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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 125f81461d gc --aggressive: make --depth configurable
When 1c192f3 (gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive - 2007-12-06)
made --depth=250 the default value, it didn't really explain the
reason behind, especially the pros and cons of --depth=250.

An old mail from Linus below explains it at length. Long story short,
--depth=250 is a disk saver and a performance killer. Not everybody
agrees on that aggressiveness. Let the user configure it.

    From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive
    Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:19:24 -0800 (PST)
    Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712060803430.13796@woody.linux-foundation.org>
    Gmane-URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94637

    On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Harvey Harrison wrote:
    >
    > 7:41:25elapsed 86%CPU

    Heh. And this is why you want to do it exactly *once*, and then just
    export the end result for others ;)

    > -r--r--r-- 1 hharrison hharrison 324094684 2007-12-06 07:26 pack-1d46...pack

    But yeah, especially if you allow longer delta chains, the end result can
    be much smaller (and what makes the one-time repack more expensive is the
    window size, not the delta chain - you could make the delta chains longer
    with no cost overhead at packing time)

    HOWEVER.

    The longer delta chains do make it potentially much more expensive to then
    use old history. So there's a trade-off. And quite frankly, a delta depth
    of 250 is likely going to cause overflows in the delta cache (which is
    only 256 entries in size *and* it's a hash, so it's going to start having
    hash conflicts long before hitting the 250 depth limit).

    So when I said "--depth=250 --window=250", I chose those numbers more as
    an example of extremely aggressive packing, and I'm not at all sure that
    the end result is necessarily wonderfully usable. It's going to save disk
    space (and network bandwidth - the delta's will be re-used for the network
    protocol too!), but there are definitely downsides too, and using long
    delta chains may simply not be worth it in practice.

    (And some of it might just want to have git tuning, ie if people think
    that long deltas are worth it, we could easily just expand on the delta
    hash, at the cost of some more memory used!)

    That said, the good news is that working with *new* history will not be
    affected negatively, and if you want to be _really_ sneaky, there are ways
    to say "create a pack that contains the history up to a version one year
    ago, and be very aggressive about those old versions that we still want to
    have around, but do a separate pack for newer stuff using less aggressive
    parameters"

    So this is something that can be tweaked, although we don't really have
    any really nice interfaces for stuff like that (ie the git delta cache
    size is hardcoded in the sources and cannot be set in the config file, and
    the "pack old history more aggressively" involves some manual scripting
    and knowing how "git pack-objects" works rather than any nice simple
    command line switch).

    So the thing to take away from this is:
     - git is certainly flexible as hell
     - .. but to get the full power you may need to tweak things
     - .. happily you really only need to have one person to do the tweaking,
       and the tweaked end results will be available to others that do not
       need to know/care.

    And whether the difference between 320MB and 500MB is worth any really
    involved tweaking (considering the potential downsides), I really don't
    know. Only testing will tell.

			    Linus

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31 10:26:24 -07:00

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/*
* git gc builtin command
*
* Cleanup unreachable files and optimize the repository.
*
* Copyright (c) 2007 James Bowes
*
* Based on git-gc.sh, which is
*
* Copyright (c) 2006 Shawn O. Pearce
*/
#include "builtin.h"
#include "cache.h"
#include "parse-options.h"
#include "run-command.h"
#include "sigchain.h"
#include "argv-array.h"
#include "commit.h"
#define FAILED_RUN "failed to run %s"
static const char * const builtin_gc_usage[] = {
N_("git gc [options]"),
NULL
};
static int pack_refs = 1;
static int aggressive_depth = 250;
static int aggressive_window = 250;
static int gc_auto_threshold = 6700;
static int gc_auto_pack_limit = 50;
static int detach_auto = 1;
static const char *prune_expire = "2.weeks.ago";
static struct argv_array pack_refs_cmd = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
static struct argv_array reflog = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
static struct argv_array repack = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
static struct argv_array prune = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
static struct argv_array rerere = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
static char *pidfile;
static void remove_pidfile(void)
{
if (pidfile)
unlink(pidfile);
}
static void remove_pidfile_on_signal(int signo)
{
remove_pidfile();
sigchain_pop(signo);
raise(signo);
}
static int gc_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
{
if (!strcmp(var, "gc.packrefs")) {
if (value && !strcmp(value, "notbare"))
pack_refs = -1;
else
pack_refs = git_config_bool(var, value);
return 0;
}
if (!strcmp(var, "gc.aggressivewindow")) {
aggressive_window = git_config_int(var, value);
return 0;
}
if (!strcmp(var, "gc.aggressivedepth")) {
aggressive_depth = git_config_int(var, value);
return 0;
}
if (!strcmp(var, "gc.auto")) {
gc_auto_threshold = git_config_int(var, value);
return 0;
}
if (!strcmp(var, "gc.autopacklimit")) {
gc_auto_pack_limit = git_config_int(var, value);
return 0;
}
if (!strcmp(var, "gc.autodetach")) {
detach_auto = git_config_bool(var, value);
return 0;
}
if (!strcmp(var, "gc.pruneexpire")) {
if (value && strcmp(value, "now")) {
unsigned long now = approxidate("now");
if (approxidate(value) >= now)
return error(_("Invalid %s: '%s'"), var, value);
}
return git_config_string(&prune_expire, var, value);
}
return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
}
static int too_many_loose_objects(void)
{
/*
* Quickly check if a "gc" is needed, by estimating how
* many loose objects there are. Because SHA-1 is evenly
* distributed, we can check only one and get a reasonable
* estimate.
*/
char path[PATH_MAX];
const char *objdir = get_object_directory();
DIR *dir;
struct dirent *ent;
int auto_threshold;
int num_loose = 0;
int needed = 0;
if (gc_auto_threshold <= 0)
return 0;
if (sizeof(path) <= snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/17", objdir)) {
warning(_("insanely long object directory %.*s"), 50, objdir);
return 0;
}
dir = opendir(path);
if (!dir)
return 0;
auto_threshold = (gc_auto_threshold + 255) / 256;
while ((ent = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
if (strspn(ent->d_name, "0123456789abcdef") != 38 ||
ent->d_name[38] != '\0')
continue;
if (++num_loose > auto_threshold) {
needed = 1;
break;
}
}
closedir(dir);
return needed;
}
static int too_many_packs(void)
{
struct packed_git *p;
int cnt;
if (gc_auto_pack_limit <= 0)
return 0;
prepare_packed_git();
for (cnt = 0, p = packed_git; p; p = p->next) {
if (!p->pack_local)
continue;
if (p->pack_keep)
continue;
/*
* Perhaps check the size of the pack and count only
* very small ones here?
*/
cnt++;
}
return gc_auto_pack_limit <= cnt;
}
static void add_repack_all_option(void)
{
if (prune_expire && !strcmp(prune_expire, "now"))
argv_array_push(&repack, "-a");
else {
argv_array_push(&repack, "-A");
if (prune_expire)
argv_array_pushf(&repack, "--unpack-unreachable=%s", prune_expire);
}
}
static int need_to_gc(void)
{
/*
* Setting gc.auto to 0 or negative can disable the
* automatic gc.
*/
if (gc_auto_threshold <= 0)
return 0;
/*
* If there are too many loose objects, but not too many
* packs, we run "repack -d -l". If there are too many packs,
* we run "repack -A -d -l". Otherwise we tell the caller
* there is no need.
*/
if (too_many_packs())
add_repack_all_option();
else if (!too_many_loose_objects())
return 0;
if (run_hook(NULL, "pre-auto-gc", NULL))
return 0;
return 1;
}
/* return NULL on success, else hostname running the gc */
static const char *lock_repo_for_gc(int force, pid_t* ret_pid)
{
static struct lock_file lock;
char my_host[128];
struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
struct stat st;
uintmax_t pid;
FILE *fp;
int fd;
if (pidfile)
/* already locked */
return NULL;
if (gethostname(my_host, sizeof(my_host)))
strcpy(my_host, "unknown");
fd = hold_lock_file_for_update(&lock, git_path("gc.pid"),
LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR);
if (!force) {
static char locking_host[128];
int should_exit;
fp = fopen(git_path("gc.pid"), "r");
memset(locking_host, 0, sizeof(locking_host));
should_exit =
fp != NULL &&
!fstat(fileno(fp), &st) &&
/*
* 12 hour limit is very generous as gc should
* never take that long. On the other hand we
* don't really need a strict limit here,
* running gc --auto one day late is not a big
* problem. --force can be used in manual gc
* after the user verifies that no gc is
* running.
*/
time(NULL) - st.st_mtime <= 12 * 3600 &&
fscanf(fp, "%"PRIuMAX" %127c", &pid, locking_host) == 2 &&
/* be gentle to concurrent "gc" on remote hosts */
(strcmp(locking_host, my_host) || !kill(pid, 0) || errno == EPERM);
if (fp != NULL)
fclose(fp);
if (should_exit) {
if (fd >= 0)
rollback_lock_file(&lock);
*ret_pid = pid;
return locking_host;
}
}
strbuf_addf(&sb, "%"PRIuMAX" %s",
(uintmax_t) getpid(), my_host);
write_in_full(fd, sb.buf, sb.len);
strbuf_release(&sb);
commit_lock_file(&lock);
pidfile = git_pathdup("gc.pid");
sigchain_push_common(remove_pidfile_on_signal);
atexit(remove_pidfile);
return NULL;
}
int cmd_gc(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
{
int aggressive = 0;
int auto_gc = 0;
int quiet = 0;
int force = 0;
const char *name;
pid_t pid;
struct option builtin_gc_options[] = {
OPT__QUIET(&quiet, N_("suppress progress reporting")),
{ OPTION_STRING, 0, "prune", &prune_expire, N_("date"),
N_("prune unreferenced objects"),
PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t)prune_expire },
OPT_BOOL(0, "aggressive", &aggressive, N_("be more thorough (increased runtime)")),
OPT_BOOL(0, "auto", &auto_gc, N_("enable auto-gc mode")),
OPT_BOOL(0, "force", &force, N_("force running gc even if there may be another gc running")),
OPT_END()
};
if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
usage_with_options(builtin_gc_usage, builtin_gc_options);
argv_array_pushl(&pack_refs_cmd, "pack-refs", "--all", "--prune", NULL);
argv_array_pushl(&reflog, "reflog", "expire", "--all", NULL);
argv_array_pushl(&repack, "repack", "-d", "-l", NULL);
argv_array_pushl(&prune, "prune", "--expire", NULL );
argv_array_pushl(&rerere, "rerere", "gc", NULL);
git_config(gc_config, NULL);
if (pack_refs < 0)
pack_refs = !is_bare_repository();
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, builtin_gc_options,
builtin_gc_usage, 0);
if (argc > 0)
usage_with_options(builtin_gc_usage, builtin_gc_options);
if (aggressive) {
argv_array_push(&repack, "-f");
if (aggressive_depth > 0)
argv_array_pushf(&repack, "--depth=%d", aggressive_depth);
if (aggressive_window > 0)
argv_array_pushf(&repack, "--window=%d", aggressive_window);
}
if (quiet)
argv_array_push(&repack, "-q");
if (auto_gc) {
/*
* Auto-gc should be least intrusive as possible.
*/
if (!need_to_gc())
return 0;
if (!quiet) {
if (detach_auto)
fprintf(stderr, _("Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.\n"));
else
fprintf(stderr, _("Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.\n"));
fprintf(stderr, _("See \"git help gc\" for manual housekeeping.\n"));
}
if (detach_auto)
/*
* failure to daemonize is ok, we'll continue
* in foreground
*/
daemonize();
} else
add_repack_all_option();
name = lock_repo_for_gc(force, &pid);
if (name) {
if (auto_gc)
return 0; /* be quiet on --auto */
die(_("gc is already running on machine '%s' pid %"PRIuMAX" (use --force if not)"),
name, (uintmax_t)pid);
}
if (pack_refs && run_command_v_opt(pack_refs_cmd.argv, RUN_GIT_CMD))
return error(FAILED_RUN, pack_refs_cmd.argv[0]);
if (run_command_v_opt(reflog.argv, RUN_GIT_CMD))
return error(FAILED_RUN, reflog.argv[0]);
if (run_command_v_opt(repack.argv, RUN_GIT_CMD))
return error(FAILED_RUN, repack.argv[0]);
if (prune_expire) {
argv_array_push(&prune, prune_expire);
if (quiet)
argv_array_push(&prune, "--no-progress");
if (run_command_v_opt(prune.argv, RUN_GIT_CMD))
return error(FAILED_RUN, prune.argv[0]);
}
if (run_command_v_opt(rerere.argv, RUN_GIT_CMD))
return error(FAILED_RUN, rerere.argv[0]);
if (auto_gc && too_many_loose_objects())
warning(_("There are too many unreachable loose objects; "
"run 'git prune' to remove them."));
return 0;
}