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<subtitle>github.com: git/git.git
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<title>dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't scan the work tree twice</title>
<updated>2013-04-15T19:36:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Karsten Blees</name>
<email>karsten.blees@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-15T19:15:03+00:00</published>
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'git-status --ignored' still scans the work tree twice to collect
untracked and ignored files, respectively.

fill_directory / read_directory already supports collecting untracked and
ignored files in a single directory scan. However, the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED
flag to enable this has some git-add specific side-effects (e.g. it
doesn't recurse into ignored directories, so listing ignored files with
--untracked=all doesn't work).

The DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag doesn't list untracked files and returns ignored
files in dir_struct.entries[] (instead of dir_struct.ignored[] as
DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED). DIR_SHOW_IGNORED is used all throughout git.

We don't want to break the existing API, so lets introduce a new flag
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO that lists untracked as well as ignored files similar
to DIR_COLLECT_FILES, but will recurse into sub-directories based on the
other flags as DIR_SHOW_IGNORED does.

In dir.c::read_directory_recursive, add ignored files to either
dir_struct.entries[] or dir_struct.ignored[] based on the flags. Also move
the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED case here so that filling result lists is in a
common place.

In wt-status.c::wt_status_collect_untracked, use the new flag and read
results from dir_struct.ignored[]. Remove the extra fill_directory call.

builtin/check-ignore.c doesn't call fill_directory, setting the git-add
specific DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED flag has no effect here. Remove for clarity.

Update API documentation to reflect the changes.

Performance: with this patch, 'git-status --ignored' is typically as fast
as 'git-status'.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees &lt;blees@dcon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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'git-status --ignored' still scans the work tree twice to collect
untracked and ignored files, respectively.

fill_directory / read_directory already supports collecting untracked and
ignored files in a single directory scan. However, the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED
flag to enable this has some git-add specific side-effects (e.g. it
doesn't recurse into ignored directories, so listing ignored files with
--untracked=all doesn't work).

The DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag doesn't list untracked files and returns ignored
files in dir_struct.entries[] (instead of dir_struct.ignored[] as
DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED). DIR_SHOW_IGNORED is used all throughout git.

We don't want to break the existing API, so lets introduce a new flag
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO that lists untracked as well as ignored files similar
to DIR_COLLECT_FILES, but will recurse into sub-directories based on the
other flags as DIR_SHOW_IGNORED does.

In dir.c::read_directory_recursive, add ignored files to either
dir_struct.entries[] or dir_struct.ignored[] based on the flags. Also move
the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED case here so that filling result lists is in a
common place.

In wt-status.c::wt_status_collect_untracked, use the new flag and read
results from dir_struct.ignored[]. Remove the extra fill_directory call.

builtin/check-ignore.c doesn't call fill_directory, setting the git-add
specific DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED flag has no effect here. Remove for clarity.

Update API documentation to reflect the changes.

Performance: with this patch, 'git-status --ignored' is typically as fast
as 'git-status'.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees &lt;blees@dcon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dir.c: replace is_path_excluded with now equivalent is_excluded API</title>
<updated>2013-04-15T19:34:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Karsten Blees</name>
<email>karsten.blees@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-15T19:12:57+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees &lt;blees@dcon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees &lt;blees@dcon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dir.c: unify is_excluded and is_path_excluded APIs</title>
<updated>2013-04-15T19:34:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Karsten Blees</name>
<email>karsten.blees@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-15T19:12:14+00:00</published>
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The is_excluded and is_path_excluded APIs are very similar, except for a
few noteworthy differences:

is_excluded doesn't handle ignored directories, results for paths within
ignored directories are incorrect. This is probably based on the premise
that recursive directory scans should stop at ignored directories, which
is no longer true (in certain cases, read_directory_recursive currently
calls is_excluded *and* is_path_excluded to get correct ignored state).

is_excluded caches parsed .gitignore files of the last directory in struct
dir_struct. If the directory changes, it finds a common parent directory
and is very careful to drop only as much state as necessary. On the other
hand, is_excluded will also read and parse .gitignore files in already
ignored directories, which are completely irrelevant.

is_path_excluded correctly handles ignored directories by checking if any
component in the path is excluded. As it uses is_excluded internally, this
unfortunately forces is_excluded to drop and re-read all .gitignore files,
as there is no common parent directory for the root dir.

is_path_excluded tracks state in a separate struct path_exclude_check,
which is essentially a wrapper of dir_struct with two more fields. However,
as is_path_excluded also modifies dir_struct, it is not possible to e.g.
use multiple path_exclude_check structures with the same dir_struct in
parallel. The additional structure just unnecessarily complicates the API.

Teach is_excluded / prep_exclude about ignored directories: whenever
entering a new directory, first check if the entire directory is excluded.
Remember the excluded state in dir_struct. Don't traverse into already
ignored directories (i.e. don't read irrelevant .gitignore files).

Directories could also be excluded by exclude patterns specified on the
command line or .git/info/exclude, so we cannot simply skip prep_exclude
entirely if there's no .gitignore file name (dir_struct.exclude_per_dir).
Move this check to just before actually reading the file.

is_path_excluded is now equivalent to is_excluded, so we can simply
redirect to it (the public API is cleaned up in the next patch).

The performance impact of the additional ignored check per directory is
hardly noticeable when reading directories recursively (e.g. 'git status').
However, performance of git commands using the is_path_excluded API (e.g.
'git ls-files --cached --ignored --exclude-standard') is greatly improved
as this no longer re-reads .gitignore files on each call.

Here's some performance data from the linux and WebKit repos (best of 10
runs on a Debian Linux on SSD, core.preloadIndex=true):

       | ls-files -ci   |    status      | status --ignored
       | linux | WebKit | linux | WebKit | linux | WebKit
-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+-------+---------
before | 0.506 |  6.539 | 0.212 |  1.555 | 0.323 |  2.541
after  | 0.080 |  1.191 | 0.218 |  1.583 | 0.321 |  2.579
gain   | 6.325 |  5.490 | 0.972 |  0.982 | 1.006 |  0.985

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees &lt;blees@dcon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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The is_excluded and is_path_excluded APIs are very similar, except for a
few noteworthy differences:

is_excluded doesn't handle ignored directories, results for paths within
ignored directories are incorrect. This is probably based on the premise
that recursive directory scans should stop at ignored directories, which
is no longer true (in certain cases, read_directory_recursive currently
calls is_excluded *and* is_path_excluded to get correct ignored state).

is_excluded caches parsed .gitignore files of the last directory in struct
dir_struct. If the directory changes, it finds a common parent directory
and is very careful to drop only as much state as necessary. On the other
hand, is_excluded will also read and parse .gitignore files in already
ignored directories, which are completely irrelevant.

is_path_excluded correctly handles ignored directories by checking if any
component in the path is excluded. As it uses is_excluded internally, this
unfortunately forces is_excluded to drop and re-read all .gitignore files,
as there is no common parent directory for the root dir.

is_path_excluded tracks state in a separate struct path_exclude_check,
which is essentially a wrapper of dir_struct with two more fields. However,
as is_path_excluded also modifies dir_struct, it is not possible to e.g.
use multiple path_exclude_check structures with the same dir_struct in
parallel. The additional structure just unnecessarily complicates the API.

Teach is_excluded / prep_exclude about ignored directories: whenever
entering a new directory, first check if the entire directory is excluded.
Remember the excluded state in dir_struct. Don't traverse into already
ignored directories (i.e. don't read irrelevant .gitignore files).

Directories could also be excluded by exclude patterns specified on the
command line or .git/info/exclude, so we cannot simply skip prep_exclude
entirely if there's no .gitignore file name (dir_struct.exclude_per_dir).
Move this check to just before actually reading the file.

is_path_excluded is now equivalent to is_excluded, so we can simply
redirect to it (the public API is cleaned up in the next patch).

The performance impact of the additional ignored check per directory is
hardly noticeable when reading directories recursively (e.g. 'git status').
However, performance of git commands using the is_path_excluded API (e.g.
'git ls-files --cached --ignored --exclude-standard') is greatly improved
as this no longer re-reads .gitignore files on each call.

Here's some performance data from the linux and WebKit repos (best of 10
runs on a Debian Linux on SSD, core.preloadIndex=true):

       | ls-files -ci   |    status      | status --ignored
       | linux | WebKit | linux | WebKit | linux | WebKit
-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+-------+---------
before | 0.506 |  6.539 | 0.212 |  1.555 | 0.323 |  2.541
after  | 0.080 |  1.191 | 0.218 |  1.583 | 0.321 |  2.579
gain   | 6.325 |  5.490 | 0.972 |  0.982 | 1.006 |  0.985

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees &lt;blees@dcon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'as/check-ignore'</title>
<updated>2013-01-24T05:19:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-24T05:19:10+00:00</published>
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Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
files.

The variable names may want to get cleaned up but that can be done
in-tree.

* as/check-ignore:
  clean.c, ls-files.c: respect encapsulation of exclude_list_groups
  t0008: avoid brace expansion
  add git-check-ignore sub-command
  setup.c: document get_pathspec()
  add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
  add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
  pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
  add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
  add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
  dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
  dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
  dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
  dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes

Conflicts:
	builtin/ls-files.c
	dir.c
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Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
files.

The variable names may want to get cleaned up but that can be done
in-tree.

* as/check-ignore:
  clean.c, ls-files.c: respect encapsulation of exclude_list_groups
  t0008: avoid brace expansion
  add git-check-ignore sub-command
  setup.c: document get_pathspec()
  add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
  add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
  pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
  add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
  add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
  dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
  dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
  dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
  dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes

Conflicts:
	builtin/ls-files.c
	dir.c
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'as/dir-c-cleanup'</title>
<updated>2013-01-10T21:47:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-10T21:47:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=d912b0e44f82dc430a4aac8566a8217b60629638'/>
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Refactor and generally clean up the directory traversal API
implementation.

* as/dir-c-cleanup:
  dir.c: rename free_excludes() to clear_exclude_list()
  dir.c: refactor is_path_excluded()
  dir.c: refactor is_excluded()
  dir.c: refactor is_excluded_from_list()
  dir.c: rename excluded() to is_excluded()
  dir.c: rename excluded_from_list() to is_excluded_from_list()
  dir.c: rename path_excluded() to is_path_excluded()
  dir.c: rename cryptic 'which' variable to more consistent name
  Improve documentation and comments regarding directory traversal API
  api-directory-listing.txt: update to match code
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Refactor and generally clean up the directory traversal API
implementation.

* as/dir-c-cleanup:
  dir.c: rename free_excludes() to clear_exclude_list()
  dir.c: refactor is_path_excluded()
  dir.c: refactor is_excluded()
  dir.c: refactor is_excluded_from_list()
  dir.c: rename excluded() to is_excluded()
  dir.c: rename excluded_from_list() to is_excluded_from_list()
  dir.c: rename path_excluded() to is_path_excluded()
  dir.c: rename cryptic 'which' variable to more consistent name
  Improve documentation and comments regarding directory traversal API
  api-directory-listing.txt: update to match code
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()</title>
<updated>2013-01-06T22:26:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Spiers</name>
<email>git@adamspiers.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-06T16:58:06+00:00</published>
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Fix a grammatical issue in the description of these functions, and
make it more obvious how and why seen[] can be reused across multiple
invocations.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Fix a grammatical issue in the description of these functions, and
make it more obvious how and why seen[] can be reused across multiple
invocations.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory</title>
<updated>2013-01-06T22:26:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Spiers</name>
<email>git@adamspiers.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-06T16:58:05+00:00</published>
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By the end of a directory traversal, a dir_struct instance will
typically contains pointers to various data structures on the heap.
clear_directory() provides a convenient way to reclaim that memory.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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By the end of a directory traversal, a dir_struct instance will
typically contains pointers to various data structures on the heap.
clear_directory() provides a convenient way to reclaim that memory.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from</title>
<updated>2013-01-06T22:26:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Spiers</name>
<email>git@adamspiers.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-06T16:58:04+00:00</published>
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For exclude patterns read in from files, the filename is stored in the
exclude list, and the originating line number is stored in the
individual exclude (counting starting at 1).

For exclude patterns provided on the command line, a string describing
the source of the patterns is stored in the exclude list, and the
sequence number assigned to each exclude pattern is negative, with
counting starting at -1.  So for example the 2nd pattern provided via
--exclude would be numbered -2.  This allows any future consumers of
that data to easily distinguish between exclude patterns from files
vs. from the CLI.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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For exclude patterns read in from files, the filename is stored in the
exclude list, and the originating line number is stored in the
individual exclude (counting starting at 1).

For exclude patterns provided on the command line, a string describing
the source of the patterns is stored in the exclude list, and the
sequence number assigned to each exclude pattern is negative, with
counting starting at -1.  So for example the 2nd pattern provided via
--exclude would be numbered -2.  This allows any future consumers of
that data to easily distinguish between exclude patterns from files
vs. from the CLI.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes</title>
<updated>2013-01-06T22:25:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Spiers</name>
<email>git@adamspiers.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-06T16:58:03+00:00</published>
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Previously each exclude_list could potentially contain patterns
from multiple sources.  For example dir-&gt;exclude_list[EXC_FILE]
would typically contain patterns from .git/info/exclude and
core.excludesfile, and dir-&gt;exclude_list[EXC_DIRS] could contain
patterns from multiple per-directory .gitignore files during
directory traversal (i.e. when dir-&gt;exclude_stack was more than
one item deep).

We split these composite exclude_lists up into three groups of
exclude_lists (EXC_CMDL / EXC_DIRS / EXC_FILE as before), so that each
exclude_list now contains patterns from a single source.  This will
allow us to cleanly track the origin of each pattern simply by adding
a src field to struct exclude_list, rather than to struct exclude,
which would make memory management of the source string tricky in the
EXC_DIRS case where its contents are dynamically generated.

Similarly, by moving the filebuf member from struct exclude_stack to
struct exclude_list, it allows us to track and subsequently free
memory buffers allocated during the parsing of all exclude files,
rather than only tracking buffers allocated for files in the EXC_DIRS
group.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Previously each exclude_list could potentially contain patterns
from multiple sources.  For example dir-&gt;exclude_list[EXC_FILE]
would typically contain patterns from .git/info/exclude and
core.excludesfile, and dir-&gt;exclude_list[EXC_DIRS] could contain
patterns from multiple per-directory .gitignore files during
directory traversal (i.e. when dir-&gt;exclude_stack was more than
one item deep).

We split these composite exclude_lists up into three groups of
exclude_lists (EXC_CMDL / EXC_DIRS / EXC_FILE as before), so that each
exclude_list now contains patterns from a single source.  This will
allow us to cleanly track the origin of each pattern simply by adding
a src field to struct exclude_list, rather than to struct exclude,
which would make memory management of the source string tricky in the
EXC_DIRS case where its contents are dynamically generated.

Similarly, by moving the filebuf member from struct exclude_stack to
struct exclude_list, it allows us to track and subsequently free
memory buffers allocated during the parsing of all exclude files,
rather than only tracking buffers allocated for files in the EXC_DIRS
group.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dir.c: rename free_excludes() to clear_exclude_list()</title>
<updated>2012-12-28T20:07:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Spiers</name>
<email>git@adamspiers.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-27T02:32:29+00:00</published>
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It is clearer to use a 'clear_' prefix for functions which empty
and deallocate the contents of a data structure without freeing
the structure itself, and a 'free_' prefix for functions which
also free the structure itself.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206128

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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It is clearer to use a 'clear_' prefix for functions which empty
and deallocate the contents of a data structure without freeing
the structure itself, and a 'free_' prefix for functions which
also free the structure itself.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206128

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers &lt;git@adamspiers.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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