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2005-12-20Racy GIT (part #2)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+13
The previous round caught the most trivial case well, but broke down once index file is updated again. Smudge problematic entries (they should be very few if any under normal interactive workflow) before writing a new index file out. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-20Racy GITLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+24
This fixes the longstanding "Racy GIT" problem, which was pretty much there from the beginning of time, but was first demonstrated by Pasky in this message on October 24, 2005: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=113014629716878 If you run the following sequence of commands: echo frotz >infocom git update-index --add infocom echo xyzzy >infocom so that the second update to file "infocom" does not change st_mtime, what is recorded as the stat information for the cache entry "infocom" exactly matches what is on the filesystem (owner, group, inum, mtime, ctime, mode, length). After this sequence, we incorrectly think "infocom" file still has string "frotz" in it, and get really confused. E.g. git-diff-files would say there is no change, git-update-index --refresh would not even look at the filesystem to correct the situation. Some ways of working around this issue were already suggested by Linus in the same thread on the same day, including waiting until the next second before returning from update-index if a cache entry written out has the current timestamp, but that means we can make at most one commit per second, and given that the e-mail patch workflow used by Linus needs to process at least 5 commits per second, it is not an acceptable solution. Linus notes that git-apply is primarily used to update the index while processing e-mailed patches, which is true, and git-apply's up-to-date check is fooled by the same problem but luckily in the other direction, so it is not really a big issue, but still it is disturbing. The function ce_match_stat() is called to bypass the comparison against filesystem data when the stat data recorded in the cache entry matches what stat() returns from the filesystem. This patch tackles the problem by changing it to actually go to the filesystem data for cache entries that have the same mtime as the index file itself. This works as long as the index file and working tree files are on the filesystems that share the same monotonic clock. Files on network mounted filesystems sometimes get skewed timestamps compared to "date" output, but as long as working tree files' timestamps are skewed the same way as the index file's, this approach still works. The only problematic files are the ones that have the same timestamp as the index file's, because two file updates that sandwitch the index file update must happen within the same second to trigger the problem. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>