so that it can handle both being run with or
without a memory pool by adding utility functions which will either call
xmalloc, xcalloc, xstrndup
or
mem_pool_alloc, mem_pool_calloc, mem_pool_strndup
depending on whether we have a non-NULL memory pool. A subsequent
commit will make use of these.
(We will actually be dropping these functions soon and just assuming we
always have a memory pool, but the flexibility was very useful during
development of merge-ort so I want to be able to restore it if needed.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to make it clearer that these three variables holding a
function refer to functions that will clear the strmap/strintmap/strset,
rename them to str{map,intmap,set}_clear_func().
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation on "git diff -l<n>" and diff.renameLimit have been
updated, and the defaults for these limits have been raised.
* en/rename-limits-doc:
rename: bump limit defaults yet again
diffcore-rename: treat a rename_limit of 0 as unlimited
doc: clarify documentation for rename/copy limits
diff: correct warning message when renameLimit exceeded
Many "printf"-like helper functions we have have been annotated
with __attribute__() to catch placeholder/parameter mismatches.
* ab/attribute-format:
advice.h: add missing __attribute__((format)) & fix usage
*.h: add a few missing __attribute__((format))
*.c static functions: add missing __attribute__((format))
sequencer.c: move static function to avoid forward decl
*.c static functions: don't forward-declare __attribute__
The merge algorithm mostly consists of the following three functions:
collect_merge_info()
detect_and_process_renames()
process_entries()
Prior to the trivial directory resolution optimization of the last half
dozen commits, process_entries() was consistently the slowest, followed
by collect_merge_info(), then detect_and_process_renames(). When the
trivial directory resolution applies, it often dramatically decreases
the amount of time spent in the two slower functions.
Looking at the performance results in the previous commit, the trivial
directory resolution optimization helps amazingly well when there are no
relevant renames. It also helps really well when reapplying a long
series of linear commits (such as in a rebase or cherry-pick), since the
relevant renames may well be cached from the first reapplied commit.
But when there are any relevant renames that are not cached (represented
by the just-one-mega testcase), then the optimization does not help at
all.
Often, I noticed that when the optimization does not apply, it is
because there are a handful of relevant sources -- maybe even only one.
It felt frustrating to need to recurse into potentially hundreds or even
thousands of directories just for a single rename, but it was needed for
correctness.
However, staring at this list of functions and noticing that
process_entries() is the most expensive and knowing I could avoid it if
I had cached renames suggested a simple idea: change
collect_merge_info()
detect_and_process_renames()
process_entries()
into
collect_merge_info()
detect_and_process_renames()
<cache all the renames, and restart>
collect_merge_info()
detect_and_process_renames()
process_entries()
This may seem odd and look like more work. However, note that although
we run collect_merge_info() twice, the second time we get to employ
trivial directory resolves, which makes it much faster, so the increased
time in collect_merge_info() is small. While we run
detect_and_process_renames() again, all renames are cached so it's
nearly a no-op (we don't call into diffcore_rename_extended() but we do
have a little bit of data structure checking and fixing up). And the
big payoff comes from the fact that process_entries(), will be much
faster due to having far fewer entries to process.
This restarting only makes sense if we can save recursing into enough
directories to make it worth our while. Introduce a simple heuristic to
guide this. Note that this heuristic uses a "wanted_factor" that I have
virtually no actual real world data for, just some back-of-the-envelope
quasi-scientific calculations that I included in some comments and then
plucked a simple round number out of thin air. It could be that
tweaking this number to make it either higher or lower improves the
optimization. (There's slightly more here; when I first introduced this
optimization, I used a factor of 10, because I was completely confident
it was big enough to not cause slowdowns in special cases. I was
certain it was higher than needed. Several months later, I added the
rough calculations which make me think the optimal number is close to 2;
but instead of pushing to the limit, I just bumped it to 3 to reduce the
risk that there are special cases where this optimization can result in
slowing down the code a little. If the ratio of path counts is below 3,
we probably will only see minor performance improvements at best
anyway.)
Also, note that while the diffstat looks kind of long (nearly 100
lines), more than half of it is in two comments explaining how things
work.
For the testcases mentioned in commit 557ac0350d ("merge-ort: begin
performance work; instrument with trace2_region_* calls", 2020-10-28),
this change improves the performance as follows:
Before After
no-renames: 205.1 ms ± 3.8 ms 204.2 ms ± 3.0 ms
mega-renames: 1.564 s ± 0.010 s 1.076 s ± 0.015 s
just-one-mega: 479.5 ms ± 3.9 ms 364.1 ms ± 7.0 ms
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This combines the work of the last several patches, and implements the
conditions when we don't need to recurse into directories. It's perhaps
easiest to see the logic by separating the fact that a directory might
have both rename sources and rename destinations:
* rename sources: only files present in the merge base can serve as
rename sources, and only when one side deletes that file. When the
tree on one side matches the merge base, that means every file
within the subtree matches the merge base. This means that the
skip-irrelevant-rename-detection optimization from before kicks in
and we don't need any of these files as rename sources.
* rename destinations: the tree that does not match the merge base
might have newly added and hence unmatched destination files.
This is what usually prevents us from doing trivial directory
resolutions in the merge machinery. However, the fact that we have
deferred recursing into this directory until the end means we know
whether there are any unmatched relevant potential rename sources
elsewhere in this merge. If there are no unmatched such relevant
sources anywhere, then there is no need to look for unmatched
potential rename destinations to match them with.
This informs our algorithm:
* Search through relevant_sources; if we have entries, they better all
be reflected in cached_pairs or cached_irrelevant, otherwise they
represent an unmatched potential rename source (causing the
optimization to be disallowed).
* For any relevant_source represented in cached_pairs, we do need to
to make sure to get the destination for each source, meaning we need
to recurse into any ancestor directories of those destinations.
* Once we've recursed into all the rename destinations for any
relevant_sources in cached_pairs, we can then do the trivial
directory resolution for the remaining directories.
For the testcases mentioned in commit 557ac0350d ("merge-ort: begin
performance work; instrument with trace2_region_* calls", 2020-10-28),
this change improves the performance as follows:
Before After
no-renames: 5.235 s ± 0.042 s 205.1 ms ± 3.8 ms
mega-renames: 9.419 s ± 0.107 s 1.564 s ± 0.010 s
just-one-mega: 480.1 ms ± 3.9 ms 479.5 ms ± 3.9 ms
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When one side of history matches the merge base (including when the
merge base has no entry for the given directory), have
collect_merge_info_callback() defer recursing into the directory. To
ensure those entries are eventually handled, add a call to
handled_deferred_entries() in collect_merge_info() after
traverse_trees() returns.
Note that the condition in collect_merge_info_callback() may look more
complicated than necessary at first glance;
renames->trivial_merges_okay[side] is always true until
handle_deferred_entries() is called, and possible_trivial_merges[side]
is always empty right now (and in the future won't be filled until
handle_deferred_entries() is called). However, when
handle_deferred_entries() calls traverse_trees() for the relevant
deferred directories, those traverse_trees() calls will once again end
up in collect_merge_info_callback() for all the entries under those
subdirectories. The extra conditions are there for such deferred cases
and will be used more as we do more with those variables.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to allow trivial directory resolution, we first need to be able
to gather more information to determine if the optimization is safe. To
enable that, we need a way of deferring the recursion into the directory
until a later time. Naturally, deferring the entry into a subtree means
that we need some function that will later recurse into the subdirectory
exactly the same way that collect_merge_info_callback() would have done.
Add a helper function that does this. For now this function is not used
but a subsequent commit will change that. Future commits will also make
the function sometimes resolve directories instead of traversing inside.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As noted a few commits ago, we can resolve individual files early if all
three sides of the merge have a file at the path and two of the three
sides match. We would really like to do the same thing with
directories, because being able to do a trivial directory resolve means
we don't have to recurse into the directory, potentially saving us a
huge amount of time in both collect_merge_info() and process_entries().
Unfortunately, resolving directories early would mean missing any
renames whose source or destination is underneath that directory.
If we somehow knew there weren't any renames under the directory in
question, then we could resolve it early. Sadly, it is impossible to
determine whether there are renames under the directory in question
without recursing into it, and this has traditionally kept us from ever
implementing such an optimization.
In commit f89b4f2bee ("merge-ort: skip rename detection entirely if
possible", 2021-03-11), we added an additional reason that rename
detection could be skipped entirely -- namely, if no *relevant* sources
were present. Without completing collect_merge_info_callback(), we do
not yet know if there are no relevant sources. However, we do know that
if the current directory on one side matches the merge base, then every
source file within that directory will not be RELEVANT_CONTENT, and a
few simple checks can often let us rule out RELEVANT_LOCATION as well.
This suggests we can just defer recursing into such directories until
the end of collect_merge_info.
Since the deferred directories are known to not add any relevant sources
due to the above properties, then if there are no relevant sources after
we've traversed all paths other than the deferred ones, then we know
there are not any relevant sources. Under those conditions, rename
detection is unnecessary, and that means we can resolve the deferred
directories without recursing into them.
Note that the logic for skipping rename detection was also modified
further in commit 76e253793c ("merge-ort, diffcore-rename: employ cached
renames when possible", 2021-01-30); in particular rename detection can
be skipped if we already have cached renames for each relevant source.
We can take advantage of this information as well with our deferral of
recursing into directories where one side matches the merge base.
Add some data structures that we will use to do these deferrals, with
some lengthy comments explaining their purpose.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous patch possibly raises some questions about whether
additional cases in collect_merge_info_callback() can be handled early.
Add some explanations in the form of comments to help explain these
better. While we're at it, add a few comments to denote what a few
boolean '0' or '1' values stand for.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there are no directories involved at a given path, and all three
sides have a file at that path, and two of the three sides of history
match, we can immediately resolve the merge of that path in
collect_merge_info() and do not need to wait until process_entries().
This is actually a very minor improvement: half the time when I run it,
I see an improvement; the other half a slowdown. It seems to be in the
range of noise. However, this idea serves as the beginning of some
bigger optimizations coming in the following patches.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code cleanup around struct_type_init() functions.
* ab/struct-init:
string-list.h users: change to use *_{nodup,dup}()
string-list.[ch]: add a string_list_init_{nodup,dup}()
dir.[ch]: replace dir_init() with DIR_INIT
*.c *_init(): define in terms of corresponding *_INIT macro
*.h: move some *_INIT to designated initializers
The merge code had funny interactions between content based rename
detection and directory rename detection.
* en/merge-dir-rename-corner-case-fix:
merge-recursive: handle rename-to-self case
merge-ort: ensure we consult df_conflict and path_conflicts
t6423: test directory renames causing rename-to-self
Performance tweaks of "git merge -sort" around lazy fetching of objects.
* en/ort-perf-batch-13:
merge-ort: add prefetching for content merges
diffcore-rename: use a different prefetch for basename comparisons
diffcore-rename: allow different missing_object_cb functions
t6421: add tests checking for excessive object downloads during merge
promisor-remote: output trace2 statistics for number of objects fetched
More fix-ups and optimization to "merge -sort".
* en/ort-perf-batch-12:
merge-ort: miscellaneous touch-ups
Fix various issues found in comments
diffcore-rename: avoid unnecessary strdup'ing in break_idx
merge-ort: replace string_list_df_name_compare with faster alternative
These were last bumped in commit 92c57e5c1d (bump rename limit
defaults (again), 2011-02-19), and were bumped both because processors
had gotten faster, and because people were getting ugly merges that
caused problems and reporting it to the mailing list (suggesting that
folks were willing to spend more time waiting).
Since that time:
* Linus has continued recommending kernel folks to set
diff.renameLimit=0 (maps to 32767, currently)
* Folks with repositories with lots of renames were happy to set
merge.renameLimit above 32767, once the code supported that, to
get correct cherry-picks
* Processors have gotten faster
* It has been discovered that the timing methodology used last time
probably used too large example files.
The last point is probably worth explaining a bit more:
* The "average" file size used appears to have been average blob size
in the linux kernel history at the time (probably v2.6.25 or
something close to it).
* Since bigger files are modified more frequently, such a computation
weights towards larger files.
* Larger files may be more likely to be modified over time, but are
not more likely to be renamed -- the mean and median blob size
within a tree are a bit higher than the mean and median of blob
sizes in the history leading up to that version for the linux
kernel.
* The mean blob size in v2.6.25 was half the average blob size in
history leading to that point
* The median blob size in v2.6.25 was about 40% of the mean blob size
in v2.6.25.
* Since the mean blob size is more than double the median blob size,
any file as big as the mean will not be compared to any files of
median size or less (because they'd be more than 50% dissimilar).
* Since it is the number of files compared that provides the O(n^2)
behavior, median-sized files should matter more than mean-sized
ones.
The combined effect of the above is that the file size used in past
calculations was likely about 5x too large. Combine that with a CPU
performance improvement of ~30%, and we can increase the limits by
a factor of sqrt(5/(1-.3)) = 2.67, while keeping the original stated
time limits.
Keeping the same approximate time limit probably makes sense for
diff.renameLimit (there is no progress feedback in e.g. git log -p),
but the experience above suggests merge.renameLimit could be extended
significantly. In fact, it probably would make sense to have an
unlimited default setting for merge.renameLimit, but that would
likely need to be coupled with changes to how progress is displayed.
(See https://lore.kernel.org/git/YOx+Ok%2FEYvLqRMzJ@coredump.intra.peff.net/
for details in that area.) For now, let's just bump the approximate
time limit from 10s to 1m.
(Note: We do not want to use actual time limits, because getting results
that depend on how loaded your system is that day feels bad, and because
we don't discover that we won't get all the renames until after we've
put in a lot of work rather than just upfront telling the user there are
too many files involved.)
Using the original time limit of 2s for diff.renameLimit, and bumping
merge.renameLimit from 10s to 60s, I found the following timings using
the simple script at the end of this commit message (on an AWS c5.xlarge
which reports as "Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00GHz"):
N Timing
1300 1.995s
7100 59.973s
So let's round down to nice even numbers and bump the limits from
400->1000, and from 1000->7000.
Here is the measure_rename_perf script (adapted from
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20080211113516.GB6344@coredump.intra.peff.net/
in particular to avoid triggering the linear handling from
basename-guided rename detection):
#!/bin/bash
n=$1; shift
rm -rf repo
mkdir repo && cd repo
git init -q -b main
mkdata() {
mkdir $1
for i in `seq 1 $2`; do
(sed "s/^/$i /" <../sample
echo tag: $1
) >$1/$i
done
}
mkdata initial $n
git add .
git commit -q -m initial
mkdata new $n
git add .
cd new
for i in *; do git mv $i $i.renamed; done
cd ..
git rm -q -rf initial
git commit -q -m new
time git diff-tree -M -l0 --summary HEAD^ HEAD
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add missing __attribute__((format)) function attributes to various
"static" functions that take printf arguments.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change all in-tree users of the string_list_init(LIST, BOOL) API to
use string_list_init_{nodup,dup}(LIST) instead.
As noted in the preceding commit let's leave the now-unused
string_list_init() wrapper in-place for any in-flight users, it can be
removed at some later date.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Path conflicts (typically rename path conflicts, e.g.
rename/rename(1to2) or rename/add/delete), and directory/file conflicts
should obviously result in files not being marked as clean in the merge.
We had a codepath where we missed consulting the path_conflict and
df_conflict flags, based on match_mask. Granted, it requires an unusual
setup to trigger this codepath (directory rename causing rename-to-self
is the only case I can think of), but we still need to handle it. To
make it clear that we have audited the other codepaths that do not
explicitly mention these flags, add some assertions that the flags are
not set.
Reported-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 7fbbcb21b1 ("diff: batch fetching of missing blobs", 2019-04-05)
introduced batching of fetching missing blobs, so that the diff
machinery would have one fetch subprocess grab N blobs instead of N
processes each grabbing 1.
However, the diff machinery is not the only thing in a merge that needs
to work on blobs. The 3-way content merges need them as well. Rather
than download all the blobs 1 at a time, prefetch all the blobs needed
for regular content merges.
This does not cover all possible paths in merge-ort that might need to
download blobs. Others include:
- The blob_unchanged() calls to avoid modify/delete conflicts (when
blob renormalization results in an "unchanged" file)
- Preliminary content merges needed for rename/add and
rename/rename(2to1) style conflicts. (Both of these types of
conflicts can result in nested conflict markers from the need to do
two levels of content merging; the first happens before our new
prefetch_for_content_merges() function.)
The first of these wouldn't be an extreme amount of work to support, and
even the second could be theoretically supported in batching, but all of
these cases seem unusual to me, and this is a minor performance
optimization anyway; in the worst case we only get some of the fetches
batched and have a few additional one-off fetches. So for now, just
handle the regular 3-way content merges in our prefetching.
For the testcase from the previous commit, the number of downloaded
objects remains at 63, but this drops the number of fetches needed from
32 down to 20, a sizeable reduction.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Optimize out repeated rename detection in a sequence of mergy
operations.
* en/ort-perf-batch-11:
merge-ort, diffcore-rename: employ cached renames when possible
merge-ort: handle interactions of caching and rename/rename(1to1) cases
merge-ort: add helper functions for using cached renames
merge-ort: preserve cached renames for the appropriate side
merge-ort: avoid accidental API mis-use
merge-ort: add code to check for whether cached renames can be reused
merge-ort: populate caches of rename detection results
merge-ort: add data structures for in-memory caching of rename detection
t6429: testcases for remembering renames
fast-rebase: write conflict state to working tree, index, and HEAD
fast-rebase: change assert() to BUG()
Documentation/technical: describe remembering renames optimization
t6423: rename file within directory that other side renamed
Add some notes in the code about invariants with match_mask when adding
pairs. Also add a comment that seems to have been left out in my work
of pushing these changes upstream.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A random hodge-podge of incorrect or out-of-date comments that I found:
* t6423 had a comment that has referred to the wrong test for years;
fix it to refer to the right one.
* diffcore-rename had a FIXME comment meant to remind myself to
investigate if I could make another code change. I later
investigated and removed the FIXME, but while cherry-picking the
patch to submit upstream I missed the later update. Remove the
comment now.
* merge-ort had the early part of a comment for a function; I had
meant to include the more involved description when I updated the
function. Update the comment now.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gathering accumulated times from trace2 output on the mega-renames
testcase, I saw the following timings (where I'm only showing a few
lines to highlight the portions of interest):
10.120 : label:incore_nonrecursive
4.462 : ..label:process_entries
3.143 : ....label:process_entries setup
2.988 : ......label:plist special sort
1.305 : ....label:processing
2.604 : ..label:collect_merge_info
2.018 : ..label:merge_start
1.018 : ..label:renames
In the above output, note that the 4.462 seconds for process_entries was
split as 3.143 seconds for "process_entries setup" and 1.305 seconds for
"processing" (and a little time for other stuff removed from the
highlight). Most of the "process_entries setup" time was spent on
"plist special sort" which corresponds to the following code:
trace2_region_enter("merge", "plist special sort", opt->repo);
plist.cmp = string_list_df_name_compare;
string_list_sort(&plist);
trace2_region_leave("merge", "plist special sort", opt->repo);
In other words, in a merge strategy that would be invoked by passing
"-sort" to either rebase or merge, sorting an array takes more time than
anything else. Serves me right for naming my merge strategy this way.
Rewrite the comparison function in a way that does not require finding
out the lengths of the strings when comparing them. While at it, tweak
the code for our specific case -- no need to handle a variety of modes,
for example. The combination of these changes reduced the time spent in
"plist special sort" by ~25% in the mega-renames case.
For the testcases mentioned in commit 557ac0350d ("merge-ort: begin
performance work; instrument with trace2_region_* calls", 2020-10-28),
this change improves the performance as follows:
Before After
no-renames: 5.622 s ± 0.059 s 5.235 s ± 0.042 s
mega-renames: 10.127 s ± 0.073 s 9.419 s ± 0.107 s
just-one-mega: 500.3 ms ± 3.8 ms 480.1 ms ± 3.9 ms
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there are many renames between the old base of a series of commits
and the new base, the way sequencer.c, merge-recursive.c, and
diffcore-rename.c have traditionally split the work resulted in
redetecting the same renames with each and every commit being
transplanted. To address this, the last several commits have been
creating a cache of rename detection results, determining when it was
safe to use such a cache in subsequent merge operations, adding helper
functions, and so on. See the previous half dozen commit messages for
additional discussion of this optimization, particularly the message a
few commits ago entitled "add code to check for whether cached renames
can be reused". This commit finally ties all of that work together,
modifying the merge algorithm to make use of these cached renames.
For the testcases mentioned in commit 557ac0350d ("merge-ort: begin
performance work; instrument with trace2_region_* calls", 2020-10-28),
this change improves the performance as follows:
Before After
no-renames: 5.665 s ± 0.129 s 5.622 s ± 0.059 s
mega-renames: 11.435 s ± 0.158 s 10.127 s ± 0.073 s
just-one-mega: 494.2 ms ± 6.1 ms 500.3 ms ± 3.8 ms
That's a fairly small improvement, but mostly because the previous
optimizations were so effective for these particular testcases; this
optimization only kicks in when the others don't. If we undid the
basename-guided rename detection and skip-irrelevant-renames
optimizations, then we'd see that this series by itself improved
performance as follows:
Before Basename Series After Just This Series
no-renames: 13.815 s ± 0.062 s 5.697 s ± 0.080 s
mega-renames: 1799.937 s ± 0.493 s 205.709 s ± 0.457 s
Since this optimization kicks in to help accelerate cases where the
previous optimizations do not apply, this last comparison shows that
this cached-renames optimization has the potential to help signficantly
in cases that don't meet the requirements for the other optimizations to
be effective.
The changes made in this optimization also lay some important groundwork
for a future optimization around having collect_merge_info() avoid
recursing into subtrees in more cases.
However, for this optimization to be effective, merge_switch_to_result()
should only be called when the rebase or cherry-pick operation has
either completed or hit a case where the user needs to resolve a
conflict or edit the result. If it is called after every commit, as
sequencer.c does, then the working tree and index are needlessly updated
with every commit and the cached metadata is tossed, defeating this
optimization. Refactoring sequencer.c to only call
merge_switch_to_result() at the end of the operation is a bigger
undertaking, and the practical benefits of this optimization will not be
realized until that work is performed. Since `test-tool fast-rebase`
only updates at the end of the operation, it was used to obtain the
timings above.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As documented in Documentation/technical/remembering-renames.txt, and as
tested for in the two testcases in t6429 with "rename same file
identically" in their description, there is one case where we need to
have renames in one commit NOT be cached for the next commit in our
rebase sequence -- namely, rename/rename(1to1) cases. Rather than
specifically trying to uncache those and fix up dir_rename_counts() to
match (which would also be valid but more work), we simply disable the
optimization when this really rare type of rename occurs.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we have a usable rename cache, then we can remove from
relevant_sources all the paths that were cached;
diffcore_rename_extended() can then consider an even smaller set of
relevant_sources in its rename detection.
However, when diffcore_rename_extended() is done, we will need to take
the renames it detected and then add back in all the ones we had cached
from before.
Add helper functions for doing these two operations; the next commit
will make use of them.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren
Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Tan
Derrick Stolee
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason