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Jeff King c972bf4cf5 strvec: convert remaining callers away from argv_array name
We eventually want to drop the argv_array name and just use strvec
consistently. There's no particular reason we have to do it all at once,
or care about interactions between converted and unconverted bits.
Because of our preprocessor compat layer, the names are interchangeable
to the compiler (so even a definition and declaration using different
names is OK).

This patch converts all of the remaining files, as the resulting diff is
reasonably sized.

The conversion was done purely mechanically with:

  git ls-files '*.c' '*.h' |
  xargs perl -i -pe '
    s/ARGV_ARRAY/STRVEC/g;
    s/argv_array/strvec/g;
  '

We'll deal with any indentation/style fallouts separately.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-28 15:02:18 -07:00
Jeff King dbbcd44fb4 strvec: rename files from argv-array to strvec
This requires updating #include lines across the code-base, but that's
all fairly mechanical, and was done with:

  git ls-files '*.c' '*.h' |
  xargs perl -i -pe 's/argv-array.h/strvec.h/'

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-28 15:02:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 20d451c4da Merge branch 'rs/line-log-until' into master
"git log -Lx,y:path --before=date" lost track of where the range
should be because it didn't take the changes made by the youngest
commits that are omitted from the output into account.

* rs/line-log-until:
  revision: disable min_age optimization with line-log
2020-07-09 14:00:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 645f63111b Merge branch 'es/get-worktrees-unsort'
API cleanup for get_worktrees()

* es/get-worktrees-unsort:
  worktree: drop get_worktrees() unused 'flags' argument
  worktree: drop get_worktrees() special-purpose sorting option
2020-07-06 22:09:15 -07:00
René Scharfe 01faa91cb7 revision: disable min_age optimization with line-log
If one of the options --before, --min-age or --until is given,
limit_list() filters out younger commits early on.  Line-log needs all
those commits to trace the movement of line ranges, though.  Skip this
optimization if both are used together.

Reported-by: Мария Долгополова <dolgopolovamariia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-06 18:38:03 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 03f2465bb1 worktree: drop get_worktrees() unused 'flags' argument
get_worktrees() accepts a 'flags' argument, however, there are no
existing flags (the lone flag GWT_SORT_LINKED was recently retired) and
no behavior which can be tweaked. Therefore, drop the 'flags' argument.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-22 10:31:15 -07:00
Abhishek Kumar c752ad09c4 commit-graph: minimize commit_graph_data_slab access
In an earlier patch, multiple struct acccesses to `graph_pos` and
`generation` were auto-converted to multiple method calls.

Since the values are fixed and commit-slab access costly, we would be
better off with storing the values as a local variable and reusing it.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-17 14:37:52 -07:00
Abhishek Kumar c49c82aa4c commit: move members graph_pos, generation to a slab
We remove members `graph_pos` and `generation` from the struct commit.
The default assignments in init_commit_node() are no longer valid,
which is fine as the slab helpers return appropriate default values and
the assignments are removed.

We will replace existing use of commit->generation and commit->graph_pos
by commit_graph_data_slab helpers using
`contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci'.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-17 14:37:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c3a02824cf Merge branch 'ds/line-log-on-bloom'
"git log -L..." now takes advantage of the "which paths are touched
by this commit?" info stored in the commit-graph system.

* ds/line-log-on-bloom:
  line-log: integrate with changed-path Bloom filters
  line-log: try to use generation number-based topo-ordering
  line-log: more responsive, incremental 'git log -L'
  t4211-line-log: add tests for parent oids
  line-log: remove unused fields from 'struct line_log_data'
2020-06-08 18:06:26 -07:00
Derrick Stolee f32dde8c12 line-log: integrate with changed-path Bloom filters
The previous changes to the line-log machinery focused on making the
first result appear faster. This was achieved by no longer walking the
entire commit history before returning the early results. There is still
another way to improve the performance: walk most commits much faster.
Let's use the changed-path Bloom filters to reduce time spent computing
diffs.

Since the line-log computation requires opening blobs and checking the
content-diff, there is still a lot of necessary computation that cannot
be replaced with changed-path Bloom filters. The part that we can reduce
is most effective when checking the history of a file that is deep in
several directories and those directories are modified frequently. In
this case, the computation to check if a commit is TREESAME to its first
parent takes a large fraction of the time. That is ripe for improvement
with changed-path Bloom filters.

We must ensure that prepare_to_use_bloom_filters() is called in
revision.c so that the bloom_filter_settings are loaded into the struct
rev_info from the commit-graph. Of course, some cases are still
forbidden, but in the line-log case the pathspec is provided in a
different way than normal.

Since multiple paths and segments could be requested, we compute the
struct bloom_key data dynamically during the commit walk. This could
likely be improved, but adds code complexity that is not valuable at
this time.

There are two cases to care about: merge commits and "ordinary" commits.
Merge commits have multiple parents, but if we are TREESAME to our first
parent in every range, then pass the blame for all ranges to the first
parent. Ordinary commits have the same condition, but each is done
slightly differently in the process_ranges_[merge|ordinary]_commit()
methods. By checking if the changed-path Bloom filter can guarantee
TREESAME, we can avoid that tree-diff cost. If the filter says "probably
changed", then we need to run the tree-diff and then the blob-diff if
there was a real edit.

The Linux kernel repository is a good testing ground for the performance
improvements claimed here. There are two different cases to test. The
first is the "entire history" case, where we output the entire history
to /dev/null to see how long it would take to compute the full line-log
history. The second is the "first result" case, where we find how long
it takes to show the first value, which is an indicator of how quickly a
user would see responses when waiting at a terminal.

To test, I selected the paths that were changed most frequently in the
top 10,000 commits using this command (stolen from StackOverflow [1]):

	git log --pretty=format: --name-only -n 10000 | sort | \
		uniq -c | sort -rg | head -10

which results in

    121 MAINTAINERS
     63 fs/namei.c
     60 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
     59 fs/io_uring.c
     58 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
     51 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
     45 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
     42 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
     42 Documentation/scsi/index.rst

(along with a bogus first result). It appears that the path
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c was renamed, so we ignore that entry. This leaves the
following results for the real command time:

|                              | Entire History  | First Result    |
| Path                         | Before | After  | Before | After  |
|------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| MAINTAINERS                  | 4.26 s | 3.87 s | 0.41 s | 0.39 s |
| fs/namei.c                   | 1.99 s | 0.99 s | 0.42 s | 0.21 s |
| arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c         | 5.28 s | 1.12 s | 0.16 s | 0.09 s |
| fs/io_uring.c                | 4.34 s | 0.99 s | 0.94 s | 0.27 s |
| arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c       | 5.01 s | 1.34 s | 0.21 s | 0.12 s |
| arch/x86/kvm/x86.c           | 2.24 s | 1.18 s | 0.21 s | 0.14 s |
| fs/btrfs/disk-io.c           | 1.82 s | 1.01 s | 0.06 s | 0.05 s |
| Documentation/scsi/index.rst | 3.30 s | 0.89 s | 1.46 s | 0.03 s |

It is worth noting that the least speedup comes for the MAINTAINERS file
which is

 * edited frequently,
 * low in the directory heirarchy, and
 * quite a large file.

All of those points lead to spending more time doing the blob diff and
less time doing the tree diff. Still, we see some improvement in that
case and significant improvement in other cases. A 2-4x speedup is
likely the more typical case as opposed to the small 5% change for that
file.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-11 09:33:56 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor 002933f3fe line-log: try to use generation number-based topo-ordering
The previous patch made it possible to perform line-level filtering
during history traversal instead of in an expensive preprocessing
step, but it still requires some simpler preprocessing steps, notably
topo-ordering.  However, nowadays we have commit-graphs storing
generation numbers, which make it possible to incrementally traverse
the history in topological order, without the preparatory limit_list()
and sort_in_topological_order() steps; see b45424181e (revision.c:
generation-based topo-order algorithm, 2018-11-01).

This patch combines the two, so we can do both the topo-ordering and
the line-level filtering during history traversal, eliminating even
those simpler preprocessing steps, and thus further reducing the delay
before showing the first commit modifying the given line range.

The 'revs->limited' flag plays the central role in this, because, due
to limitations of the current implementation, the generation
number-based topo-ordering is only enabled when this flag remains
unset.  Line-level log, however, always sets this flag in
setup_revisions() ever since the feature was introduced in 12da1d1f6f
(Implement line-history search (git log -L), 2013-03-28).  The reason
for setting 'limited' is unclear, though, because the line-level log
itself doesn't directly depend on it, and it doesn't affect how the
limit_list() function limits the revision range.  However, there is an
indirect dependency: the line-level log requires topo-ordering, and
the "traditional" sort_in_topological_order() requires an already
limited commit list since e6c3505b44 (Make sure we generate the whole
commit list before trying to sort it topologically, 2005-07-06).  The
new, generation numbers-based topo-ordering doesn't require a limited
commit list anymore.

So don't set 'revs->limited' for line-level log, unless it is really
necessary, namely:

  - The user explicitly requested parent rewriting, because that is
    still done in the line_log_filter() preprocessing step (see
    previous patch), which requires sort_in_topological_order() and in
    turn limit_list() as well.

  - A commit-graph file is not available or it doesn't yet contain
    generation numbers.  In these cases we had to fall back on
    sort_in_topological_order() and in turn limit_list().  The
    existing condition with generation_numbers_enabled() has already
    ensured that the 'limited' flag is set in these cases; this patch
    just makes sure that the line-level log sets 'revs->topo_order'
    before that condition.

While the reduced delay before showing the first commit is measurable
in git.git, it takes a bigger repository to make it clearly noticable.
In both cases below the line ranges were chosen so that they were
modified rather close to the starting revisions, so the effect of this
change is most noticable.

  # git.git
  $ time git --no-pager log -L:read_alternate_refs:sha1-file.c -1 v2.23.0

  Before:

    real    0m0.107s
    user    0m0.091s
    sys     0m0.013s

  After:

    real    0m0.058s
    user    0m0.050s
    sys     0m0.005s

  # linux.git
  $ time git --no-pager log \
    -L:build_restore_work_registers:arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c -1 v5.2

  Before:

    real   0m1.129s
    user   0m1.061s
    sys    0m0.069s

  After:

    real   0m0.096s
    user   0m0.087s
    sys    0m0.009s

Additional testing by Derrick Stolee: Since this patch improves
the performance for the first result, I repeated the experiment
from the previous patch on the Linux kernel repository, reporting
real time here:

    Command: git log -L 100,200:MAINTAINERS -n 1 >/dev/null
     Before: 0.71 s
      After: 0.05 s

Now, we have dropped the full topo-order of all ~910,000 commits
before reporting the first result. The remaining performance
improvements then are:

 1. Update the parent-rewriting logic to be incremental similar to
    how "git log --graph" behaves.

 2. Use changed-path Bloom filters to reduce the time spend in the
    tree-diff to see if the path(s) changed.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-11 09:33:56 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor 3cb9d2b6f9 line-log: more responsive, incremental 'git log -L'
The current line-level log implementation performs a preprocessing
step in prepare_revision_walk(), during which the line_log_filter()
function filters and rewrites history to keep only commits modifying
the given line range.  This preprocessing affects both responsiveness
and correctness:

  - Git doesn't produce any output during this preprocessing step.
    Checking whether a commit modified the given line range is
    somewhat expensive, so depending on the size of the given revision
    range this preprocessing can result in a significant delay before
    the first commit is shown.

  - Limiting the number of displayed commits (e.g. 'git log -3 -L...')
    doesn't limit the amount of work during preprocessing, because
    that limit is applied during history traversal.  Alas, by that
    point this expensive preprocessing step has already churned
    through the whole revision range to find all commits modifying the
    revision range, even though only a few of them need to be shown.

  - It rewrites parents, with no way to turn it off.  Without the user
    explicitly requesting parent rewriting any parent object ID shown
    should be that of the immediate parent, just like in case of a
    pathspec-limited history traversal without parent rewriting.

    However, after that preprocessing step rewrote history, the
    subsequent "regular" history traversal (i.e. get_revision() in a
    loop) only sees commits modifying the given line range.
    Consequently, it can only show the object ID of the last ancestor
    that modified the given line range (which might happen to be the
    immediate parent, but many-many times it isn't).

This patch addresses both the correctness and, at least for the common
case, the responsiveness issues by integrating line-level log
filtering into the regular revision walking machinery:

  - Make process_ranges_arbitrary_commit(), the static function in
    'line-log.c' deciding whether a commit modifies the given line
    range, public by removing the static keyword and adding the
    'line_log_' prefix, so it can be called from other parts of the
    revision walking machinery.

  - If the user didn't explicitly ask for parent rewriting (which, I
    believe, is the most common case):

    - Call this now-public function during regular history traversal,
      namely from get_commit_action() to ignore any commits not
      modifying the given line range.

      Note that while this check is relatively expensive, it must be
      performed before other, much cheaper conditions, because the
      tracked line range must be adjusted even when the commit will
      end up being ignored by other conditions.

    - Skip the line_log_filter() call, i.e. the expensive
      preprocessing step, in prepare_revision_walk(), because, thanks
      to the above points, the revision walking machinery is now able
      to filter out commits not modifying the given line range while
      traversing history.

      This way the regular history traversal sees the unmodified
      history, and is therefore able to print the object ids of the
      immediate parents of the listed commits.  The eliminated
      preprocessing step can greatly reduce the delay before the first
      commit is shown, see the numbers below.

  - However, if the user did explicitly ask for parent rewriting via
    '--parents' or a similar option, then stick with the current
    implementation for now, i.e. perform that expensive filtering and
    history rewriting in the preprocessing step just like we did
    before, leaving the initial delay as long as it was.

I tried to integrate line-level log filtering with parent rewriting
into the regular history traversal, but, unfortunately, several
subtleties resisted... :)  Maybe someday we'll figure out how to do
that, but until then at least the simple and common (i.e. without
parent rewriting) 'git log -L:func:file' commands can benefit from the
reduced delay.

This change makes the failing 'parent oids without parent rewriting'
test in 't4211-line-log.sh' succeed.

The reduced delay is most noticable when there's a commit modifying
the line range near the tip of a large-ish revision range:

  # no parent rewriting requested, no commit-graph present
  $ time git --no-pager log -L:read_alternate_refs:sha1-file.c -1 v2.23.0

  Before:

    real    0m9.570s
    user    0m9.494s
    sys     0m0.076s

  After:

    real    0m0.718s
    user    0m0.674s
    sys     0m0.044s

A significant part of the remaining delay is spent reading and parsing
commit objects in limit_list().  With the help of the commit-graph we
can eliminate most of that reading and parsing overhead, so here are
the timing results of the same command as above, but this time using
the commit-graph:

  Before:

    real    0m8.874s
    user    0m8.816s
    sys     0m0.057s

  After:

    real    0m0.107s
    user    0m0.091s
    sys     0m0.013s

The next patch will further reduce the remaining delay.

To be clear: this patch doesn't actually optimize the line-level log,
but merely moves most of the work from the preprocessing step to the
history traversal, so the commits modifying the line range can be
shown as soon as they are processed, and the traversal can be
terminated as soon as the given number of commits are shown.
Consequently, listing the full history of a line range, potentially
all the way to the root commit, will take the same time as before (but
at least the user might start reading the output earlier).
Furthermore, if the most recent commit modifying the line range is far
away from the starting revision, then that initial delay will still be
significant.

Additional testing by Derrick Stolee: In the Linux kernel repository,
the MAINTAINERS file was changed ~3,500 times across the ~915,000
commits. In addition to that edit frequency, the file itself is quite
large (~18,700 lines). This means that a significant portion of the
computation is taken up by computing the patch-diff of the file. This
patch improves the real time it takes to output the first result quite
a bit:

Command: git log -L 100,200:MAINTAINERS -n 1 >/dev/null
 Before: 3.88 s
  After: 0.71 s

If we drop the "-n 1" in the command, then there is no change in
end-to-end process time. This is because the command still needs to
walk the entire commit history, which negates the point of this
patch. This is expected.

As a note for future reference, the ~4.3 seconds in the old code
spends ~2.6 seconds computing the patch-diffs, and the rest of the
time is spent walking commits and computing diffs for which paths
changed at each commit. The changed-path Bloom filters could improve
the end-to-end computation time (i.e. no "-n 1" in the command).

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-11 09:33:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6d56d4c7dc Merge branch 'ds/blame-on-bloom'
"git blame" learns to take advantage of the "changed-paths" Bloom
filter stored in the commit-graph file.

* ds/blame-on-bloom:
  test-bloom: check that we have expected arguments
  test-bloom: fix some whitespace issues
  blame: drop unused parameter from maybe_changed_path
  blame: use changed-path Bloom filters
  tests: write commit-graph with Bloom filters
  revision: complicated pathspecs disable filters
2020-05-01 13:39:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9b6606f43d Merge branch 'gs/commit-graph-path-filter'
Introduce an extension to the commit-graph to make it efficient to
check for the paths that were modified at each commit using Bloom
filters.

* gs/commit-graph-path-filter:
  bloom: ignore renames when computing changed paths
  commit-graph: add GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_CHANGED_PATHS test flag
  t4216: add end to end tests for git log with Bloom filters
  revision.c: add trace2 stats around Bloom filter usage
  revision.c: use Bloom filters to speed up path based revision walks
  commit-graph: add --changed-paths option to write subcommand
  commit-graph: reuse existing Bloom filters during write
  commit-graph: write Bloom filters to commit graph file
  commit-graph: examine commits by generation number
  commit-graph: examine changed-path objects in pack order
  commit-graph: compute Bloom filters for changed paths
  diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changes
  bloom.c: core Bloom filter implementation for changed paths.
  bloom.c: introduce core Bloom filter constructs
  bloom.c: add the murmur3 hash implementation
  commit-graph: define and use MAX_NUM_CHUNKS
2020-05-01 13:39:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9af3a7cb4d Merge branch 'ds/revision-show-pulls'
"git log" learned "--show-pulls" that helps pathspec limited
history views; a merge commit that takes the whole change from a
side branch, which is normally omitted from the output, is shown
in addition to the commits that introduce real changes.

* ds/revision-show-pulls:
  revision: --show-pulls adds helpful merges
2020-04-22 13:42:57 -07:00
Derrick Stolee 8918e379aa revision: complicated pathspecs disable filters
The changed-path Bloom filters work only when we can compute an
explicit Bloom filter key in advance. When a pathspec is given
that allows case-insensitive checks or wildcard matching, we
must disable the Bloom filter performance checks.

By checking the pathspec in prepare_to_use_bloom_filters(), we
avoid setting up the Bloom filter data and thus revert to the
usual logic.

Before this change, the following tests would fail*:

	t6004-rev-list-path-optim.sh (Tests 6-7)
	t6130-pathspec-noglob.sh (Tests 3-6)
	t6131-pathspec-icase.sh (Tests 3-5)

*These tests would fail when using GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH and
GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_BLOOM_FILTERS except that the latter
environment variable was not set up correctly to write the changed-
path Bloom filters in the test suite. That will be fixed in the
next change.

Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16 15:38:02 -07:00
Derrick Stolee 8d049e182e revision: --show-pulls adds helpful merges
The default file history simplification of "git log -- <path>" or
"git rev-list -- <path>" focuses on providing the smallest set of
commits that first contributed a change. The revision walk greatly
restricts the set of walked commits by visiting only the first
TREESAME parent of a merge commit, when one exists. This means
that portions of the commit-graph are not walked, which can be a
performance benefit, but can also "hide" commits that added changes
but were ignored by a merge resolution.

The --full-history option modifies this by walking all commits and
reporting a merge commit as "interesting" if it has _any_ parent
that is not TREESAME. This tends to be an over-representation of
important commits, especially in an environment where most merge
commits are created by pull request completion.

Suppose we have a commit A and we create a commit B on top that
changes our file. When we merge the pull request, we create a merge
commit M. If no one else changed the file in the first-parent
history between M and A, then M will not be TREESAME to its first
parent, but will be TREESAME to B. Thus, the simplified history
will be "B". However, M will appear in the --full-history mode.

However, suppose that a number of topics T1, T2, ..., Tn were
created based on commits C1, C2, ..., Cn between A and M as
follows:

  A----C1----C2--- ... ---Cn----M------P1---P2--- ... ---Pn
   \     \     \            \  /      /    /            /
    \     \__.. \            \/ ..__T1    /           Tn
     \           \__..       /\     ..__T2           /
      \_____________________B  \____________________/

If the commits T1, T2, ... Tn did not change the file, then all of
P1 through Pn will be TREESAME to their first parent, but not
TREESAME to their second. This means that all of those merge commits
appear in the --full-history view, with edges that immediately
collapse into the lower history without introducing interesting
single-parent commits.

The --simplify-merges option was introduced to remove these extra
merge commits. By noticing that the rewritten parents are reachable
from their first parents, those edges can be simplified away. Finally,
the commits now look like single-parent commits that are TREESAME to
their "only" parent. Thus, they are removed and this issue does not
cause issues anymore. However, this also ends up removing the commit
M from the history view! Even worse, the --simplify-merges option
requires walking the entire history before returning a single result.

Many Git users are using Git alongside a Git service that provides
code storage alongside a code review tool commonly called "Pull
Requests" or "Merge Requests" against a target branch.  When these
requests are accepted and merged, they typically create a merge
commit whose first parent is the previous branch tip and the second
parent is the tip of the topic branch used for the request. This
presents a valuable order to the parents, but also makes that merge
commit slightly special. Users may want to see not only which
commits changed a file, but which pull requests merged those commits
into their branch. In the previous example, this would mean the
users want to see the merge commit "M" in addition to the single-
parent commit "C".

Users are even more likely to want these merge commits when they
use pull requests to merge into a feature branch before merging that
feature branch into their trunk.

In some sense, users are asking for the "first" merge commit to
bring in the change to their branch. As long as the parent order is
consistent, this can be handled with the following rule:

  Include a merge commit if it is not TREESAME to its first
  parent, but is TREESAME to a later parent.

These merges look like the merge commits that would result from
running "git pull <topic>" on a main branch. Thus, the option to
show these commits is called "--show-pulls". This has the added
benefit of showing the commits created by closing a pull request or
merge request on any of the Git hosting and code review platforms.

To test these options, extend the standard test example to include
a merge commit that is not TREESAME to its first parent. It is
surprising that that option was not already in the example, as it
is instructive.

In particular, this extension demonstrates a common issue with file
history simplification. When a user resolves a merge conflict using
"-Xours" or otherwise ignoring one side of the conflict, they create
a TREESAME edge that probably should not be TREESAME. This leads
users to become frustrated and complain that "my change disappeared!"
In my experience, showing them history with --full-history and
--simplify-merges quickly reveals the problematic merge. As mentioned,
this option is expensive to compute. The --show-pulls option
_might_ show the merge commit (usually titled "resolving conflicts")
more quickly. Of course, this depends on the user having the correct
parent order, which is backwards when using "git pull master" from a
topic branch.

There are some special considerations when combining the --show-pulls
option with --simplify-merges. This requires adding a new PULL_MERGE
object flag to store the information from the initial TREESAME
comparisons. This helps avoid dropping those commits in later filters.
This is covered by a test, including how the parents can be simplified.
Since "struct object" has already ruined its 32-bit alignment by using
33 bits across parsed, type, and flags member, let's not make it worse.
PULL_MERGE is used in revision.c with the same value (1u<<15) as
REACHABLE in commit-graph.c. The REACHABLE flag is only used when
writing a commit-graph file, and a revision walk using --show-pulls
does not happen in the same process. Care must be taken in the future
to ensure this remains the case.

Update Documentation/rev-list-options.txt with significant details
around this option. This requires updating the example in the
History Simplification section to demonstrate some of the problems
with TREESAME second parents.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-10 09:58:55 -07:00
Emma Brooks 19d097e3d7 format-patch: teach --no-encode-email-headers
When commit subjects or authors have non-ASCII characters, git
format-patch Q-encodes them so they can be safely sent over email.
However, if the patch transfer method is something other than email (web
review tools, sneakernet), this only serves to make the patch metadata
harder to read without first applying it (unless you can decode RFC 2047
in your head). git am as well as some email software supports
non-Q-encoded mail as described in RFC 6531.

Add --[no-]encode-email-headers and format.encodeEmailHeaders to let the
user control this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-07 22:37:18 -07:00
Garima Singh 42e50e78c6 revision.c: add trace2 stats around Bloom filter usage
Add trace2 statistics around Bloom filter usage and behavior
for 'git log -- path' commands that are hoping to benefit from
the presence of computed changed paths Bloom filters.

These statistics are great for performance analysis work and
for formal testing, which we will see in the commit following
this one.

Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-06 11:08:37 -07:00
Garima Singh a56b9464cd revision.c: use Bloom filters to speed up path based revision walks
Revision walk will now use Bloom filters for commits to speed up
revision walks for a particular path (for computing history for
that path), if they are present in the commit-graph file.

We load the Bloom filters during the prepare_revision_walk step,
currently only when dealing with a single pathspec. Extending
it to work with multiple pathspecs can be explored and built on
top of this series in the future.

While comparing trees in rev_compare_trees(), if the Bloom filter
says that the file is not different between the two trees, we don't
need to compute the expensive diff. This is where we get our
performance gains. The other response of the Bloom filter is '`:maybe',
in which case we fall back to the full diff calculation to determine
if the path was changed in the commit.

We do not try to use Bloom filters when the '--walk-reflogs' option
is specified. The '--walk-reflogs' option does not walk the commit
ancestry chain like the rest of the options. Incorporating the
performance gains when walking reflog entries would add more
complexity, and can be explored in a later series.

Performance Gains:
We tested the performance of `git log -- <path>` on the git repo, the linux
and some internal large repos, with a variety of paths of varying depths.

On the git and linux repos:
- we observed a 2x to 5x speed up.

On a large internal repo with files seated 6-10 levels deep in the tree:
- we observed 10x to 20x speed ups, with some paths going up to 28 times
  faster.

Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-06 11:08:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 17066bea38 Merge branch 'dl/format-patch-notes-config-fixup'
"git format-patch" can take a set of configured format.notes values
to specify which notes refs to use in the log message part of the
output.  The behaviour of this was not consistent with multiple
--notes command line options, which has been corrected.

* dl/format-patch-notes-config-fixup:
  notes.h: fix typos in comment
  notes: break set_display_notes() into smaller functions
  config/format.txt: clarify behavior of multiple format.notes
  format-patch: move git_config() before repo_init_revisions()
  format-patch: use --notes behavior for format.notes
  notes: extract logic into set_display_notes()
  notes: create init_display_notes() helper
  notes: rename to load_display_notes()
2019-12-25 11:21:58 -08:00
Denton Liu 1d7297513d notes: break set_display_notes() into smaller functions
In 8164c961e1 (format-patch: use --notes behavior for format.notes,
2019-12-09), we introduced set_display_notes() which was a monolithic
function with three mutually exclusive branches. Break the function up
into three small and simple functions that each are only responsible for
one task.

This family of functions accepts an `int *show_notes` instead of
returning a value suitable for assignment to `show_notes`. This is for
two reasons. First of all, this guarantees that the external
`show_notes` variable changes in lockstep with the
`struct display_notes_opt`. Second, this prompts future developers to be
careful about doing something meaningful with this value. In fact, a
NULL check is intentionally omitted because causing a segfault here
would tell the future developer that they are meant to use the value for
something meaningful.

One alternative was making the family of functions accept a
`struct rev_info *` instead of the `struct display_notes_opt *`, since
the former contains the `show_notes` field as well. This does not work
because we have to call git_config() before repo_init_revisions().
However, if we had a `struct rev_info`, we'd need to initialize it before
it gets assigned values from git_config(). As a result, we break the
circular dependency by having standalone `int show_notes` and
`struct display_notes_opt notes_opt` variables which temporarily hold
values from git_config() until the values are copied over to `rev`.

To implement this change, we need to get a pointer to
`rev_info::show_notes`. Unfortunately, this is not possible with
bitfields and only direct-assignment is possible. Change
`rev_info::show_notes` to a non-bitfield int so that we can get its
address.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-13 11:07:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano d37cfe3b5c Merge branch 'dl/pretty-reference'
"git log" family learned "--pretty=reference" that gives the name
of a commit in the format that is often used to refer to it in log
messages.

* dl/pretty-reference:
  SubmittingPatches: use `--pretty=reference`
  pretty: implement 'reference' format
  pretty: add struct cmt_fmt_map::default_date_mode_type
  pretty: provide short date format
  t4205: cover `git log --reflog -z` blindspot
  pretty.c: inline initalize format_context
  revision: make get_revision_mark() return const pointer
  completion: complete `tformat:` pretty format
  SubmittingPatches: remove dq from commit reference
  pretty-formats.txt: use generic terms for hash
  SubmittingPatches: use generic terms for hash
2019-12-10 13:11:43 -08:00
Denton Liu 452538c358 notes: extract logic into set_display_notes()
Instead of open coding the logic that tweaks the variables in
`struct display_notes_opt` within handle_revision_opt(), abstract away the
logic into set_display_notes() so that it can be reused.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-09 13:36:45 -08:00
Denton Liu e6e230eeae notes: create init_display_notes() helper
We currently open code the initialization for revs->notes_opt. Abstract
this away into a helper function so that the logic can be reused in a
future commit.

This is slightly wasteful as we memset the struct twice but this is only
run once so it shouldn't have any major effect.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-09 13:36:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano fd952307ec Merge branch 'mh/clear-topo-walk-upon-reset'
The revision walking machinery uses resources like per-object flag
bits that need to be reset before a new iteration of walking
begins, but the resources related to topological walk were not
cleared correctly, which has been corrected.

* mh/clear-topo-walk-upon-reset:
  revision: free topo_walk_info before creating a new one in init_topo_walk
  revision: clear the topo-walk flags in reset_revision_walk
2019-12-05 12:52:48 -08:00
Mike Hommey 0aa0c2b2ec revision: free topo_walk_info before creating a new one in init_topo_walk
init_topo_walk doesn't reuse an existing topo_walk_info, and currently
leaks the one that might exist on the current rev_info if it was already
used for a topo walk beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-25 11:48:48 +09:00
Mike Hommey ffa1f28fea revision: clear the topo-walk flags in reset_revision_walk
Not doing so can lead to wrong topo-walks when using the revision walk API
consecutively.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-25 11:48:47 +09:00
Denton Liu 4982516451 revision: make get_revision_mark() return const pointer
get_revision_mark() used to return a `char *`, even though all of the
strings it was returning were string literals. Make get_revision_mark()
return a `const char *` so that callers won't be tempted to modify the
returned string.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-20 13:33:36 +09:00
Junio C Hamano 5efabc7ed9 Merge branch 'ew/hashmap'
Code clean-up of the hashmap API, both users and implementation.

* ew/hashmap:
  hashmap_entry: remove first member requirement from docs
  hashmap: remove type arg from hashmap_{get,put,remove}_entry
  OFFSETOF_VAR macro to simplify hashmap iterators
  hashmap: introduce hashmap_free_entries
  hashmap: hashmap_{put,remove} return hashmap_entry *
  hashmap: use *_entry APIs for iteration
  hashmap_cmp_fn takes hashmap_entry params
  hashmap_get{,_from_hash} return "struct hashmap_entry *"
  hashmap: use *_entry APIs to wrap container_of
  hashmap_get_next returns "struct hashmap_entry *"
  introduce container_of macro
  hashmap_put takes "struct hashmap_entry *"
  hashmap_remove takes "const struct hashmap_entry *"
  hashmap_get takes "const struct hashmap_entry *"
  hashmap_add takes "struct hashmap_entry *"
  hashmap_get_next takes "const struct hashmap_entry *"
  hashmap_entry_init takes "struct hashmap_entry *"
  packfile: use hashmap_entry in delta_base_cache_entry
  coccicheck: detect hashmap_entry.hash assignment
  diff: use hashmap_entry_init on moved_entry.ent
2019-10-15 13:48:02 +09:00
Junio C Hamano a73f91774c Merge branch 'ab/pcre-jit-fixes'
A few simplification and bugfixes to PCRE interface.

* ab/pcre-jit-fixes:
  grep: under --debug, show whether PCRE JIT is enabled
  grep: do not enter PCRE2_UTF mode on fixed matching
  grep: stess test PCRE v2 on invalid UTF-8 data
  grep: create a "is_fixed" member in "grep_pat"
  grep: consistently use "p->fixed" in compile_regexp()
  grep: stop using a custom JIT stack with PCRE v1
  grep: stop "using" a custom JIT stack with PCRE v2
  grep: remove overly paranoid BUG(...) code
  grep: use PCRE v2 for optimized fixed-string search
  grep: remove the kwset optimization
  grep: drop support for \0 in --fixed-strings <pattern>
  grep: make the behavior for NUL-byte in patterns sane
  grep tests: move binary pattern tests into their own file
  grep tests: move "grep binary" alongside the rest
  grep: inline the return value of a function call used only once
  t4210: skip more command-line encoding tests on MinGW
  grep: don't use PCRE2?_UTF8 with "log --encoding=<non-utf8>"
  log tests: test regex backends in "--encode=<enc>" tests
2019-10-11 14:24:47 +09:00
Junio C Hamano ed6822896b Merge branch 'rs/simplify-by-deco-with-deco-refs-exclude'
"git log --decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>" was incorrectly
overruled when the "--simplify-by-decoration" option is used, which
has been corrected.

* rs/simplify-by-deco-with-deco-refs-exclude:
  log-tree: call load_ref_decorations() in get_name_decoration()
  log: test --decorate-refs-exclude with --simplify-by-decoration
2019-10-07 11:32:54 +09:00
Eric Wong 404ab78e39 hashmap: remove type arg from hashmap_{get,put,remove}_entry
Since these macros already take a `keyvar' pointer of a known type,
we can rely on OFFSETOF_VAR to get the correct offset without
relying on non-portable `__typeof__' and `offsetof'.

Argument order is also rearranged, so `keyvar' and `member' are
sequential as they are used as: `keyvar->member'

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-07 10:20:12 +09:00
Eric Wong 23dee69f53 OFFSETOF_VAR macro to simplify hashmap iterators
While we cannot rely on a `__typeof__' operator being portable
to use with `offsetof'; we can calculate the pointer offset
using an existing pointer and the address of a member using
pointer arithmetic for compilers without `__typeof__'.

This allows us to simplify usage of hashmap iterator macros
by not having to specify a type when a pointer of that type
is already given.

In the future, list iterator macros (e.g. list_for_each_entry)
may also be implemented using OFFSETOF_VAR to save hackers the
trouble of using container_of/list_entry macros and without
relying on non-portable `__typeof__'.

v3: use `__typeof__' to avoid clang warnings

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-07 10:20:11 +09:00
Eric Wong c8e424c9c9 hashmap: introduce hashmap_free_entries
`hashmap_free_entries' behaves like `container_of' and passes
the offset of the hashmap_entry struct to the internal
`hashmap_free_' function, allowing the function to free any
struct pointer regardless of where the hashmap_entry field
is located.

`hashmap_free' no longer takes any arguments aside from
the hashmap itself.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-07 10:20:11 +09:00
Eric Wong 87571c3f71 hashmap: use *_entry APIs for iteration
Inspired by list_for_each_entry in the Linux kernel.
Once again, these are somewhat compromised usability-wise
by compilers lacking __typeof__ support.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-07 10:20:11 +09:00
Eric Wong 939af16eac hashmap_cmp_fn takes hashmap_entry params
Another step in eliminating the requirement of hashmap_entry
being the first member of a struct.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-07 10:20:11 +09:00
Eric Wong f23a465132 hashmap_get{,_from_hash} return "struct hashmap_entry *"
Update callers to use hashmap_get_entry, hashmap_get_entry_from_hash
or container_of as appropriate.

This is another step towards eliminating the requirement of
hashmap_entry being the first field in a struct.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-07 10:20:11 +09:00
Eric Wong 26b455f21e hashmap_put takes "struct hashmap_entry *"
This is less error-prone than "void *" as the compiler now
detects invalid types being passed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-07 10:20:10 +09:00
Eric Wong b6c5241606 hashmap_get takes "const struct hashmap_entry *"
This is less error-prone than "const void *" as the compiler
now detects invalid types being passed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-07 10:20:10 +09:00
Eric Wong d22245a2e3 hashmap_entry_init takes "struct hashmap_entry *"
C compilers do type checking to make life easier for us.  So
rely on that and update all hashmap_entry_init callers to take
"struct hashmap_entry *" to avoid future bugs while improving
safety and readability.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-07 10:20:09 +09:00
Junio C Hamano cf861cd7a0 Merge branch 'rs/get-tagged-oid'
Code cleanup.

* rs/get-tagged-oid:
  use get_tagged_oid()
  tag: factor out get_tagged_oid()
2019-09-30 13:19:29 +09:00
René Scharfe 0cc7380d88 log-tree: call load_ref_decorations() in get_name_decoration()
Load a default set of ref name decorations at the first lookup.  This
frees direct and indirect callers from doing so.  They can still do it
if they want to use a filter or are interested in full decorations
instead of the default short ones -- the first load_ref_decorations()
call wins.

This means that the load in builtin/log.c::cmd_log_init_finish() is
respected even if --simplify-by-decoration is given, as the previously
dominating earlier load in handle_revision_opt() is gone.  So a filter
given with --decorate-refs-exclude is used for simplification in that
case, as expected.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-09 11:16:40 -07:00
René Scharfe dad3f0607b tag: factor out get_tagged_oid()
Add a function for accessing the ID of the object referenced by a tag
safely, i.e. without causing a segfault when encountering a broken tag
where ->tagged is NULL.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-05 14:10:18 -07:00
Jeff King 19e8789b23 revision: allow --end-of-options to end option parsing
There's currently no robust way to tell Git that a particular option is
meant to be a revision, and not an option. So if you have a branch
"refs/heads/--foo", you cannot just say:

  git rev-list --foo

You can say:

  git rev-list refs/heads/--foo

But that breaks down if you don't know the refname, and in particular if
you're a script passing along a value from elsewhere. In most programs,
you can use "--" to end option parsing, like this:

  some-prog -- "$revision"

But that doesn't work for the revision parser, because "--" is already
meaningful there: it separates revisions from pathspecs. So we need some
other marker to separate options from revisions.

This patch introduces "--end-of-options", which serves that purpose:

  git rev-list --oneline --end-of-options "$revision"

will work regardless of what's in "$revision" (well, if you say "--" it
may fail, but it won't do something dangerous, like triggering an
unexpected option).

The name is verbose, but that's probably a good thing; this is meant to
be used for scripted invocations where readability is more important
than terseness.

One alternative would be to introduce an explicit option to mark a
revision, like:

  git rev-list --oneline --revision="$revision"

That's slightly _more_ informative than this commit (because it makes
even something silly like "--" unambiguous). But the pattern of using a
separator like "--" is well established in git and in other commands,
and it makes some scripting tasks simpler like:

  git rev-list --end-of-options "$@"

There's no documentation in this patch, because it will make sense to
describe the feature once it is available everywhere (and support will
be added in further patches).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-06 13:05:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 68e65ded5b Merge branch 'jk/check-connected-with-alternates'
The tips of refs from the alternate object store can be used as
starting point for reachability computation now.

* jk/check-connected-with-alternates:
  check_everything_connected: assume alternate ref tips are valid
  object-store.h: move for_each_alternate_ref() from transport.h
2019-07-19 11:30:21 -07:00
Jeff King 39b44ba771 check_everything_connected: assume alternate ref tips are valid
When we receive a remote ref update to sha1 "X", we want to check that
we have all of the objects needed by "X". We can assume that our
repository is not currently corrupted, and therefore if we have a ref
pointing at "Y", we have all of its objects. So we can stop our
traversal from "X" as soon as we hit "Y".

If we make the same non-corruption assumption about any repositories we
use to store alternates, then we can also use their ref tips to shorten
the traversal.

This is especially useful when cloning with "--reference", as we
otherwise do not have any local refs to check against, and have to
traverse the whole history, even though the other side may have sent us
few or no objects. Here are results for the included perf test (which
shows off more or less the maximal savings, getting one new commit and
sharing the whole history):

Test                        HEAD^             HEAD
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[on git.git]
5600.3: clone --reference   2.94(2.86+0.08)   0.09(0.08+0.01) -96.9%
[on linux.git]
5600.3: clone --reference   45.74(45.34+0.41)   0.36(0.30+0.08) -99.2%

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-01 10:11:09 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 44570188a0 grep: don't use PCRE2?_UTF8 with "log --encoding=<non-utf8>"
Fix a bug introduced in 18547aacf5 ("grep/pcre: support utf-8",
2016-06-25) that was missed due to a blindspot in our tests, as
discussed in the previous commit. I then blindly copied the same bug
in 94da9193a6 ("grep: add support for PCRE v2", 2017-06-01) when
adding the PCRE v2 code.

We should not tell PCRE that we're processing UTF-8 just because we're
dealing with non-ASCII. In the case of e.g. "log --encoding=<...>"
under is_utf8_locale() the haystack might be in ISO-8859-1, and the
needle might be in a non-UTF-8 encoding.

Maybe we should be more strict here and die earlier? Should we also be
converting the needle to the encoding in question, and failing if it's
not a string that's valid in that encoding? Maybe.

But for now matching this as non-UTF8 at least has some hope of
producing sensible results, since we know that our default heuristic
of assuming the text to be matched is in the user locale encoding
isn't true when we've explicitly encoded it to be in a different
encoding.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-28 09:11:09 -07:00
Derrick Stolee 1d8e31a3f6 revision: keep topo-walk free of unintersting commits
When updating the topo-order walk in b454241 (revision.c: generation-based
topo-order algorithm, 2018-11-01), the logic was a huge rewrite of the
walk logic. In that massive change, we accidentally included the
UNINTERESTING commits in expand_topo_walk(). This means that a simple
query like

    git rev-list --topo-order HEAD~1..HEAD

will expand the topo walk for all commits reachable from HEAD, and not
just one commit.

This change should speed up these cases, but there is still a need
for corrected commit-date for some A..B queries.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 10:39:49 -07:00
Derrick Stolee 1b4d8827ff revision: use generation for A..B --topo-order queries
If a commit-graph exists with computed generation numbers, then a
'git rev-list --topo-order -n <N> <rev>' query will use those generation
numbers to reduce the number of commits walked before writing N commits.

One caveat put in b454241 (revision.c: generation-based topo-order
algorithm, 2018-11-01) was to not enable the new algorithm for queries
with a revision range "A..B". The logic was placed to walk from "A" and
mark those commits as uninteresting, but the performance was actually
worse than the existing logic in some cases.

The root cause of this performance degradation is that generation
numbers _increase_ the number of commits we walk relative to the
existing heuristic of walking by commit date. While generation numbers
actually guarantee that the algorithm is correct, the existing logic
is very rarely wrong and that added requirement is not worth the cost.

This motivates the planned "corrected commit date" to replace
generation numbers in a future version of Git.

The current change enables the logic to use whatever reachability
index is currently in the commit-graph (generation numbers or
corrected commit date).

The limited flag in struct rev_info forces a full walk of the
commit history (after discovering the A..B range). Previosuly, it
is enabled whenever we see an uninteresting commit. We prevent
enabling the parameter when we are planning to use the reachability
index for a topo-order.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 10:39:47 -07:00