Commit Briefs

Thomas Adam

map delta cache file into memory if possible while writing a pack file

with a fix from + ok op@


Thomas Adam

fix load_object_ids() such that packing tags works if zero commits are packed

reported by jrick and op


Thomas Adam

run the search for deltas to reuse in got-read-pack

This significantly speeds up the deltification step of packing by avoiding imsg traffic. gotadmin no longer requests individual raw deltas from got-read-pack to check whether it can reuse them. Instead, got-read-pack obtains a list of objects we want to pack, and hands back the list of all deltas in its pack file which can be reused. Messages are now batched such that imsg buffers are filled as much as possible. Another advantage is that deltas we are not going to reuse will no longer be written to the delta cache file, saving disk space. Before this patch, any raw delta candidate was written to the delta cache file by got-read-pack, and the decision whether to reuse the delta happened afterwards in the gotadmin process. Code for reading individual raw deltas is now unused and could be removed at some point. ok op@




Thomas Adam

store deltas in compressed form while packing, both in memory and cache file

This reduces memory and disk space consumption during packing. with tweaks + memleak on error fix from op@ ok op@



Thomas Adam

inline struct got_object_id in struct got_object_qid

Saves us from doing a malloc/free call for every item on the list. ok op@


Thomas Adam

reimplement object-ID set data structure on top of a hash table

Siphash suggested by jrick as a better alternative to murmurhash for this use case. with small fixes from and ok op@


Thomas Adam

speed up initial stage of packing by adding a "skip" commit color

The skip color marks boundary commits and their ancestors. Boundary commits are reachable both via references which we want to exclude from the pack, and via references which we want to include in the pack. We continue processing commit history up to the point we are left with only skip commits on the queue. This can speed up findtwixt() significantly and avoids wrong results produced by the old algorithm which made no distinction between "drop" and "skip". This idea was first implemented by Michael Forney for git9: https://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/2e47badb88312c5c045a8042dc2ef80148e5ab47/commit.html Michael's log message for git9 is reproduced below: git/query: refactor graph painting algorithm (findtwixt, lca) We now keep track of 3 sets during traversal: - keep: commits we've reached from head commits - drop: commits we've reached from tail commits - skip: ancestors of commits in both 'keep' and 'drop' Commits in 'keep' and/or 'drop' may be added later to the 'skip' set if we discover later that they are part of a common subgraph of the head and tail commits. From these sets we can calculate the commits we are interested in: lca commits are those in 'keep' and 'drop', but not in 'skip'. findtwixt commits are those in 'keep', but not in 'drop' or 'skip'. The "LCA" commit returned is a common ancestor such that there are no other common ancestors that can reach that commit. Although there can be multiple commits that meet this criteria, where one is technically lower on the commit-graph than the other, these cases only happen in complex merge arrangements and any choice is likely a decent merge base. Repainting is now done in paint() directly. When we find a boundary commit, we switch our paint color to 'skip'. 'skip' painting does not stop when it hits another color; we continue until we are left with only 'skip' commits on the queue. This fixes several mishandled cases in the current algorithm: 1. If we hit the common subgraph from tail commits first (if the tail commit was newer than the head commit), we ended up traversing the entire commit graph. This is because we couldn't distinguish between 'drop' commits that were part of the common subgraph, and those that were still looking for it. 2. If we traversed through an initial part of the common subgraph from head commits before reaching it from tail commits, these commits were returned from findtwixt even though they were also reachable from tail commits. 3. In the same case as 2, we might end up choosing an incorrect commit as the LCA, which is an ancestor of the real LCA.



Thomas Adam

revert 03c03172 "drop a commit right away if it matches an excluded commit"

This change resulted in a full history walk even when no objects will be added to the pack file. Fix this regression by reverting the change.








Thomas Adam

in load_object_ids(), process "their" commits and tags in the same loop

No functional change, the end result is the same.


Thomas Adam

fix pack progress object counter for loose objects

Move pack progres object accounting to a single place. This makes it easier to account for the case were only loose objects are packed. A wrong amount of objects was reported before when packing loose ones.





Thomas Adam

print additional progress information while packing

ok op@


Thomas Adam

cache a list of known pack index files when the repository is opened

Avoids overhead due to readdir calls while searching a pack index. ok op@