"git repack" has been taught to generate multi-pack reachability
bitmaps.
* tb/repack-write-midx:
test-read-midx: fix leak of bitmap_index struct
builtin/repack.c: pass `--refs-snapshot` when writing bitmaps
builtin/repack.c: make largest pack preferred
builtin/repack.c: support writing a MIDX while repacking
builtin/repack.c: extract showing progress to a variable
builtin/repack.c: rename variables that deal with non-kept packs
builtin/repack.c: keep track of existing packs unconditionally
midx: preliminary support for `--refs-snapshot`
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: support `--stdin-packs` mode
midx: expose `write_midx_file_only()` publicly
To figure out which commits we can write a bitmap for, the multi-pack
index/bitmap code does a reachability traversal, marking any commit
which can be found in the MIDX as eligible to receive a bitmap.
This approach will cause a problem when multi-pack bitmaps are able to
be generated from `git repack`, since the reference tips can change
during the repack. Even though we ignore commits that don't exist in
the MIDX (when doing a scan of the ref tips), it's possible that a
commit in the MIDX reaches something that isn't.
This can happen when a multi-pack index contains some pack which refers
to loose objects (e.g., if a pack was pushed after starting the repack
but before generating the MIDX which depends on an object which is
stored as loose in the repository, and by definition isn't included in
the multi-pack index).
By taking a snapshot of the references before we start repacking, we can
close that race window. In the above scenario (where we have a packed
object pointing at a loose one), we'll either (a) take a snapshot of the
references before seeing the packed one, or (b) take it after, at which
point we can guarantee that the loose object will be packed and included
in the MIDX.
This patch does just that. It writes a temporary "reference snapshot",
which is a list of OIDs that are at the ref tips before writing a
multi-pack bitmap. References that are "preferred" (i.e,. are a suffix
of at least one value of the 'pack.preferBitmapTips' configuration) are
marked with a special '+'.
The format is simple: one line per commit at each tip, with an optional
'+' at the beginning (for preferred references, as described above).
When provided, the reference snapshot is used to drive bitmap selection
instead of the MIDX code doing its own traversal. When it isn't
provided, the usual traversal takes place instead.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expose a variant of the write_midx_file() function which ignores packs
that aren't included in an explicit "allow" list.
This will be used in an upcoming patch to power a new `--stdin-packs`
mode of `git multi-pack-index write` for callers that only want to
include certain packs in a MIDX (and ignore any packs which may have
happened to enter the repository independently, e.g., from pushes).
Those patches will provide test coverage for this new function.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the previous commit, the bitmap writing code learned to propagate
values from an existing hash-cache extension into the bitmap that it is
writing.
Now that that functionality exists, let's expose it by teaching the 'git
multi-pack-index' builtin to respect the `pack.writeBitmapHashCache`
option so that the hash-cache may be written at all.
Two minor points worth noting here:
- The 'git multi-pack-index write' sub-command didn't previously read
any configuration (instead this is handled in the base command). A
separate handler is added here to respect this write-specific
config option.
- I briefly considered adding a 'bitmap_flags' field to the static
options struct, but decided against it since it would require
plumbing through a new parameter to the write_midx_file() function.
Instead, a new MIDX-specific flag is added, which is translated to
the corresponding bitmap one.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP' environment
variable to also write a multi-pack bitmap when
'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX' is set.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Write multi-pack bitmaps in the format described by
Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt, inferring their presence with
the absence of '--bitmap'.
To write a multi-pack bitmap, this patch attempts to reuse as much of
the existing machinery from pack-objects as possible. Specifically, the
MIDX code prepares a packing_data struct that pretends as if a single
packfile has been generated containing all of the objects contained
within the MIDX.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This prepares the code in pack-bitmap to interpret the new multi-pack
bitmaps described in Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt, which
mostly involves converting bit positions to accommodate looking them up
in a MIDX.
Note that there are currently no writers who write multi-pack bitmaps,
and that this will be implemented in the subsequent commit. Note also
that get_midx_checksum() and get_midx_filename() are made non-static so
they can be called from pack-bitmap.c.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement the writing half of multi-pack reverse indexes. This is
nothing more than the format describe a few patches ago, with a new set
of helper functions that will be used to clear out stale .rev files
corresponding to old MIDXs.
Unfortunately, a very similar comparison function as the one implemented
recently in pack-revindex.c is reimplemented here, this time accepting a
MIDX-internal type. An effort to DRY these up would create more
indirection and overhead than is necessary, so it isn't pursued here.
Currently, there are no callers which pass the MIDX_WRITE_REV_INDEX
flag, meaning that this is all dead code. But, that won't be the case
for long, since subsequent patches will introduce the multi-pack bitmap,
which will begin passing this field.
(In midx.c:write_midx_internal(), the two adjacent if statements share a
conditional, but are written separately since the first one will
eventually also handle the MIDX_WRITE_BITMAP flag, which does not yet
exist.)
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement reading for multi-pack reverse indexes, as described in the
previous patch.
Note that these functions don't yet have any callers, and won't until
multi-pack reachability bitmaps are introduced in a later patch series.
In the meantime, this patch implements some of the infrastructure
necessary to support multi-pack bitmaps.
There are three new functions exposed by the revindex API:
- load_midx_revindex(): loads the reverse index corresponding to the
given multi-pack index.
- midx_to_pack_pos() and pack_pos_to_midx(): these convert between the
multi-pack index and pseudo-pack order.
load_midx_revindex() and pack_pos_to_midx() are both relatively
straightforward.
load_midx_revindex() needs a few functions to be exposed from the midx
API. One to get the checksum of a midx, and another to get the .rev's
filename. Similar to recent changes in the packed_git struct, three new
fields are added to the multi_pack_index struct: one to keep track of
the size, one to keep track of the mmap'd pointer, and another to point
past the header and at the reverse index's data.
pack_pos_to_midx() simply reads the corresponding entry out of the
table.
midx_to_pack_pos() is the trickiest, since it needs to find an object's
position in the psuedo-pack order, but that order can only be recovered
in the .rev file itself. This mapping can be implemented with a binary
search, but note that the thing we're binary searching over isn't an
array of values, but rather a permuted order of those values.
So, when comparing two items, it's helpful to keep in mind the
difference. Instead of a traditional binary search, where you are
comparing two things directly, here we're comparing a (pack, offset)
tuple with an index into the multi-pack index. That index describes
another (pack, offset) tuple, and it is _those_ two tuples that are
compared.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a subsequent commit, pack-revindex.c will become responsible for
sorting a list of objects in the "MIDX pack order" (which will be
defined in the following patch). To do so, it will need to be know the
pack identifier and offset within that pack for each object in the MIDX.
The MIDX code already has functions for doing just that
(nth_midxed_offset() and nth_midxed_pack_int_id()), but they are
statically declared.
Since there is no reason that they couldn't be exposed publicly, and
because they are already doing exactly what the caller in
pack-revindex.c will want, expose them publicly so that they can be
reused there.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When multiple packs in the multi-pack index contain the same object, the
MIDX machinery must make a choice about which pack it associates with
that object. Prior to this patch, the lowest-ordered[1] pack was always
selected.
Pack selection for duplicate objects is relatively unimportant today,
but it will become important for multi-pack bitmaps. This is because we
can only invoke the pack-reuse mechanism when all of the bits for reused
objects come from the reuse pack (in order to ensure that all reused
deltas can find their base objects in the same pack).
To encourage the pack selection process to prefer one pack over another
(the pack to be preferred is the one a caller would like to later use as
a reuse pack), introduce the concept of a "preferred pack". When
provided, the MIDX code will always prefer an object found in a
preferred pack over any other.
No format changes are required to store the preferred pack, since it
will be able to be inferred with a corresponding MIDX bitmap, by looking
up the pack associated with the object in the first bit position (this
ordering is described in detail in a subsequent commit).
[1]: the ordering is specified by MIDX internals; for our purposes we
can consider the "lowest ordered" pack to be "the one with the
most-recent mtime.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack-index left mmapped file descriptors open when it
does not have to.
* ds/multi-pack-index:
multi-pack-index: close file descriptor after mmap
The multi-pack-index subsystem was not closing its file descriptor
after memory-mapping the file contents. After this mmap() succeeds,
there is no need to keep the file descriptor open. In fact, there
is signficant reason to close it so we do not run out of
descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the MIDX_PROGRESS flag and update the
write|verify|expire|repack functions in midx.h
to accept a flags parameter. The MIDX_PROGRESS
flag indicates whether the caller of the function
would like progress information to be displayed.
This patch only changes the method prototypes
and does not change the functionality. The
functionality change will be handled by a later patch.
Signed-off-by: William Baker <William.Baker@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In an environment where the multi-pack-index is useful, it is due
to many pack-files and an inability to repack the object store
into a single pack-file. However, it is likely that many of these
pack-files are rather small, and could be repacked into a slightly
larger pack-file without too much effort. It may also be important
to ensure the object store is highly available and the repack
operation does not interrupt concurrent git commands.
Introduce a 'repack' subcommand to 'git multi-pack-index' that
takes a '--batch-size' option. The subcommand will inspect the
multi-pack-index for referenced pack-files whose size is smaller
than the batch size, until collecting a list of pack-files whose
sizes sum to larger than the batch size. Then, a new pack-file
will be created containing the objects from those pack-files that
are referenced by the multi-pack-index. The resulting pack is
likely to actually be smaller than the batch size due to
compression and the fact that there may be objects in the pack-
files that have duplicate copies in other pack-files.
The current change introduces the command-line arguments, and we
add a test that ensures we parse these options properly. Since
we specify a small batch size, we will guarantee that future
implementations do not change the list of pack-files.
In addition, we hard-code the modified times of the packs in
the pack directory to ensure the list of packs sorted by modified
time matches the order if sorted by size (ascending). This will
be important in a future test.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack-index tracks objects in a collection of pack-files.
Only one copy of each object is indexed, using the modified time
of the pack-files to determine tie-breakers. It is possible to
have a pack-file with no referenced objects because all objects
have a duplicate in a newer pack-file.
Introduce a new 'expire' subcommand to the multi-pack-index builtin.
This subcommand will delete these unused pack-files and rewrite the
multi-pack-index to no longer refer to those files. More details
about the specifics will follow as the method is implemented.
Add a test that verifies the 'expire' subcommand is correctly wired,
but will still be valid when the verb is implemented. Specifically,
create a set of packs that should all have referenced objects and
should not be removed during an 'expire' operation. The packs are
created carefully to ensure they have a specific order when sorted
by size. This will be important in a later test.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Much of the multi-pack-index code focuses on the multi_pack_index
struct, and so we only pass a pointer to the current one. However,
we will insert a dependency on the packed_git linked list in a
future change, so we will need a repository reference. Inserting
these parameters is a significant enough change to split out.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A midx file (and the struct we parse from it) contains a list of all of
the covered packfiles, mentioned by their ".idx" names (e.g.,
"pack-1234.idx", etc). And thus calls to midx_contains_pack() expect
callers to provide the idx name.
This works for most of the calls, but the one in open_packed_git_1()
tries to feed a packed_git->pack_name, which is the ".pack" name,
meaning we'll never find a match (even if the pack is covered by the
midx).
We can fix this by converting the ".pack" to ".idx" in the caller.
However, that requires allocating a new string. Instead, let's make
midx_contains_pack() a bit friendlier, and allow it take _either_ the
.pack or .idx variant.
All cleverness in the matching code is credited to René. Bugs are mine.
There's no test here, because while this does fix _a_ bug, it's masked
by another bug in that same caller. That will be covered (with a test)
in the next patch.
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tests for the recently introduced multi-pack index machinery.
* ds/test-multi-pack-index:
packfile: close multi-pack-index in close_all_packs
multi-pack-index: define GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX
midx: close multi-pack-index on repack
midx: fix broken free() in close_midx()
The multi-pack-index feature is tested in isolation by
t5319-multi-pack-index.sh, but there are many more interesting
scenarios in the test suite surrounding pack-file data shapes
and interactions. Since the multi-pack-index is an optional
data structure, it does not make sense to include it by default
in those tests.
Instead, add a new GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX environment variable
that enables core.multiPackIndex and writes a multi-pack-index
after each 'git repack' command. This adds extra test coverage
when needed.
There are a few spots in the test suite that need to react to this
change:
* t5319-multi-pack-index.sh: there is a test that checks that
'git repack' deletes the multi-pack-index. Disable the environment
variable to ensure this still happens.
* t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh: One test moves a pack-file from the object
directory to an alternate. This breaks the multi-pack-index, so
delete the multi-pack-index at this point, if it exists.
* t9300-fast-import.sh: One test verifies the number of files in
the .git/objects/pack directory is exactly 8. Exclude the
multi-pack-index from this count so it is still 8 in all cases.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When repacking, we may remove pack-files. This invalidates the
multi-pack-index (if it exists). Previously, we removed the
multi-pack-index file before removing any pack-file. In some cases,
the repack command may load the multi-pack-index into memory. This
may lead to later in-memory references to the non-existent pack-
files.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack-index builtin writes multi-pack-index files, and
uses a 'write' verb to do so. Add a 'verify' verb that checks this
file matches the contents of the pack-indexes it replaces.
The current implementation is a no-op, but will be extended in
small increments in later commits.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a repo contains a multi-pack-index, then the packed_git list
does not contain the packfiles that are covered by the multi-pack-index.
This is important for doing object lookups, abbreviations, and
approximating object count. However, there are many operations that
really want to iterate over all packfiles.
Create a new 'all_packs' linked list that contains this list, starting
with the packfiles in the multi-pack-index and then continuing along
the packed_git linked list.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A pack-file is 'local' if it is stored within the usual object
directory. If it is stored in an alternate, it is non-local.
Pack-files are stored using a 'pack_local' member in the packed_git
struct. Add a similar 'local' member to the multi_pack_index struct
and 'local' parameters to the methods that load and prepare multi-
pack-indexes.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a 'git repack' command replaces existing packfiles, then we must
clear the existing multi-pack-index before moving the packfiles it
references.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to how Windows handles replacing a lockfile when there is an open
handle, create the close_midx() method to close the existing midx before
writing the new one.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The core.multiPackIndex config setting controls the multi-pack-
index (MIDX) feature. If false, the setting will disable all reads
from the multi-pack-index file.
Read this config setting in the new prepare_multi_pack_index_one()
which is called during prepare_packed_git(). This check is run once
per repository.
Add comparison commands in t5319-multi-pack-index.sh to check
typical Git behavior remains the same as the config setting is turned
on and off. This currently includes 'git rev-list' and 'git log'
commands to trigger several object database reads. Currently, these
would only catch an error in the prepare_multi_pack_index_one(), but
with later commits will catch errors in object lookups, abbreviations,
and approximate object counts.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The final pair of chunks for the multi-pack-index file stores the object
offsets. We default to using 32-bit offsets as in the pack-index version
1 format, but if there exists an offset larger than 32-bits, we use a
trick similar to the pack-index version 2 format by storing all offsets
at least 2^31 in a 64-bit table; we use the 32-bit table to point into
that 64-bit table as necessary.
We only store these 64-bit offsets if necessary, so create a test that
manipulates a version 2 pack-index to fake a large offset. This allows
us to test that the large offset table is created, but the data does not
match the actual packfile offsets. The multi-pack-index offset does match
the (corrupted) pack-index offset, so a future feature will compare these
offsets during a 'verify' step.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack-index needs to track which packfiles it indexes. Store
these in our first required chunk. Since filenames are not well
structured, add padding to keep good alignment in later chunks.
Modify the 'git multi-pack-index read' subcommand to output the
existence of the pack-file name chunk. Modify t5319-multi-pack-index.sh
to reflect this new output and the new expected number of chunks.
Defense in depth: A pattern we are using in the multi-pack-index feature
is to verify the data as we write it. We want to ensure we never write
invalid data to the multi-pack-index. There are many checks that verify
that the values we are writing fit the format definitions. This mainly
helps developers while working on the feature, but it can also identify
issues that only appear when dealing with very large data sets. These
large sets are hard to encode into test cases.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a new multi_pack_index struct for loading multi-pack-indexes into
memory. Create a test-tool builtin for reading basic information about
that multi-pack-index to verify the correct data is written.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In anticipation of writing multi-pack-indexes, add a skeleton
'git multi-pack-index write' subcommand and send the options to a
write_midx_file() method. Also create a skeleton test script that
tests the 'write' subcommand.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano
Taylor Blau
Derrick Stolee
William Baker
Derrick Stolee
Jeff King
Ramsay Jones