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2020-06-08commit-graph-format.txt: all multi-byte numbers are in network byte orderLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-1/+1
The commit-graph format specifies that "All 4-byte numbers are in network order", but the commit-graph contains 8-byte integers as well (file offsets in the Chunk Lookup table), and their byte order is unspecified. Clarify that all multi-byte integers are in network byte order. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-11Documentation: changed-path Bloom filters use byte wordsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-4/+4
In Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt, the definition of the BIDX chunk specifies the length is a number of 8-byte words. During development we discovered that using 8-byte words in the Murmur3 hash algorithm causes issues with big-endian versus little- endian machines. Thus, the hash algorithm was adapted to work on a byte-by-byte basis. However, this caused a change in the definition of a "word" in bloom.h. Now, a "word" is a single byte, which allows filters to be as small as two bytes. These length-two filters are demonstrated in t0095-bloom.sh, and a larger filter of length 25 is demonstrated as well. The original point of using 8-byte words was for alignment reasons. It also presented opportunities for extremely sparse Bloom filters when there were a small number of changes at a commit, creating a very low false-positive rate. However, modifying the format at this point is unlikely to be a valuable exercise. Also, this use of single-byte granularity does present opportunities to save space. It is unclear if 8-byte alignment of the filters would present any meaningful performance benefits. Modify the format document to reflect reality. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-06commit-graph: write Bloom filters to commit graph fileLibravatar Garima Singh1-0/+30
Update the technical documentation for commit-graph-format with the formats for the Bloom filter index (BIDX) and Bloom filter data (BDAT) chunks. Write the computed Bloom filters information to the commit graph file using this format. Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19commit-graph: add base graphs chunkLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-2/+9
To quickly verify a commit-graph chain is valid on load, we will read from the new "Base Graphs Chunk" of each file in the chain. This will prevent accidentally loading incorrect data from manually editing the commit-graph-chain file or renaming graph-{hash}.graph files. The commit_graph struct already had an object_id struct "oid", but it was never initialized or used. Add a line to read the hash from the end of the commit-graph file and into the oid member. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-22commit-graph: rename "large edges" to "extra edges"Libravatar SZEDER Gábor1-2/+2
The optional 'Large Edge List' chunk of the commit graph file stores parent information for commits with more than two parents, and the names of most of the macros, variables, struct fields, and functions related to this chunk contain the term "large edges", e.g. write_graph_chunk_large_edges(). However, it's not a really great term, as the edges to the second and subsequent parents stored in this chunk are not any larger than the edges to the first and second parents stored in the "main" 'Commit Data' chunk. It's the number of edges, IOW number of parents, that is larger compared to non-merge and "regular" two-parent merge commits. And indeed, two functions in 'commit-graph.c' have a local variable called 'num_extra_edges' that refer to the same thing, and this "extra edges" term is much better at describing these edges. So let's rename all these references to "large edges" in macro, variable, function, etc. names to "extra edges". There is a GRAPH_OCTOPUS_EDGES_NEEDED macro as well; for the sake of consistency rename it to GRAPH_EXTRA_EDGES_NEEDED. We can do so safely without causing any incompatibility issues, because the term "large edges" doesn't come up in the file format itself in any form (the chunk's magic is {'E', 'D', 'G', 'E'}, there is no 'L' in there), but only in the specification text. The string "large edges", however, does come up in the output of 'git commit-graph read' and in tests looking at its input, but that command is explicitly documented as debugging aid, so we can change its output and the affected tests safely. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-18Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
Docfix. * ds/commit-graph: commit-graph: fix documentation inconsistencies
2018-06-28commit-graph: fix documentation inconsistenciesLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-5/+5
The commit-graph feature shipped in Git 2.18 has some inconsistencies in the constants used by the implementation and specified by the format document. The commit data chunk uses the key "CDAT" in the file format, but was previously documented to say "CGET". The commit data chunk stores commit parents using two 32-bit fields that typically store the integer position of the parent in the list of commit ids within the commit-graph file. When a parent does not exist, we had documented the value 0xffffffff, but implemented the value 0x70000000. This swap is easy to correct in the documentation, but unfortunately reduces the number of commits that we can store in the commit-graph. Update that estimate, too. Reported-by: Grant Welch <gwelch925@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-22Documentation: spelling and grammar fixesLibravatar Ville Skyttä1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-02commit-graph: add format documentLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+97
Add document specifying the binary format for commit graphs. This format allows for: * New versions. * New hash functions and hash lengths. * Optional extensions. Basic header information is followed by a binary table of contents into "chunks" that include: * An ordered list of commit object IDs. * A 256-entry fanout into that list of OIDs. * A list of metadata for the commits. * A list of "large edges" to enable octopus merges. The format automatically includes two parent positions for every commit. This favors speed over space, since using only one position per commit would cause an extra level of indirection for every merge commit. (Octopus merges suffer from this indirection, but they are very rare.) Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>