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authorEmily Yang <emilyyang.git@gmail.com>2025-10-17 20:58:59 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-10-22 10:40:11 -0700
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commit-graph: add new config for changed-paths & recommend it in scalar
The changed-path Bloom filters feature has proven stable and reliable over several years of use, delivering significant performance improvement for file history computation in large monorepos. Currently a user can opt-in to writing the changed-path Bloom filters using the "--changed-paths" option to "git commit-graph write". The filters will be persisted until the user drops the filters using the "--no-changed-paths" option. For this functionality, refer to 0087a87ba8 (commit-graph: persist existence of changed-paths, 2020-07-01). Large monorepos using Git's background maintenance to build and update commit-graph files could use an easy switch to enable this feature without a foreground computation. In this commit, we're proposing a new config option "commitGraph.changedPaths": * If "true", "git commit-graph write" will write Bloom filters, equivalent to passing "--changed-paths"; * If "false" or "unset", Bloom filters will be written during "git commit-graph write" only if the filters already exist in the current commit-graph file. This matches the default behaviour of "git commit-graph write" without any "--[no-]changed-paths" option. Note "false" can disable a previous "true" config value but doesn't imply "--no-changed-paths". This config will always respect the precedence of command line option "--[no-]changed-paths". We also set this new config as optional recommended config in scalar to turn on this feature for large repos. Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Emily Yang <emilyyang.git@gmail.com> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ take a while on large repositories. It provides significant performance gains
for getting history of a directory or a file with `git log -- <path>`. If
this option is given, future commit-graph writes will automatically assume
that this option was intended. Use `--no-changed-paths` to stop storing this
-data.
+data. `--changed-paths` is implied by config `commitGraph.changedPaths=true`.
+
With the `--max-new-filters=<n>` option, generate at most `n` new Bloom
filters (if `--changed-paths` is specified). If `n` is `-1`, no limit is