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A long time ago, we decided to run tests in Git for Windows' SDK with the default `winsymlinks` mode: copying instead of linking. This is still the default mode of MSYS2 to this day. However, this is not how most users run Git for Windows: As the majority of Git for Windows' users seem to be on Windows 10 and newer, likely having enabled Developer Mode (which allows creating symbolic links without administrator privileges), they will run with symlink support enabled. This is the reason why it is crucial to get the fixes for CVE-2024-? to the users, and also why it is crucial to ensure that the test suite exercises the related test cases. This commit ensures the latter. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
The pack_name_hash() method has not been materially changed since it was introduced in ce0bd64 (pack-objects: improve path grouping heuristics., 2006-06-05). The intention here is to group objects by path name, but also attempt to group similar file types together by making the most-significant digits of the hash be focused on the final characters. Here's the crux of the implementation: /* * This effectively just creates a sortable number from the * last sixteen non-whitespace characters. Last characters * count "most", so things that end in ".c" sort together. */ while ((c = *name++) != 0) { if (isspace(c)) continue; hash = (hash >> 2) + (c << 24); } As the comment mentions, this only cares about the last sixteen non-whitespace characters. This cause some filenames to collide more than others. Here are some examples that I've seen while investigating repositories that are growing more than they should be: * "/CHANGELOG.json" is 15 characters, and is created by the beachball [1] tool. Only the final character of the parent directory can differntiate different versions of this file, but also only the two most-significant digits. If that character is a letter, then this is always a collision. Similar issues occur with the similar "/CHANGELOG.md" path, though there is more opportunity for differences in the parent directory. * Localization files frequently have common filenames but differentiate via parent directories. In C#, the name "/strings.resx.lcl" is used for these localization files and they will all collide in name-hash. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/beachball I've come across many other examples where some internal tool uses a common name across multiple directories and is causing Git to repack poorly due to name-hash collisions. It is clear that the existing name-hash algorithm is optimized for repositories with short path names, but also is optimized for packing a single snapshot of a repository, not a repository with many versions of the same file. In my testing, this has proven out where the name-hash algorithm does a good job of finding peer files as delta bases when unable to use a historical version of that exact file. However, for repositories that have many versions of most files and directories, it is more important that the objects that appear at the same path are grouped together. Create a new pack_full_name_hash() method and a new --full-name-hash option for 'git pack-objects' to call that method instead. Add a simple pass-through for 'git repack --full-name-hash' for additional testing in the context of a full repack, where I expect this will be most effective. The hash algorithm is as simple as possible to be reasonably effective: for each character of the path string, add a multiple of that character and a large prime number (chosen arbitrarily, but intended to be large relative to the size of a uint32_t). Then, shift the current hash value to the right by 5, with overlap. The addition and shift parameters are standard mechanisms for creating hard-to-predict behaviors in the bits of the resulting hash. This is not meant to be cryptographic at all, but uniformly distributed across the possible hash values. This creates a hash that appears pseudorandom. There is no ability to consider similar file types as being close to each other. In a later change, a test-tool will be added so the effectiveness of this hash can be demonstrated directly. For now, let's consider how effective this mechanism is when repacking a repository with and without the --full-name-hash option. Specifically, let's use 'git repack -adf [--full-name-hash]' as our test. On the Git repository, we do not expect much difference. All path names are short. This is backed by our results: | Stage | Pack Size | Repack Time | |-----------------------|-----------|-------------| | After clone | 260 MB | N/A | | Standard Repack | 127MB | 106s | | With --full-name-hash | 126 MB | 99s | This example demonstrates how there is some natural overhead coming from the cloned copy because the server is hosting many forks and has not optimized for exactly this set of reachable objects. But the full repack has similar characteristics with and without --full-name-hash. However, we can test this in a repository that uses one of the problematic naming conventions above. The fluentui [2] repo uses beachball to generate CHANGELOG.json and CHANGELOG.md files, and these files have very poor delta characteristics when comparing against versions across parent directories. | Stage | Pack Size | Repack Time | |-----------------------|-----------|-------------| | After clone | 694 MB | N/A | | Standard Repack | 438 MB | 728s | | With --full-name-hash | 168 MB | 142s | [2] https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui In this example, we see significant gains in the compressed packfile size as well as the time taken to compute the packfile. Using a collection of repositories that use the beachball tool, I was able to make similar comparisions with dramatic results. While the fluentui repo is public, the others are private so cannot be shared for reproduction. The results are so significant that I find it important to share here: | Repo | Standard Repack | With --full-name-hash | |----------|-----------------|-----------------------| | fluentui | 438 MB | 168 MB | | Repo B | 6,255 MB | 829 MB | | Repo C | 37,737 MB | 7,125 MB | | Repo D | 130,049 MB | 6,190 MB | Future changes could include making --full-name-hash implied by a config value or even implied by default during a full repack. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
The new '--full-name-hash' option for 'git repack' is a simple pass-through to the underlying 'git pack-objects' subcommand. However, this subcommand may have other options and a temporary filename as part of the subcommand execution that may not be predictable or could change over time. The existing test_subcommand method requires an exact list of arguments for the subcommand. This is too rigid for our needs here, so create a new method, test_subcommand_flex. Use it to check that the --full-name-hash option is passing through. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Add a new environment variable to opt-in to the --full-name-hash option in 'git pack-objects'. This allows for extra testing of the feature without repeating all of the test scenarios. But this option isn't free. There are a few tests that change behavior with the variable enabled. First, there are a few tests that are very sensitive to certain delta bases being picked. These are both involving the generation of thin bundles and then counting their objects via 'git index-pack --fix-thin' which pulls the delta base into the new packfile. For these tests, disable the option as a decent long-term option. Second, there are two tests in t5616-partial-clone.sh that I believe are actually broken scenarios. While the client is set up to clone the 'promisor-server' repo via a treeless partial clone filter (tree:0), that filter does not translate to the 'server' repo. Thus, fetching from these repos causes the server to think that the client has all reachable trees and blobs from the commits advertised as 'haves'. This leads the server to providing a thin pack assuming those objects as delta bases. Changing the name-hash algorithm presents new delta bases and thus breaks the expectations of these tests. An alternative could be to set up 'server' as a promisor server with the correct filter enabled. This may also point out more issues with partial clone being set up as a remote-based filtering mechanism and not a repository-wide setting. For now, do the minimal change to make the test work by disabling the test variable. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
The `__MINGW64__` constant is defined, surprise, surprise, only when
building for a 64-bit CPU architecture.
Therefore using it as a guard to define `_POSIX_C_SOURCE` (so that
`localtime_r()` is declared, among other functions) is not enough, we
also need to check `__MINGW32__`.
Technically, the latter constant is defined even for 64-bit builds. But
let's make things a bit easier to understand by testing for both
constants.
Making it so fixes this compile warning (turned error in GCC v14.1):
archive-zip.c: In function 'dos_time':
archive-zip.c:612:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'localtime_r';
did you mean 'localtime_s'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
612 | localtime_r(&time, &tm);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
| localtime_s
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
In order to be a better Windows citizenship, Git should save its configuration files on AppData folder. This can enables git configuration files be replicated between machines using the same Microsoft account logon which would reduce the friction of setting up Git on new systems. Therefore, if %APPDATA%\Git\config exists, we use it; otherwise $HOME/.config/git/config is used. Signed-off-by: Ariel Lourenco <[email protected]>
Git LFS is now built with Go 1.21 which no longer supports Windows 7. However, Git for Windows still wants to support Windows 7. Ideally, Git LFS would re-introduce Windows 7 support until Git for Windows drops support for Windows 7, but that's not going to happen: git-for-windows#4996 (comment) The next best thing we can do is to let the users know what is happening, and how to get out of their fix, at least. This is not quite as easy as it would first seem because programs compiled with Go 1.21 or newer will simply throw an exception and fail with an Access Violation on Windows 7. The only way I found to address this is to replicate the logic from Go's very own `version` command (which can determine the Go version with which a given executable was built) to detect the situation, and in that case offer a helpful error message. This addresses git-for-windows#4996. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
As reported in https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/, libcurl v8.10.0 had a regression that was picked up by Git's t5559.30 "large fetch-pack requests can be sent using chunked encoding". This bug was fixed in libcurl v8.10.1. Sadly, the macos-13 runner image was updated in the brief window between these two libcurl versions, breaking each and every CI build, as reported at git-for-windows#5159. This would usually not matter, we would just ignore the failing CI builds until the macos-13 runner image is rebuilt in a couple of days, and then the CI builds would succeed again. However. As has become the custom, a surprise Git version was released, and now that Git for Windows wants to follow suit, since Git for Windows has this custom of trying to never release a version with a failing CI build, we _must_ work around it. This patch implements this work-around, basically for the sake of Git for Windows v2.46.2's CI build. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
In anticipation of a few planned applications, introduce the most basic form of a path-walk API. It currently assumes that there are no UNINTERESTING objects, and does not include any complicated filters. It calls a function pointer on groups of tree and blob objects as grouped by path. This only includes objects the first time they are discovered, so an object that appears at multiple paths will not be included in two batches. There are many future adaptations that could be made, but they are left for future updates when consumers are ready to take advantage of those features. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
This also adds the '--full-name-hash' option introduced in the previous change and adds newlines to the synopsis. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Add some tests based on the current behavior, doing interesting checks for different sets of branches, ranges, and the --boundary option. This sets a baseline for the behavior and we can extend it as new options are introduced. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
As custom options are added to 'git pack-objects' and 'git repack' to adjust how compression is done, use this new performance test script to demonstrate their effectiveness in performance and size. The recently-added --full-name-hash option swaps the default name-hash algorithm with one that attempts to uniformly distribute the hashes based on the full path name instead of the last 16 characters. This has a dramatic effect on full repacks for repositories with many versions of most paths. It can have a negative impact on cases such as pushing a single change. This can be seen by running pt5313 on the open source fluentui repository [1]. Most commits will have this kind of output for the thin and big pack cases, though certain commits (such as [2]) will have problematic thin pack size for other reasons. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui [2] a637a06df05360ce5ff21420803f64608226a875 Checked out at the parent of [2], I see the following statistics: Test this tree ------------------------------------------------------------------ 5313.2: thin pack 0.02(0.01+0.01) 5313.3: thin pack size 1.1K 5313.4: thin pack with --full-name-hash 0.02(0.01+0.00) 5313.5: thin pack size with --full-name-hash 3.0K 5313.6: big pack 1.65(3.35+0.24) 5313.7: big pack size 58.0M 5313.8: big pack with --full-name-hash 1.53(2.52+0.18) 5313.9: big pack size with --full-name-hash 57.6M 5313.10: repack 176.52(706.60+3.53) 5313.11: repack size 446.7K 5313.12: repack with --full-name-hash 37.47(134.18+3.06) 5313.13: repack size with --full-name-hash 183.1K Note that this demonstrates a 3x size _increase_ in the case that simulates a small "git push". The size change is neutral on the case of pushing the difference between HEAD and HEAD~1000. However, the full repack case is both faster and more efficient. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
We add the ability to filter the object types in the path-walk API so the callback function is called fewer times. This adds the ability to ask for the commits in a list, as well. Future changes will add the ability to visit annotated tags. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Add a new test-tool helper, name-hash, to output the value of the name-hash algorithms for the input list of strings, one per line. Since the name-hash values can be stored in the .bitmap files, it is important that these hash functions do not change across Git versions. Add a simple test to t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh to provide some testing of the current values. Due to how these functions are implemented, it would be difficult to change them without disturbing these values. Create a performance test that uses test_size to demonstrate how collisions occur for these hash algorithms. This test helps inform someone as to the behavior of the name-hash algorithms for their repo based on the paths at HEAD. My copy of the Git repository shows modest statistics around the collisions of the default name-hash algorithm: Test this tree ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5314.1: paths at head 4.5K 5314.2: number of distinct name-hashes 4.1K 5314.3: number of distinct full-name-hashes 4.5K 5314.4: maximum multiplicity of name-hashes 13 5314.5: maximum multiplicity of fullname-hashes 1 Here, the maximum collision multiplicity is 13, but around 10% of paths have a collision with another path. In a more interesting example, the microsoft/fluentui [1] repo had these statistics at time of committing: Test this tree ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5314.1: paths at head 19.6K 5314.2: number of distinct name-hashes 8.2K 5314.3: number of distinct full-name-hashes 19.6K 5314.4: maximum multiplicity of name-hashes 279 5314.5: maximum multiplicity of fullname-hashes 1 [1] https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui That demonstrates that of the nearly twenty thousand path names, they are assigned around eight thousand distinct values. 279 paths are assigned to a single value, leading the packing algorithm to sort objects from those paths together, by size. In this repository, no collisions occur for the full-name-hash algorithm. In a more extreme example, an internal monorepo had a much worse collision rate: Test this tree ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5314.1: paths at head 221.6K 5314.2: number of distinct name-hashes 72.0K 5314.3: number of distinct full-name-hashes 221.6K 5314.4: maximum multiplicity of name-hashes 14.4K 5314.5: maximum multiplicity of fullname-hashes 2 Even in this repository with many more paths at HEAD, the collision rate was low and the maximum number of paths being grouped into a single bucket by the full-path-name algorithm was two. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
In anticipation of using the path-walk API to analyze tags or include them in a pack-file, add the ability to walk the tags that were included in the revision walk. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
This option is still under discussion on the Git mailing list. We still would like to have some real-world data, and the best way to get it is to get a Git for Windows release into users' hands so that they can test it. Nevertheless, without the official blessing of the Git maintainer, this optionis experimental, and we need to be clear about that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
The sparse tree walk algorithm was created in d5d2e93 (revision: implement sparse algorithm, 2019-01-16) and involves using the mark_trees_uninteresting_sparse() method. This method takes a repository and an oidset of tree IDs, some of which have the UNINTERESTING flag and some of which do not. Create a method that has an equivalent set of preconditions but uses a "dense" walk (recursively visits all reachable trees, as long as they have not previously been marked UNINTERESTING). This is an important difference from mark_tree_uninteresting(), which short-circuits if the given tree has the UNINTERESTING flag. A use of this method will be added in a later change, with a condition set whether the sparse or dense approach should be used. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
This option causes the path-walk API to act like the sparse tree-walk algorithm implemented by mark_trees_uninteresting_sparse() in list-objects.c. Starting from the commits marked as UNINTERESTING, their root trees and all objects reachable from those trees are UNINTERSTING, at least as we walk path-by-path. When we reach a path where all objects associated with that path are marked UNINTERESTING, then do no continue walking the children of that path. We need to be careful to pass the UNINTERESTING flag in a deep way on the UNINTERESTING objects before we start the path-walk, or else the depth-first search for the path-walk API may accidentally report some objects as interesting. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
This will be helpful in a future change. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
In order to more easily compute delta bases among objects that appear at the exact same path, add a --path-walk option to 'git pack-objects'. This option will use the path-walk API instead of the object walk given by the revision machinery. Since objects will be provided in batches representing a common path, those objects can be tested for delta bases immediately instead of waiting for a sort of the full object list by name-hash. This has multiple benefits, including avoiding collisions by name-hash. The objects marked as UNINTERESTING are included in these batches, so we are guaranteeing some locality to find good delta bases. After the individual passes are done on a per-path basis, the default name-hash is used to find other opportunistic delta bases that did not match exactly by the full path name. RFC TODO: It is important to note that this option is inherently incompatible with using a bitmap index. This walk probably also does not work with other advanced features, such as delta islands. Getting ahead of myself, this option compares well with --full-name-hash when the packfile is large enough, but also performs at least as well as the default in all cases that I've seen. RFC TODO: this should probably be recording the batch locations to another list so they could be processed in a second phase using threads. RFC TODO: list some examples of how this outperforms previous pack-objects strategies. (This is coming in later commits that include performance test changes.) Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
There are many tests that validate whether 'git pack-objects' works as expected. Instead of duplicating these tests, add a new test environment variable, GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALK, that implies --path-walk by default when specified. This was useful in testing the implementation of the --path-walk implementation, especially in conjunction with test such as: - t0411-clone-from-partial.sh : One test fetches from a repo that does not have the boundary objects. This causes the path-based walk to fail. Disable the variable for this test. - t5306-pack-nobase.sh : Similar to t0411, one test fetches from a repo without a boundary object. - t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh : One test compares the case when packing with bitmaps to the case when packing without them. Since we disable the test variable when writing bitmaps, this causes a difference in the object list (the --path-walk option adds an extra object). Specify --no-path-walk in both processes for the comparison. Another test checks for a specific delta base, but when computing dynamically without using bitmaps, the base object it too small to be considered in the delta calculations so no base is used. - t5316-pack-delta-depth.sh : This script cares about certain delta choices and their chain lengths. The --path-walk option changes how these chains are selected, and thus changes the results of this test. - t5322-pack-objects-sparse.sh : This demonstrates the effectiveness of the --sparse option and how it combines with --path-walk. - t5332-multi-pack-reuse.sh : This test verifies that the preferred pack is used for delta reuse when possible. The --path-walk option is not currently aware of the preferred pack at all, so finds a different delta base. - t7406-submodule-update.sh : When using the variable, the --depth option collides with the --path-walk feature, resulting in a warning message. Disable the variable so this warning does not appear. I want to call out one specific test change that is only temporary: - t5530-upload-pack-error.sh : One test cares specifically about an "unable to read" error message. Since the current implementation performs delta calculations within the path-walk API callback, a different "unable to get size" error message appears. When this is changed in a future refactoring, this test change can be reverted. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Since 'git pack-objects' supports a --path-walk option, allow passing it through in 'git repack'. This presents interesting testing opportunities for comparing the different repacking strategies against each other. Add the --path-walk option to the performance tests in p5313. For the microsoft/fluentui repo [1] checked out at a specific commit [2], the results are very interesting: Test this tree ------------------------------------------------------------------ 5313.2: thin pack 0.40(0.47+0.04) 5313.3: thin pack size 1.2M 5313.4: thin pack with --full-name-hash 0.09(0.10+0.04) 5313.5: thin pack size with --full-name-hash 22.8K 5313.6: thin pack with --path-walk 0.08(0.06+0.02) 5313.7: thin pack size with --path-walk 20.8K 5313.8: big pack 2.16(8.43+0.23) 5313.9: big pack size 17.7M 5313.10: big pack with --full-name-hash 1.42(3.06+0.21) 5313.11: big pack size with --full-name-hash 18.0M 5313.12: big pack with --path-walk 2.21(8.39+0.24) 5313.13: big pack size with --path-walk 17.8M 5313.14: repack 98.05(662.37+2.64) 5313.15: repack size 449.1K 5313.16: repack with --full-name-hash 33.95(129.44+2.63) 5313.17: repack size with --full-name-hash 182.9K 5313.18: repack with --path-walk 106.21(121.58+0.82) 5313.19: repack size with --path-walk 159.6K [1] https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui [2] e70848ebac1cd720875bccaa3026f4a9ed700e08 This repo suffers from having a lot of paths that collide in the name hash, so examining them in groups by path leads to better deltas. Also, in this case, the single-threaded implementation is competitive with the full repack. This is saving time diffing files that have significant differences from each other. A similar, but private, repo has even more extremes in the thin packs: Test this tree -------------------------------------------------------------- 5313.2: thin pack 2.39(2.91+0.10) 5313.3: thin pack size 4.5M 5313.4: thin pack with --full-name-hash 0.29(0.47+0.12) 5313.5: thin pack size with --full-name-hash 15.5K 5313.6: thin pack with --path-walk 0.35(0.31+0.04) 5313.7: thin pack size with --path-walk 14.2K Notice, however, that while the --full-name-hash version is working quite well in these cases for the thin pack, it does poorly for some other standard cases, such as this test on the Linux kernel repository: Test this tree -------------------------------------------------------------- 5313.2: thin pack 0.01(0.00+0.00) 5313.3: thin pack size 310 5313.4: thin pack with --full-name-hash 0.00(0.00+0.00) 5313.5: thin pack size with --full-name-hash 1.4K 5313.6: thin pack with --path-walk 0.00(0.00+0.00) 5313.7: thin pack size with --path-walk 310 Here, the --full-name-hash option does much worse than the default name hash, but the path-walk option does exactly as well. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Users may want to enable the --path-walk option for 'git pack-objects' by default, especially underneath commands like 'git push' or 'git repack'. This should be limited to client repositories, since the --path-walk option disables bitmap walks, so would be bad to include in Git servers when serving fetches and clones. There is potential that it may be helpful to consider when repacking the repository, to take advantage of improved deltas across historical versions of the same files. Much like how "pack.useSparse" was introduced and included in "feature.experimental" before being enabled by default, use the repository settings infrastructure to make the new "pack.usePathWalk" config enabled by "feature.experimental" and "feature.manyFiles". Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Repositories registered with Scalar are expected to be client-only repositories that are rather large. This means that they are more likely to be good candidates for using the --path-walk option when running 'git pack-objects', especially under the hood of 'git push'. Enable this config in Scalar repositories. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Previously, the --path-walk option to 'git pack-objects' would compute deltas inline with the path-walk logic. This would make the progress indicator look like it is taking a long time to enumerate objects, and then very quickly computed deltas. Instead of computing deltas on each region of objects organized by tree, store a list of regions corresponding to these groups. These can later be pulled from the list for delta compression before doing the "global" delta search. This presents a new progress indicator that can be used in tests to verify that this stage is happening. The current implementation is not integrated with threads, but could be done in a future update. Since we do not attempt to sort objects by size until after exploring all trees, we can remove the previous change to t5530 due to a different error message appearing first. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Adapting the implementation of ll_find_deltas(), create a threaded version of the --path-walk compression step in 'git pack-objects'. This involves adding a 'regions' member to the thread_params struct, allowing each thread to own a section of paths. We can simplify the way jobs are split because there is no value in extending the batch based on name-hash the way sections of the object entry array are attempted to be grouped. We re-use the 'list_size' and 'remaining' items for the purpose of borrowing work in progress from other "victim" threads when a thread has finished its batch of work more quickly. Using the Git repository as a test repo, the p5313 performance test shows that the resulting size of the repo is the same, but the threaded implementation gives gains of varying degrees depending on the number of objects being packed. (This was tested on a 16-core machine.) Test HEAD~1 HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------- 5313.6: thin pack with --path-walk 0.01 0.01 +0.0% 5313.7: thin pack size with --path-walk 475 475 +0.0% 5313.12: big pack with --path-walk 1.99 1.87 -6.0% 5313.13: big pack size with --path-walk 14.4M 14.3M -0.4% 5313.18: repack with --path-walk 98.14 41.46 -57.8% 5313.19: repack size with --path-walk 197.2M 197.3M +0.0% Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
In anticipation of implementing 'git backfill', populate the necessary files with the boilerplate of a new builtin. RFC TODO: When preparing this for a full implementation, make sure it is based on the newest standards introduced by [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/T/#m606036ea2e75a6d6819d6b5c90e729643b0ff7f7 [PATCH 1/3] builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin functions Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
The default behavior of 'git backfill' is to fetch all missing blobs that are reachable from HEAD. Document and test this behavior. The implementation is a very simple use of the path-walk API, initializing the revision walk at HEAD to start the path-walk from all commits reachable from HEAD. Ignore the object arrays that correspond to tree entries, assuming that they are all present already. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Users may want to specify a minimum batch size for their needs. This is only a minimum: the path-walk API provides a list of OIDs that correspond to the same path, and thus it is optimal to allow delta compression across those objects in a single server request. We could consider limiting the request to have a maximum batch size in the future. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
One way to significantly reduce the cost of a Git clone and later fetches is to use a blobless partial clone and combine that with a sparse-checkout that reduces the paths that need to be populated in the working directory. Not only does this reduce the cost of clones and fetches, the sparse-checkout reduces the number of objects needed to download from a promisor remote. However, history investigations can be expensie as computing blob diffs will trigger promisor remote requests for one object at a time. This can be avoided by downloading the blobs needed for the given sparse-checkout using 'git backfill' and its new '--sparse' mode, at a time that the user is willing to pay that extra cost. Note that this is distinctly different from the '--filter=sparse:<oid>' option, as this assumes that the partial clone has all reachable trees and we are using client-side logic to avoid downloading blobs outside of the sparse-checkout cone. This avoids the server-side cost of walking trees while also achieving a similar goal. It also downloads in batches based on similar path names, presenting a resumable download if things are interrupted. This augments the path-walk API to have a possibly-NULL 'pl' member that may point to a 'struct pattern_list'. This could be more general than the sparse-checkout definition at HEAD, but 'git backfill --sparse' is currently the only consumer. Be sure to test this in both cone mode and not cone mode. Cone mode has the benefit that the path-walk can skip certain paths once they would expand beyond the sparse-checkout. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
This was pull request git-for-windows#1645 from ZCube/master Support windows container. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
…ws#4527) With this patch, Git for Windows works as intended on mounted APFS volumes (where renaming read-only files would fail). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Specify symlink type in .gitattributes
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
This patch introduces support to set special NTFS attributes that are interpreted by the Windows Subsystem for Linux as file mode bits, UID and GID. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Handle Ctrl+C in Git Bash nicely Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Switch to batched fsync by default
A fix for calling `vim` in Windows Terminal caused a regression and was reverted. We partially un-revert this, to get the fix again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
This topic branch re-adds the deprecated --stdin/-z options to `git reset`. Those patches were overridden by a different set of options in the upstream Git project before we could propose `--stdin`. We offered this in MinGit to applications that wanted a safer way to pass lots of pathspecs to Git, and these applications will need to be adjusted. Instead of `--stdin`, `--pathspec-from-file=-` should be used, and instead of `-z`, `--pathspec-file-nul`. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Originally introduced as `core.useBuiltinFSMonitor` in Git for Windows and developed, improved and stabilized there, the built-in FSMonitor only made it into upstream Git (after unnecessarily long hemming and hawing and throwing overly perfectionist style review sticks into the spokes) as `core.fsmonitor = true`. In Git for Windows, with this topic branch, we re-introduce the now-obsolete config setting, with warnings suggesting to existing users how to switch to the new config setting, with the intention to ultimately drop the patch at some stage. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
…updates Start monitoring updates of Git for Windows' component in the open
Add a README.md for GitHub goodness. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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This part is expected: It is expected because Git for Windows had to tag v2.47.1.windows.2 about four weeks before the Git project was ready to tag v2.47.2 (using identical fixes, though, apart from the fix for CVE-2024-52005). |
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Heads-up: on hold because of an impending cURL bug-fix release. New tentative release date: Feb 13, 2025. |
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I validated the x86_64 installer manually. Now we're only waiting for the Windows/ARM64 artifacts. |
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The logic was _exactly_ inverted. What it _did_ want to verify was that the commit for which the snapshot was built is reachable from `main`. What it verified instead was that `main`'s tip commit is reachable from said commit. 🤦 I noticed this only today, when a successful `git-artifacts` run in the v2.48.1 PR at git-for-windows/git#5411 tried to upload a snapshot, and the (correct) ahead/behind by logic in the `upload-artifacts` workflow failed (but then succeeded when I re-ran the workflow after releasing Git for Windows v2.48.1). Let's invert the logic so that it does what it is supposed to do. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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I finally have enough confidence in the current state (especially after #5376).