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2024-11-21ref: check whether the target of the symref is a refshejialuo4-2/+51
Ideally, we want to the users use "git symbolic-ref" to create symrefs instead of writing raw contents into the filesystem. However, "git symbolic-ref" is strict with the refname but not strict with the referent. For example, we can make the "referent" located at the "$(gitdir)/logs/aaa" and manually write the content into this where we can still successfully parse this symref by using "git rev-parse". $ git init repo && cd repo && git commit --allow-empty -mx $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/test logs/aaa $ echo $(git rev-parse HEAD) > .git/logs/aaa $ git rev-parse test We may need to add some restrictions for "referent" parameter when using "git symbolic-ref" to create symrefs because ideally all the nonpseudo-refs should be located under the "refs" directory and we may tighten this in the future. In order to tell the user we may tighten the above situation, create a new fsck message "symrefTargetIsNotARef" to notify the user that this may become an error in the future. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: add basic symref content check for files backendshejialuo4-0/+155
We have code that checks regular ref contents, but we do not yet check the contents of symbolic refs. By using "parse_loose_ref_content" for symbolic refs, we will get the information of the "referent". We do not need to check the "referent" by opening the file. This is because if "referent" exists in the file system, we will eventually check its correctness by inspecting every file in the "refs" directory. If the "referent" does not exist in the filesystem, this is OK as it is seen as the dangling symref. So we just need to check the "referent" string content. A regular ref could be accepted as a textual symref if it begins with "ref:", followed by zero or more whitespaces, followed by the full refname, followed only by whitespace characters. However, we always write a single SP after "ref:" and a single LF after the refname. It may seem that we should report a fsck error message when the "referent" does not apply above rules and we should not be so aggressive because third-party reimplementations of Git may have taken advantage of the looser syntax. Put it more specific, we accept the following contents: 1. "ref: refs/heads/master " 2. "ref: refs/heads/master \n \n" 3. "ref: refs/heads/master\n\n" When introducing the regular ref content checks, we created two fsck infos "refMissingNewline" and "trailingRefContent" which exactly represents above situations. So we will reuse these two fsck messages to write checks to info the user about these situations. But we do not allow any other trailing garbage. The followings are bad symref contents which will be reported as fsck error by "git-fsck(1)". 1. "ref: refs/heads/master garbage\n" 2. "ref: refs/heads/master \n\n\n garbage " And we introduce a new "badReferentName(ERROR)" fsck message to report above errors by using "is_root_ref" and "check_refname_format" to check the "referent". Since both "is_root_ref" and "check_refname_format" don't work with whitespaces, we use the trimmed version of "referent" with these functions. In order to add checks, we will do the following things: 1. Record the untrimmed length "orig_len" and untrimmed last byte "orig_last_byte". 2. Use "strbuf_rtrim" to trim the whitespaces or newlines to make sure "is_root_ref" and "check_refname_format" won't be failed by them. 3. Use "orig_len" and "orig_last_byte" to check whether the "referent" misses '\n' at the end or it has trailing whitespaces or newlines. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: add more strict checks for regular refsshejialuo6-7/+96
We have already used "parse_loose_ref_contents" function to check whether the ref content is valid in files backend. However, by using "parse_loose_ref_contents", we allow the ref's content to end with garbage or without a newline. Even though we never create such loose refs ourselves, we have accepted such loose refs. So, it is entirely possible that some third-party tools may rely on such loose refs being valid. We should not report an error fsck message at current. We should notify the users about such "curiously formatted" loose refs so that adequate care is taken before we decide to tighten the rules in the future. And it's not suitable either to report a warn fsck message to the user. We don't yet want the "--strict" flag that controls this bit to end up generating errors for such weirdly-formatted reference contents, as we first want to assess whether this retroactive tightening will cause issues for any tools out there. It may cause compatibility issues which may break the repository. So, we add the following two fsck infos to represent the situation where the ref content ends without newline or has trailing garbages: 1. refMissingNewline(INFO): A loose ref that does not end with newline(LF). 2. trailingRefContent(INFO): A loose ref has trailing content. It might appear that we can't provide the user with any warnings by using FSCK_INFO. However, in "fsck.c::fsck_vreport", we will convert FSCK_INFO to FSCK_WARN and we can still warn the user about these situations when using "git refs verify" without introducing compatibility issues. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: port git-fsck(1) regular refs check for files backendshejialuo4-0/+156
"git-fsck(1)" implicitly checks the ref content by passing the callback "fsck_handle_ref" to the "refs.c::refs_for_each_rawref". Then, it will check whether the ref content (eventually "oid") is valid. If not, it will report the following error to the user. error: refs/heads/main: invalid sha1 pointer 0000... And it will also report above errors when there are dangling symrefs in the repository wrongly. This does not align with the behavior of the "git symbolic-ref" command which allows users to create dangling symrefs. As we have already introduced the "git refs verify" command, we'd better check the ref content explicitly in the "git refs verify" command thus later we could remove these checks in "git-fsck(1)" and launch a subprocess to call "git refs verify" in "git-fsck(1)" to make the "git-fsck(1)" more clean. Following what "git-fsck(1)" does, add a similar check to "git refs verify". Then add a new fsck error message "badRefContent(ERROR)" to represent that a ref has an invalid content. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: support multiple worktrees check for refsshejialuo9-15/+90
We have already set up the infrastructure to check the consistency for refs, but we do not support multiple worktrees. However, "git-fsck(1)" will check the refs of worktrees. As we decide to get feature parity with "git-fsck(1)", we need to set up support for multiple worktrees. Because each worktree has its own specific refs, instead of just showing the users "refs/worktree/foo", we need to display the full name such as "worktrees/<id>/refs/worktree/foo". So we should know the id of the worktree to get the full name. Add a new parameter "struct worktree *" for "refs-internal.h::fsck_fn". Then change the related functions to follow this new interface. The "packed-refs" only exists in the main worktree, so we should only check "packed-refs" in the main worktree. Use "is_main_worktree" method to skip checking "packed-refs" in "packed_fsck" function. Then, enhance the "files-backend.c::files_fsck_refs_dir" function to add "worktree/<id>/" prefix when we are not in the main worktree. Last, add a new test to check the refname when there are multiple worktrees to exercise the code. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: initialize ref name outside of check functionsshejialuo1-8/+13
We passes "refs_check_dir" to the "files_fsck_refs_name" function which allows it to create the checked ref name later. However, when we introduce a new check function, we have to allocate redundant memory and re-calculate the ref name. It's bad for us to allocate redundant memory and duplicate logic. Instead, we should allocate and calculate it only once and pass the ref name to the check functions. In order not to do repeat calculation, rename "refs_check_dir" to "refname". And in "files_fsck_refs_dir", create a new strbuf "refname", thus whenever we handle a new ref, calculate the name and call the check functions one by one. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: check the full refname instead of basenameshejialuo2-39/+60
In "files-backend.c::files_fsck_refs_name", we validate the refname format by using "check_refname_format" to check the basename of the iterator with "REFNAME_ALLOW_ONELEVEL" flag. However, this is a bad implementation. Although we doesn't allow a single "@" in ".git" directory, we do allow "refs/heads/@". So, we will report an error wrongly when there is a "refs/heads/@" ref by using one level refname "@". Because we just check one level refname, we either cannot check the other parts of the full refname. And we will ignore the following errors: "refs/heads/ new-feature/test" "refs/heads/~new-feature/test" In order to fix the above problem, enhance "files_fsck_refs_name" to use the full name for "check_refname_format". Then, replace the tests which are related to "@" and add tests to exercise the above situations using for loop to avoid repetition. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21ref: initialize "fsck_ref_report" with zeroshejialuo1-1/+1
In "fsck.c::fsck_refs_error_function", we need to tell whether "oid" and "referent" is NULL. So, we need to always initialize these parameters to NULL instead of letting them point to anywhere when creating a new "fsck_ref_report" structure. The original code explicitly initializes the "path" member in the "struct fsck_ref_report" to NULL (which implicitly 0-initializes other members in the struct). It is more customary to use "{ 0 }" to express that we are 0-initializing everything. In order to align with the codebase, initialize "fsck_ref_report" with zero. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21reftable/block: optimize allocations by using scratch bufferPatrick Steinhardt2-8/+6
The block writer needs to compute the key for every record that one adds to the writer. The buffer for this key is stored on the stack and thus reallocated on every call to `block_writer_add()`, which is inefficient. Refactor the code so that we store the buffer in the `block_writer` struct itself so that we can reuse it. This reduces the number of allocations when writing many refs, e.g. when migrating one million refs from the "files" backend to the "reftable backend. Before this change: HEAP SUMMARY: in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks total heap usage: 3,025,864 allocs, 3,025,815 frees, 372,746,291 bytes allocated After this change: HEAP SUMMARY: in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks total heap usage: 2,013,250 allocs, 2,013,201 frees, 347,543,583 bytes allocated Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21reftable/block: rename `block_writer::buf` variablePatrick Steinhardt2-14/+14
Adapt the name of the `block_writer::buf` variable to instead be called `block`. This aligns it with the existing `block_len` variable, which tracks the length of this buffer, and is generally a bit more tied to the actual context where this variable gets used. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21reftable/writer: optimize allocations by using a scratch bufferPatrick Steinhardt2-12/+12
Both `writer_add_record()` and `reftable_writer_add_ref()` get executed for every single ref record we're adding to the reftable writer. And as both functions use a local buffer to write data, the allocations we have to do here add up during larger transactions. Refactor the code to use a scratch buffer part of the `reftable_writer` itself such that we can reuse it. This signifcantly reduces the number of allocations during large transactions, e.g. when migrating refs from the "files" backend to the "reftable" backend. Before this change: HEAP SUMMARY: in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks total heap usage: 5,032,171 allocs, 5,032,122 frees, 418,792,092 bytes allocated After this change: HEAP SUMMARY: in use at exit: 80,048 bytes in 49 blocks total heap usage: 3,025,864 allocs, 3,025,815 frees, 372,746,291 bytes allocated This also translate into a small speedup: Benchmark 1: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 827.2 ms ± 16.5 ms [User: 689.4 ms, System: 124.9 ms] Range (min … max): 809.0 ms … 924.7 ms 50 runs Benchmark 2: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 813.6 ms ± 11.6 ms [User: 679.0 ms, System: 123.4 ms] Range (min … max): 786.7 ms … 833.5 ms 50 runs Summary migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) ran 1.02 ± 0.02 times faster than migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~) Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs: don't normalize log messages with `REF_SKIP_CREATE_REFLOG`Patrick Steinhardt1-1/+2
When the `REF_SKIP_CREATE_REFLOG` flag is set we skip the creation of the reflog entry, but we still normalize the reflog message when we queue the update. This is a waste of resources as the normalized message will never get used in the first place. Fix this issue by skipping the normalization in case the flag is set. This leads to a surprisingly large speedup when migrating from the "files" to the "reftable" backend: Benchmark 1: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 878.5 ms ± 14.9 ms [User: 726.5 ms, System: 139.2 ms] Range (min … max): 858.4 ms … 941.3 ms 50 runs Benchmark 2: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 831.1 ms ± 10.5 ms [User: 694.1 ms, System: 126.3 ms] Range (min … max): 812.4 ms … 851.4 ms 50 runs Summary migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) ran 1.06 ± 0.02 times faster than migrate files:reftable (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~) And an ever larger speedup when migrating the other way round: Benchmark 1: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 923.6 ms ± 11.6 ms [User: 705.5 ms, System: 208.1 ms] Range (min … max): 905.3 ms … 946.5 ms 50 runs Benchmark 2: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 818.5 ms ± 9.0 ms [User: 627.6 ms, System: 180.6 ms] Range (min … max): 802.2 ms … 842.9 ms 50 runs Summary migrate reftable:files (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD) ran 1.13 ± 0.02 times faster than migrate reftable:files (refcount = 1000000, revision = HEAD~) Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs: skip collision checks in initial transactionsPatrick Steinhardt5-27/+36
Reference transactions use `refs_verify_refname_available()` to check for colliding references. This check consists of two parts: - Checks for whether multiple ref updates in the same transaction conflict with each other. - Checks for whether existing refs conflict with any refs part of the transaction. While we generally cannot avoid the first check, the second check is superfluous in cases where the transaction is an initial one in an otherwise empty ref store. The check results in multiple ref reads as well as the creation of a ref iterator for every ref we're checking, which adds up quite fast when performing the check for many refs. Introduce a new flag that allows us to skip this check and wire it up in such that the backends pass it when running an initial transaction. This leads to significant speedups when migrating ref storage backends. From "files" to "reftable": Benchmark 1: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 472.4 ms ± 6.7 ms [User: 175.9 ms, System: 285.2 ms] Range (min … max): 463.5 ms … 483.2 ms 10 runs Benchmark 2: migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 86.1 ms ± 1.9 ms [User: 67.9 ms, System: 16.0 ms] Range (min … max): 82.9 ms … 90.9 ms 29 runs Summary migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) ran 5.48 ± 0.15 times faster than migrate files:reftable (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) And from "reftable" to "files": Benchmark 1: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 452.7 ms ± 3.4 ms [User: 209.9 ms, System: 235.4 ms] Range (min … max): 445.9 ms … 457.5 ms 10 runs Benchmark 2: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 95.2 ms ± 2.2 ms [User: 73.6 ms, System: 20.6 ms] Range (min … max): 91.7 ms … 100.8 ms 28 runs Summary migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) ran 4.76 ± 0.11 times faster than migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs: use "initial" transaction semantics to migrate refsPatrick Steinhardt2-9/+3
Until now, we couldn't use "initial" transaction semantics to migrate refs because the "files" backend only supported writing regular refs via the initial transaction because it simply mapped the transaction to a "packed-refs" transaction. But with the preceding commit, the "files" backend has learned to also write symbolic and root refs in the initial transaction by creating a second transaction for all refs that need to be written as loose refs. Adapt the code to migrate refs to commit the transaction as an initial transaction. This results in a signiticant speedup when migrating many refs: Benchmark 1: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) Time (mean ± σ): 3.247 s ± 0.034 s [User: 0.485 s, System: 2.722 s] Range (min … max): 3.216 s … 3.309 s 10 runs Benchmark 2: migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 453.6 ms ± 1.9 ms [User: 214.6 ms, System: 230.5 ms] Range (min … max): 451.5 ms … 456.4 ms 10 runs Summary migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD) ran 7.16 ± 0.08 times faster than migrate reftable:files (refcount = 100000, revision = HEAD~) As the reftable backend doesn't (yet) special-case initial transactions there is no comparable speedup for that backend. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs/files: support symbolic and root refs in initial transactionPatrick Steinhardt1-10/+34
The "files" backend has implemented special logic when committing the first transactions in an otherwise empty ref store: instead of writing all refs as separate loose files, it instead knows to write them all into a "packed-refs" file directly. This is significantly more efficient than having to write each of the refs as separate "loose" ref. The only user of this optimization is git-clone(1), which only uses this mechanism to write regular refs. Consequently, the implementation does not know how to handle both symbolic and root refs. While fine in the context of git-clone(1), this keeps us from using the mechanism in more cases. Adapt the logic to also support symbolic and root refs by using a second transaction that we use for all of the refs that need to be written as loose refs. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs: introduce "initial" transaction flagPatrick Steinhardt8-68/+29
There are two different ways to commit a transaction: - `ref_transaction_commit()` can be used to commit a regular transaction and is what almost every caller wants. - `initial_ref_transaction_commit()` can be used when it is known that the ref store that the transaction is committed for is empty and when there are no concurrent processes. This is used when cloning a new repository. Implementing this via two separate functions has a couple of downsides. First, every reference backend needs to implement a separate callback even in the case where they don't special-case the initial transaction. Second, backends are basically forced to reimplement the whole logic for how to commit the transaction like the "files" backend does, even though backends may wish to only tweak certain behaviour of a "normal" commit. Third, it is awkward that callers must never prepare the transaction as this is somewhat different than how a transaction typically works. Refactor the code such that we instead mark initial transactions via a separate flag when starting the transaction. This addresses all of the mentioned painpoints, where the most important part is that it will allow backends to have way more leeway in how exactly they want to handle the initial transaction. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs/files: move logic to commit initial transactionPatrick Steinhardt1-101/+101
Move the logic to commit initial transactions such that we can start to call it in `files_transaction_finish()` in a subsequent commit without requiring a separate function declaration. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21refs: allow passing flags when setting up a transactionPatrick Steinhardt14-26/+33
Allow passing flags when setting up a transaction such that the behaviour of the transaction itself can be altered. This functionality will be used in a subsequent patch. Adapt callers accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-20Sync with 'maint'Junio C Hamano1-0/+26
2024-11-20The tenth batchJunio C Hamano1-5/+10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-20Merge branch 'la/trailer-info'Junio C Hamano3-74/+76
Renaming a handful of variables and structure fields. * la/trailer-info: trailer: spread usage of "trailer_block" language
2024-11-20Merge branch 'ja/git-add-doc-markup'Junio C Hamano2-62/+68
Documentation mark-up updates. * ja/git-add-doc-markup: doc: git-add.txt: convert to new style convention
2024-11-20Merge branch 'jt/repack-local-promisor'Junio C Hamano6-10/+180
"git gc" discards any objects that are outside promisor packs that are referred to by an object in a promisor pack, and we do not refetch them from the promisor at runtime, resulting an unusable repository. Work it around by including these objects in the referring promisor pack at the receiving end of the fetch. * jt/repack-local-promisor: index-pack: repack local links into promisor packs t5300: move --window clamp test next to unclamped t0410: use from-scratch server t0410: make test description clearer
2024-11-20Prepare for 2.47.1Junio C Hamano3-2/+28
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-20Merge branch 'db/submodule-fetch-with-remote-name-fix' into maint-2.47Junio C Hamano2-1/+28
A "git fetch" from the superproject going down to a submodule used a wrong remote when the default remote names are set differently between them. * db/submodule-fetch-with-remote-name-fix: submodule: correct remote name with fetch
2024-11-20Merge branch 'ps/cache-tree-w-broken-index-entry' into maint-2.47Junio C Hamano5-43/+97
Fail gracefully instead of crashing when attempting to write the contents of a corrupt in-core index as a tree object. * ps/cache-tree-w-broken-index-entry: unpack-trees: detect mismatching number of cache-tree/index entries cache-tree: detect mismatching number of index entries cache-tree: refactor verification to return error codes
2024-11-20Merge branch 'ps/maintenance-start-crash-fix' into maint-2.47Junio C Hamano2-2/+21
"git maintenance start" crashed due to an uninitialized variable reference, which has been corrected. * ps/maintenance-start-crash-fix: builtin/gc: fix crash when running `git maintenance start`
2024-11-20Merge branch 'jk/fsmonitor-event-listener-race-fix' into maint-2.47Junio C Hamano7-18/+98
On macOS, fsmonitor can fall into a race condition that results in a client waiting forever to be notified for an event that have already happened. This problem has been corrected. * jk/fsmonitor-event-listener-race-fix: fsmonitor: initialize fs event listener before accepting clients simple-ipc: split async server initialization and running
2024-11-20Merge branch 'ds/line-log-asan-fix' into maint-2.47Junio C Hamano2-6/+32
Use after free and double freeing at the end in "git log -L... -p" had been identified and fixed. * ds/line-log-asan-fix: line-log: protect inner strbuf from free
2024-11-20index-pack: teach --promisor to forbid pack nameJonathan Tan3-3/+5
Currently, - Running "index-pack --promisor" outside a repo segfaults. - It may be confusing to a user that running "index-pack --promisor" within a repo may make changes to the repo's object DB, especially since the packs indexed by the index-pack invocation may not even be related to the repo. As discussed in [1] and [2], teaching --promisor to forbid a packfile name solves both these problems. This combination of arguments requires a repo (since we are writing the resulting .pack and .idx to it) and it is clear that the files are related to the repo. Currently, Git uses "index-pack --promisor" only when fetching into a repo, so it could be argued that we should teach "index-pack" a new argument (say, "--fetching-mode") instead of tying --promisor to a generic argument like the packfile name. However, this --promisor feature could conceivably be used whenever we have a packfile that is known to come from the promisor remote (whether obtained through Git's fetch protocol or through other means) so not using a new argument seems reasonable - one could envision a user-made script obtaining a packfile and then running "index-pack --promisor --stdin", for example. In fact, it might be possible to relax the restriction further (say, by also allowing --promisor when indexing a packfile that is in the object DB), but relaxing the restriction is backwards-compatible so we can revisit that later. One thing to watch out for is the possibility of a future Git feature that indexes a pack in the context of a repo, but does not necessarily write the resulting pack to it (and does not necessarily desire to make any changes to the object DB). One such feature would be fetch quarantine, which might need the repo context in order to detect hash collisions, but would also need to ensure that the object DB is undisturbed in case the fetch fails for whatever reason, even if the reason occurs only after the indexing is complete. It may not be obvious to the implementer of such a feature that "index-pack" could sometimes write packs other than the indexed pack to the object DB, but there are already other ways that "fetch" could write to the object DB (in particular, packfile URIs and bundle URIs), so hopefully the implementation of this future feature would already include a test that the object DB be undisturbed. This change requires the change to t5300 by 1f52cdfacb (index-pack: document and test the --promisor option, 2022-03-09) to be undone. (--promisor is already tested indirectly, so we don't need the explicit test here any more.) [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241114005652.GC1140565@coredump.intra.peff.net/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241119185345.GB15723@coredump.intra.peff.net/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-20builtin/gc: provide hint when maintenance hits a stale schedule lockPatrick Steinhardt2-1/+18
When running scheduled maintenance via `git maintenance start`, we acquire a lockfile to ensure that no other scheduled maintenance task is running in the repository concurrently. If so, we do provide an error to the user hinting that another process seems to be running in this repo. There are two important cases why such a lockfile may exist: - An actual git-maintenance(1) process is still running in this repository. - An earlier process may have crashed or was interrupted part way through and has left a stale lockfile behind. In c95547a394 (builtin/gc: fix crash when running `git maintenance start`, 2024-10-10), we have fixed an issue where git-maintenance(1) would crash with the "start" subcommand, and the underlying bug causes the second scenario to trigger quite often now. Most users don't know how to get out of that situation again though. Ideally, we'd be removing the stale lock for our users automatically. But in the context of repository maintenance this is rather risky, as it can easily run for hours or even days. So finding a clear point where we know that the old process has exited is basically impossible. We have the same issue in other subsystems, e.g. when locking refs. Our lockfile interfaces thus provide the `unable_to_lock_message()` function for exactly this purpose: it provides a nice hint to the user that explains what is going on and how to get out of that situation again by manually removing the file. Adapt git-maintenance(1) to print a similar hint. While we could use the above function, we can provide a bit more context as we know exactly what kind of process would create the lockfile. Reported-by: Miguel Rincon Barahona <mrincon@gitlab.com> Reported-by: Kev Kloss <kkloss@gitlab.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19doc: git-diff: apply format changes to config partJean-Noël Avila1-92/+110
By the way, we also change the sentences where git-diff would refer to itself, so that no link is created in the HTML output. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-generate-patchJean-Noël Avila1-21/+23
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-formatJean-Noël Avila1-21/+21
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19doc: git-diff: apply format changes to diff-optionsJean-Noël Avila1-211/+212
The format change is only applied to the sections of the file that are filtered in git-diff. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19doc: git-diff: apply new documentation guidelinesJean-Noël Avila1-56/+66
The documentation for git-diff has been updated to follow the new documentation guidelines. The following changes have been applied to the series of patches: - switching the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace - use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description - use `backticks for keywords and more complex option descriptions`. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to these spans. - prevent git-diff from self-referencing itself via gitlink macro when the generated link would point to the same page. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19Merge branch 'ps/reftable-detach' into ps/reftable-iterator-reuseJunio C Hamano27-229/+506
* ps/reftable-detach: reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for lockfile subsystem reftable/stack: drop only use of `get_locked_file_path()` reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for tempfile subsystem reftable/stack: stop using `fsync_component()` directly reftable/system: stop depending on "hash.h" reftable: explicitly handle hash format IDs reftable/system: move "dir.h" to its only user
2024-11-19reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for lockfile subsystemPatrick Steinhardt8-37/+154
We use the lockfile subsystem to write lockfiles for "tables.list". As with the tempfile subsystem, the lockfile subsystem also hooks into our infrastructure to prune stale locks via atexit(3p) or signal handlers. Furthermore, the lockfile subsystem also handles locking timeouts, which do add quite a bit of logic. Having to reimplement that in the context of Git wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, and it is quite likely that downstream users of the reftable library may have a better idea for how exactly to implement timeouts. So again, provide a thin wrapper for the lockfile subsystem instead such that the compatibility shim is fully self-contained. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19reftable/stack: drop only use of `get_locked_file_path()`Patrick Steinhardt1-3/+9
We've got a single callsite where we call `get_locked_file_path()`. As we're about to convert our usage of the lockfile subsystem to instead be used via a compatibility shim we'd have to implement more logic for this single callsite. While that would be okay if Git was the only supposed user of the reftable library, it's a bit more awkward when considering that we have to reimplement this functionality for every user of the library eventually. Refactor the code such that we don't call `get_locked_file_path()` anymore. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19reftable/system: provide thin wrapper for tempfile subsystemPatrick Steinhardt4-35/+114
We use the tempfile subsystem to write temporary tables, but given that we're in the process of converting the reftable library to become standalone we cannot use this subsystem directly anymore. While we could in theory convert the code to use mkstemp(3p) instead, we'd lose access to our infrastructure that automatically prunes tempfiles via atexit(3p) or signal handlers. Provide a thin wrapper for the tempfile subsystem instead. Like this, the compatibility shim is fully self-contained in "reftable/system.c". Downstream users of the reftable library would have to implement their own tempfile shims by replacing "system.c" with a custom version. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19reftable/stack: stop using `fsync_component()` directlyPatrick Steinhardt3-17/+45
We're executing `fsync_component()` directly in the reftable library so that we can fsync data to disk depending on "core.fsync". But as we're in the process of converting the reftable library to become standalone we cannot use that function in the library anymore. Refactor the code such that users of the library can inject a custom fsync function via the write options. This allows us to get rid of the dependency on "write-or-die.h". Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19reftable/system: stop depending on "hash.h"Patrick Steinhardt25-143/+166
We include "hash.h" in "reftable/system.h" such that we can use hash format IDs as well as the raw size of SHA1 and SHA256. As we are in the process of converting the reftable library to become standalone we of course cannot rely on those constants anymore. Introduce a new `enum reftable_hash` to replace internal uses of the hash format IDs and new constants that replace internal uses of the hash size. Adapt the reftable backend to set up the correct hash function. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19reftable: explicitly handle hash format IDsPatrick Steinhardt3-5/+29
The hash format IDs are used for two different things across the reftable codebase: - They are used as a 32 bit unsigned integer when reading and writing the header in order to identify the hash function. - They are used internally to identify which hash function is in use. When one only considers the second usecase one might think that one can easily change the representation of those hash IDs. But because those IDs end up in the reftable header and footer on disk it is important that those never change. Create separate constants `REFTABLE_FORMAT_ID_*` and use them in contexts where we read or write reftable headers. This serves multiple purposes: - It allows us to more easily discern cases where we actually use those constants for the on-disk format. - It detangles us from the same constants that are defined in libgit.a, which is another required step to convert the reftable library to become standalone. - It makes the next step easier where we stop using `GIT_*_FORMAT_ID` constants in favor of a custom enum. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19reftable/system: move "dir.h" to its only userPatrick Steinhardt2-1/+1
We still include "dir.h" in "reftable/system.h" even though it is not used by anything but by a single unit test. Move it over into that unit test so that we don't accidentally use any functionality provided by it in the reftable codebase. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-19fast-import: avoid making replace refs point to themselvesElijah Newren2-0/+42
If someone replaces a commit with a modified version, then builds on that commit, and then later decides to rewrite history in a format like git fast-export --all | CMD_TO_TWEAK_THE_STREAM | git fast-import and CMD_TO_TWEAK_THE_STREAM undoes the modifications that the replacement did, then at the end you'd get a replace ref that points to itself. For example: $ git show-ref | grep replace fb92ebc654641b310e7d0360d0a5a49316fd7264 refs/replace/fb92ebc654641b310e7d0360d0a5a49316fd7264 Git commands which pay attention to replace refs will die with an error when a self-referencing replace ref is present: $ git log fatal: replace depth too high for object fb92ebc654641b310e7d0360d0a5a49316fd7264 Avoid such problems by deleting replace refs that will simply end up pointing to themselves at the end of our writing. Unless users specify --quiet, warn them when we delete such a replace ref. Two notes about this patch: * We are not ignoring the problematic update of the replace ref (turning it into a no-op), we are replacing the update with a delete. The logic here is that if the repository had a value for the replace ref before fast-import was run, and the replace ref was explicitly named in the fast-import stream, we don't want the replace ref to be left with a pre-fast-import value. * While loops with more than one element (e.g. refs/replace/A points to B, and refs/replace/B points to A) are possible, they seem much less plausible. It is pretty easy to create a sequence of git-filter-repo commands that will trigger a self-referencing replace ref, but I do not know how to trigger a scenario with a cycle length greater than 1. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: inline empty tree and blob literalsJeff King1-27/+20
We define macros with the bytes of the empty trees and blobs for sha1 and sha256. But since e1ccd7e2b1 (sha1_file: only expose empty object constants through git_hash_algo, 2018-05-02), those are used only for initializing the git_hash_algo entries. Any other code using the macros directly would be suspicious, since a hash_algo pointer is the level of indirection we use to make everything work with both sha1 and sha256. So let's future proof against code doing the wrong thing by dropping the macros entirely and just initializing the structs directly. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: treat cached_object values as constJeff King1-4/+4
The cached-object API maps oids to in-memory entries. Once inserted, these entries should be immutable. Let's return them from the find_cached_object() call with a const tag to make this clear. Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: drop oid field from find_cached_object() return valueJeff King1-11/+12
The pretend_object_file() function adds to an array mapping oids to object contents, which are later retrieved with find_cached_object(). We naturally need to store the oid for each entry, since it's the lookup key. But find_cached_object() also returns a hard-coded empty_tree object. There we don't care about its oid field and instead compare against the_hash_algo->empty_tree. The oid field is left as all-zeroes. This all works, but it means that the cached_object struct we return from find_cached_object() may or may not have a valid oid field, depend whether it is the hard-coded tree or came from pretend_object_file(). Nobody looks at the field, so there's no bug. But let's future-proof it by returning only the object contents themselves, not the oid. We'll continue to call this "struct cached_object", and the array entry mapping the key to those contents will be a "cached_object_entry". This would also let us swap out the array for a better data structure (like a hashmap) if we chose, but there's not much point. The only code that adds an entry is git-blame, which adds at most a single entry per process. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: move empty_tree struct into find_cached_object()Jeff King1-6/+5
The fake empty_tree struct is a static global, but the only code that looks at it is find_cached_object(). The struct itself is a little odd, with an invalid "oid" field that is handled specially by that function. Since it's really just an implementation detail, let's move it to a static within the function. That future-proofs against other code trying to use it and seeing the weird oid value. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: drop confusing oid initializer of empty_tree structJeff King1-3/+1
We treat the empty tree specially, providing an in-memory "cached" copy, which allows you to diff against it even if the object doesn't exist in the repository. This is implemented as part of the larger cached_object subsystem, but we use a stand-alone empty_tree struct. We initialize the oid of that struct using EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN_LITERAL. At first glance, that seems like a bug; how could this ever work for sha256 repositories? The answer is that we never look at the oid field! The oid field is used to look up entries added by pretend_object_file() to the cached_objects array. But for our stand-alone entry, we look for it independently using the_hash_algo->empty_tree, which will point to the correct algo struct for the repository. This happened in 62ba93eaa9 (sha1_file: convert cached object code to struct object_id, 2018-05-02), which even mentions that this field is never used. Let's reduce confusion for anybody reading this code by replacing the sha1 initializer with a comment. The resulting field will be all-zeroes, so any violation of our assumption that the oid field is not used will break equally for sha1 and sha256. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>