Under normal circumstances, the "reftable" backend will automatically
perform compaction after appending to the stack. It is thus not
necessary and may even be considered wasteful to run git-pack-refs(1) in
"reftable"-backed repositories as it will cause the backend to compact
all tables into a single one. We do exactly that though when running
`git maintenance run --auto` or `git gc --auto`, which gets spawned by
Git after running some specific commands.
The `--auto` mode is typically only executing optimizations as needed.
To do so, we already use several heuristics for the various different
data structures in Git to determine whether to optimize them or not.
We do not use any heuristics for refs though and instead always optimize
them.
Introduce a new `PACK_REFS_AUTO` flag that can be passed to the backend.
When not handled by the backend we will continue to behave the exact
same as we do right now, that is we optimize refs unconditionally. This
is done for the "files" backend for now to retain current behaviour,
even though we may eventually also want to introduce heuristics here.
For the "reftable" backend though we already do have auto-compaction, so
we can easily reuse that logic to implement the new auto-packing flag.
Note that under normal circumstances, this should always end up being a
no-op. After all, we already invoke the code for every single addition
to the stack. But there are special cases where it can still be helpful
to execute the auto-compaction code explicitly:
- Concurrent writers may cause compaction to not run due to locks.
- Callers may decide to disable compaction altogether and then pack
refs at a later point due to various reasons.
- Other implementations of the reftable format may do compaction
differently or even not at all.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The intent of the `PACK_REFS_ALL` flag is to ask the backend to compact
all refs instead of only a subset of them. Thus, this flag gets passed
down to `refs_pack_refs()` via `struct pack_refs_opts::flags`.
But starting with 4fe42f326e (pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include
option, 2023-05-12), the flag's semantics have changed. Instead of being
handled by the respective backends, this flag is now getting handled by
the callers of `refs_pack_refs()` which will add a single glob ("*") to
the list of refs-to-be-packed. Thus, the flag serves no purpose to the
ref backends anymore.
Remove the flag and replace it with a local variable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The declaration of `struct pack_refs_opts` is in a seemingly random
place. Move it so that it's located right next to its flags and
functions that use it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git for-each-ref" learned "--include-root-refs" option to show
even the stuff outside the 'refs/' hierarchy.
* kn/for-all-refs:
for-each-ref: add new option to include root refs
ref-filter: rename 'FILTER_REFS_ALL' to 'FILTER_REFS_REGULAR'
refs: introduce `refs_for_each_include_root_refs()`
refs: extract out `loose_fill_ref_dir_regular_file()`
refs: introduce `is_pseudoref()` and `is_headref()`
The logic to access reflog entries by date and number had ugly
corner cases at the boundaries, which have been cleaned up.
* jk/reflog-special-cases-fix:
read_ref_at(): special-case ref@{0} for an empty reflog
get_oid_basic(): special-case ref@{n} for oldest reflog entry
Revert "refs: allow @{n} to work with n-sized reflog"
The previous commit special-cased get_oid_basic()'s handling of ref@{n}
for a reflog with n entries. But its special case doesn't work for
ref@{0} in an empty reflog, because read_ref_at() dies when it notices
the empty reflog!
We can make this work by special-casing this in read_ref_at(). It's
somewhat gross, for two reasons:
1. We have no reflog entry to describe in the "msg" out-parameter. So
we have to leave it uninitialized or make something up.
2. Likewise, we have no oid to put in the "oid" out-parameter. Leaving
it untouched is actually the best thing here, as all of the callers
will have initialized it with the current ref value via
repo_dwim_log(). This is rather subtle, but it is how things worked
in 6436a20284 (refs: allow @{n} to work with n-sized reflog,
2021-01-07) before we reverted it.
The key difference from 6436a20284 here is that we'll return "1" to
indicate that we _didn't_ find the requested reflog entry. Coupled with
the special-casing in get_oid_basic() in the previous commit, that's
enough to make looking up ref@{0} work, and we can flip 6436a20284's
test back to expect_success.
It also means that the call in show-branch which segfaulted with
6436a20284 (and which is now tested in t3202) remains OK. The caller
notices that we could not find any reflog entry, and so it breaks out of
its loop, showing nothing. This is different from the current behavior
of producing an error, but it's just as reasonable (and is exactly what
we'd do if you asked it to walk starting at ref@{1} but there was only 1
entry).
Thus nobody should actually look at the reflog entry info we return. But
we'll still put in some fake values just to be on the safe side, since
this is such a subtle and confusing interface. Likewise, we'll document
what's going on in a comment above the function declaration. If this
were a function with a lot of callers, the footgun would probably not be
worth it. But it has only ever had two callers in its 18-year existence,
and it seems unlikely to grow more. So let's hold our noses and let
users enjoy the convenience of a simulated ref@{0}.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new ref iteration flag `DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_ROOT_REFS`,
which will be used to iterate over regular refs plus pseudorefs and
HEAD.
Refs which fall outside the `refs/` and aren't either pseudorefs or HEAD
are more of a grey area. This is because we don't block the users from
creating such refs but they are not officially supported.
Introduce `refs_for_each_include_root_refs()` which calls
`do_for_each_ref()` with this newly introduced flag.
In `refs/files-backend.c`, introduce a new function
`add_pseudoref_and_head_entries()` to add pseudorefs and HEAD to the
`ref_dir`. We then finally call `add_pseudoref_and_head_entries()`
whenever the `DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_ROOT_REFS` flag is set. Any new ref
backend will also have to implement similar changes on its end.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce two new functions `is_pseudoref()` and `is_headref()`. This
provides the necessary functionality for us to add pseudorefs and HEAD
to the loose ref cache in the files backend, allowing us to build
tooling to print these refs.
The `is_pseudoref()` function internally calls `is_pseudoref_syntax()`
but adds onto it by also checking to ensure that the pseudoref either
ends with a "_HEAD" suffix or matches a list of exceptions. After which
we also parse the contents of the pseudoref to ensure that it conforms
to the ref format.
We cannot directly add the new syntax checks to `is_pseudoref_syntax()`
because the function is also used by `is_current_worktree_ref()` and
making it stricter to match only known pseudorefs might have unintended
consequences due to files like 'BISECT_START' which isn't a pseudoref
but sometimes contains object ID.
Keeping this in mind, we leave `is_pseudoref_syntax()` as is and create
`is_pseudoref()` which is stricter. Ideally we'd want to move the new
syntax checks to `is_pseudoref_syntax()` but a prerequisite for this
would be to actually remove the exception list by converting those
pseudorefs to also contain a '_HEAD' suffix and perhaps move bisect
related files like 'BISECT_START' to a new directory similar to the
'rebase-merge' directory.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ref and reflog iterators share much of the same underlying code to
iterate over the corresponding entries. This results in some weird code
because the reflog iterator also exposes an object ID as well as a flag
to the callback function. Neither of these fields do refer to the reflog
though -- they refer to the corresponding ref with the same name. This
is quite misleading. In practice at least the object ID cannot really be
implemented in any other way as a reflog does not have a specific object
ID in the first place. This is further stressed by the fact that none of
the callbacks except for our test helper make use of these fields.
Split up the infrastucture so that ref and reflog iterators use separate
callback signatures. This allows us to drop the nonsensical fields from
the reflog iterator.
Note that internally, the backends still use the same shared infra to
iterate over both types. As the backends should never end up being
called directly anyway, this is not much of a problem and thus kept
as-is for simplicity's sake.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of manually creating refs/ hierarchy on disk upon a
creation of a secondary worktree, which is only usable via the
files backend, use the refs API to populate it.
* ps/worktree-refdb-initialization:
builtin/worktree: create refdb via ref backend
worktree: expose interface to look up worktree by name
builtin/worktree: move setup of commondir file earlier
refs/files: skip creation of "refs/{heads,tags}" for worktrees
setup: move creation of "refs/" into the files backend
refs: prepare `refs_init_db()` for initializing worktree refs
Introduce a new extension "refstorage" so that we can mark a
repository that uses a non-default ref backend, like reftable.
* ps/refstorage-extension:
t9500: write "extensions.refstorage" into config
builtin/clone: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
builtin/init: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
builtin/rev-parse: introduce `--show-ref-format` flag
t: introduce GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
setup: introduce GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
setup: introduce "extensions.refStorage" extension
setup: set repository's formats on init
setup: start tracking ref storage format
refs: refactor logic to look up storage backends
worktree: skip reading HEAD when repairing worktrees
t: introduce DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT prereq
The files ref backend will create both "refs/heads" and "refs/tags" in
the Git directory. While this logic makes sense for normal repositories,
it does not for worktrees because those refs are "common" refs that
would always be contained in the main repository's ref database.
Introduce a new flag telling the backend that it is expected to create a
per-worktree ref database and skip creation of these dirs in the files
backend when the flag is set. No other backends (currently) need
worktree-specific logic, so this is the only required change to start
creating per-worktree ref databases via `refs_init_db()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The purpose of `refs_init_db()` is to initialize the on-disk files of a
new ref database. The function is quite inflexible right now though, as
callers can neither specify the `struct ref_store` nor can they pass any
flags.
Refactor the interface to accept both of these. This will be required so
that we can start initializing per-worktree ref databases via the ref
backend instead of open-coding the initialization in "worktree.c".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to look up ref storage backends, we're currently using a linked
list of backends, where each backend is expected to set up its `next`
pointer to the next ref storage backend. This is kind of a weird setup
as backends need to be aware of other backends without much of a reason.
Refactor the code so that the array of backends is centrally defined in
"refs.c", where each backend is now identified by an integer constant.
Expose functions to translate from those integer constants to the name
and vice versa, which will be required by subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Enumerating refs in the packed-refs file, while excluding refs that
match certain patterns, has been optimized.
* tb/refs-exclusion-and-packed-refs:
ls-refs.c: avoid enumerating hidden refs where possible
upload-pack.c: avoid enumerating hidden refs where possible
builtin/receive-pack.c: avoid enumerating hidden references
refs.h: implement `hidden_refs_to_excludes()`
refs.h: let `for_each_namespaced_ref()` take excluded patterns
revision.h: store hidden refs in a `strvec`
refs/packed-backend.c: add trace2 counters for jump list
refs/packed-backend.c: implement jump lists to avoid excluded pattern(s)
refs/packed-backend.c: refactor `find_reference_location()`
refs: plumb `exclude_patterns` argument throughout
builtin/for-each-ref.c: add `--exclude` option
ref-filter.c: parameterize match functions over patterns
ref-filter: add `ref_filter_clear()`
ref-filter: clear reachable list pointers after freeing
ref-filter.h: provide `REF_FILTER_INIT`
refs.c: rename `ref_filter`
In subsequent commits, we'll teach `receive-pack` and `upload-pack` to
use the new jump list feature in the packed-refs iterator by ignoring
references which are mentioned via its respective hideRefs lists.
However, the packed-ref jump lists cannot handle un-hiding rules (that
begin with '!'), or namespace comparisons (that begin with '^'). Add a
convenience function to the refs.h API to detect when either of these
conditions are met, and returns an appropriate value to pass as excluded
patterns.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A future commit will want to call `for_each_namespaced_ref()` with
a list of excluded patterns.
We could introduce a variant of that function, say,
`for_each_namespaced_ref_exclude()` which takes the extra parameter, and
reimplement the original function in terms of that. But all but one
caller (in `http-backend.c`) will supply the new parameter, so add the
new parameter to `for_each_namespaced_ref()` itself instead of
introducing a new function.
For now, supply NULL for the list of excluded patterns at all callers to
avoid changing behavior, which we will do in a future change.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In subsequent commits, it will be convenient to have a 'const char **'
of hidden refs (matching `transfer.hiderefs`, `uploadpack.hideRefs`,
etc.), instead of a `string_list`.
Convert spots throughout the tree that store the list of hidden refs
from a `string_list` to a `strvec`.
Note that in `parse_hide_refs_config()` there is an ugly const-cast used
to avoid an extra copy of each value before trimming any trailing slash
characters. This could instead be written as:
ref = xstrdup(value);
len = strlen(ref);
while (len && ref[len - 1] == '/')
ref[--len] = '\0';
strvec_push(hide_refs, ref);
free(ref);
but the double-copy (once when calling `xstrdup()`, and another via
`strvec_push()`) is wasteful.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When iterating through the `packed-refs` file in order to answer a query
like:
$ git for-each-ref --exclude=refs/__hidden__
it would be useful to avoid walking over all of the entries in
`refs/__hidden__/*` when possible, since we know that the ref-filter
code is going to throw them away anyways.
In certain circumstances, doing so is possible. The algorithm for doing
so is as follows:
- For each excluded pattern, find the first record that matches it,
and the first record that *doesn't* match it (i.e. the location
you'd next want to consider when excluding that pattern).
- Sort the set of excluded regions from the previous step in ascending
order of the first location within the `packed-refs` file that
matches.
- Clean up the results from the previous step: discard empty regions,
and combine adjacent regions. The set of regions which remains is
referred to as the "jump list", and never contains any references
which should be included in the result set.
Then when iterating through the `packed-refs` file, if `iter->pos` is
ever contained in one of the regions from the previous steps, advance
`iter->pos` past the end of that region, and continue enumeration.
Note that we only perform this optimization when none of the excluded
pattern(s) have special meta-characters in them. For a pattern like
"refs/foo[ac]", the excluded regions ("refs/fooa", "refs/fooc", and
everything underneath them) are not connected. A future implementation
that handles this case may split the character class (pretending as if
two patterns were excluded: "refs/fooa", and "refs/fooc").
There are a few other gotchas worth considering. First, note that the
jump list is sorted, so once we jump past a region, we can avoid
considering it (or any regions preceding it) again. The member
`jump_pos` is used to track the first next-possible region to jump
through.
Second, note that the jump list is best-effort, since we do not handle
loose references, and because of the meta-character issue above. The
jump list may not skip past all references which won't appear in the
results, but will never skip over a reference which does appear in the
result set.
In repositories with a large number of hidden references, the speed-up
can be significant. Tests here are done with a copy of linux.git with a
reference "refs/pull/N" pointing at every commit, as in:
$ git rev-list HEAD | awk '{ print "create refs/pull/" NR " " $0 }' |
git update-ref --stdin
$ git pack-refs --all
, it is significantly faster to have `for-each-ref` jump over the
excluded references, as opposed to filtering them out after the fact:
$ hyperfine \
'git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" | grep -vE "^[0-9a-f]{40} refs/pull/"' \
'git.prev for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"' \
'git.compile for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"'
Benchmark 1: git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" | grep -vE "^[0-9a-f]{40} refs/pull/"
Time (mean ± σ): 798.1 ms ± 3.3 ms [User: 687.6 ms, System: 146.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 794.5 ms … 805.5 ms 10 runs
Benchmark 2: git.prev for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"
Time (mean ± σ): 98.9 ms ± 1.4 ms [User: 93.1 ms, System: 5.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 97.0 ms … 104.0 ms 29 runs
Benchmark 3: git.compile for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"
Time (mean ± σ): 4.5 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 0.7 ms, System: 3.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 4.1 ms … 5.8 ms 524 runs
Summary
'git.compile for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"' ran
21.87 ± 1.05 times faster than 'git.prev for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" --exclude="refs/pull"'
176.52 ± 8.19 times faster than 'git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname) %(refname)" | grep -vE "^[0-9a-f]{40} refs/pull/"'
(Comparing stock git and this patch isn't quite fair, since an earlier
commit in this series adds a naive implementation of the `--exclude`
option. `git.prev` is built from the previous commit and includes this
naive implementation).
Using the jump list is fairly straightforward (see the changes to
`refs/packed-backend.c::next_record()`), but constructing the list is
not. To ensure that the construction is correct, add a new suite of
tests in t1419 covering various corner cases (overlapping regions,
partially overlapping regions, adjacent regions, etc.).
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The subsequent patch will want to access an optional `excluded_patterns`
array within `refs/packed-backend.c` that will cull out certain
references matching any of the given patterns on a best-effort basis.
To do so, the refs subsystem needs to be updated to pass this value
across a number of different locations.
Prepare for a future patch by introducing this plumbing now, passing
NULLs at top-level APIs in order to make that patch less noisy and more
easily readable.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.co>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow users to be more selective over which refs to pack by adding an
--include option to git-pack-refs.
The existing options allow some measure of selectivity. By default
git-pack-refs packs all tags. --all can be used to include all refs,
and the previous commit added the ability to exclude certain refs with
--exclude.
While these knobs give the user some selection over which refs to pack,
it could be useful to give more control. For instance, a repository may
have a set of branches that are rarely updated and would benefit from
being packed. --include would allow the user to easily include a set of
branches to be packed while leaving everything else unpacked.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
At GitLab, we have a system that creates ephemeral internal refs that
don't live long before getting deleted. Having an option to exclude
certain refs from a packed-refs file allows these internal references to
be deleted much more efficiently.
Add an --exclude option to the pack-refs builtin, and use the ref
exclusions API to exclude certain refs from being packed into the final
packed-refs file
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split key function and data structure definitions out of cache.h to
new header files and adjust the users.
* en/header-split-cleanup:
csum-file.h: remove unnecessary inclusion of cache.h
write-or-die.h: move declarations for write-or-die.c functions from cache.h
treewide: remove cache.h inclusion due to setup.h changes
setup.h: move declarations for setup.c functions from cache.h
treewide: remove cache.h inclusion due to environment.h changes
environment.h: move declarations for environment.c functions from cache.h
treewide: remove unnecessary includes of cache.h
wrapper.h: move declarations for wrapper.c functions from cache.h
path.h: move function declarations for path.c functions from cache.h
cache.h: remove expand_user_path()
abspath.h: move absolute path functions from cache.h
environment: move comment_line_char from cache.h
treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h inclusion from several sources
treewide: remove unnecessary inclusion of gettext.h
treewide: be explicit about dependence on gettext.h
treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h inclusion from a few headers
Apply the part of "the_repository.pending.cocci" pertaining to
"refs.h".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since a64215b6cd ("object.h: stop depending on cache.h; make
cache.h depend on object.h", 2023-02-24), we have a few headers that
could have replaced their include of cache.h with an include of
object.h. Make that change now.
Some C files had to start including cache.h after this change (or some
smaller header it had brought in), because the C files were depending
on things from cache.h but were only formerly implicitly getting
cache.h through one of these headers being modified in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ls_refs() function (for the v2 protocol command of the same name)
takes a repository parameter (like all v2 commands), but ignores it. It
should use it to access the refs.
This isn't a bug in practice, since we only call this function when
serving upload-pack from the main repository. But it's an awkward
gotcha, and it causes -Wunused-parameter to complain.
The main reason we don't use the repository parameter is that the ref
iteration interface we call doesn't have a "refs_" variant that takes a
ref_store. However we can easily add one. In fact, since there is only
one other caller (in ref-filter.c), there is no need to maintain the
non-repository wrapper; that caller can just use the_repository. It's
still a long way from consistently using a repository object, but it's
one small step in the right direction.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're about to add a new argument to git-rev-list(1) that allows it to
add all references that are visible when taking `transfer.hideRefs` et
al into account. This will require us to potentially parse multiple sets
of hidden refs, which is not easily possible right now as there is only
a single, global instance of the list of parsed hidden refs.
Refactor `parse_hide_refs_config()` and `ref_is_hidden()` so that both
take the list of hidden references as input and adjust callers to keep a
local list, instead. This allows us to easily use multiple hidden-ref
lists. Furthermore, it allows us to properly free this list before we
exit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The logic to handle worktree refs (worktrees/NAME/REF and
main-worktree/REF) existed in two places:
* ref_type() in refs.c
* parse_worktree_ref() in worktree.c
Collapse this logic together in one function parse_worktree_ref():
this avoids having to cross-check the result of parse_worktree_ref()
and ref_type().
Introduce enum ref_worktree_type, which is slightly different from
enum ref_type. The latter is a misleading name (one would think that
'ref_type' would have the symref option).
Instead, enum ref_worktree_type only makes explicit how a refname
relates to a worktree. From this point of view, HEAD and
refs/bisect/abc are the same: they specify the current worktree
implicitly.
The files-backend must avoid packing refs/bisect/* and friends into
packed-refs, so expose is_per_worktree_ref() separately.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git interprets different meanings to different refs based on their
names. Some meanings are cosmetic, like how refs in 'refs/remotes/*'
are colored differently from refs in 'refs/heads/*'. Others are more
critical, such as how replace refs are interpreted.
Before making behavior changes based on ref namespaces, collect all
known ref namespaces into a array of ref_namespace_info structs. This
array is indexed by the new ref_namespace enum for quick access.
As of this change, this array is purely documentation. Future changes
will add dependencies on this array.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reading of symbolic and non-symbolic references is currently treated the
same in reference backends: we always call `refs_read_raw_ref()` and
then decide based on the returned flags what type it is. This has one
downside though: symbolic references may be treated different from
normal references in a backend from normal references. The packed-refs
backend for example doesn't even know about symbolic references, and as
a result it is pointless to even ask it for one.
There are cases where we really only care about whether a reference is
symbolic or not, but don't care about whether it exists at all or may be
a non-symbolic reference. But it is not possible to optimize for this
case right now, and as a consequence we will always first check for a
loose reference to exist, and if it doesn't, we'll query the packed-refs
backend for a known-to-not-be-symbolic reference. This is inefficient
and requires us to search all packed references even though we know to
not care for the result at all.
Introduce a new function `refs_read_symbolic_ref()` which allows us to
fix this case. This function will only ever return symbolic references
and can thus optimize for the scenario layed out above. By default, if
the backend doesn't provide an implementation for it, we just use the
old code path and fall back to `read_raw_ref()`. But in case the backend
provides its own, more efficient implementation, we will use that one
instead.
Note that this function is explicitly designed to not distinguish
between missing references and non-symbolic references. If it did, we'd
be forced to always search the packed-refs backend to see whether the
symbolic reference the user asked for really doesn't exist, or if it
exists as a non-symbolic reference.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/fetch-atomic:
fetch: make `--atomic` flag cover pruning of refs
fetch: make `--atomic` flag cover backfilling of tags
refs: add interface to iterate over queued transactional updates
fetch: report errors when backfilling tags fails
fetch: control lifecycle of FETCH_HEAD in a single place
fetch: backfill tags before setting upstream
fetch: increase test coverage of fetches
Because a deletion of ref would need to remove it from both the
loose ref store and the packed ref store, a delete-ref operation
that logically removes one ref may end up invoking ref-transaction
hook twice, which has been corrected.
* ps/avoid-unnecessary-hook-invocation-with-packed-refs:
refs: skip hooks when deleting uncovered packed refs
refs: do not execute reference-transaction hook on packing refs
refs: demonstrate excessive execution of the reference-transaction hook
refs: allow skipping the reference-transaction hook
refs: allow passing flags when beginning transactions
refs: extract packed_refs_delete_refs() to allow control of transaction
There is no way for a caller to see whether a reference update has
already been queued up for a given reference transaction. There are
multiple alternatives to provide this functionality:
- We may add a function that simply tells us whether a specific
reference has already been queued. If implemented naively then
this would potentially be quadratic in runtime behaviour if this
question is asked repeatedly because we have to iterate over all
references every time. The alternative would be to add a hashmap
of all queued reference updates to speed up the lookup, but this
adds overhead to all callers.
- We may add a flag to `ref_transaction_add_update()` that causes it
to skip duplicates, but this has the same runtime concerns as the
first alternative.
- We may add an interface which lets callers collect all updates
which have already been queued such that he can avoid re-adding
them. This is the most flexible approach and puts the burden on
the caller, but also allows us to not impact any of the existing
callsites which don't need this information.
This commit implements the last approach: it allows us to compute the
map of already-queued updates once up front such that we can then skip
all subsequent references which are already part of this map.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the now-unused "failure_errno" parameter from the
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() signature. In my recent 96f6623ada (Merge
branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup', 2021-11-29) series we made all of its
callers explicitly request the errno via an output parameter.
As that series shows all but one caller ended up passing in a
boilerplate "ignore_errno", since they only cared about whether the
return value was NULL or not, i.e. if the ref could be resolved.
There was one small issue with that series fixed with a follow-up in
31e3912369 (Merge branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup', 2022-01-14) a small
bug in that series was fixed.
After those two there was one caller left in sequencer.c that used the
"failure_errno', but as of the preceding commit it uses a boilerplate
"ignore_errno" instead.
This leaves the public refs API without any use of "failure_errno" at
all. We could still do with a bit of cleanup and generalization
between refs.c and refs/files-backend.c before the "reftable"
integration lands, but that's all internal to the reference code
itself.
So let's remove this output parameter. Not only isn't it used now, but
it's unlikely that we'll want it again in the future. We'd like to
slowly move the refs API to a more file-backend independent way of
communicating error codes, having it use a "failure_errno" was only
the first step in that direction. If this or any other function needs
to communicate what specifically is wrong with the requested "refname"
it'll be better to have the function set some output enum of
well-defined error states than piggy-backend on "errno".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reference-transaction hook is executing whenever we prepare, commit
or abort a reference transaction. While this is mostly intentional, in
case of the files backend we're leaking the implementation detail that
the store is in fact a composite store with one loose and one packed
backend to the caller. So while we want to execute the hook for all
logical updates, executing it for such implementation details is
unexpected.
Prepare for a fix by adding a new flag which allows to skip execution of
the hook.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do not currently have any flags when creating reference transactions,
but we'll add one to disable execution of the reference transaction hook
in some cases.
Allow passing flags to `ref_store_transaction_begin()` to prepare for
this change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the handling of the "verbose" flag entirely out of
"refs/files-backend.c" and into "builtin/reflog.c". This allows the
backend to stop knowing about the EXPIRE_REFLOGS_VERBOSE flag.
The expire_reflog_ent() function shouldn't need to deal with the
implementation detail of whether or not we're emitting verbose output,
by doing this the --verbose output becomes backend-agnostic, so
reftable will get the same output.
I think the output is rather bad currently, and should e.g. be
implemented with some better future mode of progress.[ch], but that's
a topic for another improvement.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test helper for refs subsystem learned to write bogus and/or
nonexistent object name to refs to simulate error situations we
want to test Git in.
* hn/allow-bogus-oid-in-ref-tests:
t1430: create valid symrefs using test-helper
t1430: remove refs using test-tool
refs: introduce REF_SKIP_REFNAME_VERIFICATION flag
refs: introduce REF_SKIP_OID_VERIFICATION flag
refs: update comment.
test-ref-store: plug memory leak in cmd_delete_refs
test-ref-store: parse symbolic flag constants
test-ref-store: remove force-create argument for create-reflog
Document the parameters given to the reflog entry iterator callback
functions.
* jc/reflog-iterator-callback-doc:
refs: document callback for reflog-ent iterators
Use this flag with the test-helper in t1430, to avoid direct writes to the ref
database.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This lets the ref-store test helper write non-existent or unparsable objects
into the ref storage.
Use this to make t1006 and t3800 independent of the files storage backend.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refs_for_each_reflog_ent() and refs_for_each_reflog_ent_reverse()
functions take a callback function that gets called with the details
of each reflog entry. Its parameters were not documented beyond
their names. Elaborate a bit on each of them.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is only one caller, builtin/checkout.c, and it hardcodes
force_create=1.
This argument was introduced in abd0cd3a30 (refs: new public ref function:
safe_create_reflog, 2015-07-21), which promised to immediately use it in a
follow-on commit, but that never happened.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename the transitory refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() function to
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(), now that all callers of the old function
have learned to pass in a "failure_errno" parameter.
The coccinelle semantic patch added in the preceding commit works, but
I couldn't figure out how to get spatch(1) to re-flow these argument
lists (and sometimes make lines way too long), so this rename was done
with:
perl -pi -e 's/refs_werrres_ref_unsafe/refs_resolve_ref_unsafe/g' \
$(git grep -l refs_werrres_ref_unsafe -- '*.c')
But after that "make contrib/coccinelle/refs.cocci.patch" comes up
empty, so the result would have been the same. Let's remove that
transitory semantic patch file, we won't need to retain it for any
other in-flight changes, refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() only existed within
this patch series.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preceding commits all callers of refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() were
migrated to the transitory refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() function.
As a first step in getting rid of it let's remove the old function
from the public API (it went unused in a preceding commit).
We then provide both a coccinelle rule to do the rename, and a macro
to avoid breaking the existing callers.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the refs_read_ref_full() wrapper in favor of migrating various
refs.c API users to the underlying refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() function.
A careful reading of these callers shows that the callers of this
function did not care about "errno", by moving away from the
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() wrapper we can be sure that nothing relies
on it anymore.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() function, which is like
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() except that it explicitly saves away the
"errno" to a passed-in parameter, the refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() then
becomes a wrapper for it.
In subsequent commits we'll migrate code over to it, before finally
making "refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()" with an "errno" parameter the
canonical version, so this this function exists only so that we can
incrementally migrate callers, it will be going away in a subsequent
commit.
As the added comment notes has a rather tortured name to be the same
length as "refs_resolve_ref_unsafe", to avoid churn as we won't need
to re-indent the argument lists, similarly the documentation and
structure of it in refs.h is designed to minimize a diff in a
subsequent commit, where that documentation will be added to the new
refs_resolve_ref_unsafe().
At the end of this migration the "meaningful errno" TODO item left in
76d70dc0c6 (refs.c: make resolve_ref_unsafe set errno to something
meaningful on error, 2014-06-20) will be resolved.
As can be seen from the use of refs_read_raw_ref() we'll also need to
convert some functions that the new refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() itself
calls to take this "failure_errno". That will be done in subsequent
commits.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Patrick Steinhardt