We already do so for --window=<n> and --depth=<n>; this will help when the user wants to force --threads=1 for reproducible testing without getting affected by racing multiple threads. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread: document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory
Signed-off-by: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font. * mm/doc-tt: doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentation doc: typeset long options with argument as literal doc: typeset '--' as literal doc: typeset long command-line options as literal doc: typeset short command-line options as literal Documentation/git-mv.txt: fix whitespace indentation
It was common in our documentation to surround short option names with forward quotes, which renders as italic in HTML. Instead, use backquotes which renders as monospace. This is one more step toward conformance to Documentation/CodingGuidelines. This was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'(-[a-z])'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you use "repack -adk" currently, we will pack all objects that are already packed into the new pack, and then drop the old packs. However, loose unreachable objects will be left as-is. In theory these are meant to expire eventually with "git prune". But if you are using "repack -k", you probably want to keep things forever and therefore do not run "git prune" at all. Meaning those loose objects may build up over time and end up fooling any object-count heuristics (such as the one done by "gc --auto", though since git-gc does not support "repack -k", this really applies to whatever custom scripts people might have driving "repack -k"). With this patch, we instead stuff any loose unreachable objects into the pack along with the already-packed unreachable objects. This may seem wasteful, but it is really no more so than using "repack -k" in the first place. We are at a slight disadvantage, in that we have no useful ordering for the result, or names to hand to the delta code. However, this is again no worse than what "repack -k" is already doing for the packed objects. The packing of these objects doesn't matter much because they should not be accessed frequently (unless they actually _do_ become referenced, but then they would get moved to a different part of the packfile during the next repack). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usual way to do a full repack (and what is done by git-gc) is to run "repack -Ad --unpack-unreachable=<when>", which will loosen any unreachable objects newer than "<when>", and drop any older ones. This is a safer alternative to "repack -ad", because "<when>" becomes a grace period during which we will not drop any new objects that are about to be referenced. However, it isn't perfectly safe. It's always possible that a process is about to reference an old object. Even if that process were to take care to update the timestamp on the object, there is no atomicity with a simultaneously running "repack" process. So while unlikely, there is a small race wherein we may drop an object that is in the process of being referenced. If you do automated repacking on a large number of active repositories, you may hit it eventually, and the result is a corrupted repository. It would be nice to fix that race in the long run, but it's complicated. In the meantime, there is a much simpler strategy for automated repository maintenance: do not drop objects at all. We already have a "--keep-unreachable" option in pack-objects; we just need to plumb it through from git-repack. Note that this _isn't_ plumbed through from git-gc, so at this point it's strictly a tool for people doing their own advanced repository maintenance strategy. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was added back in 7e52f56 (gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately pruned, 2012-04-07), but not documented at the time, since it was an internal detail between git-gc and git-repack. However, as people with complicated setups may want to effectively reimplement the steps of git-gc themselves, it is nice for us to document these interfaces. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can be tempting for a server admin to want a stable set of long-lived packs for dumb clients; but also want to enable bitmaps to serve smart clients more quickly. Unfortunately, such a configuration is impossible; so at least warn users of this incompatibility since commit 21134714 (pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when we split packs, 2014-10-16). Tested the warning by inspecting the output of: make -C t t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh GIT_TEST_OPTS=-v Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-over-rsync protocol is inefficient and broken, and has been for a long time. It transfers way more objects than it needs (grabbing all of the remote's "objects/", regardless of which objects we need). It does its own ad-hoc parsing of loose and packed refs from the remote, but doesn't properly override packed refs with loose ones, leading to garbage results (e.g., expecting the other side to have an object pointed to by a stale packed-refs entry, or complaining that the other side has two copies of the refs[1]). This latter breakage means that nobody could have successfully pulled from a moderately active repository since cd547b4 (fetch/push: readd rsync support, 2007-10-01). We never made an official deprecation notice in the release notes for git's rsync protocol, but the tutorial has marked it as such since 914328a (Update tutorial., 2005-08-30). And on the mailing list as far back as Oct 2005, we can find Junio mentioning it as having "been deprecated for quite some time."[2,3,4]. So it was old news then; cogito had deprecated the transport in July of 2005[5] (though it did come back briefly when Linus broke git-http-pull!). Of course some people professed their love of rsync through 2006, but Linus clarified in his usual gentle manner[6]: > Thanks! This is why I still use rsync, even though > everybody and their mother tells me "Linus says rsync is > deprecated." No. You're using rsync because you're actively doing something _wrong_. The deprecation sentiment was reinforced in 2008, with a mention that cloning via rsync is broken (with no fix)[7]. Even the commit porting rsync over to C from shell (cd547b4) lists it as deprecated! So between the 10 years of informal warnings, and the fact that it has been severely broken since 2007, it's probably safe to simply remove it without further deprecation warnings. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/285101 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/10093 [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/17734 [4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/18911 [5] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/5617 [6] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19354 [7] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103635 Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>