Commit Briefs
CI: add alpine linux
Add Alpine Linux to the list of CI checks. Alpine builds against muscl rather than glibc by default, and there's been a few compilation differenes to warrant having this distribution as a separate CI check.
speed up initial stage of packing by adding a "skip" commit color
The skip color marks boundary commits and their ancestors. Boundary commits are reachable both via references which we want to exclude from the pack, and via references which we want to include in the pack. We continue processing commit history up to the point we are left with only skip commits on the queue. This can speed up findtwixt() significantly and avoids wrong results produced by the old algorithm which made no distinction between "drop" and "skip". This idea was first implemented by Michael Forney for git9: https://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/2e47badb88312c5c045a8042dc2ef80148e5ab47/commit.html Michael's log message for git9 is reproduced below: git/query: refactor graph painting algorithm (findtwixt, lca) We now keep track of 3 sets during traversal: - keep: commits we've reached from head commits - drop: commits we've reached from tail commits - skip: ancestors of commits in both 'keep' and 'drop' Commits in 'keep' and/or 'drop' may be added later to the 'skip' set if we discover later that they are part of a common subgraph of the head and tail commits. From these sets we can calculate the commits we are interested in: lca commits are those in 'keep' and 'drop', but not in 'skip'. findtwixt commits are those in 'keep', but not in 'drop' or 'skip'. The "LCA" commit returned is a common ancestor such that there are no other common ancestors that can reach that commit. Although there can be multiple commits that meet this criteria, where one is technically lower on the commit-graph than the other, these cases only happen in complex merge arrangements and any choice is likely a decent merge base. Repainting is now done in paint() directly. When we find a boundary commit, we switch our paint color to 'skip'. 'skip' painting does not stop when it hits another color; we continue until we are left with only 'skip' commits on the queue. This fixes several mishandled cases in the current algorithm: 1. If we hit the common subgraph from tail commits first (if the tail commit was newer than the head commit), we ended up traversing the entire commit graph. This is because we couldn't distinguish between 'drop' commits that were part of the common subgraph, and those that were still looking for it. 2. If we traversed through an initial part of the common subgraph from head commits before reaching it from tail commits, these commits were returned from findtwixt even though they were also reachable from tail commits. 3. In the same case as 2, we might end up choosing an incorrect commit as the LCA, which is an ancestor of the real LCA.
revert 03c03172 "drop a commit right away if it matches an excluded commit"
This change resulted in a full history walk even when no objects will be added to the pack file. Fix this regression by reverting the change.
make 'got tag' unlock the work tree earlier when creating tags
The work tree was only held open in order to find its got.conf file since this file could contain a tagger name to use. Read the tagger name earlier. Once the tagger name is known we can close the work tree already.
make 'got cat' not search for a work tree if the -r option is used
Fixes failures in our test suite if 'got tag -l | less' is used in the work tree while cmdline tests are running.
in load_object_ids(), process "their" commits and tags in the same loop
No functional change, the end result is the same.
stop relying on commit cache for good performance of got_object_id_by_path()
Instead of internally opening and closing the same commit object over and over again, require callers to pass an open commit object in. Avoids an inherent dependency on the commit object cache for reasonable performance. ok op@
got patch: allow to strip path components
Move some bits from the libexec helper to the main process so we know if the patch was generated by git or not and finally document the automatic stripping of a/ and b/ prefixes added by git-diff(1). ok stsp@