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<title>delta/git.git/commit-graph.c, branch v2.20.5</title>
<subtitle>github.com: git/git.git
</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-leakfix'</title>
<updated>2018-10-19T04:34:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-19T04:34:07+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Code clean-up.

* ds/commit-graph-leakfix:
  commit-graph: reduce initial oid allocation
  builtin/commit-graph.c: UNLEAK variables
  commit-graph: clean up leaked memory during write
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Code clean-up.

* ds/commit-graph-leakfix:
  commit-graph: reduce initial oid allocation
  builtin/commit-graph.c: UNLEAK variables
  commit-graph: clean up leaked memory during write
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-with-grafts'</title>
<updated>2018-10-16T07:15:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-16T07:15:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=6d8f8ebb74d21b51cfbf427a436094134af36ee2'/>
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The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
with mechanisms such as replace &amp; grafts that "breaks" immutable
nature of the object reference relationship.  Disable optimizations
based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
incompatible features are in use in the repository.

* ds/commit-graph-with-grafts:
  commit-graph: close_commit_graph before shallow walk
  commit-graph: not compatible with uninitialized repo
  commit-graph: not compatible with grafts
  commit-graph: not compatible with replace objects
  test-repository: properly init repo
  commit-graph: update design document
  refs.c: upgrade for_each_replace_ref to be a each_repo_ref_fn callback
  refs.c: migrate internal ref iteration to pass thru repository argument
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The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
with mechanisms such as replace &amp; grafts that "breaks" immutable
nature of the object reference relationship.  Disable optimizations
based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
incompatible features are in use in the repository.

* ds/commit-graph-with-grafts:
  commit-graph: close_commit_graph before shallow walk
  commit-graph: not compatible with uninitialized repo
  commit-graph: not compatible with grafts
  commit-graph: not compatible with replace objects
  test-repository: properly init repo
  commit-graph: update design document
  refs.c: upgrade for_each_replace_ref to be a each_repo_ref_fn callback
  refs.c: migrate internal ref iteration to pass thru repository argument
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ab/commit-graph-progress'</title>
<updated>2018-10-16T07:15:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-16T07:15:58+00:00</published>
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Generation of (experimental) commit-graph files have so far been
fairly silent, even though it takes noticeable amount of time in a
meaningfully large repository.  The users will now see progress
output.

* ab/commit-graph-progress:
  gc: fix regression in 7b0f229222 impacting --quiet
  commit-graph verify: add progress output
  commit-graph write: add progress output
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<pre>
Generation of (experimental) commit-graph files have so far been
fairly silent, even though it takes noticeable amount of time in a
meaningfully large repository.  The users will now see progress
output.

* ab/commit-graph-progress:
  gc: fix regression in 7b0f229222 impacting --quiet
  commit-graph verify: add progress output
  commit-graph write: add progress output
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>commit-graph: reduce initial oid allocation</title>
<updated>2018-10-06T23:25:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Derrick Stolee</name>
<email>dstolee@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-03T17:12:19+00:00</published>
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While writing a commit-graph file, we store the full list of
commits in a flat list. We use this list for sorting and ensuring
we are closed under reachability.

The initial allocation assumed that (at most) one in four objects
is a commit. This is a dramatic over-count for many repos,
especially large ones. Since we grow the repo dynamically, reduce
this count by a factor of eight. We still set it to a minimum of
1024 before allocating.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee &lt;dstolee@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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While writing a commit-graph file, we store the full list of
commits in a flat list. We use this list for sorting and ensuring
we are closed under reachability.

The initial allocation assumed that (at most) one in four objects
is a commit. This is a dramatic over-count for many repos,
especially large ones. Since we grow the repo dynamically, reduce
this count by a factor of eight. We still set it to a minimum of
1024 before allocating.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee &lt;dstolee@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>commit-graph: clean up leaked memory during write</title>
<updated>2018-10-06T23:25:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Derrick Stolee</name>
<email>dstolee@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-03T17:12:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=f4dbdfc4d514d4ea558703f5a234652dc68d83b2'/>
<id>f4dbdfc4d514d4ea558703f5a234652dc68d83b2</id>
<content type='text'>
The write_commit_graph() method in commit-graph.c leaks some lits
and strings during execution. In addition, a list of strings is
leaked in write_commit_graph_reachable(). Clean these up so our
memory checking is cleaner.

Further, if we use a list of pack-files to find the commits, we
can leak the packed_git structs after scanning them for commits.

Running the following commands demonstrates the leak before and
the fix after:

* valgrind --leak-check=full ./git commit-graph write --reachable
* valgrind --leak-check=full ./git commit-graph write --stdin-packs

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren &lt;martin.agren@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee &lt;dstolee@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<pre>
The write_commit_graph() method in commit-graph.c leaks some lits
and strings during execution. In addition, a list of strings is
leaked in write_commit_graph_reachable(). Clean these up so our
memory checking is cleaner.

Further, if we use a list of pack-files to find the commits, we
can leak the packed_git structs after scanning them for commits.

Running the following commands demonstrates the leak before and
the fix after:

* valgrind --leak-check=full ./git commit-graph write --reachable
* valgrind --leak-check=full ./git commit-graph write --stdin-packs

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren &lt;martin.agren@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee &lt;dstolee@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-tests'</title>
<updated>2018-09-17T20:53:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-17T20:53:58+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We can now optionally run tests with commit-graph enabled.

* ds/commit-graph-tests:
  commit-graph: define GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH
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We can now optionally run tests with commit-graph enabled.

* ds/commit-graph-tests:
  commit-graph: define GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'jk/cocci'</title>
<updated>2018-09-17T20:53:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-17T20:53:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=769af0fd9ea0b4de172b51ae4b9ea41b57c02fd3'/>
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<content type='text'>
spatch transformation to replace boolean uses of !hashcmp() to
newly introduced oideq() is added, and applied, to regain
performance lost due to support of multiple hash algorithms.

* jk/cocci:
  show_dirstat: simplify same-content check
  read-cache: use oideq() in ce_compare functions
  convert hashmap comparison functions to oideq()
  convert "hashcmp() != 0" to "!hasheq()"
  convert "oidcmp() != 0" to "!oideq()"
  convert "hashcmp() == 0" to hasheq()
  convert "oidcmp() == 0" to oideq()
  introduce hasheq() and oideq()
  coccinelle: use &lt;...&gt; for function exclusion
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spatch transformation to replace boolean uses of !hashcmp() to
newly introduced oideq() is added, and applied, to regain
performance lost due to support of multiple hash algorithms.

* jk/cocci:
  show_dirstat: simplify same-content check
  read-cache: use oideq() in ce_compare functions
  convert hashmap comparison functions to oideq()
  convert "hashcmp() != 0" to "!hasheq()"
  convert "oidcmp() != 0" to "!oideq()"
  convert "hashcmp() == 0" to hasheq()
  convert "oidcmp() == 0" to oideq()
  introduce hasheq() and oideq()
  coccinelle: use &lt;...&gt; for function exclusion
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ds/reachable'</title>
<updated>2018-09-17T20:53:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-17T20:53:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=1b7a91da71d42759dfb83fa3a17be54ad01f0132'/>
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<content type='text'>
The code for computing history reachability has been shuffled,
obtained a bunch of new tests to cover them, and then being
improved.

* ds/reachable:
  commit-reach: correct accidental #include of C file
  commit-reach: use can_all_from_reach
  commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear
  commit-reach: replace ref_newer logic
  test-reach: test commit_contains
  test-reach: test can_all_from_reach_with_flags
  test-reach: test reduce_heads
  test-reach: test get_merge_bases_many
  test-reach: test is_descendant_of
  test-reach: test in_merge_bases
  test-reach: create new test tool for ref_newer
  commit-reach: move can_all_from_reach_with_flags
  upload-pack: generalize commit date cutoff
  upload-pack: refactor ok_to_give_up()
  upload-pack: make reachable() more generic
  commit-reach: move commit_contains from ref-filter
  commit-reach: move ref_newer from remote.c
  commit.h: remove method declarations
  commit-reach: move walk methods from commit.c
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The code for computing history reachability has been shuffled,
obtained a bunch of new tests to cover them, and then being
improved.

* ds/reachable:
  commit-reach: correct accidental #include of C file
  commit-reach: use can_all_from_reach
  commit-reach: make can_all_from_reach... linear
  commit-reach: replace ref_newer logic
  test-reach: test commit_contains
  test-reach: test can_all_from_reach_with_flags
  test-reach: test reduce_heads
  test-reach: test get_merge_bases_many
  test-reach: test is_descendant_of
  test-reach: test in_merge_bases
  test-reach: create new test tool for ref_newer
  commit-reach: move can_all_from_reach_with_flags
  upload-pack: generalize commit date cutoff
  upload-pack: refactor ok_to_give_up()
  upload-pack: make reachable() more generic
  commit-reach: move commit_contains from ref-filter
  commit-reach: move ref_newer from remote.c
  commit.h: remove method declarations
  commit-reach: move walk methods from commit.c
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>commit-graph verify: add progress output</title>
<updated>2018-09-17T17:12:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-17T15:33:36+00:00</published>
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For the reasons explained in the "commit-graph write: add progress
output" commit leading up to this one, emit progress on "commit-graph
verify". Since e0fd51e1d7 ("fsck: verify commit-graph", 2018-06-27)
"git fsck" has called this command if core.commitGraph=true, but
there's been no progress output to indicate that anything was
different. Now there is (on my tiny dotfiles.git repository):

    $ git -c core.commitGraph=true -C ~/ fsck
    Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
    Checking objects: 100% (2821/2821), done.
    dangling blob 5b8bbdb9b788ed90459f505b0934619c17cc605b
    Verifying commits in commit graph: 100% (867/867), done.

And on a larger repository, such as the 2015-04-03-1M-git.git test
repository:

    $ time git -c core.commitGraph=true -C ~/g/2015-04-03-1M-git/ commit-graph verify
    Verifying commits in commit graph: 100% (1000447/1000447), done.
    real    0m7.813s
    [...]

Since the "commit-graph verify" subcommand is never called from "git
gc", we don't have to worry about passing some some "report_progress"
progress variable around for this codepath.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<pre>
For the reasons explained in the "commit-graph write: add progress
output" commit leading up to this one, emit progress on "commit-graph
verify". Since e0fd51e1d7 ("fsck: verify commit-graph", 2018-06-27)
"git fsck" has called this command if core.commitGraph=true, but
there's been no progress output to indicate that anything was
different. Now there is (on my tiny dotfiles.git repository):

    $ git -c core.commitGraph=true -C ~/ fsck
    Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
    Checking objects: 100% (2821/2821), done.
    dangling blob 5b8bbdb9b788ed90459f505b0934619c17cc605b
    Verifying commits in commit graph: 100% (867/867), done.

And on a larger repository, such as the 2015-04-03-1M-git.git test
repository:

    $ time git -c core.commitGraph=true -C ~/g/2015-04-03-1M-git/ commit-graph verify
    Verifying commits in commit graph: 100% (1000447/1000447), done.
    real    0m7.813s
    [...]

Since the "commit-graph verify" subcommand is never called from "git
gc", we don't have to worry about passing some some "report_progress"
progress variable around for this codepath.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>commit-graph write: add progress output</title>
<updated>2018-09-17T17:12:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-17T15:33:35+00:00</published>
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Before this change the "commit-graph write" command didn't report any
progress. On my machine this command takes more than 10 seconds to
write the graph for linux.git, and around 1m30s on the
2015-04-03-1M-git.git[1] test repository (a test case for a large
monorepository).

Furthermore, since the gc.writeCommitGraph setting was added in
d5d5d7b641 ("gc: automatically write commit-graph files", 2018-06-27),
there was no indication at all from a "git gc" run that anything was
different. This why one of the progress bars being added here uses
start_progress() instead of start_delayed_progress(), so that it's
guaranteed to be seen. E.g. on my tiny 867 commit dotfiles.git
repository:

    $ git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true gc
    Enumerating objects: 2821, done.
    [...]
    Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (867/867), done.

On larger repositories, such as linux.git the delayed progress bar(s)
will kick in, and we'll show what's going on instead of, as was
previously happening, printing nothing while we write the graph:

    $ git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true gc
    [...]
    Annotating commits in commit graph: 1565573, done.
    Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (782484/782484), done.

Note that here we don't show "Finding commits for commit graph", this
is because under "git gc" we seed the search with the commit
references in the repository, and that set is too small to show any
progress, but would e.g. on a smaller repo such as git.git with
--stdin-commits:

    $ git rev-list --all | git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true write --stdin-commits
    Finding commits for commit graph: 100% (162576/162576), done.
    Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (162576/162576), done.

With --stdin-packs we don't show any estimation of how much is left to
do. This is because we might be processing more than one pack. We
could be less lazy here and show progress, either by detecting that
we're only processing one pack, or by first looping over the packs to
discover how many commits they have. I don't see the point in doing
that work. So instead we get (on 2015-04-03-1M-git.git):

    $ echo pack-&lt;HASH&gt;.idx | git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true --exec-path=$PWD commit-graph write --stdin-packs
    Finding commits for commit graph: 13064614, done.
    Annotating commits in commit graph: 3001341, done.
    Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (1000447/1000447), done.

No GC mode uses --stdin-packs. It's what they use at Microsoft to
manually compute the generation numbers for their collection of large
packs which are never coalesced.

The reason we need a "report_progress" variable passed down from "git
gc" is so that we don't report this output when we're running in the
process "git gc --auto" detaches from the terminal.

Since we write the commit graph from the "git gc" process itself (as
opposed to what we do with say the "git repack" phase), we'd end up
writing the output to .git/gc.log and reporting it to the user next
time as part of the "The last gc run reported the following[...]"
error, see 329e6e8794 ("gc: save log from daemonized gc --auto and
print it next time", 2015-09-19).

So we must keep track of whether or not we're running in that
demonized mode, and if so print no progress.

See [2] and subsequent replies for a discussion of an approach not
taken in compute_generation_numbers(). I.e. we're saying "Computing
commit graph generation numbers", even though on an established
history we're mostly skipping over all the work we did in the
past. This is similar to the white lie we tell in the "Writing
objects" phase (not all are objects being written).

Always showing progress is considered more important than
accuracy. I.e. on a repository like 2015-04-03-1M-git.git we'd hang
for 6 seconds with no output on the second "git gc" if no changes were
made to any objects in the interim if we'd take the approach in [2].

1. https://github.com/avar/2015-04-03-1M-git

2. &lt;c6960252-c095-fb2b-e0bc-b1e6bb261614@gmail.com&gt;
   (https://public-inbox.org/git/c6960252-c095-fb2b-e0bc-b1e6bb261614@gmail.com/)

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Before this change the "commit-graph write" command didn't report any
progress. On my machine this command takes more than 10 seconds to
write the graph for linux.git, and around 1m30s on the
2015-04-03-1M-git.git[1] test repository (a test case for a large
monorepository).

Furthermore, since the gc.writeCommitGraph setting was added in
d5d5d7b641 ("gc: automatically write commit-graph files", 2018-06-27),
there was no indication at all from a "git gc" run that anything was
different. This why one of the progress bars being added here uses
start_progress() instead of start_delayed_progress(), so that it's
guaranteed to be seen. E.g. on my tiny 867 commit dotfiles.git
repository:

    $ git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true gc
    Enumerating objects: 2821, done.
    [...]
    Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (867/867), done.

On larger repositories, such as linux.git the delayed progress bar(s)
will kick in, and we'll show what's going on instead of, as was
previously happening, printing nothing while we write the graph:

    $ git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true gc
    [...]
    Annotating commits in commit graph: 1565573, done.
    Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (782484/782484), done.

Note that here we don't show "Finding commits for commit graph", this
is because under "git gc" we seed the search with the commit
references in the repository, and that set is too small to show any
progress, but would e.g. on a smaller repo such as git.git with
--stdin-commits:

    $ git rev-list --all | git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true write --stdin-commits
    Finding commits for commit graph: 100% (162576/162576), done.
    Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (162576/162576), done.

With --stdin-packs we don't show any estimation of how much is left to
do. This is because we might be processing more than one pack. We
could be less lazy here and show progress, either by detecting that
we're only processing one pack, or by first looping over the packs to
discover how many commits they have. I don't see the point in doing
that work. So instead we get (on 2015-04-03-1M-git.git):

    $ echo pack-&lt;HASH&gt;.idx | git -c gc.writeCommitGraph=true --exec-path=$PWD commit-graph write --stdin-packs
    Finding commits for commit graph: 13064614, done.
    Annotating commits in commit graph: 3001341, done.
    Computing commit graph generation numbers: 100% (1000447/1000447), done.

No GC mode uses --stdin-packs. It's what they use at Microsoft to
manually compute the generation numbers for their collection of large
packs which are never coalesced.

The reason we need a "report_progress" variable passed down from "git
gc" is so that we don't report this output when we're running in the
process "git gc --auto" detaches from the terminal.

Since we write the commit graph from the "git gc" process itself (as
opposed to what we do with say the "git repack" phase), we'd end up
writing the output to .git/gc.log and reporting it to the user next
time as part of the "The last gc run reported the following[...]"
error, see 329e6e8794 ("gc: save log from daemonized gc --auto and
print it next time", 2015-09-19).

So we must keep track of whether or not we're running in that
demonized mode, and if so print no progress.

See [2] and subsequent replies for a discussion of an approach not
taken in compute_generation_numbers(). I.e. we're saying "Computing
commit graph generation numbers", even though on an established
history we're mostly skipping over all the work we did in the
past. This is similar to the white lie we tell in the "Writing
objects" phase (not all are objects being written).

Always showing progress is considered more important than
accuracy. I.e. on a repository like 2015-04-03-1M-git.git we'd hang
for 6 seconds with no output on the second "git gc" if no changes were
made to any objects in the interim if we'd take the approach in [2].

1. https://github.com/avar/2015-04-03-1M-git

2. &lt;c6960252-c095-fb2b-e0bc-b1e6bb261614@gmail.com&gt;
   (https://public-inbox.org/git/c6960252-c095-fb2b-e0bc-b1e6bb261614@gmail.com/)

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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