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2025-01-21doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc filesbrian m. carlson1-760/+0
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files. While not wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc, meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting. It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files, since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering. Let's do that here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where relevant. Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new extension as well. Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the documentation. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-10-22doc: consolidate extensions in git-config documentationCaleb White1-1/+1
The `technical/repository-version.txt` document originally served as the master list for extensions, requiring that any new extensions be defined there. However, the `config/extensions.txt` file was introduced later and has since become the de facto location for describing extensions, with several extensions listed there but missing from `repository-version.txt`. This consolidates all extension definitions into `config/extensions.txt`, making it the authoritative source for extensions. The references in `repository-version.txt` are updated to point to `config/extensions.txt`, and cross-references to related documentation such as `gitrepository-layout[5]` and `git-config[1]` are added. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Caleb White <cdwhite3@pm.me> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2024-07-18Merge branch 'tb/doc-max-tree-depth-fix'Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Doc update. * tb/doc-max-tree-depth-fix: Documentation: fix default value for core.maxTreeDepth
2024-07-17Documentation: fix default value for core.maxTreeDepthTaylor Blau1-1/+2
When `core.maxTreeDepth` was originally introduced via be20128bfa (add core.maxTreeDepth config, 2023-08-31), its default value was 4096. There have since been a couple of updates to its default value that were not reflected in the documentation for `core.maxTreeDepth`: - 4d5693ba05 (lower core.maxTreeDepth default to 2048, 2023-08-31) - b64d78ad02 (max_tree_depth: lower it for MSVC to avoid stack overflows, 2023-11-01) Commit 4d5693ba05 lowers the default to 2048 for platforms with smaller stack sizes, and commit b64d78ad02 lowers the default even further when Git is compiled with MSVC. Neither of these changes were reflected in the documentation, which I noticed while merging newer releases back into GitHub's private fork (which contained the original implementation of `core.maxTreeDepth`). Update the documentation to reflect what the platform-specific default values are. Noticed-by: Keith W. Campbell <keithc@ca.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-04-10Merge branch 'ds/typofix-core-config-doc'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Typofix. * ds/typofix-core-config-doc: config: fix some small capitalization issues, as spotted
2024-03-31config: fix some small capitalization issues, as spottedDragan Simic1-1/+1
Fix some small capitalization issues, as spotted while going through the documentation. In general, a semicolon doesn't start a new sentence, and "this" has no meaning of a proper noun in this context. Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-27config: add core.commentStringJeff King1-3/+16
The core.commentChar code recently learned to accept more than a single ASCII character. But using it is annoying with multiple versions of Git, since older ones will reject it outright: $ git.v2.44.0 -c core.commentchar=foo stripspace -s error: core.commentChar should only be one ASCII character fatal: unable to parse 'core.commentchar' from command-line config Let's add an alias core.commentString. That's arguably a better name anyway, since we now can handle strings, and it makes it possible to have a config that works reasonably with both old and new versions of Git (see the example in the documentation). This is strictly an alias, so there's not much point in adding duplicate tests; I added a single one to t0030 that exercises the alias code. Note also that the error messages for invalid values will now show the variable the config parser handed us, and thus will be normalized to lowercase (rather than camelcase). A few tests in t0030 are adjusted to match. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-12config: allow multi-byte core.commentCharJeff King1-1/+3
Now that all of the code handles multi-byte comment characters, it's safe to allow users to set them. There is one special case I kept: we still will not allow an empty string for the commentChar. While it might make sense in some contexts (e.g., output where you don't want any comment prefix), there are plenty where it will behave badly (e.g., all of our starts_with() checks will indicate that every line is a comment!). It might be reasonable to assign some meaningful semantics, but it would probably involve checking how each site behaves. In the interim let's forbid it and we can loosen things later. Likewise, the "commentChar cannot be a newline" rule is now extended to "it cannot contain a newline" (for the same reason: it can confuse our parsing loops). Since comment_line_str is used in many parts of the code, it's hard to cover all possibilities with tests. We can convert the existing double-semicolon prefix test to show that "git status" works. And we'll give it a more challenging case in t7507, where we confirm that git-commit strips out the commit template along with any --verbose text when reading the edited commit message back in. That covers the basics, though it's possible there could be issues in more exotic spots (e.g., the sequencer todo list uses its own code). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-08-31add core.maxTreeDepth configJeff King1-0/+6
Most of our tree traversal algorithms use recursion to visit sub-trees. For pathologically large trees, this can cause us to run out of stack space and abort in an uncontrolled way. Let's put our own limit here so that we can fail gracefully rather than segfaulting. In similar cases where we recursed along the commit graph, we rewrote the algorithms to avoid recursion and keep any stack data on the heap. But the commit graph is meant to grow without bound, whereas it's not an imposition to put a limit on the maximum size of tree we'll handle. And this has a bonus side effect: coupled with a limit on individual tree entry names, this limits the total size of a path we may encounter. This gives us an extra protection against code handling long path names which may suffer from integer overflows in the size (which could then be exploited by malicious trees). The default of 4096 is set to be much longer than anybody would care about in the real world. Even with single-letter interior tree names (like "a/b/c"), such a path is at least 8191 bytes. While most operating systems will let you create such a path incrementally, trying to reference the whole thing in a system call (as Git would do when actually trying to access it) will result in ENAMETOOLONG. Coupled with the recent fsck.largePathname warning, the maximum total pathname Git will handle is (by default) 16MB. This config option doesn't do anything yet; future patches will convert various algorithms to respect the limit. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-30doc: use "commit-graph" hyphenation consistentlyPhilip Oakley1-1/+1
Note, historical release notes have not been updated. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-07-27Merge branch 'ma/sparse-checkout-cone-doc-fix'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Docfix. * ma/sparse-checkout-cone-doc-fix: config/core.txt: fix minor issues for `core.sparseCheckoutCone`
2022-07-18config/core.txt: fix minor issues for `core.sparseCheckoutCone`Martin Ågren1-2/+2
The sparse checkout feature can be used in "cone mode" or "non-cone mode". In this one instance in the documentation, we refer to the latter as "non cone mode" with whitespace rather than a hyphen. Align this with the rest of our documentation. A few words later in the same paragraph, there's mention of "a more flexible patterns". Drop that leading "a" to fix the grammar. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-13unpack-objects: use stream_loose_object() to unpack large objectsHan Xin1-2/+2
Make use of the stream_loose_object() function introduced in the preceding commit to unpack large objects. Before this we'd need to malloc() the size of the blob before unpacking it, which could cause OOM with very large blobs. We could use the new streaming interface to unpack all blobs, but doing so would be much slower, as demonstrated e.g. with this benchmark using git-hyperfine[0]: rm -rf /tmp/scalar.git && git clone --bare https://github.com/Microsoft/scalar.git /tmp/scalar.git && mv /tmp/scalar.git/objects/pack/*.pack /tmp/scalar.git/my.pack && git hyperfine \ -r 2 --warmup 1 \ -L rev origin/master,HEAD -L v "10,512,1k,1m" \ -s 'make' \ -p 'git init --bare dest.git' \ -c 'rm -rf dest.git' \ './git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold={v} unpack-objects </tmp/scalar.git/my.pack' Here we'll perform worse with lower core.bigFileThreshold settings with this change in terms of speed, but we're getting lower memory use in return: Summary './git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=10 unpack-objects </tmp/scalar.git/my.pack' in 'origin/master' ran 1.01 ± 0.01 times faster than './git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=1k unpack-objects </tmp/scalar.git/my.pack' in 'origin/master' 1.01 ± 0.01 times faster than './git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=1m unpack-objects </tmp/scalar.git/my.pack' in 'origin/master' 1.01 ± 0.02 times faster than './git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=1m unpack-objects </tmp/scalar.git/my.pack' in 'HEAD' 1.02 ± 0.00 times faster than './git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=512 unpack-objects </tmp/scalar.git/my.pack' in 'origin/master' 1.09 ± 0.01 times faster than './git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=1k unpack-objects </tmp/scalar.git/my.pack' in 'HEAD' 1.10 ± 0.00 times faster than './git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=512 unpack-objects </tmp/scalar.git/my.pack' in 'HEAD' 1.11 ± 0.00 times faster than './git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=10 unpack-objects </tmp/scalar.git/my.pack' in 'HEAD' A better benchmark to demonstrate the benefits of that this one, which creates an artificial repo with a 1, 25, 50, 75 and 100MB blob: rm -rf /tmp/repo && git init /tmp/repo && ( cd /tmp/repo && for i in 1 25 50 75 100 do dd if=/dev/urandom of=blob.$i count=$(($i*1024)) bs=1024 done && git add blob.* && git commit -mblobs && git gc && PACK=$(echo .git/objects/pack/pack-*.pack) && cp "$PACK" my.pack ) && git hyperfine \ --show-output \ -L rev origin/master,HEAD -L v "512,50m,100m" \ -s 'make' \ -p 'git init --bare dest.git' \ -c 'rm -rf dest.git' \ '/usr/bin/time -v ./git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold={v} unpack-objects </tmp/repo/my.pack 2>&1 | grep Maximum' Using this test we'll always use >100MB of memory on origin/master (around ~105MB), but max out at e.g. ~55MB if we set core.bigFileThreshold=50m. The relevant "Maximum resident set size" lines were manually added below the relevant benchmark: '/usr/bin/time -v ./git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=50m unpack-objects </tmp/repo/my.pack 2>&1 | grep Maximum' in 'origin/master' ran Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 107080 1.02 ± 0.78 times faster than '/usr/bin/time -v ./git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=512 unpack-objects </tmp/repo/my.pack 2>&1 | grep Maximum' in 'origin/master' Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 106968 1.09 ± 0.79 times faster than '/usr/bin/time -v ./git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=100m unpack-objects </tmp/repo/my.pack 2>&1 | grep Maximum' in 'origin/master' Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 107032 1.42 ± 1.07 times faster than '/usr/bin/time -v ./git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=100m unpack-objects </tmp/repo/my.pack 2>&1 | grep Maximum' in 'HEAD' Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 107072 1.83 ± 1.02 times faster than '/usr/bin/time -v ./git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=50m unpack-objects </tmp/repo/my.pack 2>&1 | grep Maximum' in 'HEAD' Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 55704 2.16 ± 1.19 times faster than '/usr/bin/time -v ./git -C dest.git -c core.bigFileThreshold=512 unpack-objects </tmp/repo/my.pack 2>&1 | grep Maximum' in 'HEAD' Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 4564 This shows that if you have enough memory this new streaming method is slower the lower you set the streaming threshold, but the benefit is more bounded memory use. An earlier version of this patch introduced a new "core.bigFileStreamingThreshold" instead of re-using the existing "core.bigFileThreshold" variable[1]. As noted in a detailed overview of its users in [2] using it has several different meanings. Still, we consider it good enough to simply re-use it. While it's possible that someone might want to e.g. consider objects "small" for the purposes of diffing but "big" for the purposes of writing them such use-cases are probably too obscure to worry about. We can always split up "core.bigFileThreshold" in the future if there's a need for that. 0. https://github.com/avar/git-hyperfine/ 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20211210103435.83656-1-chiyutianyi@gmail.com/ 2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220120112114.47618-5-chiyutianyi@gmail.com/ Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Helped-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Han Xin <chiyutianyi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-13core doc: modernize core.bigFileThreshold documentationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-9/+24
The core.bigFileThreshold documentation has been largely unchanged since 5eef828bc03 (fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to pack, 2010-02-01). But since then this setting has been expanded to affect a lot more than that description indicated. Most notably in how "git diff" treats them, see 6bf3b813486 (diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binary, 2014-08-16). In addition to that, numerous commands and APIs make use of a streaming mode for files above this threshold. So let's attempt to summarize 12 years of changes in behavior, which can be seen with: git log --oneline -Gbig_file_thre 5eef828bc03.. -- '*.c' To do that turn this into a bullet-point list. The summary Han Xin produced in [1] helped a lot, but is a bit too detailed for documentation aimed at users. Let's instead summarize how user-observable behavior differs, and generally describe how we tend to stream these files in various commands. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220120112114.47618-5-chiyutianyi@gmail.com/ Helped-by: Han Xin <chiyutianyi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-03Merge branch 'ns/batch-fsync'Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Introduce a filesystem-dependent mechanism to optimize the way the bits for many loose object files are ensured to hit the disk platter. * ns/batch-fsync: core.fsyncmethod: performance tests for batch mode t/perf: add iteration setup mechanism to perf-lib core.fsyncmethod: tests for batch mode test-lib-functions: add parsing helpers for ls-files and ls-tree core.fsync: use batch mode and sync loose objects by default on Windows unpack-objects: use the bulk-checkin infrastructure update-index: use the bulk-checkin infrastructure builtin/add: add ODB transaction around add_files_to_cache cache-tree: use ODB transaction around writing a tree core.fsyncmethod: batched disk flushes for loose-objects bulk-checkin: rebrand plug/unplug APIs as 'odb transactions' bulk-checkin: rename 'state' variable and separate 'plugged' boolean
2022-06-03Merge branch 'en/sparse-cone-becomes-default'Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
Deprecate non-cone mode of the sparse-checkout feature. * en/sparse-cone-becomes-default: Documentation: some sparsity wording clarifications git-sparse-checkout.txt: mark non-cone mode as deprecated git-sparse-checkout.txt: flesh out pattern set sections a bit git-sparse-checkout.txt: add a new EXAMPLES section git-sparse-checkout.txt: shuffle some sections and mark as internal git-sparse-checkout.txt: update docs for deprecation of 'init' git-sparse-checkout.txt: wording updates for the cone mode default sparse-checkout: make --cone the default tests: stop assuming --no-cone is the default mode for sparse-checkout
2022-04-21sparse-checkout: make --cone the defaultElijah Newren1-2/+4
Make cone mode the default, and update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-04-06doc: replace "--" with {litdd} in credential-cache/fsmonitorTodd Zullinger1-1/+1
Asciidoc renders `--` as em-dash. This is not appropriate for command names. It also breaks linkgit links to these commands. Fix git-credential-cache--daemon and git-fsmonitor--daemon. The latter was added 3248486920 (fsmonitor: document builtin fsmonitor, 2022-03-25) and included several links. A check for broken links in the HTML docs turned this up. Manually inspecting the other Documentation/git-*--*.txt files turned up the issue in git-credential-cache--daemon. While here, quote `git credential-cache--daemon` in the synopsis to match the vast majority of our other documentation. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-04-06core.fsyncmethod: batched disk flushes for loose-objectsNeeraj Singh1-0/+8
When adding many objects to a repo with `core.fsync=loose-object`, the cost of fsync'ing each object file can become prohibitive. One major source of the cost of fsync is the implied flush of the hardware writeback cache within the disk drive. This commit introduces a new `core.fsyncMethod=batch` option that batches up hardware flushes. It hooks into the bulk-checkin odb-transaction functionality, takes advantage of tmp-objdir, and uses the writeout-only support code. When the new mode is enabled, we do the following for each new object: 1a. Create the object in a tmp-objdir. 2a. Issue a pagecache writeback request and wait for it to complete. At the end of the entire transaction when unplugging bulk checkin: 1b. Issue an fsync against a dummy file to flush the log and hardware writeback cache, which should by now have seen the tmp-objdir writes. 2b. Rename all of the tmp-objdir files to their final names. 3b. When updating the index and/or refs, we assume that Git will issue another fsync internal to that operation. This is not the default today, but the user now has the option of syncing the index and there is a separate patch series to implement syncing of refs. On a filesystem with a singular journal that is updated during name operations (e.g. create, link, rename, etc), such as NTFS, HFS+, or XFS we would expect the fsync to trigger a journal writeout so that this sequence is enough to ensure that the user's data is durable by the time the git command returns. This sequence also ensures that no object files appear in the main object store unless they are fsync-durable. Batch mode is only enabled if core.fsync includes loose-objects. If the legacy core.fsyncObjectFiles setting is enabled, but core.fsync does not include loose-objects, we will use file-by-file fsyncing. In step (1a) of the sequence, the tmp-objdir is created lazily to avoid work if no loose objects are ever added to the ODB. We use a tmp-objdir to maintain the invariant that no loose-objects are visible in the main ODB unless they are properly fsync-durable. This is important since future ODB operations that try to create an object with specific contents will silently drop the new data if an object with the target hash exists without checking that the loose-object contents match the hash. Only a full git-fsck would restore the ODB to a functional state where dataloss doesn't occur. In step (1b) of the sequence, we issue a fsync against a dummy file created specifically for the purpose. This method has a little higher cost than using one of the input object files, but makes adding new callers of this mechanism easier, since we don't need to figure out which object file is "last" or risk sharing violations by caching the fd of the last object file. _Performance numbers_: Linux - Hyper-V VM running Kernel 5.11 (Ubuntu 20.04) on a fast SSD. Mac - macOS 11.5.1 running on a Mac mini on a 1TB Apple SSD. Windows - Same host as Linux, a preview version of Windows 11. Adding 500 files to the repo with 'git add' Times reported in seconds. object file syncing | Linux | Mac | Windows --------------------|-------|-------|-------- disabled | 0.06 | 0.35 | 0.61 fsync | 1.88 | 11.18 | 2.47 batch | 0.15 | 0.41 | 1.53 Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-04-04Merge branch 'jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2'Junio C Hamano1-14/+46
Built-in fsmonitor (part 2). * jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2: (30 commits) t7527: test status with untracked-cache and fsmonitor--daemon fsmonitor: force update index after large responses fsmonitor--daemon: use a cookie file to sync with file system fsmonitor--daemon: periodically truncate list of modified files t/perf/p7519: add fsmonitor--daemon test cases t/perf/p7519: speed up test on Windows t/perf/p7519: fix coding style t/helper/test-chmtime: skip directories on Windows t/perf: avoid copying builtin fsmonitor files into test repo t7527: create test for fsmonitor--daemon t/helper/fsmonitor-client: create IPC client to talk to FSMonitor Daemon help: include fsmonitor--daemon feature flag in version info fsmonitor--daemon: implement handle_client callback compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: implement FSEvent listener on MacOS compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: add MacOS header files for FSEvent compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-win32: implement FSMonitor backend on Windows fsmonitor--daemon: create token-based changed path cache fsmonitor--daemon: define token-ids fsmonitor--daemon: add pathname classification fsmonitor--daemon: implement 'start' command ...
2022-03-25fsmonitor: document builtin fsmonitorJeff Hostetler1-14/+46
Document how `core.fsmonitor` can be set to a boolean to enable or disable the builtin FSMonitor. Update references to `core.fsmonitor` and `core.fsmonitorHookVersion` and pointers to `Watchman` to refer to it. Create `git-fsmonitor--daemon` manual page and describe its features. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-15core.fsync: new option to harden referencesPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+1
When writing both loose and packed references to disk we first create a lockfile, write the updated values into that lockfile, and on commit we rename the file into place. According to filesystem developers, this behaviour is broken because applications should always sync data to disk before doing the final rename to ensure data consistency [1][2][3]. If applications fail to do this correctly, a hard crash of the machine can easily result in corrupted on-disk data. This kind of corruption can in fact be easily observed with Git when the machine hard-resets shortly after writing references to disk. On machines with ext4, this will likely lead to the "empty files" problem: the file has been renamed, but its data has not been synced to disk. The result is that the reference is corrupt, and in the worst case this can lead to data loss. Implement a new option to harden references so that users and admins can avoid this scenario by syncing locked loose and packed references to disk before we rename them into place. [1]: https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/ [2]: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ (What are the crash guarantees of overwrite-by-rename) [3]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst (see auto_da_alloc) Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-15core.fsync: documentation and user-friendly aggregate optionsNeeraj Singh1-0/+40
This commit adds aggregate options for the core.fsync setting that are more user-friendly. These options are specified in terms of 'levels of safety', indicating which Git operations are considered to be sync points for durability. The new documentation is also included here in its entirety for ease of review. Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-10core.fsync: add configuration parsingNeeraj Singh1-4/+5
This change introduces code to parse the core.fsync setting and configure the fsync_components variable. core.fsync is configured as a comma-separated list of component names to sync. Each time a core.fsync variable is encountered in the configuration heirarchy, we start off with a clean state with the platform default value. Passing 'none' resets the value to indicate nothing will be synced. We gather all negative and positive entries from the comma separated list and then compute the new value by removing all the negative entries and adding all of the positive entries. We issue a warning for components that are not recognized so that the configuration code is compatible with configs from future versions of Git with more repo components. Complete documentation for the new setting is included in a later patch in the series so that it can be reviewed once in final form. Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-10core.fsyncmethod: add writeout-only modeNeeraj Singh1-0/+9
This commit introduces the `core.fsyncMethod` configuration knob, which can currently be set to `fsync` or `writeout-only`. The new writeout-only mode attempts to tell the operating system to flush its in-memory page cache to the storage hardware without issuing a CACHE_FLUSH command to the storage controller. Writeout-only fsync is significantly faster than a vanilla fsync on common hardware, since data is written to a disk-side cache rather than all the way to a durable medium. Later changes in this patch series will take advantage of this primitive to implement batching of hardware flushes. When git_fsync is called with FSYNC_WRITEOUT_ONLY, it may fail and the caller is expected to do an ordinary fsync as needed. On Apple platforms, the fsync system call does not issue a CACHE_FLUSH directive to the storage controller. This change updates fsync to do fcntl(F_FULLFSYNC) to make fsync actually durable. We maintain parity with existing behavior on Apple platforms by setting the default value of the new core.fsyncMethod option. Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-15Merge branch 'ew/decline-core-abbrev'Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
The configuration variable 'core.abbrev' can be set to 'no' to force no abbreviation regardless of the hash algorithm. * ew/decline-core-abbrev: core.abbrev=no disables abbreviations
2020-12-23core.abbrev=no disables abbreviationsEric Wong1-0/+2
This allows users to write hash-agnostic scripts and configs by disabling abbreviations. Using "-c core.abbrev=40" will be insufficient with SHA-256, and "-c core.abbrev=64" won't work with SHA-1 repos today. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> [jc: tweaked implementation, added doc and a test] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-27Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-2'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
"git maintenance", an extended big brother of "git gc", continues to evolve. * ds/maintenance-part-2: maintenance: add incremental-repack auto condition maintenance: auto-size incremental-repack batch maintenance: add incremental-repack task midx: use start_delayed_progress() midx: enable core.multiPackIndex by default maintenance: create auto condition for loose-objects maintenance: add loose-objects task maintenance: add prefetch task
2020-09-25midx: enable core.multiPackIndex by defaultDerrick Stolee1-2/+2
The core.multiPackIndex setting has been around since c4d25228ebb (config: create core.multiPackIndex setting, 2018-07-12), but has been disabled by default. If a user wishes to use the multi-pack-index feature, then they must enable this config and run 'git multi-pack-index write'. The multi-pack-index feature is relatively stable now, so make the config option true by default. For users that do not use a multi-pack-index, the only extra cost will be a file lookup to see if a multi-pack-index file exists (once per process, per object directory). Also, this config option will be referenced by an upcoming "incremental-repack" task in the maintenance builtin, so move the config option into the repository settings struct. Note that if GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=1, then we want to ignore the config option and treat core.multiPackIndex as enabled. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-24Documentation: deltaBaseCacheLimit is per-threadJonathan Tan1-1/+1
Clarify that core.deltaBaseCacheLimit is per-thread, as can be seen from the fact that cache usage (base_cache_used in struct thread_local in builtin/index-pack.c) is tracked individually for each thread and compared against delta_base_cache_limit. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-23fsmonitor: update documentation for hook version and watchman hooksKevin Willford1-0/+11
A new config value for core.fsmonitorHookVersion was added to be able to force the version of the fsmonitor hook. Possible values are 1 or 2. When this is not set the code will use a value of -1 and attempt to use version 2 of the hook first and if that fails will attempt version 1. Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <Kevin.Willford@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-25Merge branch 'ds/sparse-cone'Junio C Hamano1-2/+8
Management of sparsely checked-out working tree has gained a dedicated "sparse-checkout" command. * ds/sparse-cone: (21 commits) sparse-checkout: improve OS ls compatibility sparse-checkout: respect core.ignoreCase in cone mode sparse-checkout: check for dirty status sparse-checkout: update working directory in-process for 'init' sparse-checkout: cone mode should not interact with .gitignore sparse-checkout: write using lockfile sparse-checkout: use in-process update for disable subcommand sparse-checkout: update working directory in-process sparse-checkout: sanitize for nested folders unpack-trees: add progress to clear_ce_flags() unpack-trees: hash less in cone mode sparse-checkout: init and set in cone mode sparse-checkout: use hashmaps for cone patterns sparse-checkout: add 'cone' mode trace2: add region in clear_ce_flags sparse-checkout: create 'disable' subcommand sparse-checkout: add '--stdin' option to set subcommand sparse-checkout: 'set' subcommand clone: add --sparse mode sparse-checkout: create 'init' subcommand ...
2019-11-23mingw: restrict file handle inheritance only on Windows 7 and laterJohannes Schindelin1-0/+6
Turns out that it don't work so well on Vista, see https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1742 for details. According to https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=8873, it *should* work on Windows Vista and later. But apparently there are issues on Windows Vista when pipes are involved. Given that Windows Vista is past its end of life (official support ended on April 11th, 2017), let's not spend *too* much time on this issue and just disable the file handle inheritance restriction on any Windows version earlier than Windows 7. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-22sparse-checkout: add 'cone' modeDerrick Stolee1-2/+8
The sparse-checkout feature can have quadratic performance as the number of patterns and number of entries in the index grow. If there are 1,000 patterns and 1,000,000 entries, this time can be very significant. Create a new Boolean config option, core.sparseCheckoutCone, to indicate that we expect the sparse-checkout file to contain a more limited set of patterns. This is a separate config setting from core.sparseCheckout to avoid breaking older clients by introducing a tri-state option. The config option does nothing right now, but will be expanded upon in a later commit. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-13repo-settings: create feature.manyFiles settingDerrick Stolee1-1/+3
The feature.manyFiles setting is suitable for repos with many files in the working directory. By setting index.version=4 and core.untrackedCache=true, commands such as 'git status' should improve. While adding this setting, modify the index version precedence tests to check how this setting overrides the default for index.version is unset. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-13commit-graph: turn on commit-graph by defaultDerrick Stolee1-1/+1
The commit-graph feature has seen a lot of activity in the past year or so since it was introduced. The feature is a critical performance enhancement for medium- to large-sized repos, and does not significantly hurt small repos. Change the defaults for core.commitGraph and gc.writeCommitGraph to true so users benefit from this feature by default. There are several places in the test suite where the environment variable GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH is disabled to avoid reading a commit-graph, if it exists. The config option overrides the environment, so swap these. Some GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH assignments remain, and those are to avoid writing a commit-graph when a new commit is created. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-13doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace.Corentin BOMPARD1-7/+7
Applying CodingGuidelines about monospace on pathnames and URLs. See Documentation/CodingGuidelines.txt for more information. Signed-off-by: Corentin BOMPARD <corentin.bompard@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Nathan BERBEZIER <nathan.berbezier@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Pablo CHABANNE <pablo.chabanne@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu MOY <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-29docs/config: clarify "text property" in core.eolJeff King1-2/+5
The word "property" is vague here. Let's spell out that we mean the path must be marked with the text attribute. While we're here, let's make the paragraph a little easier to read by de-emphasizing the "when core.autocrlf is false" bit. Putting it in the first sentence obscures the main content, and many readers won't care about autocrlf (i.e., anyone who is just following the gitattributes(7) advice, which mainly discusses "text" and "core.eol"). Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-13Merge branch 'js/mingw-perl5lib'Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Windows fix. * js/mingw-perl5lib: mingw: unset PERL5LIB by default config: move Windows-specific config settings into compat/mingw.c config: allow for platform-specific core.* config settings config: rename `dummy` parameter to `cb` in git_default_config()
2018-11-13Merge branch 'nd/config-split'Junio C Hamano1-0/+594
Split the overly large Documentation/config.txt file into million little pieces. This potentially allows each individual piece included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily. * nd/config-split: (81 commits) config.txt: remove config/dummy.txt config.txt: move worktree.* to a separate file config.txt: move web.* to a separate file config.txt: move versionsort.* to a separate file config.txt: move user.* to a separate file config.txt: move url.* to a separate file config.txt: move uploadpack.* to a separate file config.txt: move uploadarchive.* to a separate file config.txt: move transfer.* to a separate file config.txt: move tag.* to a separate file config.txt: move submodule.* to a separate file config.txt: move stash.* to a separate file config.txt: move status.* to a separate file config.txt: move splitIndex.* to a separate file config.txt: move showBranch.* to a separate file config.txt: move sequencer.* to a separate file config.txt: move sendemail-config.txt to config/ config.txt: move reset.* to a separate file config.txt: move rerere.* to a separate file config.txt: move repack.* to a separate file ...
2018-10-29config.txt: move core.* to a separate fileNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+594
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>