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2020-07-30t6500: specify test values for SHA-256Libravatar brian m. carlson1-5/+22
In this test, we want to produce several blobs whose first two hex characters are "17", since we look at this object directory as a proxy for how many loose objects there are before we need to GC. Use test_oid_cache to specify strings that will hash to the right values when turned into blobs. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-27commit-graph: use start_delayed_progress()Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+2
When writing a commit-graph, we show progress along several commit walks. When we use start_delayed_progress(), the progress line will only appear if that step takes a decent amount of time. However, one place was missed: computing generation numbers. This is normally a very fast operation as all commits have been parsed in a previous step. But, this is showing up for all users no matter how few commits are being added. The tests that check for the progress output have already been updated to use GIT_PROGRESS_DELAY=0 to force the expected output. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reported-by: ryenus <ryenus@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-27progress: create GIT_PROGRESS_DELAYLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-2/+1
The start_delayed_progress() method is a preferred way to show optional progress to users as it ignores steps that take less than two seconds. However, this makes testing unreliable as tests expect to be very fast. In addition, users may want to decrease or increase this time interval depending on their preferences for terminal noise. Create the GIT_PROGRESS_DELAY environment variable to control the delay set during start_delayed_progress(). Set the value in some tests to guarantee their output remains consistent. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28server-info: do not list unlinked packsLibravatar Eric Wong1-0/+2
Having non-existent packs in objects/info/packs causes dumb HTTP clients to abort. v2: use single loop with ALLOC_GROW as suggested by Jeff King Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-19Merge branch 'js/t6500-use-windows-pid-on-mingw'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+9
Future-proof a test against an update to MSYS2 runtime v3.x series. * js/t6500-use-windows-pid-on-mingw: t6500(mingw): use the Windows PID of the shell
2019-05-08t6500(mingw): use the Windows PID of the shellLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+9
In Git for Windows, we use the MSYS2 Bash which inherits a non-standard PID model from Cygwin's POSIX emulation layer: every MSYS2 process has a regular Windows PID, and in addition it has an MSYS2 PID (which corresponds to a shadow process that emulates Unix-style signal handling). With the upgrade to the MSYS2 runtime v3.x, this shadow process cannot be accessed via `OpenProcess()` any longer, and therefore t6500 thought incorrectly that the process referenced in `gc.pid` (which is not actually a real `gc` process in this context, but the current shell) no longer exists. Let's fix this by making sure that the Windows PID is written into `gc.pid` in this test script so that `git.exe` is able to understand that that process does indeed still exist. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01gc: handle & check gc.reflogExpire configLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+19
Don't redundantly run "git reflog expire --all" when gc.reflogExpire and gc.reflogExpireUnreachable are set to "never", and die immediately if those configuration valuer are bad. As an earlier "assert lack of early exit" change to the tests for "git reflog expire" shows, an early check of gc.reflogExpire{Unreachable,} isn't wanted in general for "git reflog expire", but it makes sense for "gc" because: 1) Similarly to 8ab5aa4bd8 ("parseopt: handle malformed --expire arguments more nicely", 2018-04-21) we'll now die early if the config variables are set to invalid values. We run "pack-refs" before "reflog expire", which can take a while, only to then die on an invalid gc.reflogExpire{Unreachable,} configuration. 2) Not invoking the command at all means it won't show up in trace output, which makes what's going on more obvious when the two are set to "never". 3) As a later change documents we lock the refs when looping over the refs to expire, even in cases where we end up doing nothing due to this config. For the reasons noted in the earlier "assert lack of early exit" change I don't think it's worth it to bend over backwards in "git reflog expire" itself to carefully detect if we'll really do nothing given the combination of all its possible options and skip that locking, but that's easy to detect here in "gc" where we'll only run "reflog expire" in a relatively simple mode. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-16Merge branch 'jn/gc-auto'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
"gc --auto" ended up calling exit(-1) upon error, which has been corrected to use exit(1). Also the error reporting behaviour when daemonized has been updated to exit with zero status when stopping due to a previously discovered error (which implies there is no point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with failure in such a case. * jn/gc-auto: gc: do not return error for prior errors in daemonized mode
2018-10-16Merge branch 'jn/gc-auto-prep'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Code clean-up. * jn/gc-auto-prep: gc: exit with status 128 on failure gc: improve handling of errors reading gc.log
2018-09-20gc: fix regression in 7b0f229222 impacting --quietLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+21
Fix a regression in my recent 7b0f229222 ("commit-graph write: add progress output", 2018-09-17). The newly added progress output for "commit-graph write" didn't check the --quiet option. Do so, and add a test asserting that this works as expected. Since the TTY prequisite isn't available everywhere let's add a version of this that both requires and doesn't require that. This test might be overly specific and will break if new progress output is added, but I think it'll serve as a good reminder to test the undertested progress mode(s). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-17gc: do not return error for prior errors in daemonized modeLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-3/+3
Some build machines started consistently failing to fetch updated source using "repo sync", with error error: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the root cause and remove /build/.repo/projects/tools/git.git/gc.log. Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is removed. warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' to remove them. The cause takes some time to describe. In v2.0.0-rc0~145^2 (gc: config option for running --auto in background, 2014-02-08), "git gc --auto" learned to run in the background instead of blocking the invoking command. In this mode, it closed stderr to avoid interleaving output with any subsequent commands, causing warnings like the above to be swallowed; v2.6.3~24^2 (gc: save log from daemonized gc --auto and print it next time, 2015-09-19) addressed that by storing any diagnostic output in .git/gc.log and allowing the next "git gc --auto" run to print it. To avoid wasteful repeated fruitless gcs, when gc.log is present, the subsequent "gc --auto" would die after printing its contents. Most git commands, such as "git fetch", ignore the exit status from "git gc --auto" so all is well at this point: the user gets to see the error message, and the fetch succeeds, without a wasteful additional attempt at an automatic gc. External tools like repo[1], though, do care about the exit status from "git gc --auto". In non-daemonized mode, the exit status is straightforward: if there is an error, it is nonzero, but after a warning like the above, the status is zero. The daemonized mode, as a side effect of the other properties provided, offers a very strange exit code convention: - if no housekeeping was required, the exit status is 0 - the first real run, after forking into the background, returns exit status 0 unconditionally. The parent process has no way to know whether gc will succeed. - if there is any diagnostic output in gc.log, subsequent runs return a nonzero exit status to indicate that gc was not triggered. There's nothing for the calling program to act on on the basis of that error. Use status 0 consistently instead, to indicate that we decided not to run a gc (just like if no housekeeping was required). This way, repo and similar tools can get the benefit of the same behavior as tools like "git fetch" that ignore the exit status from gc --auto. Once the period of time described by gc.pruneExpire elapses, the unreachable loose objects will be removed by "git gc --auto" automatically. [1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/10598/ Reported-by: Andrii Dehtiarov <adehtiarov@google.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-17gc: exit with status 128 on failureLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
A value of -1 returned from cmd_gc gets propagated to exit(), resulting in an exit status of 255. Use die instead for a clearer error message and a controlled exit. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-16gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad"Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+7
pack-objects could be a big memory hog especially on large repos, everybody knows that. The suggestion to stick a .keep file on the giant base pack to avoid this problem is also known for a long time. Recent patches add an option to do just this, but it has to be either configured or activated manually. This patch lets `git gc --auto` activate this mode automatically when it thinks `repack -ad` will use a lot of memory and start affecting the system due to swapping or flushing OS cache. gc --auto decides to do this based on an estimation of pack-objects memory usage, which is quite accurate at least for the heap part, and whether that fits in half of system memory (the assumption here is for desktop environment where there are many other applications running). This mechanism only kicks in if gc.bigBasePackThreshold is not configured. If it is, it is assumed that the user already knows what they want. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-16gc: add --keep-largest-pack optionLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+25
This adds a new repack mode that combines everything into a secondary pack, leaving the largest pack alone. This could help reduce memory pressure. On linux-2.6.git, valgrind massif reports 1.6GB heap in "pack all" case, and 535MB in "pack all except the base pack" case. We save roughly 1GB memory by excluding the base pack. This should also lower I/O because we don't have to rewrite a giant pack every time (e.g. for linux-2.6.git that's a 1.4GB pack file).. PS. The use of string_list here seems overkill, but we'll need it in the next patch... Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-27t/helper: merge test-chmtime into test-toolLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-12gc: run pre-detach operations under lockLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+21
We normally try to avoid having two auto-gc operations run at the same time, because it wastes resources. This was done long ago in 64a99eb47 (gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is given, 2013-08-08). When we do a detached auto-gc, we run the ref-related commands _before_ detaching, to avoid confusing lock contention. This was done by 62aad1849 (gc --auto: do not lock refs in the background, 2014-05-25). These two features do not interact well. The pre-detach operations are run before we check the gc.pid lock, meaning that on a busy repository we may run many of them concurrently. Ideally we'd take the lock before spawning any operations, and hold it for the duration of the program. This is tricky, though, with the way the pid-file interacts with the daemonize() process. Other processes will check that the pid recorded in the pid-file still exists. But detaching causes us to fork and continue running under a new pid. So if we take the lock before detaching, the pid-file will have a bogus pid in it. We'd have to go back and update it with the new pid after detaching. We'd also have to play some tricks with the tempfile subsystem to tweak the "owner" field, so that the parent process does not clean it up on exit, but the child process does. Instead, we can do something a bit simpler: take the lock only for the duration of the pre-detach work, then detach, then take it again for the post-detach work. Technically, this means that the post-detach lock could lose to another process doing pre-detach work. But in the long run this works out. That second process would then follow-up by doing post-detach work. Unless it was in turn blocked by a third process doing pre-detach work, and so on. This could in theory go on indefinitely, as the pre-detach work does not repack, and so need_to_gc() will continue to trigger. But in each round we are racing between the pre- and post-detach locks. Eventually, one of the post-detach locks will win the race and complete the full gc. So in the worst case, we may racily repeat the pre-detach work, but we would never do so simultaneously (it would happen via a sequence of serialized race-wins). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-16t6500: wait for detached auto gc at the end of the test scriptLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-1/+17
The last test in 't6500-gc', 'background auto gc does not run if gc.log is present and recent but does if it is old', added in a831c06a2 (gc: ignore old gc.log files, 2017-02-10), may sporadically trigger an error message from the test harness: rm: cannot remove 'trash directory.t6500-gc/.git/objects': Directory not empty The test in question ends with executing an auto gc in the backround, which occasionally takes so long that it's still running when 'test_done' is about to remove the trash directory. This 'rm -rf $trash' in the foreground might race with the detached auto gc to create and delete files and directories, and gc might (re-)create a path that 'rm' already visited and removed, triggering the above error message when 'rm' attempts to remove its parent directory. Commit bb05510e5 (t5510: run auto-gc in the foreground, 2016-05-01) fixed the same problem in a different test script by simply disallowing background gc. Unfortunately, what worked there is not applicable here, because the purpose of this test is to check the behavior of a detached auto gc. Make sure that the test doesn't continue before the gc is finished in the background with a clever bit of shell trickery: - Open fd 9 in the shell, to be inherited by the background gc process, because our daemonize() only closes the standard fds 0, 1 and 2. - Duplicate this fd 9 to stdout. - Read 'git gc's stdout, and thus fd 9, through a command substitution. We don't actually care about gc's output, but this construct has two useful properties: - This read blocks until stdout or fd 9 are open. While stdout is closed after the main gc process creates the background process and exits, fd 9 remains open until the backround process exits. - The variable assignment from the command substitution gets its exit status from the command executed within the command substitution, i.e. a failing main gc process will cause the test to fail. Note, that this fd trickery doesn't work on Windows, because due to MSYS limitations the git process only inherits the standard fds 0, 1 and 2 from the shell. Luckily, it doesn't matter in this case, because on Windows daemonize() is basically a noop, thus 'git gc --auto' always runs in the foreground. And since we can now continue the test reliably after the detached gc finished, check that there is only a single packfile left at the end, i.e. that the detached gc actually did what it was supposed to do. Also add a comment at the end of the test script to warn developers of future tests about this issue of long running detached gc processes. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-13gc: ignore old gc.log filesLibravatar David Turner1-0/+15
A server can end up in a state where there are lots of unreferenced loose objects (say, because many users are doing a bunch of rebasing and pushing their rebased branches). Running "git gc --auto" in this state would cause a gc.log file to be created, preventing future auto gcs, causing pack files to pile up. Since many git operations are O(n) in the number of pack files, this would lead to poor performance. Git should never get itself into a state where it refuses to do any maintenance, just because at some point some piece of the maintenance didn't make progress. Teach Git to ignore gc.log files which are older than (by default) one day old, which can be tweaked via the gc.logExpiry configuration variable. That way, these pack files will get cleaned up, if necessary, at least once per day. And operators who find a need for more-frequent gcs can adjust gc.logExpiry to meet their needs. There is also some cleanup: a successful manual gc, or a warning-free auto gc with an old log file, will remove any old gc.log files. It might still happen that manual intervention is required (e.g. because the repo is corrupt), but at the very least it won't be because Git is too dumb to try again. Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-29auto gc: don't write bitmaps for incremental repacksLibravatar David Turner1-0/+25
When git gc --auto does an incremental repack of loose objects, we do not expect to be able to write a bitmap; it is very likely that objects in the new pack will have references to objects outside of the pack. So we shouldn't try to write a bitmap, because doing so will likely issue a warning. This warning was making its way into gc.log. When the gc.log was present, future auto gc runs would refuse to run. Patch by Jeff King. Bug report, test, and commit message by David Turner. Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-08pack-objects: do not get distracted by broken symrefsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
It is quite possible for, say, a remote HEAD to become broken, e.g. when the default branch was renamed. We should still be able to pack our objects when such a thing happens; simply ignore broken symrefs (because they cannot matter for the packing process anyway). This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/423 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05gc: demonstrate failure with stale remote HEADLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+13
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-18gc: remove gc.pid file at end of executionLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-0/+5
This file isn't really harmful, but isn't useful either, and can create minor annoyance for the user: * It's confusing, as the presence of a *.pid file often implies that a process is currently running. A user running "ls .git/" and finding this file may incorrectly guess that a "git gc" is currently running. * Leaving this file means that a "git gc" in an already gc-ed repo is no-longer a no-op. A user running "git gc" in a set of repositories, and then synchronizing this set (e.g. rsync -av, unison, ...) will see all the gc.pid files as changed, which creates useless noise. This patch unlinks the file after the garbage collection is done, so that gc.pid is actually present only during execution. Future versions of Git may want to use the information left in the gc.pid file (e.g. for policies like "don't attempt to run a gc if one has already been ran less than X hours ago"). If so, this patch can safely be reverted. For now, let's not bother the users. Explained-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Improved-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-27Fix tests under GETTEXT_POISON on parseoptLibravatar Jiang Xin1-2/+2
Use the i18n-specific test functions in test scripts for parseopt tests. This issue was was introduced in v1.7.10.1-488-g54e6d: 54e6d i18n: parseopt: lookup help and argument translations when showing usage and been broken under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease since. Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-22gc -h: show usage even with broken configurationLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+28
Given a request for command-line usage information rather than some more substantial action, the only friendly thing to do is to report the usage information as soon as possible and exit. Without this change, as "git gc" glances over the repository, it can be distracted by the desire to report a malformed configuration file. Noticed while working through reports from Duy's repository access checker. [jn: with rewritten log message and tests] Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>