git/Documentation/technical, branch v2.37.0-rc2

Merge branch 'ab/bug-if-bug'

2022-06-10T22:04:15Z

A new bug() and BUG_if_bug() API is introduced to make it easier to uniformly log "detect multiple bugs and abort in the end" pattern. * ab/bug-if-bug: cache-tree.c: use bug() and BUG_if_bug() receive-pack: use bug() and BUG_if_bug() parse-options.c: use optbug() instead of BUG() "opts" check parse-options.c: use new bug() API for optbug() usage.c: add a non-fatal bug() function to go with BUG() common-main.c: move non-trace2 exit() behavior out of trace2.c

Merge branch 'tb/cruft-packs'

2022-06-03T21:30:37Z

A mechanism to pack unreachable objects into a "cruft pack", instead of ejecting them into loose form to be reclaimed later, has been introduced. * tb/cruft-packs: sha1-file.c: don't freshen cruft packs builtin/gc.c: conditionally avoid pruning objects via loose builtin/repack.c: add cruft packs to MIDX during geometric repack builtin/repack.c: use named flags for existing_packs builtin/repack.c: allow configuring cruft pack generation builtin/repack.c: support generating a cruft pack builtin/pack-objects.c: --cruft with expiration reachable: report precise timestamps from objects in cruft packs reachable: add options to add_unseen_recent_objects_to_traversal builtin/pack-objects.c: --cruft without expiration builtin/pack-objects.c: return from create_object_entry() t/helper: add 'pack-mtimes' test-tool pack-mtimes: support writing pack .mtimes files chunk-format.h: extract oid_version() pack-write: pass 'struct packing_data' to 'stage_tmp_packfiles' pack-mtimes: support reading .mtimes files Documentation/technical: add cruft-packs.txt

usage.c: add a non-fatal bug() function to go with BUG()

2022-06-02T19:51:35Z

Add a bug() function to use in cases where we'd like to indicate a runtime BUG(), but would like to defer the BUG() call because we're possibly accumulating more bug() callers to exhaustively indicate what went wrong. We already have this sort of facility in various parts of the codebase, just in the form of ad-hoc re-inventions of the functionality that this new API provides. E.g. this will be used to replace optbug() in parse-options.c, and the 'error("BUG:[...]' we do in a loop in builtin/receive-pack.c. Unlike the code this replaces we'll log to trace2 with this new bug() function (as with other usage.c functions, including BUG()), we'll also be able to avoid calls to xstrfmt() in some cases, as the bug() function itself accepts variadic sprintf()-like arguments. Any caller to bug() can follow up such calls with BUG_if_bug(), which will BUG() out (i.e. abort()) if there were any preceding calls to bug(), callers can also decide not to call BUG_if_bug() and leave the resulting BUG() invocation until exit() time. There are currently no bug() API users that don't call BUG_if_bug() themselves after a for-loop, but allowing for not calling BUG_if_bug() keeps the API flexible. As the tests and documentation here show we'll catch missing BUG_if_bug() invocations in our exit() wrapper. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

builtin/repack.c: support generating a cruft pack

2022-05-26T22:48:26Z

Expose a way to split the contents of a repository into a main and cruft pack when doing an all-into-one repack with `git repack --cruft -d`, and a complementary configuration variable. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

pack-mtimes: support reading .mtimes files

2022-05-26T22:48:26Z

To store the individual mtimes of objects in a cruft pack, introduce a new `.mtimes` format that can optionally accompany a single pack in the repository. The format is defined in Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt, and stores a 4-byte network order timestamp for each object in name (index) order. This patch prepares for cruft packs by defining the `.mtimes` format, and introducing a basic API that callers can use to read out individual mtimes. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation/technical: add cruft-packs.txt

2022-05-21T05:31:21Z

Create a technical document to explain cruft packs. It contains a brief overview of the problem, some background, details on the implementation, and a couple of alternative approaches not considered here. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

trace2 docs: add missing full stop

2022-05-04T17:31:05Z

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

trace2 docs: clarify what `varargs` is all about

2022-05-04T17:31:05Z

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

trace2 docs: fix a JSON formatted example

2022-05-04T17:31:04Z

The example was not in valid JSON format due to a duplicate key "sid". Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

trace2 docs: surround more terms in backticks

2022-05-04T17:31:04Z

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano