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2020-12-21gc: fix handling of crontab magic markersLibravatar Martin Ågren1-4/+3
On `git maintenance start`, we add a few entries to the user's cron table. We wrap our entries using two magic markers, "# BEGIN GIT MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE" and "# END GIT MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE". At a later `git maintenance stop`, we will go through the table and remove these lines. Or rather, we will remove the "BEGIN" marker, the "END" marker and everything between them. Alas, we have a bug in how we detect the "END" marker: we don't. As we loop through all the lines of the crontab, if we are in the "old region", i.e., the region we're aiming to remove, we make an early `continue` and don't get as far as checking for the "END" marker. Thus, once we've seen our "BEGIN", we remove everything until the end of the file. Rewrite the logic for identifying these markers. There are four cases that are mutually exclusive: The current line starts a region or it ends it, or it's firmly within the region, or it's outside of it (and should be printed). Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08Merge branch 'rs/maintenance-run-outside-repo'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+0
"git maintenance run/start/stop" needed to be run in a repository to hold the lockfile they use, but didn't make sure they are actually in a repository, which has been corrected. * rs/maintenance-run-outside-repo: t7900: fix typo: "test_execpt_success" maintenance: fix SEGFAULT when no repository
2020-12-08Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-3'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
"git maintenance" command had trouble working in a directory whose pathname contained an ERE metacharacter like '+'. * ds/maintenance-part-3: maintenance: use 'git config --fixed-value'
2020-11-30Merge branch 'ab/gc-keep-base-option'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Fix an option name in "gc" documentation. * ab/gc-keep-base-option: gc: rename keep_base_pack variable for --keep-largest-pack gc docs: change --keep-base-pack to --keep-largest-pack
2020-11-30maintenance: fix SEGFAULT when no repositoryLibravatar Rafael Silva1-7/+0
The "git maintenance run" and "git maintenance start/stop" commands holds a file-based lock at the .git/maintenance.lock and .git/schedule.lock respectively. These locks are used to ensure only one maintenance process is executed at the time as both operations involves writing data into the git repository. The path to the lock file is built using "the_repository->objects->odb->path" that results in SEGFAULT when we have no repository available as "the_repository->objects->odb" is set to NULL. Let's teach maintenance command to use RUN_SETUP option that will provide the validation and fail when running outside of a repository. Hence fixing the SEGFAULT for all three operations and making the behaviour consistent across all subcommands. Setting the RUN_SETUP also provides the same protection for all subcommands given that the "register" and "unregister" also requires to be executed inside a repository. Furthermore let's remove the local validation implemented by the "register" and "unregister" as this will not be required anymore with the new option. Signed-off-by: Rafael Silva <rafaeloliveira.cs@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25maintenance: use 'git config --fixed-value'Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-2/+3
When a repository's leading directories contain regex metacharacters, the config calls for 'git maintenance register' and 'git maintenance unregister' are not careful enough. Use the new --fixed-value option to direct the config machinery to use exact string matches. This is a more robust option than escaping these arguments in a piecemeal fashion. For the test, require that we are not running on Windows since the '+' and '*' characters are not allowed on that filesystem. Reported-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Reported-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-21gc: rename keep_base_pack variable for --keep-largest-packLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-4/+4
As noted in an earlier change the keep_base_pack variable name is a relic from an earlier on-list version of ae4e89e549 ("gc: add --keep-largest-pack option", 2018-04-15) before it was renamed to --keep-largest-pack. Let's change the variable name to avoid that confusion, it's easier to read the code if there's a 1=1 mapping between the variable name and option name. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-18gc: fix cast in compare_tasks_by_selection()Libravatar René Scharfe1-4/+2
compare_tasks_by_selection() is used with QSORT and gets passed pointers to the elements of "static struct maintenance_task tasks[]". It casts the *addresses* of these passed pointers to element pointers, though, and thus effectively compares some unrelated values from the stack. Fix the casts to actually compare array elements. Detected by USan (make SANITIZE=undefined test). Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-18Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-3'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+275
Parts of "git maintenance" to ease writing crontab entries (and other scheduling system configuration) for it. * ds/maintenance-part-3: maintenance: add troubleshooting guide to docs maintenance: use 'incremental' strategy by default maintenance: create maintenance.strategy config maintenance: add start/stop subcommands maintenance: add [un]register subcommands for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos maintenance: add --schedule option and config maintenance: optionally skip --auto process
2020-11-11Merge branch 'rs/clear-commit-marks-in-repo'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Code clean-up. * rs/clear-commit-marks-in-repo: bisect: clear flags in passed repository object: allow clear_commit_marks_all to handle any repo
2020-11-02Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-commit-graph-auto-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+11
Test-coverage enhancement of running commit-graph task "git maintenance" as needed led to discovery and fix of a bug. * ds/maintenance-commit-graph-auto-fix: maintenance: core.commitGraph=false prevents writes maintenance: test commit-graph auto condition
2020-10-31object: allow clear_commit_marks_all to handle any repoLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Allow callers to specify the repository to use. Rename the function to repo_clear_commit_marks to document its new scope. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-16maintenance: use 'incremental' strategy by defaultLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+10
The 'git maintenance (register|start)' subcommands add the current repository to the global Git config so maintenance will operate on that repository. It does not specify what maintenance should occur or how often. To make it simple for users to start background maintenance with a recommended schedlue, update the 'maintenance.strategy' config option in both the 'register' and 'start' subcommands. This allows users to customize beyond the defaults using individual 'maintenance.<task>.schedule' options, but also the user can opt-out of this strategy using 'maintenance.strategy=none'. Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-16maintenance: create maintenance.strategy configLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-2/+26
To provide an on-ramp for users to use background maintenance without several 'git config' commands, create a 'maintenance.strategy' config option. Currently, the only important value is 'incremental' which assigns the following schedule: * gc: never * prefetch: hourly * commit-graph: hourly * loose-objects: daily * incremental-repack: daily These tasks are chosen to minimize disruptions to foreground Git commands and use few compute resources. The 'maintenance.strategy' is intended as a baseline that can be customzied further by manually assigning 'maintenance.<task>.enabled' and 'maintenance.<task>.schedule' config options, which will override any recommendation from 'maintenance.strategy'. This operates similarly to config options like 'feature.experimental' which operate as "meta" config options that change default config values. This presents a way forward for updating the 'incremental' strategy in the future or adding new strategies. For example, a potential strategy could be to include a 'full' strategy that runs the 'gc' task weekly and no other tasks by default. Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-12maintenance: core.commitGraph=false prevents writesLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+4
Recently, a user had an issue due to combining fetch.writeCommitGraph=true with core.commitGraph=false. The root bug has been resolved by preventing commit-graph writes when core.commitGraph is disabled. This happens inside the 'git commit-graph write' command, but we can be more aware of this situation and prevent that process from ever starting in the 'commit-graph' maintenance task. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-08maintenance: test commit-graph auto conditionLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+7
The auto condition for the commit-graph maintenance task walks refs looking for commits that are not in the commit-graph file. This was added in 4ddc79b2 (maintenance: add auto condition for commit-graph task, 2020-09-17) but was left untested. The initial goal of this change was to demonstrate the feature works properly by adding tests. However, there was an off-by-one error that caused the basic tests around maintenance.commit-graph.auto=1 to fail when it should work. The subtlety is that if a ref tip is not in the commit-graph, then we were not adding that to the total count. In the test, we see that we have only added one commit since our last commit-graph write, so the auto condition would say there is nothing to do. The fix is simple: add the check for the commit-graph position to see that the tip is not in the commit-graph file before starting our walk. Since this happens before adding to the DFS stack, we do not need to clear our (currently empty) commit list. This does add some extra complexity for the test, because we also want to verify that the walk along the parents actually does some work. This means we need to add at least two commits in a row without writing the commit-graph. However, we also need to make sure no additional refs are pointing to the middle of this list or else the for_each_ref() in should_write_commit_graph() might visit these commits as tips instead of doing a DFS walk. Hence, the last two commits are added with "git commit" instead of "test_commit". Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25maintenance: add start/stop subcommandsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+124
Add new subcommands to 'git maintenance' that start or stop background maintenance using 'cron', when available. This integration is as simple as I could make it, barring some implementation complications. The schedule is laid out as follows: 0 1-23 * * * $cmd maintenance run --schedule=hourly 0 0 * * 1-6 $cmd maintenance run --schedule=daily 0 0 * * 0 $cmd maintenance run --schedule=weekly where $cmd is a properly-qualified 'git for-each-repo' execution: $cmd=$path/git --exec-path=$path for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo where $path points to the location of the Git executable running 'git maintenance start'. This is critical for systems with multiple versions of Git. Specifically, macOS has a system version at '/usr/bin/git' while the version that users can install resides at '/usr/local/bin/git' (symlinked to '/usr/local/libexec/git-core/git'). This will also use your locally-built version if you build and run this in your development environment without installing first. This conditional schedule avoids having cron launch multiple 'git for-each-repo' commands in parallel. Such parallel commands would likely lead to the 'hourly' and 'daily' tasks competing over the object database lock. This could lead to to some tasks never being run! Since the --schedule=<frequency> argument will run all tasks with _at least_ the given frequency, the daily runs will also run the hourly tasks. Similarly, the weekly runs will also run the daily and hourly tasks. The GIT_TEST_CRONTAB environment variable is not intended for users to edit, but instead as a way to mock the 'crontab [-l]' command. This variable is set in test-lib.sh to avoid a future test from accidentally running anything with the cron integration from modifying the user's schedule. We use GIT_TEST_CRONTAB='test-tool crontab <file>' in our tests to check how the schedule is modified in 'git maintenance (start|stop)' commands. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25maintenance: add [un]register subcommandsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+54
In preparation for launching background maintenance from the 'git maintenance' builtin, create register/unregister subcommands. These commands update the new 'maintenance.repos' config option in the global config so the background maintenance job knows which repositories to maintain. These commands allow users to add a repository to the background maintenance list without disrupting the actual maintenance mechanism. For example, a user can run 'git maintenance register' when no background maintenance is running and it will not start the background maintenance. A later update to start running background maintenance will then pick up this repository automatically. The opposite example is that a user can run 'git maintenance unregister' to remove the current repository from background maintenance without halting maintenance for other repositories. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25maintenance: add --schedule option and configLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-3/+61
Maintenance currently triggers when certain data-size thresholds are met, such as number of pack-files or loose objects. Users may want to run certain maintenance tasks based on frequency instead. For example, a user may want to perform a 'prefetch' task every hour, or 'gc' task every day. To help these users, update the 'git maintenance run' command to include a '--schedule=<frequency>' option. The allowed frequencies are 'hourly', 'daily', and 'weekly'. These values are also allowed in a new config value 'maintenance.<task>.schedule'. The 'git maintenance run --schedule=<frequency>' checks the '*.schedule' config value for each enabled task to see if the configured frequency is at least as frequent as the frequency from the '--schedule' argument. We use the following order, for full clarity: 'hourly' > 'daily' > 'weekly' Use new 'enum schedule_priority' to track these values numerically. The following cron table would run the scheduled tasks with the correct frequencies: 0 1-23 * * * git -C <repo> maintenance run --schedule=hourly 0 0 * * 1-6 git -C <repo> maintenance run --schedule=daily 0 0 * * 0 git -C <repo> maintenance run --schedule=weekly This cron schedule will run --schedule=hourly every hour except at midnight. This avoids a concurrent run with the --schedule=daily that runs at midnight every day except the first day of the week. This avoids a concurrent run with the --schedule=weekly that runs at midnight on the first day of the week. Since --schedule=daily also runs the 'hourly' tasks and --schedule=weekly runs the 'hourly' and 'daily' tasks, we will still see all tasks run with the proper frequencies. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25maintenance: add incremental-repack auto conditionLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+31
The incremental-repack task updates the multi-pack-index by deleting pack- files that have been replaced with new packs, then repacking a batch of small pack-files into a larger pack-file. This incremental repack is faster than rewriting all object data, but is slower than some other maintenance activities. The 'maintenance.incremental-repack.auto' config option specifies how many pack-files should exist outside of the multi-pack-index before running the step. These pack-files could be created by 'git fetch' commands or by the loose-objects task. The default value is 10. Setting the option to zero disables the task with the '--auto' option, and a negative value makes the task run every time. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25maintenance: auto-size incremental-repack batchLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+42
When repacking during the 'incremental-repack' task, we use the --batch-size option in 'git multi-pack-index repack'. The initial setting used --batch-size=0 to repack everything into a single pack-file. This is not sustainable for a large repository. The amount of work required is also likely to use too many system resources for a background job. Update the 'incremental-repack' task by dynamically computing a --batch-size option based on the current pack-file structure. The dynamic default size is computed with this idea in mind for a client repository that was cloned from a very large remote: there is likely one "big" pack-file that was created at clone time. Thus, do not try repacking it as it is likely packed efficiently by the server. Instead, we select the second-largest pack-file, and create a batch size that is one larger than that pack-file. If there are three or more pack-files, then this guarantees that at least two will be combined into a new pack-file. Of course, this means that the second-largest pack-file size is likely to grow over time and may eventually surpass the initially-cloned pack-file. Recall that the pack-file batch is selected in a greedy manner: the packs are considered from oldest to newest and are selected if they have size smaller than the batch size until the total selected size is larger than the batch size. Thus, that oldest "clone" pack will be first to repack after the new data creates a pack larger than that. We also want to place some limits on how large these pack-files become, in order to bound the amount of time spent repacking. A maximum batch-size of two gigabytes means that large repositories will never be packed into a single pack-file using this job, but also that repack is rather expensive. This is a trade-off that is valuable to have if the maintenance is being run automatically or in the background. Users who truly want to optimize for space and performance (and are willing to pay the upfront cost of a full repack) can use the 'gc' task to do so. Create a test for this two gigabyte limit by creating an EXPENSIVE test that generates two pack-files of roughly 2.5 gigabytes in size, then performs an incremental repack. Check that the --batch-size argument in the subcommand uses the hard-coded maximum. Helped-by: Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com> Reported-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25maintenance: add incremental-repack taskLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+76
The previous change cleaned up loose objects using the 'loose-objects' that can be run safely in the background. Add a similar job that performs similar cleanups for pack-files. One issue with running 'git repack' is that it is designed to repack all pack-files into a single pack-file. While this is the most space-efficient way to store object data, it is not time or memory efficient. This becomes extremely important if the repo is so large that a user struggles to store two copies of the pack on their disk. Instead, perform an "incremental" repack by collecting a few small pack-files into a new pack-file. The multi-pack-index facilitates this process ever since 'git multi-pack-index expire' was added in 19575c7 (multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' subcommand, 2019-06-10) and 'git multi-pack-index repack' was added in ce1e4a1 (midx: implement midx_repack(), 2019-06-10). The 'incremental-repack' task runs the following steps: 1. 'git multi-pack-index write' creates a multi-pack-index file if one did not exist, and otherwise will update the multi-pack-index with any new pack-files that appeared since the last write. This is particularly relevant with the background fetch job. When the multi-pack-index sees two copies of the same object, it stores the offset data into the newer pack-file. This means that some old pack-files could become "unreferenced" which I will use to mean "a pack-file that is in the pack-file list of the multi-pack-index but none of the objects in the multi-pack-index reference a location inside that pack-file." 2. 'git multi-pack-index expire' deletes any unreferenced pack-files and updaes the multi-pack-index to drop those pack-files from the list. This is safe to do as concurrent Git processes will see the multi-pack-index and not open those packs when looking for object contents. (Similar to the 'loose-objects' job, there are some Git commands that open pack-files regardless of the multi-pack-index, but they are rarely used. Further, a user that self-selects to use background operations would likely refrain from using those commands.) 3. 'git multi-pack-index repack --bacth-size=<size>' collects a set of pack-files that are listed in the multi-pack-index and creates a new pack-file containing the objects whose offsets are listed by the multi-pack-index to be in those objects. The set of pack- files is selected greedily by sorting the pack-files by modified time and adding a pack-file to the set if its "expected size" is smaller than the batch size until the total expected size of the selected pack-files is at least the batch size. The "expected size" is calculated by taking the size of the pack-file divided by the number of objects in the pack-file and multiplied by the number of objects from the multi-pack-index with offset in that pack-file. The expected size approximates how much data from that pack-file will contribute to the resulting pack-file size. The intention is that the resulting pack-file will be close in size to the provided batch size. The next run of the incremental-repack task will delete these repacked pack-files during the 'expire' step. In this version, the batch size is set to "0" which ignores the size restrictions when selecting the pack-files. It instead selects all pack-files and repacks all packed objects into a single pack-file. This will be updated in the next change, but it requires doing some calculations that are better isolated to a separate change. These steps are based on a similar background maintenance step in Scalar (and VFS for Git) [1]. This was incredibly effective for users of the Windows OS repository. After using the same VFS for Git repository for over a year, some users had _thousands_ of pack-files that combined to up to 250 GB of data. We noticed a few users were running into the open file descriptor limits (due in part to a bug in the multi-pack-index fixed by af96fe3 (midx: add packs to packed_git linked list, 2019-04-29). These pack-files were mostly small since they contained the commits and trees that were pushed to the origin in a given hour. The GVFS protocol includes a "prefetch" step that asks for pre-computed pack- files containing commits and trees by timestamp. These pack-files were grouped into "daily" pack-files once a day for up to 30 days. If a user did not request prefetch packs for over 30 days, then they would get the entire history of commits and trees in a new, large pack-file. This led to a large number of pack-files that had poor delta compression. By running this pack-file maintenance step once per day, these repos with thousands of packs spanning 200+ GB dropped to dozens of pack- files spanning 30-50 GB. This was done all without removing objects from the system and using a constant batch size of two gigabytes. Once the work was done to reduce the pack-files to small sizes, the batch size of two gigabytes means that not every run triggers a repack operation, so the following run will not expire a pack-file. This has kept these repos in a "clean" state. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar/blob/master/Scalar.Common/Maintenance/PackfileMaintenanceStep.cs Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25maintenance: create auto condition for loose-objectsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+30
The loose-objects task deletes loose objects that already exist in a pack-file, then place the remaining loose objects into a new pack-file. If this step runs all the time, then we risk creating pack-files with very few objects with every 'git commit' process. To prevent overwhelming the packs directory with small pack-files, place a minimum number of objects to justify the task. The 'maintenance.loose-objects.auto' config option specifies a minimum number of loose objects to justify the task to run under the '--auto' option. This defaults to 100 loose objects. Setting the value to zero will prevent the step from running under '--auto' while a negative value will force it to run every time. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25maintenance: add loose-objects taskLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+97
One goal of background maintenance jobs is to allow a user to disable auto-gc (gc.auto=0) but keep their repository in a clean state. Without any cleanup, loose objects will clutter the object database and slow operations. In addition, the loose objects will take up extra space because they are not stored with deltas against similar objects. Create a 'loose-objects' task for the 'git maintenance run' command. This helps clean up loose objects without disrupting concurrent Git commands using the following sequence of events: 1. Run 'git prune-packed' to delete any loose objects that exist in a pack-file. Concurrent commands will prefer the packed version of the object to the loose version. (Of course, there are exceptions for commands that specifically care about the location of an object. These are rare for a user to run on purpose, and we hope a user that has selected background maintenance will not be trying to do foreground maintenance.) 2. Run 'git pack-objects' on a batch of loose objects. These objects are grouped by scanning the loose object directories in lexicographic order until listing all loose objects -or- reaching 50,000 objects. This is more than enough if the loose objects are created only by a user doing normal development. We noticed users with _millions_ of loose objects because VFS for Git downloads blobs on-demand when a file read operation requires populating a virtual file. This step is based on a similar step in Scalar [1] and VFS for Git. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar/blob/master/Scalar.Common/Maintenance/LooseObjectsStep.cs Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25maintenance: add prefetch taskLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+51
When working with very large repositories, an incremental 'git fetch' command can download a large amount of data. If there are many other users pushing to a common repo, then this data can rival the initial pack-file size of a 'git clone' of a medium-size repo. Users may want to keep the data on their local repos as close as possible to the data on the remote repos by fetching periodically in the background. This can break up a large daily fetch into several smaller hourly fetches. The task is called "prefetch" because it is work done in advance of a foreground fetch to make that 'git fetch' command much faster. However, if we simply ran 'git fetch <remote>' in the background, then the user running a foreground 'git fetch <remote>' would lose some important feedback when a new branch appears or an existing branch updates. This is especially true if a remote branch is force-updated and this isn't noticed by the user because it occurred in the background. Further, the functionality of 'git push --force-with-lease' becomes suspect. When running 'git fetch <remote> <options>' in the background, use the following options for careful updating: 1. --no-tags prevents getting a new tag when a user wants to see the new tags appear in their foreground fetches. 2. --refmap= removes the configured refspec which usually updates refs/remotes/<remote>/* with the refs advertised by the remote. While this looks confusing, this was documented and tested by b40a50264ac (fetch: document and test --refmap="", 2020-01-21), including this sentence in the documentation: Providing an empty `<refspec>` to the `--refmap` option causes Git to ignore the configured refspecs and rely entirely on the refspecs supplied as command-line arguments. 3. By adding a new refspec "+refs/heads/*:refs/prefetch/<remote>/*" we can ensure that we actually load the new values somewhere in our refspace while not updating refs/heads or refs/remotes. By storing these refs here, the commit-graph job will update the commit-graph with the commits from these hidden refs. 4. --prune will delete the refs/prefetch/<remote> refs that no longer appear on the remote. 5. --no-write-fetch-head prevents updating FETCH_HEAD. We've been using this step as a critical background job in Scalar [1] (and VFS for Git). This solved a pain point that was showing up in user reports: fetching was a pain! Users do not like waiting to download the data that was created while they were away from their machines. After implementing background fetch, the foreground fetch commands sped up significantly because they mostly just update refs and download a small amount of new data. The effect is especially dramatic when paried with --no-show-forced-udpates (through fetch.showForcedUpdates=false). [1] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar/blob/master/Scalar.Common/Maintenance/FetchStep.cs Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: add trace2 regions for task executionLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: add auto condition for commit-graph taskLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+82
Instead of writing a new commit-graph in every 'git maintenance run --auto' process (when maintenance.commit-graph.enalbed is configured to be true), only write when there are "enough" commits not in a commit-graph file. This count is controlled by the maintenance.commit-graph.auto config option. To compute the count, use a depth-first search starting at each ref, and leaving markers using the SEEN flag. If this count reaches the limit, then terminate early and start the task. Otherwise, this operation will peel every ref and parse the commit it points to. If these are all in the commit-graph, then this is typically a very fast operation. Users with many refs might feel a slow-down, and hence could consider updating their limit to be very small. A negative value will force the step to run every time. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: use pointers to check --autoLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+16
The 'git maintenance run' command has an '--auto' option. This is used by other Git commands such as 'git commit' or 'git fetch' to check if maintenance should be run after adding data to the repository. Previously, this --auto option was only used to add the argument to the 'git gc' command as part of the 'gc' task. We will be expanding the other tasks to perform a check to see if they should do work as part of the --auto flag, when they are enabled by config. First, update the 'gc' task to perform the auto check inside the maintenance process. This prevents running an extra 'git gc --auto' command when not needed. It also shows a model for other tasks. Second, use the 'auto_condition' function pointer as a signal for whether we enable the maintenance task under '--auto'. For instance, we do not want to enable the 'fetch' task in '--auto' mode, so that function pointer will remain NULL. Now that we are not automatically calling 'git gc', a test in t5514-fetch-multiple.sh must be changed to watch for 'git maintenance' instead. We continue to pass the '--auto' option to the 'git gc' command when necessary, because of the gc.autoDetach config option changes behavior. Likely, we will want to absorb the daemonizing behavior implied by gc.autoDetach as a maintenance.autoDetach config option. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: create maintenance.<task>.enabled configLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+19
Currently, a normal run of "git maintenance run" will only run the 'gc' task, as it is the only one enabled. This is mostly for backwards- compatible reasons since "git maintenance run --auto" commands replaced previous "git gc --auto" commands after some Git processes. Users could manually run specific maintenance tasks by calling "git maintenance run --task=<task>" directly. Allow users to customize which steps are run automatically using config. The 'maintenance.<task>.enabled' option then can turn on these other tasks (or turn off the 'gc' task). Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: take a lock on the objects directoryLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+20
Performing maintenance on a Git repository involves writing data to the .git directory, which is not safe to do with multiple writers attempting the same operation. Ensure that only one 'git maintenance' process is running at a time by holding a file-based lock. Simply the presence of the .git/maintenance.lock file will prevent future maintenance. This lock is never committed, since it does not represent meaningful data. Instead, it is only a placeholder. If the lock file already exists, then no maintenance tasks are attempted. This will become very important later when we implement the 'prefetch' task, as this is our stop-gap from creating a recursive process loop between 'git fetch' and 'git maintenance run --auto'. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: add --task optionLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-3/+63
A user may want to only run certain maintenance tasks in a certain order. Add the --task=<task> option, which allows a user to specify an ordered list of tasks to run. These cannot be run multiple times, however. Here is where our array of maintenance_task pointers becomes critical. We can sort the array of pointers based on the task order, but we do not want to move the struct data itself in order to preserve the hashmap references. We use the hashmap to match the --task=<task> arguments into the task struct data. Keep in mind that the 'enabled' member of the maintenance_task struct is a placeholder for a future 'maintenance.<task>.enabled' config option. Thus, we use the 'enabled' member to specify which tasks are run when the user does not specify any --task=<task> arguments. The 'enabled' member should be ignored if --task=<task> appears. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: add commit-graph taskLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+30
The first new task in the 'git maintenance' builtin is the 'commit-graph' task. This updates the commit-graph file incrementally with the command git commit-graph write --reachable --split By writing an incremental commit-graph file using the "--split" option we minimize the disruption from this operation. The default behavior is to merge layers until the new "top" layer is less than half the size of the layer below. This provides quick writes most of the time, with the longer writes following a power law distribution. Most importantly, concurrent Git processes only look at the commit-graph-chain file for a very short amount of time, so they will verly likely not be holding a handle to the file when we try to replace it. (This only matters on Windows.) If a concurrent process reads the old commit-graph-chain file, but our job expires some of the .graph files before they can be read, then those processes will see a warning message (but not fail). This could be avoided by a future update to use the --expire-time argument when writing the commit-graph. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: initialize task arrayLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+42
In anticipation of implementing multiple maintenance tasks inside the 'maintenance' builtin, use a list of structs to describe the work to be done. The struct maintenance_task stores the name of the task (as given by a future command-line argument) along with a function pointer to its implementation and a boolean for whether the step is enabled. A list these structs are initialized with the full list of implemented tasks along with a default order. For now, this list only contains the "gc" task. This task is also the only task enabled by default. The run subcommand will return a nonzero exit code if any task fails. However, it will attempt all tasks in its loop before returning with the failure. Also each failed task will print an error message. Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: add --quiet optionLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+10
Maintenance activities are commonly used as steps in larger scripts. Providing a '--quiet' option allows those scripts to be less noisy when run on a terminal window. Turn this mode on by default when stderr is not a terminal. Pipe the option to the 'git gc' child process. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17maintenance: create basic maintenance runnerLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+58
The 'gc' builtin is our current entrypoint for automatically maintaining a repository. This one tool does many operations, such as repacking the repository, packing refs, and rewriting the commit-graph file. The name implies it performs "garbage collection" which means several different things, and some users may not want to use this operation that rewrites the entire object database. Create a new 'maintenance' builtin that will become a more general- purpose command. To start, it will only support the 'run' subcommand, but will later expand to add subcommands for scheduling maintenance in the background. For now, the 'maintenance' builtin is a thin shim over the 'gc' builtin. In fact, the only option is the '--auto' toggle, which is handed directly to the 'gc' builtin. The current change is isolated to this simple operation to prevent more interesting logic from being lost in all of the boilerplate of adding a new builtin. Use existing builtin/gc.c file because we want to share code between the two builtins. It is possible that we will have 'maintenance' replace the 'gc' builtin entirely at some point, leaving 'git gc' as an alias for some specific arguments to 'git maintenance run'. Create a new test_subcommand helper that allows us to test if a certain subcommand was run. It requires storing the GIT_TRACE2_EVENT logs in a file. A negation mode is available that will be used in later tests. Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-30strvec: rename struct fieldsLibravatar Jeff King1-12/+12
The "argc" and "argv" names made sense when the struct was argv_array, but now they're just confusing. Let's rename them to "nr" (which we use for counts elsewhere) and "v" (which is rather terse, but reads well when combined with typical variable names like "args.v"). Note that we have to update all of the callers immediately. Playing tricks with the preprocessor is hard here, because we wouldn't want to rewrite unrelated tokens. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-28strvec: fix indentation in renamed callsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
Code which split an argv_array call across multiple lines, like: argv_array_pushl(&args, "one argument", "another argument", "and more", NULL); was recently mechanically renamed to use strvec, which results in mis-matched indentation like: strvec_pushl(&args, "one argument", "another argument", "and more", NULL); Let's fix these up to align the arguments with the opening paren. I did this manually by sifting through the results of: git jump grep 'strvec_.*,$' and liberally applying my editor's auto-format. Most of the changes are of the form shown above, though I also normalized a few that had originally used a single-tab indentation (rather than our usual style of aligning with the open paren). I also rewrapped a couple of obvious cases (e.g., where previously too-long lines became short enough to fit on one), but I wasn't aggressive about it. In cases broken to three or more lines, the grouping of arguments is sometimes meaningful, and it wasn't worth my time or reviewer time to ponder each case individually. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-28strvec: convert builtin/ callers away from argv_array nameLibravatar Jeff King1-25/+25
We eventually want to drop the argv_array name and just use strvec consistently. There's no particular reason we have to do it all at once, or care about interactions between converted and unconverted bits. Because of our preprocessor compat layer, the names are interchangeable to the compiler (so even a definition and declaration using different names is OK). This patch converts all of the files in builtin/ to keep the diff to a manageable size. The conversion was done purely mechanically with: git ls-files '*.c' '*.h' | xargs perl -i -pe ' s/ARGV_ARRAY/STRVEC/g; s/argv_array/strvec/g; ' and then selectively staging files with "git add builtin/". We'll deal with any indentation/style fallouts separately. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-28strvec: rename files from argv-array to strvecLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
This requires updating #include lines across the code-base, but that's all fairly mechanical, and was done with: git ls-files '*.c' '*.h' | xargs perl -i -pe 's/argv-array.h/strvec.h/' Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-04commit-graph.h: store an odb in 'struct write_commit_graph_context'Libravatar Taylor Blau1-1/+1
There are lots of places in 'commit-graph.h' where a function either has (or almost has) a full 'struct object_directory *', accesses '->path', and then throws away the rest of the struct. This can cause headaches when comparing the locations of object directories across alternates (e.g., in the case of deciding if two commit-graph layers can be merged). These paths are normalized with 'normalize_path_copy()' which mitigates some comparison issues, but not all [1]. Replace usage of 'char *object_dir' with 'odb->path' by storing a 'struct object_directory *' in the 'write_commit_graph_context' structure. This is an intermediate step towards getting rid of all path normalization in 'commit-graph.c'. Resolving a user-provided '--object-dir' argument now requires that we compare it to the known alternates for equality. Prior to this patch, an unknown '--object-dir' argument would silently exit with status zero. This can clearly lead to unintended behavior, such as verifying commit-graphs that aren't in a repository's own object store (or one of its alternates), or causing a typo to mask a legitimate commit-graph verification failure. Make this error non-silent by 'die()'-ing when the given '--object-dir' does not match any known alternate object store. [1]: In my testing, for example, I can get one side of the commit-graph code to fill object_dir with "./objects" and the other with just "objects". Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-10Fix spelling errors in code commentsLibravatar Elijah Newren1-2/+2
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-18Merge branch 'cc/multi-promisor'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Teach the lazy clone machinery that there can be more than one promisor remote and consult them in order when downloading missing objects on demand. * cc/multi-promisor: Move core_partial_clone_filter_default to promisor-remote.c Move repository_format_partial_clone to promisor-remote.c Remove fetch-object.{c,h} in favor of promisor-remote.{c,h} remote: add promisor and partial clone config to the doc partial-clone: add multiple remotes in the doc t0410: test fetching from many promisor remotes builtin/fetch: remove unique promisor remote limitation promisor-remote: parse remote.*.partialclonefilter Use promisor_remote_get_direct() and has_promisor_remote() promisor-remote: use repository_format_partial_clone promisor-remote: add promisor_remote_reinit() promisor-remote: implement promisor_remote_get_direct() Add initial support for many promisor remotes fetch-object: make functions return an error code t0410: remove pipes after git commands
2019-09-09Merge branch 'ds/feature-macros'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+5
A mechanism to affect the default setting for a (related) group of configuration variables is introduced. * ds/feature-macros: repo-settings: create feature.experimental setting repo-settings: create feature.manyFiles setting repo-settings: parse core.untrackedCache commit-graph: turn on commit-graph by default t6501: use 'git gc' in quiet mode repo-settings: consolidate some config settings
2019-08-13repo-settings: consolidate some config settingsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-7/+5
There are a few important config settings that are not loaded during git_default_config. These are instead loaded on-demand. Centralize these config options to a single scan, and store all of the values in a repo_settings struct. The values for each setting are initialized as negative to indicate "unset". This centralization will be particularly important in a later change to introduce "meta" config settings that change the defaults for these config settings. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-05commit-graph: turn a group of write-related macro flags into an enumLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-19Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-incremental'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
The commits in a repository can be described by multiple commit-graph files now, which allows the commit-graph files to be updated incrementally. * ds/commit-graph-incremental: commit-graph: test verify across alternates commit-graph: normalize commit-graph filenames commit-graph: test --split across alternate without --split commit-graph: test octopus merges with --split commit-graph: clean up chains after flattened write commit-graph: verify chains with --shallow mode commit-graph: create options for split files commit-graph: expire commit-graph files commit-graph: allow cross-alternate chains commit-graph: merge commit-graph chains commit-graph: add --split option to builtin commit-graph: write commit-graph chains commit-graph: rearrange chunk count logic commit-graph: add base graphs chunk commit-graph: load commit-graph chains commit-graph: rename commit_compare to oid_compare commit-graph: prepare for commit-graph chains commit-graph: document commit-graph chains
2019-07-09Merge branch 'ds/close-object-store'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a new instance to replace it. * ds/close-object-store: packfile: rename close_all_packs to close_object_store packfile: close commit-graph in close_all_packs commit-graph: use raw_object_store when closing
2019-07-09Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-write-refactor'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
Renamed from commit-graph-format-v2 and changed scope. * ds/commit-graph-write-refactor: commit-graph: extract write_commit_graph_file() commit-graph: extract copy_oids_to_commits() commit-graph: extract count_distinct_commits() commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_all_packs() commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_commit_hex() commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_packs() commit-graph: create write_commit_graph_context commit-graph: remove Future Work section commit-graph: collapse parameters into flags commit-graph: return with errors during write commit-graph: fix the_repository reference
2019-06-25Use promisor_remote_get_direct() and has_promisor_remote()Libravatar Christian Couder1-1/+2
Instead of using the repository_format_partial_clone global and fetch_objects() directly, let's use has_promisor_remote() and promisor_remote_get_direct(). This way all the configured promisor remotes will be taken into account, not only the one specified by extensions.partialClone. Also when cloning or fetching using a partial clone filter, remote.origin.promisor will be set to "true" instead of setting extensions.partialClone to "origin". This makes it possible to use many promisor remote just by fetching from them. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19commit-graph: create options for split filesLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+2
The split commit-graph feature is now fully implemented, but needs some more run-time configurability. Allow direct callers to 'git commit-graph write --split' to specify the values used in the merge strategy and the expire time. Update the documentation to specify these values. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>