The function `repo_set_gitdir()` is called in two situations:
- To initialize the repository with its discovered location. As part
of this we also set up the new object database.
- To update the repository's discovered location in case the process
changes its working directory so that we update relative paths. This
means we also have to update any relative paths that are potentially
used in the object database.
In the context of the object database we ideally wouldn't ever have to
worry about the second case: if all paths used by our object database
sources were absolute, then we wouldn't have to update them. But
unfortunately, the paths aren't only used to locate files owned by the
given source, but we also use them for reporting purposes. One such
example is `repo_get_object_directory()`, where we cannot just change
semantics to always return absolute paths, as that is likely to break
tooling out there.
One solution to this would be to have both a "display path" and an
"internal path". This would allow us to use internal paths for all
internal matters, but continue to use the potentially-relative display
paths so that we don't break compatibility. But converting the codebase
to honor this split is quite a messy endeavour, and it wouldn't even
help us with the goal to get rid of the need to update the display path
on chdir(3p).
Another solution would be to rework "setup.c" so that we never have to
update paths in the first place. In that case, we'd only initialize the
repository once we have figured out final locations for all directories.
This would be a significant simplification of that subsystem indeed, but
the current logic is so messy that it would take significant investments
to get there.
Meanwhile though, while object sources may still use relative paths, the
best thing we can do is to handle the reparenting of the object source
paths in the object database itself. This can be done by registering one
callback for each object database so that we get notified whenever the
current working directory changes, and we then perform the reparenting
ourselves.
Ideally, this wouldn't even happen on the object database level, but
instead handled by each object database source. But we don't yet have
proper pluggable object database sources, so this will need to be
handled at a later point in time.
The logic itself is rather simple:
- We register the callback when creating the object database.
- We unregister the callback when releasing it again.
- We split up `set_git_dir_1()` so that it becomes possible to skip
recreating the object database. This is required because the
function is called both when the current working directory changes,
but also when we set up the repository. Calling this function
without skipping creation of the ODB will result in a bug in case
it's already created.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While we (obviously) have a way to register new listeners that get
called whenever we chdir(3p), we don't have an equivalent that can be
used to unregister such a listener again.
Add one, as it will be required in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic to set up a new object database is currently distributed
across two functions in "repository.c":
- In `initialize_repository()` we initialize an empty object database.
This object database is not fully initialized and doesn't have any
sources attached to it.
- The primary object database source is then created in
`repo_set_gitdir()`.
Ideally though, the logic should be entirely self-contained so that we
can iterate more readily on how exactly the sources themselves get set
up.
Refactor `odb_new()` to handle both allocation and setup of the object
database. This ensures that the object database is always initialized
and ready for use, and it allows us to change how the sources get set up
eventually.
Note that `repo_set_gitdir()` still reaches into the sources when the
function gets called with an already-initialized object database. This
will be fixed in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pushing references via HTTP we call `repo_init_revisions()` in a
loop for each reference that we're about to push. As third argument we
pass the result of `setup_git_directory()`, which causes us to
reinitialize the repository every single time.
This is an obvious waste of compute, as the repository that we're
working in will never change across any of the initializations. The only
reason that we do this is to retrieve the directory of the repository.
Furthermore, this is about to create issues in a subsequent commit,
where reinitializing the repository will cause a `BUG()`.
Address this by storing the Git directory in a variable instead so that
we don't have to call the function repeatedly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "repository" test helper sets up `the_repository` twice. In fact
though, we don't even have to set it up even once: all we need is to set
up its hash algorithm, because we still depend on some subsystems that
aren't free of `the_repository`.
Refactor the code accordingly. This prepares for a subsequent change,
where setting up the repository repeatedly will lead to a `BUG()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When asked to perform object consistency checks via the `--fsck-objects`
flag we verify that each object part of the pack is valid. In general,
this check can even be performed outside of a Git repository: we don't
need an initialized object database as we simply read the object from
the packfile directly.
But there's one exception: a subset of the object checks may be deferred
to a later point in time. For now, this only concerns ".gitmodules" and
".gitattributes" files: whenever we see a tree referencing these files
we queue them for a deferred check. This is done because we need to do
some extra checks for those files to ensure that they are well-formed,
and these checks need to be done regardless of whether the corresponding
blobs are part of the packfile or not.
This works inside a repository, but unfortunately the logic leads to a
segfault when running outside of one. This is because we eventually call
`odb_read_object()`, which will crash because the object database has
not been initialized.
There's multiple options here:
- We could in theory create a purely in-memory database with only a
packfile store that contains the single packfile. We don't really
have the infrastructure for this yet though, and it would end up
being quite hacky.
- We could refuse to perform consistency checks outside of a
repository. But most of the checks work alright, so this would be a
regression.
- We can skip the finalizing consistency checks when running outside
of a repository. This is not as invasive as skipping all checks,
but it's not great to randomly skip a subset of tests, either.
None of these options really feel perfect. The first one would be the
obvious choice if easily possible.
There's another option though: instead of skipping the final object
checks, we can die if there are any queued object checks. With this
change we now die exactly if and only if we would have previously
segfaulted. Like this we ensure that objects that _may_ fail the
consistency checks won't be silently skipped, and at the same time we
give users a much better error message.
Refactor the code accordingly and add a test that would have triggered
the segfault. Note that we also move down the logic to add the packfile
to the store. There is no point doing this any earlier than right before
we execute `fsck_finish()`, and it ensures that the logic to set up and
perform the consistency check is self-contained.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new function that allows the caller to verify whether two
oidsets contain the exact same object IDs.
Note that this change requires us to change `oidset_iter_init()` to
accept a `const struct oidset`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our object database sources have a field `disable_ref_updates`. This
field can obviously be set to disable reference updates, but it is
somewhat curious that this logic is hosted by the object database.
The reason for this is that it was primarily added to keep us from
accidentally updating references while an ODB transaction is ongoing.
Any objects part of the transaction have not yet been committed to disk,
so new references that point to them might get corrupted in case we
never end up committing the transaction. As such, whenever we create a
new transaction we set up a new temporary ODB source and mark it as
disabling reference updates.
This has one (and only one?) upside: once we have committed the
transaction, the temporary source will be dropped and thus we clean up
the disabled reference updates automatically. But other than that, it's
somewhat misdesigned:
- We can have multiple ODB sources, but only the currently active
source inhibits reference updates.
- We're mixing concerns of the refdb with the ODB.
Arguably, the decision of whether we can update references or not should
be handled by the refdb. But that wouldn't be a great fit either, as
there can be one refdb per worktree. So we'd again have the same problem
that a "global" intent becomes localized to a specific instance.
Instead, move the setting into the repository. While at it, convert it
into a boolean.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `odb_clear()` releases all resources allocated to an object
database and ensures that all fields become zero'd out. Despite its
naming though it doesn't really clear the object database so that it
becomes ready for reuse afterwards again -- the caller would first have
to reinitialize it, and that contradicts the terminology of "clearing"
as we have defined it in our coding guidelines.
There isn't really only a reason to have "clearing" semantics, either.
There's only a single caller of `odb_clear()`, and that caller also ends
up freeing the object database structure itself.
Refactor the function to have "freeing" semantics instead, so that the
structure itself is also freed, which allows us to drop some useless
boilerplate to zero out the structure's members.
This refactoring reveals that we're trying to close the commit graph
multiple times: once directly via `free_commit_graph()`, and once via
`odb_close()`. Drop the former call.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic to close an object database is currently contained in the
packfile subsystem. That choice is somewhat relatable, as most of the
logic really is to close resources associated with the packfile store
itself. But we also end up handling object sources and commit graphs,
which certainly is not related to packfiles.
Move the function into the object database subsystem and rename it to
`odb_close()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We don't have any external callers of `set_git_dir()` anymore now that
`enter_repo()` has been moved into "setup.c". Remove the declaration and
mark the function as static.
Note that this change requires us to move the implementation around so
that we can avoid adding any new forward declarations.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `enter_repo()` is used to enter a repository at a given
path. As such it sits way closer to setting up a repository than it does
with handling paths, but regardless of that it's located in "path.c"
instead of in "setup.c".
Move the function into "setup.c".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A part of code paths that deals with loose objects has been cleaned
up.
* ps/object-source-loose:
object-file: refactor writing objects via a stream
object-file: rename `write_object_file()`
object-file: refactor freshening of objects
object-file: rename `has_loose_object()`
object-file: read objects via the loose object source
object-file: move loose object map into loose source
object-file: hide internals when we need to reprepare loose sources
object-file: move loose object cache into loose source
object-file: introduce `struct odb_source_loose`
object-file: move `fetch_if_missing`
odb: adjust naming to free object sources
odb: introduce `odb_source_new()`
odb: fix subtle logic to check whether an alternate is usable
We replaced deprecated macos-13 with macos-14 image in GitHub
Actions CI, but we forgot that the image is for arm64. We have
been seeing a lot of test failures ever since. Switch to arm64
binary for Perforce tests.
* jc/ci-use-arm64-p4-on-macos:
Use Perforce arm64 binary on macOS CI jobs
The previous step replaced deprecated macos-13 image with macos-14
image on GitHub Actions CI. While x86-64 binaries can work there,
because macos-14 images are arm64 based (we could replace it with
macos-14-large that is x86-64), it makes more sense to use arm64
binary there. Without this change, we have been getting unusually
higher rate of failures from random macOS CI jobs railing to run
t98xx series of tests.
Helped-by: Koji Nakamaru <koji.nakamaru@gree.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git last-modified" was optimized by narrowing the set of paths to
follow as it dug deeper in the history.
* tc/last-modified-active-paths-optimization:
last-modified: implement faster algorithm
Building "git contacts" script (in contrib/) left the resulting
file unexecutable, which has been corrected.
* dk/make-git-contacts-executable:
perl: also mark git-contacts executable
The build procedure based on meson learned to allow builders to
specify the directory to install HTML documents.
* dk/meson-html-dir:
meson: make GIT_HTML_PATH configurable
Build procedure for Wincred credential helper has been updated.
* tu/credential-wincred-makefile-update:
wincred: align Makefile with other Makefiles in contrib
Refreshes the Irish translation for Git 2.52, including new strings and
consistency improvements. Verified with `git-po-helper check`.
Signed-off-by: Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin <aindriu80@gmail.com>
A recently added configuration variable and command line option
syntax ":(optional)" for values that are of filename type
inconsistently behaved on an empty file (configuration took it
happily, while the command line option pretended as if it did not
exist), which has been corrected.
* dk/parseopt-optional-filename-fixes:
parseopt: remove unreachable code
parseopt: restore const qualifier to parsed filename
config: use boolean type for a simple flag
parseopt: use boolean type for a simple flag
doc: clarify command equivalence comment
parseopt: fix :(optional) at command line to only ignore missing files
Messages from fast-import/export are now marked for i18n.
* cc/fast-import-export-i18n-cleanup:
gpg-interface: mark a string for translation
fast-import: mark strings for translation
fast-export: mark strings for translation
gpg-interface: use left shift to define GPG_VERIFY_*
gpg-interface: simplify ssh fingerprint parsing
Makefile-based builds can configure Git's internal HTML_PATH by defining
htmldir, which is useful for packagers that put documentation in
different locations. Gentoo, for example, uses version-suffixed
directories like ${prefix}/share/doc/git-2.51 and puts the HTML
documentation in an 'html' subdirectory of the same.
Propagate the same configuration knob to Meson-based builds so that
"git --html-path" on such systems can be configured to output the
correct directory.
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When installing git-contacts with Meson via -Dcontrib=contacts, the default
Perl generation fails to mark it executable. As a result, "git contacts"
reports "'contacts' is not a git command."
Unlike generate-script.sh, we aren't testing the basename here; so, glob
the script name in the case arm to match wherever the input comes from.
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Replace $(LOADLIBES) because it is deprecated since long and it is
used nowhere else in the git project.
* Use $(gitexecdir) instead of $(libexecdir) because config.mak defines
$(libexecdir) as $(prefix)/libexec, not as $(prefix)/libexec/git-core.
* Similar to other Makefiles, let install target rule create
$(gitexecdir) to make sure the directory exists before copying the
executable and also let it respect $(DESTDIR).
* Shuffle the lines for the default settings to align them with the
other Makefiles in contrib/credential.
* Define .PHONY for all special targets (all, install, clean).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Uhle <thomas.uhle@mailbox.tu-dresden.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
