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2020-07-08experimental: default to fetch.writeCommitGraph=falseLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
The fetch.writeCommitGraph feature makes fetches write out a commit graph file for the newly downloaded pack on fetch. This improves the performance of various commands that would perform a revision walk and eventually ought to be the default for everyone. To prepare for that future, it's enabled by default for users that set feature.experimental=true to experience such future defaults. Alas, for --unshallow fetches from a shallow clone it runs into a snag: by the time Git has fetched the new objects and is writing a commit graph, it has performed a revision walk and r->parsed_objects contains information about the shallow boundary from *before* the fetch. The commit graph writing code is careful to avoid writing a commit graph file in shallow repositories, but the new state is not shallow, and the result is that from that point on, commands like "git log" make use of a newly written commit graph file representing a fictional history with the old shallow boundary. We could fix this by making the commit graph writing code more careful to avoid writing a commit graph that could have used any grafts or shallow state, but it is possible that there are other pieces of mutated state that fetch's commit graph writing code may be relying on. So disable it in the feature.experimental configuration. Google developers have been running in this configuration (by setting fetch.writeCommitGraph=false in the system config) to work around this bug since it was discovered in April. Once the fix lands, we'll enable fetch.writeCommitGraph=true again to give it some early testing before rolling out to a wider audience. In other words: - this patch only affects behavior with feature.experimental=true - it makes feature.experimental match the configuration Google has been using for the last few months, meaning it would leave users in a better tested state than without it - this should improve testing for other features guarded by feature.experimental, by making feature.experimental safer to use Reported-by: Jay Conrod <jayconrod@google.com> Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-20config: set pack.useSparse=true by defaultLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+2
The pack.useSparse config option was introduced by 3d036eb0 (pack-objects: create pack.useSparse setting, 2019-01-19) and was first available in v2.21.0. When enabled, the pack-objects process during 'git push' will use a sparse tree walk when deciding which trees and blobs to send to the remote. The algorithm was introduced by d5d2e93 (revision: implement sparse algorithm, 2019-01-16) and has been in production use by VFS for Git since around that time. The features.experimental config option also enabled pack.useSparse, so hopefully that has also increased exposure. It is worth noting that pack.useSparse has a possibility of sending more objects across a push, but requires a special arrangement of exact _copies_ across directories. There is a test in t5322-pack-objects-sparse.sh that demonstrates this possibility. This test uses the --sparse option to "git pack-objects" but we can make it implied by the config value to demonstrate that the default value has changed. While updating that test, I noticed that the documentation did not include an option for --no-sparse, which is now more important than it was before. Since the downside is unlikely but the upside is significant, set the default value of pack.useSparse to true. Remove it from the set of options implied by features.experimental. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-24Merge branch 'ds/feature-macros'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The codepath that reads the index.version configuration was broken with a recent update, which has been corrected. * ds/feature-macros: repo-settings: read an int for index.version
2019-10-24repo-settings: read an int for index.versionLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+1
Several config options were combined into a repo_settings struct in ds/feature-macros, including a move of the "index.version" config setting in 7211b9e (repo-settings: consolidate some config settings, 2019-08-13). Unfortunately, that file looked like a lot of boilerplate and what is clearly a factor of copy-paste overload, the config setting is parsed with repo_config_ge_bool() instead of repo_config_get_int(). This means that a setting "index.version=4" would not register correctly and would revert to the default version of 3. I caught this while incorporating v2.24.0-rc0 into the VFS for Git codebase, where we really care that the index is in version 4. This was not caught by the codebase because the version checks placed in t1600-index.sh did not test the "basic" scenario enough. Here, we modify the test to include these normal settings to not be overridden by features.manyFiles or GIT_INDEX_VERSION. While the "default" version is 3, this is demoted to version 2 in do_write_index() when not necessary. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-03fetch: add fetch.writeCommitGraph config settingLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+4
The commit-graph feature is now on by default, and is being written during 'git gc' by default. Typically, Git only writes a commit-graph when a 'git gc --auto' command passes the gc.auto setting to actualy do work. This means that a commit-graph will typically fall behind the commits that are being used every day. To stay updated with the latest commits, add a step to 'git fetch' to write a commit-graph after fetching new objects. The fetch.writeCommitGraph config setting enables writing a split commit-graph, so on average the cost of writing this file is very small. Occasionally, the commit-graph chain will collapse to a single level, and this could be slow for very large repos. For additional use, adjust the default to be true when feature.experimental is enabled. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-13repo-settings: create feature.experimental settingLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+13
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>
2019-08-13repo-settings: create feature.manyFiles settingLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+4
The feature.manyFiles setting is suitable for repos with many files in the working directory. By setting index.version=4 and core.untrackedCache=true, commands such as 'git status' should improve. While adding this setting, modify the index version precedence tests to check how this setting overrides the default for index.version is unset. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-13repo-settings: parse core.untrackedCacheLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+19
The core.untrackedCache config setting is slightly complicated, so clarify its use and centralize its parsing into the repo settings. The default value is "keep" (returned as -1), which persists the untracked cache if it exists. If the value is set as "false" (returned as 0), then remove the untracked cache if it exists. If the value is set as "true" (returned as 1), then write the untracked cache and persist it. Instead of relying on magic values of -1, 0, and 1, split these options into an enum. This allows the use of "-1" as a default value. After parsing the config options, if the value is unset we can initialize it to UNTRACKED_CACHE_KEEP. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-13commit-graph: turn on commit-graph by defaultLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+4
The commit-graph feature has seen a lot of activity in the past year or so since it was introduced. The feature is a critical performance enhancement for medium- to large-sized repos, and does not significantly hurt small repos. Change the defaults for core.commitGraph and gc.writeCommitGraph to true so users benefit from this feature by default. There are several places in the test suite where the environment variable GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH is disabled to avoid reading a commit-graph, if it exists. The config option overrides the environment, so swap these. Some GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH assignments remain, and those are to avoid writing a commit-graph when a new commit is created. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-13repo-settings: consolidate some config settingsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+25
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>