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2019-08-13repo-settings: create feature.experimental settingLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+2
The 'feature.experimental' setting includes config options that are not committed to become defaults, but could use additional testing. Update the following config settings to take new defaults, and to use the repo_settings struct if not already using them: * 'pack.useSparse=true' * 'fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping' In the case of fetch.negotiationAlgorithm, the existing logic would load the config option only when about to use the setting, so had a die() statement on an unknown string value. This is removed as now the config is parsed under prepare_repo_settings(). In general, this die() is probably misplaced and not valuable. A test was removed that checked this die() statement executed. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18pack-objects: default to writing bitmap hash-cacheLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+1
Enabling pack.writebitmaphashcache should always be a performance win. It costs only 4 bytes per object on disk, and the timings in ae4f07fbcc (pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cache, 2013-12-21) show it improving fetch and partial-bitmap clone times by 40-50%. The only reason we didn't enable it by default at the time is that early versions of JGit's bitmap reader complained about the presence of optional header bits it didn't understand. But that was changed in JGit's d2fa3987a (Use bitcheck to check for presence of OPT_FULL option, 2013-10-30), which made it into JGit v3.5.0 in late 2014. So let's turn this option on by default. It's backwards-compatible with all versions of Git, and if you are also using JGit on the same repository, you'd only run into problems using a version that's almost 5 years old. We'll drop the manual setting from all of our test scripts, including perf tests. This isn't strictly necessary, but it has two advantages: 1. If the hash-cache ever stops being enabled by default, our perf regression tests will notice. 2. We can use the modified perf tests to show off the behavior of an otherwise unconfigured repo, as shown below. These are the results of a few of a perf tests against linux.git that showed interesting results. You can see the expected speedup in 5310.4, which was noted in ae4f07fbcc. Curiously, 5310.8 did not improve (and actually got slower), despite seeing the opposite in ae4f07fbcc. I don't have an explanation for that. The tests from p5311 did not exist back then, but do show improvements (a smaller pack due to better deltas, which we found in less time). Test HEAD^ HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5310.4: simulated fetch 7.39(22.70+0.25) 5.64(11.43+0.22) -23.7% 5310.8: clone (partial bitmap) 18.45(24.83+1.19) 19.94(28.40+1.36) +8.1% 5311.31: server (128 days) 0.41(1.13+0.05) 0.34(0.72+0.02) -17.1% 5311.32: size (128 days) 7.4M 7.0M -4.8% 5311.33: client (128 days) 1.33(1.49+0.06) 1.29(1.37+0.12) -3.0% Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-17pack-objects: create pack.useSparse settingLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+9
The '--sparse' flag in 'git pack-objects' changes the algorithm used to enumerate objects to one that is faster for individual users pushing new objects that change only a small cone of the working directory. The sparse algorithm is not recommended for a server, which likely sends new objects that appear across the entire working directory. Create a 'pack.useSparse' setting that enables this new algorithm. This allows 'git push' to use this algorithm without passing a '--sparse' flag all the way through four levels of run_command() calls. If the '--no-sparse' flag is set, then this config setting is overridden. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-29config.txt: move pack.* to a separate fileLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+120
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>