In cone mode, the sparse-index code path learned to remove ignored
files (like build artifacts) outside the sparse cone, allowing the
entire directory outside the sparse cone to be removed, which is
especially useful when the sparse patterns change.
* ds/sparse-index-ignored-files:
sparse-checkout: clear tracked sparse dirs
sparse-index: add SPARSE_INDEX_MEMORY_ONLY flag
attr: be careful about sparse directories
sparse-checkout: create helper methods
sparse-index: use WRITE_TREE_MISSING_OK
sparse-index: silently return when cache tree fails
unpack-trees: fix nested sparse-dir search
sparse-index: silently return when not using cone-mode patterns
t7519: rewrite sparse index test
The convert_to_sparse() method checks for the GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX
environment variable or the "index.sparse" config setting before
converting the index to a sparse one. This is for ease of use since all
current consumers are preparing to compress the index before writing it
to disk. If these settings are not enabled, then convert_to_sparse()
silently returns without doing anything.
We will add a consumer in the next change that wants to use the sparse
index as an in-memory data structure, regardless of whether the on-disk
format should be sparse.
To that end, create the SPARSE_INDEX_MEMORY_ONLY flag that will skip
these config checks when enabled. All current consumers are modified to
pass '0' in the new 'flags' parameter.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we integrate the sparse index into more builtins, we occasionally
need to check the sparse-checkout patterns to see if a path is within
the sparse-checkout cone. Create some helper methods that help
initialize the patterns and check for pattern matching to make this
easier.
The existing callers of commands like get_sparse_checkout_patterns() use
a custom 'struct pattern_list' that is not necessarily the one in the
'struct index_state', so there are not many previous uses that could
adopt these helpers. There are just two in builtin/add.c and
sparse-index.c that can use path_in_sparse_checkout().
We add a path_in_cone_mode_sparse_checkout() as well that will only
return false if the path is outside of the sparse-checkout definition
_and_ the sparse-checkout patterns are in cone mode.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When updating the cache tree in convert_to_sparse(), the
WRITE_TREE_MISSING_OK flag indicates that trees might be computed that
do not already exist within the object database. This happens in cases
such as 'git add' creating new trees that it wants to store in
anticipation of a following 'git commit'. If this flag is not specified,
then it might trigger a promisor fetch or a failure due to the object
not existing locally.
Use WRITE_TREE_MISSING_OK during convert_to_sparse() to avoid these
possible reasons for the cache_tree_update() to fail.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If cache_tree_update() returns a non-zero value, then it could not
create the cache tree. This is likely due to a path having a merge
conflict. Since we are already returning early, let's return silently to
avoid making it seem like we failed to write the index at all.
If we remove our dependence on the cache tree within
convert_to_sparse(), then we could still recover from this scenario and
have a sparse index.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the sparse-index is only enabled when core.sparseCheckoutCone is
also enabled, it is possible for the user to modify the sparse-checkout
file manually in a way that does not match cone-mode patterns. In this
case, we should refuse to convert an index into a sparse index, since
the sparse_checkout_patterns will not be initialized with recursive and
parent path hashsets.
Also silently return if there are no cache entries, which is a simple
case: there are no paths to make sparse!
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Copy the 'index_state->dir_hash' back to the real istate after expanding
a sparse index.
A crash was observed in 'git status' during some hashmap lookups with
corrupted hashmap entries. During an index expansion, new cache-entries
are added to the 'index_state->name_hash' and the 'dir_hash' in a
temporary 'index_state' variable 'full'. However, only the 'name_hash'
hashmap from this temp variable was copied back into the real 'istate'
variable. The original copy of the 'dir_hash' was incorrectly
preserved. If the table in the 'full->dir_hash' hashmap were realloced,
the stale version (in 'istate') would be corrupted.
The test suite does not operate on index sizes sufficiently large to
trigger this reallocation, so they do not cover this behavior.
Increasing the test suite to cover such scale is fragile and likely
wasteful.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When some commands run with command_requires_full_index=1, then the
index can get in a state where the in-memory cache tree is actually
equal to the sparse index's cache tree instead of the full one.
This results in incorrect entry_count values. By clearing the cache
tree before converting to sparse, we avoid this issue.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we need to expand a sparse-index into a full one, then the FS Monitor
bitmap is going to be incorrect. Ensure that we start fresh at such an
event.
While this is currently a performance drawback, the eventual hope of the
sparse-index feature is that these expansions will be rare and hence we
will be able to keep the FS Monitor data accurate across multiple Git
commands.
These tests are added to demonstrate that the behavior is the same
across a full index and a sparse index, but also that file modifications
to a tracked directory outside of the sparse cone will trigger
ensure_full_index().
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating a full index from a sparse one, we create cache entries
for every blob within a given sparse directory entry. These are
correctly marked with the CE_SKIP_WORKTREE flag, but the CE_EXTENDED
flag is not included. The CE_EXTENDED flag would exist if we loaded a
full index from disk with these entries marked with CE_SKIP_WORKTREE, so
we can add the flag here to be consistent. This allows us to directly
compare the flags present in cache entries when testing the sparse-index
feature, but has no significance to its correctness in the user-facing
functionality.
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sparse-index format is designed to be compatible with merge
conflicts, even those outside the sparse-checkout definition. The reason
is that when converting a full index to a sparse one, a cache entry with
nonzero stage will not be collapsed into a sparse directory entry.
However, this behavior was not tested, and a different behavior within
convert_to_sparse() fails in this scenario. Specifically,
cache_tree_update() will fail when unmerged entries exist.
convert_to_sparse_rec() uses the cache-tree data to recursively walk the
tree structure, but also to compute the OIDs used in the
sparse-directory entries.
Add an index scan to convert_to_sparse() that will detect if these merge
conflict entries exist and skip the conversion before trying to update
the cache-tree. This is marked as NEEDSWORK because this can be removed
with a suitable update to cache_tree_update() or a similar method that
can construct a cache-tree with invalid nodes, but still allow creating
the nodes necessary for creating sparse directory entries.
It is possible that in the future we will not need to make such an
update, since if we do not expand a sparse-index into a full one, this
conversion does not need to happen. Thus, this can be deferred until the
merge machinery is made to integrate with the sparse-index.
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While testing the sparse-index, I verified a test with --valgrind and it
complained about an uninitialized value being used in a jump in the
path_matches_pattern_list() method. The line was this one:
if (*dtype == DT_UNKNOWN)
In the call stack, the culprit was the initialization of the dtype
variable in convert_to_sparse_rec().
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the set_index_sparse_config() function by folding it into
set_sparse_index_config(), which was its only user.
Since 122ba1f7b5 (sparse-checkout: toggle sparse index from builtin,
2021-03-30) the flow of this code hasn't made much sense, we'd get
"enabled" in set_sparse_index_config(), proceed to call
set_index_sparse_config() with it.
There we'd call prepare_repo_settings() and set
"repo->settings.sparse_index = 1", only to needlessly call
prepare_repo_settings() again in set_sparse_index_config() (where it
would early abort), and finally setting "repo->settings.sparse_index =
enabled".
Instead we can just call prepare_repo_settings() once, and set the
variable to "enabled" in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some users of the index API have a specific path they are looking for,
but choose to use index_file_exists() to rely on the name-hash hashtable
instead of doing binary search with index_name_pos(). These users only
need to know a yes/no answer, not a position within the cache array.
When the index is sparse, the name-hash hash table does not contain the
full list of paths within sparse directories. It _does_ contain the
directory names for the sparse-directory entries.
Create a helper function, expand_to_path(), for intended use with the
name-hash hashtable functions. The integration with name-hash.c will
follow in a later change.
The solution here is to use ensure_full_index() when we determine that
the requested path is within a sparse directory entry. This will
populate the name-hash hashtable as the index is recomputed from
scratch.
There may be cases where the caller is trying to find an untracked path
that is not in the index but also is not within a sparse directory
entry. We want to minimize the overhead for these requests. If we used
index_name_pos() to find the insertion order of the path, then we could
determine from that position if a sparse-directory exists. (In fact,
just calling index_name_pos() in that case would lead to expanding the
index to a full index.) However, this takes O(log N) time where N is the
number of cache entries.
To keep the performance of this call based mostly on the input string,
use index_file_exists() to look for the ancestors of the path. Using the
heuristic that a sparse directory is likely to have a small number of
parent directories, we start from the bottom and build up. Use a string
buffer to allow mutating the path name to terminate after each slash for
each hashset test.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cache-tree extension was previously disabled with sparse indexes.
However, the cache-tree is an important performance feature for commands
like 'git status' and 'git add'. Integrate it with sparse directory
entries.
When writing a sparse index, completely clear and recalculate the cache
tree. By starting from scratch, the only integration necessary is to
check if we hit a sparse directory entry and create a leaf of the
cache-tree that has an entry_count of one and no subtrees.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sparse index extension is used to signal that index writes should be
in sparse mode. This was only updated using GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=1.
Add a '--[no-]sparse-index' option to 'git sparse-checkout init' that
specifies if the sparse index should be used. It also updates the index
to use the correct format, either way. Add a warning in the
documentation that the use of a repository extension might reduce
compatibility with third-party tools. 'git sparse-checkout init' already
sets extension.worktreeConfig, which places most sparse-checkout users
outside of the scope of most third-party tools.
Update t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh to use this CLI instead of
GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=1.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When enabled, this config option signals that index writes should
attempt to use sparse-directory entries.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A submodule is stored as a "Git link" that actually points to a commit
within a submodule. Submodules are populated or not depending on
submodule configuration, not sparse-checkout. To ensure that the
sparse-index feature integrates correctly with submodules, we should not
collapse a directory if there is a Git link within its range.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we have a full index, then we can convert it to a sparse index by
replacing directories outside of the sparse cone with sparse directory
entries. The convert_to_sparse() method does this, when the situation is
appropriate.
For now, we avoid converting the index to a sparse index if:
1. the index is split.
2. the index is already sparse.
3. sparse-checkout is disabled.
4. sparse-checkout does not use cone mode.
Finally, we currently limit the conversion to when the
GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX environment variable is enabled. A mode using Git
config will be added in a later change.
The trickiest thing about this conversion is that we might not be able
to mark a directory as a sparse directory just because it is outside the
sparse cone. There might be unmerged files within that directory, so we
need to look for those. Also, if there is some strange reason why a file
is not marked with CE_SKIP_WORKTREE, then we should give up on
converting that directory. There is still hope that some of its
subdirectories might be able to convert to sparse, so we keep looking
deeper.
The conversion process is assisted by the cache-tree extension. This is
calculated from the full index if it does not already exist. We then
abandon the cache-tree as it no longer applies to the newly-sparse
index. Thus, this cache-tree will be recalculated in every
sparse-full-sparse round-trip until we integrate the cache-tree
extension with the sparse index.
Some Git commands use the index after writing it. For example, 'git add'
will update the index, then write it to disk, then read its entries to
report information. To keep the in-memory index in a full state after
writing, we re-expand it to a full one after the write. This is wasteful
for commands that only write the index and do not read from it again,
but that is only the case until we make those commands "sparse aware."
We can compare the behavior of the sparse-index in
t1092-sparse-checkout-compability.sh by using GIT_TEST_SPARSE_INDEX=1
when operating on the 'sparse-index' repo. We can also compare the two
sparse repos directly, such as comparing their indexes (when expanded to
full in the case of the 'sparse-index' repo). We also verify that the
index is actually populated with sparse directory entries.
The 'checkout and reset (mixed)' test is marked for failure when
comparing a sparse repo to a full repo, but we can compare the two
sparse-checkout cases directly to ensure that we are not changing the
behavior when using a sparse index.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We will mark an in-memory index_state as having sparse directory entries
with the sparse_index bit. These currently cannot exist, but we will add
a mechanism for collapsing a full index to a sparse one in a later
change. That will happen at write time, so we must first allow parsing
the format before writing it.
Commands or methods that require a full index in order to operate can
call ensure_full_index() to expand that index in-memory. This requires
parsing trees using that index's repository.
Sparse directory entries have a specific 'ce_mode' value. The macro
S_ISSPARSEDIR(ce->ce_mode) can check if a cache_entry 'ce' has this type.
This ce_mode is not possible with the existing index formats, so we don't
also verify all properties of a sparse-directory entry, which are:
1. ce->ce_mode == 0040000
2. ce->flags & CE_SKIP_WORKTREE is true
3. ce->name[ce->namelen - 1] == '/' (ends in dir separator)
4. ce->oid references a tree object.
These are all semi-enforced in ensure_full_index() to some extent. Any
deviation will cause a warning at minimum or a failure in the worst
case.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Upcoming changes will introduce modifications to the index format that
allow sparse directories. It will be useful to have a mechanism for
converting those sparse index files into full indexes by walking the
tree at those sparse directories. Name this method ensure_full_index()
as it will guarantee that the index is fully expanded.
This method is not implemented yet, and instead we focus on the
scaffolding to declare it and call it at the appropriate time.
Add a 'command_requires_full_index' member to struct repo_settings. This
will be an indicator that we need the index in full mode to do certain
index operations. This starts as being true for every command, then we
will set it to false as some commands integrate with sparse indexes.
If 'command_requires_full_index' is true, then we will immediately
expand a sparse index to a full one upon reading from disk. This
suffices for now, but we will want to add more callers to
ensure_full_index() later.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano
Derrick Stolee
Jeff Hostetler
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason