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As detailed in the previous changes to t5309-pack-delta-cycles.sh, the logic within 'git index-pack' to analyze an incoming thin packfile with REF_DELTAs is suspect. The algorithm is overly cautious around delta cycles, and that leads in fact to failing even when there is no cycle. This change adjusts the algorithm to no longer fail in these cases. In fact, these cycle cases will no longer fail but more importantly the valid cases will no longer fail, either. The resulting packfile from the --fix-thin operation will not have cycles either since REF_DELTAs are forbidden from the on-disk format and OFS_DELTAs are impossible to write as a cycle. The crux of the matter is how the algorithm works when the REF_DELTAs point to base objects that exist in the local repository. When reading the thin packfile, the object IDs for the delta objects are unknown so we do not have the delta chain structure automatically. Instead, we need to start somewhere by selecting a delta whose base is inside our current object database. Consider the case where the packfile has two REF_DELTA objects, A and B, and the delta chain looks like "A depends on B" and "B depends on C" for some third object C, where C is already in the current repository. The algorithm _should_ start with all objects that depend on C, finding B, and then moving on to all objects depending on B, finding A. However, if the repository also already has object B, then the delta chain can be analyzed in a different order. The deltas with base B can be analyzed first, finding A, and then the deltas with base C are analyzed, finding B. The algorithm currently continues to look for objects that depend on B, finding A again. This fails due to A's 'real_type' member already being overwritten from OBJ_REF_DELTA to the correct object type. This scenario is possible in a typical 'git fetch' where the client does not advertise B as a 'have' but requests A as a 'want' (and C is noticed as a common object based on other 'have's). The reason this isn't typically seen is that most Git servers use OFS_DELTAs to represent deltas within a packfile. However, if a server uses only REF_DELTAs, then this kind of issue can occur. There is nothing in the explicit packfile format that states this use of inter-pack REF_DELTA is incorrect, only that REF_DELTAs should not be used in the on-disk representation to avoid cycles. This die() was introduced inab791dd138(index-pack: fix race condition with duplicate bases, 2014-08-29). Several refactors have adjusted the error message and the surrounding logic, but this issue has existed for a longer time as that was only a conversion from an assert(). The tests in t5309 originated in3b910d0c5e(add tests for indexing packs with delta cycles, 2013-08-23) andb2ef3d9ebb(test index-pack on packs with recoverable delta cycles, 2013-08-23). These changes make note that the current behavior of handling "resolvable" cycles is mostly a documentation-only test, not that this behavior is the best way for Git to handle the situation. The fix here is somewhat complicated due to the amount of state being adjusted by the loop within threaded_second_pass(). Instead of trying to resume the start of the loop while adjusting the necessary context, I chose to scan the REF_DELTAs depending on the current 'parent' and skip any that have already been processed. This necessarily leaves us in a state where 'child' and 'child_obj' could be left as NULL and that must be handled later. There is also some careful handling around skipping REF_DELTAs when there are also OFS_DELTAs depending on that parent. There may be value in extending 'test-tool pack-deltas' to allow writing OFS_DELTAs in order to exercise this logic across the delta types. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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