On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:14:11PM +0000, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote:
> > For bitmaps to be used, the following must be true:
> >
> > 1. We must be packing to stdout (as a normal `pack-objects` from
> > `upload-pack` would do).
> >
> > 2. There must be a .bitmap index containing at least one of the
> > "have" objects that the client is asking for.
>
> The client must explicitly "have" a commit that has a bitmap? In JGit
> we allow the client to have anything, and walk backwards using
> traditional graph traversal until a bitmap is found.
If the bitmaps contain the full set of reachable objects and the client
does not have any "haves" that are bitmapped , then we know that either:
1. Their "haves" are not reachable from the "wants"
or
2. Their "wants" are not bitmapped, and so the slice of "haves..wants"
has no bitmaps
Since (1) is relatively rare, I think we are using this as a proxy for
(2), so that we can do a regular walk rather than looking around for
bitmaps that don't exist. But I may be misremembering the reasoning.
Vicent?
> > @@ -704,6 +759,18 @@ static void write_pack_file(void)
> > offset = write_pack_header(f, nr_remaining);
> > if (!offset)
> > die_errno("unable to write pack header");
> > +
> > + if (reuse_packfile) {
> > + off_t packfile_size;
> > + assert(pack_to_stdout);
> > +
> > + packfile_size = write_reused_pack(f);
> > + if (!packfile_size)
> > + die_errno("failed to re-use existing pack");
> > +
> > + offset += packfile_size;
> > + }
> > +
> > nr_written = 0;
> > for (; i < to_pack.nr_objects; i++) {
> > struct object_entry *e = write_order[i];
>
> Can reuse_packfile be true at the same time as to_pack.nr_objects > 0?
Yes, if there are new, non-bitmapped objects to send on top of the
reused packfile.
> In JGit we write the to_pack list first, then the reuse pack. Our
> rationale was the to_pack list is recent objects that are newer and
> would appear first in a traditional traversal, so they should go at
> the front of the stream. This does mean if they delta compress against
> an object in that reuse_packfile slice they have to use REF_DELTA
> instead of OFS_DELTA.
That's a good point. In our case I think we do not delta against the
reused packfile objects at all, as we simply send out the whole slice of
packfile without making an entry for each object.
> Is this series running on github.com/torvalds/linux? Last Saturday I
> ran a live demo clone comparing github.com/torvalds/linux to a JGit
> bitmap clone and some guy heckled me because GitHub was only a few
> seconds slower. :-)
It is. Use kernel.org if you want to make fun of someone. :)
-Peff
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