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2021-12-04scalar: implement the `version` commandLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+39
The .NET version of Scalar has a `version` command. This was necessary because it was versioned independently of Git. Since Scalar is now tightly coupled with Git, it does not make sense for them to show different versions. Therefore, it shows the same output as `git version`. For backwards-compatibility with the .NET version, `scalar version` prints to `stderr`, though (`git version` prints to `stdout` instead). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: implement the `delete` commandLibravatar Matthew John Cheetham3-0/+80
Delete an enlistment by first unregistering the repository and then deleting the enlistment directory (usually the directory containing the worktree `src/` directory). On Windows, if the current directory is inside the enlistment's directory, change to the parent of the enlistment directory, to allow us to delete the enlistment (directories used by processes e.g. as current working directories cannot be deleted on Windows). Co-authored-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: teach 'reconfigure' to optionally handle all registered enlistmentsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin3-6/+67
After a Scalar upgrade, it can come in really handy if there is an easy way to reconfigure all Scalar enlistments. This new option offers this functionality. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: allow reconfiguring an existing enlistmentLibravatar Johannes Schindelin3-28/+67
This comes in handy during Scalar upgrades, or when config settings were messed up by mistake. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: implement the `run` commandLibravatar Derrick Stolee2-0/+83
Note: this subcommand is provided primarily for backwards-compatibility, for existing Scalar uses. It is mostly just a shim for `git maintenance`, mapping task names from the way Scalar called them to the way Git calls them. The reason why those names differ? The background maintenance was first implemented in Scalar, and when it was contributed as a patch series implementing the `git maintenance` command, reviewers suggested better names, those suggestions were accepted before the patches were integrated into core Git. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: teach 'clone' to support the --single-branch optionLibravatar Johannes Schindelin3-4/+23
Just like `git clone`, the `scalar clone` command now also offers to restrict the clone to a single branch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: implement the `clone` subcommandLibravatar Johannes Schindelin3-3/+262
This implements Scalar's opinionated `clone` command: it tries to use a partial clone and sets up a sparse checkout by default. In contrast to `git clone`, `scalar clone` sets up the worktree in the `src/` subdirectory, to encourage a separation between the source files and the build output (which helps Git tremendously because it avoids untracked files that have to be specifically ignored when refreshing the index). Also, it registers the repository for regular, scheduled maintenance, and configures a flurry of configuration settings based on the experience and experiments of the Microsoft Windows and the Microsoft Office development teams. Note: since the `scalar clone` command is by far the most commonly called `scalar` subcommand, we document it at the top of the manual page. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: implement 'scalar list'Libravatar Derrick Stolee2-1/+21
The produced list simply consists of those repositories registered under the multi-valued `scalar.repo` config setting in the user's Git config. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: let 'unregister' handle a deleted enlistment directory gracefullyLibravatar Johannes Schindelin2-0/+61
When a user deleted an enlistment manually, let's be generous and _still_ unregister it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: 'unregister' stops background maintenanceLibravatar Derrick Stolee2-8/+50
Just like `scalar register` starts the scheduled background maintenance, `scalar unregister` stops it. Note that we use `git maintenance start` in `scalar register`, but we do not use `git maintenance stop` in `scalar unregister`: this would stop maintenance for _all_ repositories, not just for the one we want to unregister. The `unregister` command also removes the corresponding entry from the `[scalar]` section in the global Git config. Co-authored-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: 'register' sets recommended config and starts maintenanceLibravatar Derrick Stolee2-1/+266
Let's start implementing the `register` command. With this commit, recommended settings are configured upon `scalar register`, and Git's background maintenance is started. The recommended config settings may very well change in the future. For example, once the built-in FSMonitor is available, we will want to enable it upon `scalar register`. For that reason, we explicitly support running `scalar register` in an already-registered enlistment. Co-authored-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: create test infrastructureLibravatar Johannes Schindelin3-3/+109
To test the Scalar command, create a test script in contrib/scalar/t that is executed as `make -C contrib/scalar test`. Since Scalar has no meaningful capabilities yet, the only test is rather simple. We will add more tests in subsequent commits that introduce corresponding, new functionality. Note: This test script is intended to test `scalar` only lightly, even after all of the functionality is implemented. A more comprehensive functional (or: integration) test suite can be found at https://github.com/microsoft/scalar; It is used in the workflow https://github.com/microsoft/git/blob/HEAD/.github/workflows/scalar-functional-tests.yml in Microsoft's Git fork. This test suite performs end-to-end tests with a real remote repository, and is run as part of the regular CI and PR builds in that fork. Since those tests require some functionality supported only by Microsoft's Git fork ("GVFS protocol"), there is no intention to port that fuller test suite to `contrib/scalar/`. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: start documenting the commandLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+38
Let's build up the documentation for the Scalar command along with the patches that implement its functionality. Note: To discourage the feature-incomplete documentation from being mistaken for the complete thing, we do not yet provide any way to build HTML or manual pages from the text file. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: create a rudimentary executableLibravatar Johannes Schindelin3-0/+72
The idea of Scalar (https://github.com/microsoft/scalar), and before that, of VFS for Git, has always been to prove that Git _can_ scale, and to upstream whatever strategies have been demonstrated to help. With this patch, we start the journey from that C# project to move what is left to Git's own `contrib/` directory, reimplementing it in pure C, with the intention to facilitate integrating the functionality into core Git all while maintaining backwards-compatibility for existing Scalar users (which will be much easier when both live in the same worktree). It has always been the plan to contribute all of the proven strategies back to core Git. For example, while the virtual filesystem provided by VFS for Git helped the team developing the Windows operating system to move onto Git, while trying to upstream it we realized that it cannot be done: getting the virtual filesystem to work (which we only managed to implement fully on Windows, but not on, say, macOS or Linux), and the required server-side support for the GVFS protocol, made this not quite feasible. The Scalar project learned from that and tackled the problem with different tactics: instead of pretending to Git that the working directory is fully populated, it _specifically_ teaches Git about partial clone (which is based on VFS for Git's cache server), about sparse checkout (which VFS for Git tried to do transparently, in the file system layer), and regularly runs maintenance tasks to keep the repository in a healthy state. With partial clone, sparse checkout and `git maintenance` having been upstreamed, there is little left that `scalar.exe` does which `git.exe` cannot do. One such thing is that `scalar clone <url>` will automatically set up a partial, sparse clone, and configure known-helpful settings from the start. So let's bring this convenience into Git's tree. The idea here is that you can (optionally) build Scalar via make -C contrib/scalar/ This will build the `scalar` executable and put it into the contrib/scalar/ subdirectory. The slightly awkward addition of the `contrib/scalar/*` bits to the top-level `Makefile` are actually really required: we want to link to `libgit.a`, which means that we will need to use the very same `CFLAGS` and `LDFLAGS` as the rest of Git. An early development version of this patch tried to replicate all the conditional code in `contrib/scalar/Makefile` (e.g. `NO_POLL`) just like `contrib/svn-fe/Makefile` used to do before it was retired. It turned out to be quite the whack-a-mole game: the SHA-1-related flags, the flags enabling/disabling `compat/poll/`, `compat/regex/`, `compat/win32mmap.c` & friends depending on the current platform... To put it mildly: it was a major mess. Instead, this patch makes minimal changes to the top-level `Makefile` so that the bits in `contrib/scalar/` can be compiled and linked, and adds a `contrib/scalar/Makefile` that uses the top-level `Makefile` in a most minimal way to do the actual compiling. Note: With this commit, we only establish the infrastructure, no Scalar functionality is implemented yet; We will do that incrementally over the next few commits. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-04scalar: add a README with a roadmapLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+82
The Scalar command will be contributed incrementally, over a bunch of patch series. Let's document what Scalar is about, and then describe the patch series that are planned. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>