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author | Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> | 2020-05-11 11:56:12 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-05-11 09:33:56 -0700 |
commit | 65c1a28bb60d1c17a672306c651bb402378f81b0 (patch) | |
tree | 4c8077d3df7884329fa1b1ab925d24e30bffdbe2 /Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt | |
parent | Documentation: changed-path Bloom filters use byte words (diff) | |
download | tgif-65c1a28bb60d1c17a672306c651bb402378f81b0.tar.xz |
bloom: de-duplicate directory entries
When computing a changed-path Bloom filter, we need to take the
files that changed from the diff computation and extract the parent
directories. That way, a directory pathspec such as "Documentation"
could match commits that change "Documentation/git.txt".
However, the current code does a poor job of this process. The paths
are added to a hashmap, but we do not check if an entry already
exists with that path. This can create many duplicate entries and
cause the filter to have a much larger length than it should. This
means that the filter is more sparse than intended, which helps the
false positive rate, but wastes a lot of space.
Properly use hashmap_get() before hashmap_add(). Also be sure to
include a comparison function so these can be matched correctly.
This has an effect on a test in t0095-bloom.sh. This makes sense,
there are ten changes inside "smallDir" so the total number of
paths in the filter should be 11. This would result in 11 * 10 bits
required, and with 8 bits per byte, this results in 14 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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