When performing auto-maintenance we check whether commit graphs need to
be generated by counting the number of commits that are reachable by any
reference, but not covered by a commit graph. This search is performed
by iterating through all references and then doing a depth-first search
until we have found enough commits that are not present in the commit
graph.
This logic has a memory leak though:
Direct leak of 16 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x55555562e433 in malloc (git+0xda433)
#1 0x555555964322 in do_xmalloc ../wrapper.c:55:8
#2 0x5555559642e6 in xmalloc ../wrapper.c:76:9
#3 0x55555579bf29 in commit_list_append ../commit.c:1872:35
#4 0x55555569f160 in dfs_on_ref ../builtin/gc.c:1165:4
#5 0x5555558c33fd in do_for_each_ref_iterator ../refs/iterator.c:431:12
#6 0x5555558af520 in do_for_each_ref ../refs.c:1828:9
#7 0x5555558ac317 in refs_for_each_ref ../refs.c:1833:9
#8 0x55555569e207 in should_write_commit_graph ../builtin/gc.c:1188:11
#9 0x55555569c915 in maintenance_is_needed ../builtin/gc.c:3492:8
#10 0x55555569b76a in cmd_maintenance ../builtin/gc.c:3542:9
#11 0x55555575166a in run_builtin ../git.c:506:11
#12 0x5555557502f0 in handle_builtin ../git.c:779:9
#13 0x555555751127 in run_argv ../git.c:862:4
#14 0x55555575007b in cmd_main ../git.c:984:19
#15 0x5555557523aa in main ../common-main.c:9:11
#16 0x7ffff7a2a4d7 in __libc_start_call_main (/nix/store/xx7cm72qy2c0643cm1ipngd87aqwkcdp-glibc-2.40-66/lib/libc.so.6+0x2a4d7) (BuildId: cddea92d6cba8333be952b5a02fd47d61054c5ab)
#17 0x7ffff7a2a59a in __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2.5 (/nix/store/xx7cm72qy2c0643cm1ipngd87aqwkcdp-glibc-2.40-66/lib/libc.so.6+0x2a59a) (BuildId: cddea92d6cba8333be952b5a02fd47d61054c5ab)
#18 0x5555555f0934 in _start (git+0x9c934)
The root cause of this memory leak is our use of `commit_list_append()`.
This function expects as parameters the item to append and the _tail_ of
the list to append. This tail will then be overwritten with the new tail
of the list so that it can be used in subsequent calls. But we call it
with `commit_list_append(parent->item, &stack)`, so we end up losing
everything but the new item.
This issue only surfaces when counting merge commits. Next to being a
memory leak, it also shows that we're in fact miscounting as we only
respect children of the last parent. All previous parents are discarded,
so their children will be disregarded unless they are hit via another
reference.
While crafting a test case for the issue I was puzzled that I couldn't
establish the proper border at which the auto-condition would be
fulfilled. As it turns out, there's another bug: if an object is at the
tip of any reference we don't mark it as seen. Consequently, if it is
the tip of or reachable via another ref, we'd count that object multiple
times.
Fix both of these bugs so that we properly count objects without leaking
any memory.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git maintenance" command learned "is-needed" subcommand to tell if
it is necessary to perform various maintenance tasks.
* kn/maintenance-is-needed:
maintenance: add 'is-needed' subcommand
maintenance: add checking logic in `pack_refs_condition()`
refs: add a `optimize_required` field to `struct ref_storage_be`
reftable/stack: add function to check if optimization is required
reftable/stack: return stack segments directly
The 'git-maintenance(1)' command provides tooling to run maintenance
tasks over Git repositories. The 'run' subcommand, as the name suggests,
runs the maintenance tasks. When used with the '--auto' flag, it uses
heuristics to determine if the required thresholds are met for running
said maintenance tasks.
There is however a lack of insight into these heuristics. Meaning, the
checks are linked to the execution.
Add a new 'is-needed' subcommand to 'git-maintenance(1)' which allows
users to simply check if it is needed to run maintenance without
performing it.
This subcommand can check if it is needed to run maintenance without
actually running it. Ideally it should be used with the '--auto' flag,
which would allow users to check if the thresholds required are met. The
subcommand also supports the '--task' flag which can be used to check
specific maintenance tasks.
While adding the respective tests in 't/t7900-maintenance.sh', remove a
duplicate of the test: 'worktree-prune task with --auto honors
maintenance.worktree-prune.auto'.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a supposedly no-op "git repack" runs across a second boundary,
because the command always touches the MIDX file and updates its
timestamp, "ls -l $GIT_DIR/objects/pack/" before and after the
operation can change, which causes such a test to fail. Only
compare the *.pack files in the directory before and after the
operation to work around this flakyness.
Arguably, git-repack(1) should learn to not rewrite the MIDX in case
we know it is already up-to-date. But this is not a new problem
introduced via the new geometric maintenance task, so for now it
should be good enough to paper over the issue.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
[jc: taken from diff to v4 from v3 that was already merged to 'next']
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have two different repacking strategies in Git:
- The "gc" strategy uses git-gc(1).
- The "incremental" strategy uses multi-pack indices and `git
multi-pack-index repack` to merge together smaller packfiles as
determined by a specific batch size.
The former strategy is our old and trusted default, whereas the latter
has historically been used for our scheduled maintenance. But both
strategies have their shortcomings:
- The "gc" strategy performs regular all-into-one repacks. Furthermore
it is rather inflexible, as it is not easily possible for a user to
enable or disable specific subtasks.
- The "incremental" strategy is not a full replacement for the "gc"
strategy as it doesn't know to prune stale data.
So today, we don't have a strategy that is well-suited for large repos
while being a full replacement for the "gc" strategy.
Introduce a new "geometric" strategy that aims to fill this gap. This
strategy invokes all the usual cleanup tasks that git-gc(1) does like
pruning reflogs and rerere caches as well as stale worktrees. But where
it differs from both the "gc" and "incremental" strategy is that it uses
our geometric repacking infrastructure exposed by git-repack(1) to
repack packfiles. The advantage of geometric repacking is that we only
need to perform an all-into-one repack when the object count in a repo
has grown significantly.
One downside of this strategy is that pruning of unreferenced objects is
not going to happen regularly anymore. Every geometric repack knows to
soak up all loose objects regardless of their reachability, and merging
two or more packs doesn't consider reachability, either. Consequently,
the number of unreachable objects will grow over time.
This is remedied by doing an all-into-one repack instead of a geometric
repack whenever we determine that the geometric repack would end up
merging all packfiles anyway. This all-into-one repack then performs our
usual reachability checks and writes unreachable objects into a cruft
pack. As cruft packs won't ever be merged during geometric repacks we
can thus phase out these objects over time.
Of course, this still means that we retain unreachable objects for far
longer than with the "gc" strategy. But the maintenance strategy is
intended especially for large repositories, where the basic assumption
is that the set of unreachable objects will be significantly dwarfed by
the number of reachable objects.
If this assumption is ever proven to be too disadvantageous we could for
example introduce a time-based strategy: if the largest packfile has not
been touched for longer than $T, we perform an all-into-one repack. But
for now, such a mechanism is deferred into the future as it is not clear
yet whether it is needed in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the user can pick the "incremental" maintenance strategy, it is
not possible to explicitly use the "gc" strategy. This has two
downsides:
- It is impossible to use the default "gc" strategy for a specific
repository when the strategy was globally set to a different strategy.
- It is not possible to use git-gc(1) for scheduled maintenance.
Address these issues by making making the "gc" strategy configurable.
Furthermore, extend the strategy so that git-gc(1) runs for both manual
and scheduled maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "maintenance.strategy" configuration allows users to configure how
Git is supposed to perform repository maintenance. The idea is that we
provide a set of high-level strategies that may be useful in different
contexts, like for example when handling a large monorepo. Furthermore,
the strategy can be tweaked by the user by overriding specific tasks.
In its current form though, the strategy only applies to scheduled
maintenance. This creates something of a gap, as scheduled and manual
maintenance will now use _different_ strategies as the latter would
continue to use git-gc(1) by default. This makes the strategies way less
useful than they could be on the one hand. But even more importantly,
the two different strategies might clash with one another, where one of
the strategies performs maintenance in such a way that it discards
benefits from the other strategy.
So ideally, it should be possible to pick one strategy that then applies
globally to all the different ways that we perform maintenance. This
doesn't necessarily mean that the strategy always does the _same_ thing
for every maintenance type. But it means that the strategy can configure
the different types to work in tandem with each other.
Change the meaning of "maintenance.strategy" accordingly so that the
strategy is applied to both types, manual and scheduled. As preceding
commits have introduced logic to run maintenance tasks depending on this
type we can tweak strategies so that they perform those tasks depending
on the context.
Note that this raises the question of backwards compatibility: when the
user has configured the "incremental" strategy we would have ignored
that strategy beforehand. Instead, repository maintenance would have
continued to use git-gc(1) by default.
But luckily, we can match that behaviour by:
- Keeping all current tasks of the incremental strategy as
`MAINTENANCE_TYPE_SCHEDULED`. This ensures that those tasks will not
run during manual maintenance.
- Configuring the "gc" task so that it is invoked during manual
maintenance.
Like this, the user shouldn't observe any difference in behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When parsing maintenance strategies we completely ignore the
user-configured value in case it is unknown to us. This makes it
basically undiscoverable to the user that scheduled maintenance is
devolving into a no-op.
Change this to instead die when seeing an unknown maintenance strategy.
While at it, pull out the parsing logic into a separate function so that
we can reuse it in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The geometric repacking task uses a factor of two for its geometric
sequence, meaning that each next pack must contain at least twice as
many objects as the next-smaller one. In some cases it may be helpful to
configure this factor though to reduce the number of packfile merges
even further, e.g. in very big repositories. But while git-repack(1)
itself supports doing this, the maintenance task does not give us a way
to tune it.
Introduce a new "maintenance.geometric-repack.splitFactor" configuration
to plug this gap.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "geometric-repack" task. This task uses our geometric
repack infrastructure as provided by git-repack(1) itself, which is a
strategy that especially hosting providers tend to use to amortize the
costs of repacking objects.
There is one issue though with geometric repacks, namely that they
unconditionally pack all loose objects, regardless of whether or not
they are reachable. This is done because it means that we can completely
skip the reachability step, which significantly speeds up the operation.
But it has the big downside that we are unable to expire objects over
time.
To address this issue we thus use a split strategy in this new task:
whenever a geometric repack would merge together all packs, we instead
do an all-into-one repack. By default, these all-into-one repacks have
cruft packs enabled, so unreachable objects would now be written into
their own pack. Consequently, they won't be soaked up during geometric
repacking anymore and can be expired with the next full repack, assuming
that their expiry date has surpassed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "gc" task has a similar locking race as the one that we have fixed
for the "pack-refs" and "reflog-expire" tasks in preceding commits. Fix
this by splitting up the logic of the "gc" task:
- We execute `gc_before_repack()` in the foreground, which contains
the logic that git-gc(1) itself would execute in the foreground, as
well.
- We spawn git-gc(1) after detaching, but with a new hidden flag that
suppresses calling `gc_before_repack()`.
Like this we have roughly the same logic as git-gc(1) itself and know to
repack refs and reflogs before detaching, thus fixing the race.
Note that `gc_before_repack()` is renamed to `gc_foreground_tasks()` to
better reflect what this function does.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--task=" option explicitly allows the user to say which maintenance
tasks should be run, whereas "--schedule=" only respects the maintenance
strategy configured for a specific repository. As such, it is not
sensible to accept both options at the same time.
Mark them as incompatible with one another. While at it, also convert
the existing logic that marks "--auto" and "--schedule=" as incompatible
to use `die_for_incompatible_opt2()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While git-gc(1) knows to garbage collect the rerere cache,
git-maintenance(1) does not yet have a task for this cleanup. Introduce
a new "rerere-gc" task to plug this gap.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While git-gc(1) knows to prune stale worktrees, git-maintenance(1) does
not yet have a task for this cleanup. Introduce a new "worktree-prune"
task to plug this gap.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, git-maintenance(1) uses the "gc" task to ensure that the
repository is well-maintained. This can be changed, for example by
either explicitly configuring which tasks should be enabled or by using
the "incremental" maintenance strategy. If so, git-maintenance(1) does
not know to expire reflog entries, which is a subtask that git-gc(1)
knows to perform for the user. Consequently, the reflog will grow
indefinitely unless the user manually trims it.
Introduce a new "reflog-expire" task that plugs this gap:
- When running the task directly, then we simply execute `git reflog
expire --all`, which is the same as git-gc(1).
- When running git-maintenance(1) with the `--auto` flag, then we only
run the task in case the "HEAD" reflog has at least N reflog entries
that would be discarded. By default, N is set to 100, but this can
be configured via "maintenance.reflog-expire.auto". When a negative
integer has been provided we always expire entries, zero causes us
to never expire entries, and a positive value specifies how many
entries need to exist before we consider pruning the entries.
Note that the condition for the `--auto` flags is merely a heuristic and
optimized for being fast. This is because `git maintenance run --auto`
will be executed quite regularly, so scanning through all reflogs would
likely be too expensive in many repositories.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'loose-objects' task of 'git maintenance run' first deletes loose
objects that exit within packfiles and then collects loose objects into
a packfile. This second step uses an implicit limit of fifty thousand
that cannot be modified by users.
Add a new config option that allows this limit to be adjusted or ignored
entirely.
While creating tests for this option, I noticed that actually there was
an off-by-one error due to the strict comparison in the limit check. I
considered making the limit check turn true on equality, but instead I
thought to use INT_MAX as a "no limit" barrier which should mean it's
never possible to hit the limit. Thus, a new decrement to the limit is
provided if the value is positive. (The restriction to positive values
is to avoid underflow if INT_MIN is configured.)
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git fetch $remote" notices that refs/remotes/$remote/HEAD is
missing and discovers what branch the other side points with its
HEAD, refs/remotes/$remote/HEAD is updated to point to it.
* bf/set-head-symref:
fetch set_head: handle mirrored bare repositories
fetch: set remote/HEAD if it does not exist
refs: add create_only option to refs_update_symref_extended
refs: add TRANSACTION_CREATE_EXISTS error
remote set-head: better output for --auto
remote set-head: refactor for readability
refs: atomically record overwritten ref in update_symref
refs: standardize output of refs_read_symbolic_ref
t/t5505-remote: test failure of set-head
t/t5505-remote: set default branch to main
Leakfixes.
* ps/leakfixes-part-10: (27 commits)
t: remove TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK annotations
test-lib: unconditionally enable leak checking
t: remove unneeded !SANITIZE_LEAK prerequisites
t: mark some tests as leak free
t5601: work around leak sanitizer issue
git-compat-util: drop now-unused `UNLEAK()` macro
global: drop `UNLEAK()` annotation
t/helper: fix leaking commit graph in "read-graph" subcommand
builtin/branch: fix leaking sorting options
builtin/init-db: fix leaking directory paths
builtin/help: fix leaks in `check_git_cmd()`
help: fix leaking return value from `help_unknown_cmd()`
help: fix leaking `struct cmdnames`
help: refactor to not use globals for reading config
builtin/sparse-checkout: fix leaking sanitized patterns
split-index: fix memory leak in `move_cache_to_base_index()`
git: refactor builtin handling to use a `struct strvec`
git: refactor alias handling to use a `struct strvec`
strvec: introduce new `strvec_splice()` function
line-log: fix leak when rewriting commit parents
...
Give a bit of advice/hint message when "git maintenance" stops finding a
lock file left by another instance that still is potentially running.
* ps/gc-stale-lock-warning:
t7900: fix host-dependent behaviour when testing git-maintenance(1)
builtin/gc: provide hint when maintenance hits a stale schedule lock
We have recently added a new test to t7900 that exercises whether
git-maintenance(1) fails as expected when the "schedule.lock" file
exists. The test depends on whether or not the host has the required
executables present to schedule maintenance tasks in the first place,
like systemd or launchctl -- if not, the test fails with an unrelated
error before even checking for the lock file. This fails for example in
our CI systems, where macOS images do not have launchctl available.
Fix this issue by creating a stub systemctl(1) binary and using the
systemd scheduler.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cloning a repository remote/HEAD is created, but when the user
creates a repository with git init, and later adds a remote, remote/HEAD
is only created if the user explicitly runs a variant of "remote
set-head". Attempt to set remote/HEAD during fetch, if the user does not
have it already set. Silently ignore any errors.
Signed-off-by: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that the default value for TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK is `true` there
is no longer a need to have that variable declared in all of our tests.
Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running scheduled maintenance via `git maintenance start`, we
acquire a lockfile to ensure that no other scheduled maintenance task is
running in the repository concurrently. If so, we do provide an error to
the user hinting that another process seems to be running in this repo.
There are two important cases why such a lockfile may exist:
- An actual git-maintenance(1) process is still running in this
repository.
- An earlier process may have crashed or was interrupted part way
through and has left a stale lockfile behind.
In c95547a394 (builtin/gc: fix crash when running `git maintenance
start`, 2024-10-10), we have fixed an issue where git-maintenance(1)
would crash with the "start" subcommand, and the underlying bug causes
the second scenario to trigger quite often now.
Most users don't know how to get out of that situation again though.
Ideally, we'd be removing the stale lock for our users automatically.
But in the context of repository maintenance this is rather risky, as it
can easily run for hours or even days. So finding a clear point where we
know that the old process has exited is basically impossible.
We have the same issue in other subsystems, e.g. when locking refs. Our
lockfile interfaces thus provide the `unable_to_lock_message()` function
for exactly this purpose: it provides a nice hint to the user that
explains what is going on and how to get out of that situation again by
manually removing the file.
Adapt git-maintenance(1) to print a similar hint. While we could use the
above function, we can provide a bit more context as we know exactly
what kind of process would create the lockfile.
Reported-by: Miguel Rincon Barahona <mrincon@gitlab.com>
Reported-by: Kev Kloss <kkloss@gitlab.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git maintenance start" crashed due to an uninitialized variable
reference, which has been corrected.
* ps/maintenance-start-crash-fix:
builtin/gc: fix crash when running `git maintenance start`
It was reported on the mailing list that running `git maintenance start`
immediately segfaults starting with b6c3f8e12c (builtin/maintenance: fix
leak in `get_schedule_cmd()`, 2024-09-26). And indeed, this segfault is
trivial to reproduce up to a point where one is scratching their head
why we didn't catch this regression in our test suite.
The root cause of this error is `get_schedule_cmd()`, which does not
populate the `out` parameter in all cases anymore starting with the
mentioned commit. Callers do assume it to always be populated though and
will e.g. call `strvec_split()` on the returned value, which will of
course segfault when the variable is uninitialized.
So why didn't we catch this trivial regression? The reason is that our
tests always set up the "GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER" environment variable
via "t/test-lib.sh", which allows us to override the scheduler command
with a custom one so that we don't accidentally modify the developer's
system. But the faulty code where we don't set the `out` parameter will
only get hit in case that environment variable is _not_ set, which is
never the case when executing our tests.
Fix the regression by again unconditionally allocating the value in the
`out` parameter, if provided. Add a test that unsets the environment
variable to catch future regressions in this area.
Reported-by: Shubham Kanodia <shubham.kanodia10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Background tasks "git maintenance" runs may need to use credential
information when going over the network, but a credential helper
may work only in an interactive environment, and end up blocking a
scheduled task waiting for UI. Credential helpers can now behave
differently when they are not running interactively.
* ds/background-maintenance-with-credential:
scalar: configure maintenance during 'reconfigure'
maintenance: add custom config to background jobs
credential: add new interactive config option
The `get_schedule_cmd()` function allows us to override the schedule
command with a specific test command such that we can verify the
underlying logic in a platform-independent way. Its memory management is
somewhat wild though, because it basically gives up and assigns an
allocated string to the string constant output pointer. While this part
is marked with `UNLEAK()` to mask this, we also leak the local string
lists.
Rework the function such that it has a separate out parameter. If set,
we will assign it the final allocated command. Plug the other memory
leaks and create a common exit path.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
At the moment, some background jobs are getting blocked on credentials
during the 'prefetch' task. This leads to other tasks, such as
incremental repacks, getting blocked. Further, if a user manages to fix
their credentials, then they still need to cancel the background process
before their background maintenance can continue working.
Update the background schedules for our four scheduler integrations to
include these config options via '-c' options:
* 'credential.interactive=false' will stop Git and some credential
helpers from prompting in the UI (assuming the '-c' parameters are
carried through and respected by GCM).
* 'core.askPass=true' will replace the text fallback for a username
and password into the 'true' command, which will return a success in
its exit code, but Git will treat the empty string returned as an
invalid password and move on.
We can do some testing that the credentials are passed, at least in the
systemd case due to writing the service files.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "loose-objects" maintenance tasks executes git-pack-objects(1) to
pack all loose objects into a new packfile. This command ends up
printing the hash of the packfile to stdout though, which clutters the
output of `git maintenance run`.
Fix this issue by disabling stdout of the child process.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In t7900, we exercise the `--detach` logic by checking whether the
command ended up writing anything to its output or not. This supposedly
works because we close stdin, stdout and stderr when daemonizing. But
one, it breaks on platforms where daemonize is a no-op, like Windows.
And second, that git-maintenance(1) outputs anything at all in these
tests is a bug in the first place that we'll fix in a subsequent commit.
Introduce a new trace2 region around the detach which allows us to more
explicitly check whether the detaching logic was executed. This is a
much more direct way to exercise the logic, provides a potentially
useful signal to tracing logs and also works alright on platforms which
do not have the ability to daemonize.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
[jc: dropped a stale in-code comment from a test]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the recently-added tests in t7900 exercises git-maintanance(1)
with the `--detach` flag, which causes it to perform maintenance in the
background. We do not wait for the backgrounded process to exit though,
which causes the process to leak outside of the test, leading to racy
behaviour.
Fix this by synchronizing with the process via a separate file
descriptor. This is the same workaround as we use in t6500, see the
function `run_and_wait_for_auto_gc ()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the past, we used to execute `git gc --auto` as part of our automatic
housekeeping routines. As git-gc(1) may require quite some time to
perform the housekeeping, it knows to detach itself and run in the
background so that the user can continue their work.
Eventually, we refactored our automatic housekeeping to instead use the
more flexible git-maintenance(1) command. The upside of this new infra
is that the user can configure which maintenance tasks are performed, at
least to a certain degree. So while it continues to run git-gc(1) by
default, it can also be adapted to e.g. use git-multi-pack-index(1) for
maintenance of the object database.
The auto-detach of the new infra is somewhat broken though once the user
configures non-standard tasks. The problem is essentially that we detach
at the wrong level in the process hierarchy: git-maintenance(1) never
detaches itself, but instead it continues to be git-gc(1) which does.
When configured to only run the git-gc(1) maintenance task, then the
result is basically the same as before. But when configured to run other
tasks, then git-maintenance(1) will wait for these to run to completion.
Even worse, it may be that git-gc(1) runs concurrently with other
housekeeping tasks, stomping on each others feet.
Fix this bug by asking git-gc(1) to not detach when it is being invoked
via git-maintenance(1). Instead, git-maintenance(1) now respects a new
config "maintenance.autoDetach", the equivalent of "gc.autoDetach", and
detaches itself into the background when running as part of our auto
maintenance. This should continue to behave the same for all users which
use the git-gc(1) task, only. For others though, it means that we now
properly perform all tasks in the background. The default behaviour of
git-maintenance(1) when executed by the user does not change, it will
remain in the foreground unless they pass the `--detach` option.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Same as the preceding commit, add a `--[no-]detach` flag to the
git-maintenance(1) command. This will be used in a subsequent commit to
fix backgrounding of that command when configured with a non-standard
set of tasks.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In https://github.com/microsoft/git/issues/623, it was reported that
maintenance stops on a missing repository, omitting the remaining
repositories that were scheduled for maintenance.
This is undesirable, as it should be a best effort type of operation.
It should still fail due to the missing repository, of course, but not
leave the non-missing repositories in unmaintained shapes.
Let's use `for-each-repo`'s shiny new `--keep-going` option that we just
introduced for that very purpose.
This change will be picked up when running `git maintenance start`,
which is run implicitly by `scalar reconfigure`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git maintenance register` registers the repository in the user's global
config. `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` is supposed to be used if
`~/.gitconfig` does not exist. However, this command creates a
`~/.gitconfig` file and writes to that one even though the XDG variant
exists.
This used to work correctly until 50a044f1e4 (gc: replace config
subprocesses with API calls, 2022-09-27), when the command started calling
the config API instead of git-config(1).
Also change `unregister` accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update ref-related tests.
* ps/ref-tests-update:
t: mark several tests that assume the files backend with REFFILES
t7900: assert the absence of refs via git-for-each-ref(1)
t7300: assert exact states of repo
t4207: delete replace references via git-update-ref(1)
t1450: convert tests to remove worktrees via git-worktree(1)
t: convert tests to not access reflog via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not access symrefs via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not write references via the filesystem
t: allow skipping expected object ID in `ref-store update-ref`
Another step to deprecate test_i18ngrep.
* jc/test-i18ngrep:
tests: teach callers of test_i18ngrep to use test_grep
test framework: further deprecate test_i18ngrep
We're asserting that a prefetch of remotes via git-maintenance(1)
doesn't write any references in refs/remotes by validating that the
directory ".git/refs/remotes" is missing. This is quite roundabout: we
don't care about the directory existing, we care about the references
not existing, and the way these are stored is on the behest of the
reference database.
Convert the test to instead check via git-for-each-ref(1) whether any
remote reference exist.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
They are equivalents and the former still exists, so as long as the
only change this commit makes are to rewrite test_i18ngrep to
test_grep, there won't be any new bug, even if there still are
callers of test_i18ngrep remaining in the tree, or when merged to
other topics that add new uses of test_i18ngrep.
This patch was produced more or less with
git grep -l -e 'test_i18ngrep ' 't/t[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.sh' |
xargs perl -p -i -e 's/test_i18ngrep /test_grep /'
and a good way to sanity check the result yourself is to run the
above in a checkout of c4603c1c (test framework: further deprecate
test_i18ngrep, 2023-10-31) and compare the resulting working tree
contents with the result of applying this patch to the same commit.
You'll see that test_i18ngrep in a few t/lib-*.sh files corrected,
in addition to the manual reproduction.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running 'git maintenance start', the current pattern is to
configure global config settings to enable maintenance on the current
repository and set 'maintenance.auto' to false and _then_ to set up the
schedule with the system scheduler.
This has a problematic error condition: if the scheduler fails to
initialize, the repository still will not use automatic maintenance due
to the 'maintenance.auto' setting.
Fix this gap by swapping the order of operations. If Git fails to
initialize maintenance, then the config changes should never happen.
Reported-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The get_random_minute() method was created to allow maintenance
schedules to be fixed to a random minute of the hour. This randomness is
only intended to spread out the load from a number of clients, but each
client should have an hour between each maintenance cycle.
Add this random minute to the systemd integration.
This integration is more complicated than similar changes for other
schedulers because of a neat trick that systemd allows: templating.
The previous implementation generated two template files with names
of the form 'git-maintenance@.(timer|service)'. The '.timer' or
'.service' indicates that this is a template that is picked up when we
later specify '...@<schedule>.timer' or '...@<schedule>.service'. The
'<schedule>' string is then used to insert into the template both the
'OnCalendar' schedule setting and the '--schedule' parameter of the
'git maintenance run' command.
In order to set these schedules to a given minute, we can no longer use
the 'hourly', 'daily', or 'weekly' strings for '<schedule>' and instead
need to abandon the template model for the .timer files. We can still
use templates for the .service files. For this reason, we split these
writes into two methods.
Modify the template with a custom schedule in the 'OnCalendar' setting.
This schedule has some interesting differences from cron-like patterns,
but is relatively easy to figure out from context. The one that might be
confusing is that '*-*-*' is a date-based pattern, but this must be
omitted when using 'Mon' to signal that we care about the day of the
week. Monday is used since that matches the day used for the 'weekly'
schedule used previously.
Now that the timer files are not templates, we might want to abandon the
'@' symbol in the file names. However, this would cause users with
existing schedules to get two competing schedules due to different
names. The work to remove the old schedule name is one thing that we can
avoid by keeping the '@' symbol in our unit names. Since we are locked
into this name, it makes sense that we keep the template model for the
.service files.
The rest of the change involves making sure we are writing these .timer
and .service files before initializing the schedule with 'systemctl' and
deleting the files when we are done. Some changes are also made to share
the random minute along with a single computation of the execution path
of the current Git executable.
In addition, older Git versions may have written a
'git-maintenance@.timer' template file. Be sure to remove this when
successfully enabling maintenance (or disabling maintenance).
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix numerous and mostly long-standing segfaults in consumers of
the *_config_*value_multi() API. As discussed in the preceding commit
an empty key in the config syntax yields a "NULL" string, which these
users would give to strcmp() (or similar), resulting in segfaults.
As this change shows, most users users of the *_config_*value_multi()
API didn't really want such an an unsafe and low-level API, let's give
them something with the safety of git_config_get_string() instead.
This fix is similar to what the *_string() functions and others
acquired in[1] and [2]. Namely introducing and using a safer
"*_get_string_multi()" variant of the low-level "_*value_multi()"
function.
This fixes segfaults in code introduced in:
- d811c8e17c6 (versionsort: support reorder prerelease suffixes, 2015-02-26)
- c026557a373 (versioncmp: generalize version sort suffix reordering, 2016-12-08)
- a086f921a72 (submodule: decouple url and submodule interest, 2017-03-17)
- a6be5e6764a (log: add log.excludeDecoration config option, 2020-04-16)
- 92156291ca8 (log: add default decoration filter, 2022-08-05)
- 50a044f1e40 (gc: replace config subprocesses with API calls, 2022-09-27)
There are now two users ofthe low-level API:
- One in "builtin/for-each-repo.c", which we'll convert in a
subsequent commit.
- The "t/helper/test-config.c" code added in [3].
As seen in the preceding commit we need to give the
"t/helper/test-config.c" caller these "NULL" entries.
We could also alter the underlying git_configset_get_value_multi()
function to be "string safe", but doing so would leave no room for
other variants of "*_get_value_multi()" that coerce to other types.
Such coercion can't be built on the string version, since as we've
established "NULL" is a true value in the boolean context, but if we
coerced it to "" for use in a list of strings it'll be subsequently
coerced to "false" as a boolean.
The callback pattern being used here will make it easy to introduce
e.g. a "multi" variant which coerces its values to "bool", "int",
"path" etc.
1. 40ea4ed9032 (Add config_error_nonbool() helper function,
2008-02-11)
2. 6c47d0e8f39 (config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL,
2008-02-11).
3. 4c715ebb96a (test-config: add tests for the config_set API,
2014-07-28)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we'll discuss in the subsequent commit these tests all
show *_get_value_multi() API users unable to handle there being a
value-less key in the config, which is represented with a "NULL" for
that entry in the "string" member of the returned "struct
string_list", causing a segfault.
These added tests exhaustively test for that issue, as we'll see in a
subsequent commit we'll need to change all of the API users
of *_get_value_multi(). These cases were discovered by triggering each
one individually, and then adding these tests.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
maintenance register currently records the maintenance repo exclusively
within the user's global configuration, but other configuration files
may be relevant when running maintenance if they are included from the
global config. This option allows the user to choose where maintenance
repos are recorded.
Signed-off-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@rjp.ie>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The 'git maintenance unregister' subcommand has a step that removes the
current repository from the multi-valued maitenance.repo config key.
This fails if the repository is not listed in that key. This makes
running 'git maintenance unregister' twice result in a failure in the
second instance.
This failure exit code is helpful, but its message is not. Add a new
die() message that explicitly calls out the failure due to the
repository not being registered.
In some cases, users may want to run 'git maintenance unregister' just
to make sure that background jobs will not start on this repository, but
they do not want to check to see if it is registered first. Add a new
'--force' option that will siltently succeed if the repository is not
already registered.
Also add an extra test of 'git maintenance unregister' at a point where
there are no registered repositories. This should fail without --force.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce the "subcommand" mode to parse-options API and update the
command line parser of Git commands with subcommands.
* sg/parse-options-subcommand: (23 commits)
remote: run "remote rm" argv through parse_options()
maintenance: add parse-options boilerplate for subcommands
pass subcommand "prefix" arguments to parse_options()
builtin/worktree.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/stash.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/sparse-checkout.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/remote.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/reflog.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/notes.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/hook.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/gc.c: let parse-options parse 'git maintenance's subcommands
builtin/commit-graph.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/bundle.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
parse-options: add support for parsing subcommands
parse-options: drop leading space from '--git-completion-helper' output
parse-options: clarify the limitations of PARSE_OPT_NODASH
parse-options: PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options
api-parse-options.txt: fix description of OPT_CMDMODE
t0040-parse-options: test parse_options() with various 'parse_opt_flags'
...
'git maintenanze' parses its subcommands with a couple of if
statements. parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands, so
let's use that facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code,
handling missing or unknown subcommands, and listing subcommands for
Bash completion.
This change makes 'git maintenance' consistent with other commands in
that the help text shown for '-h' goes to standard output, not error,
in the exit code and error message on unknown subcommand, and the
error message on missing subcommand. There is a test checking these,
which is now updated accordingly.
Note that some of the functions implementing each subcommand don't
accept any parameters, so add the (unused) 'argc', '**argv' and
'*prefix' parameters to make them match the type expected by
parse-options, and thus avoid casting function pointers.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 96eaffebbf3d0 (maintenance: set
log.excludeDecoration durin prefetch, 2021-01-19).
The previous change created a default decoration filter that does not
include refs/prefetch/, so this modification of the config is no longer
needed.
One issue that can happen from this point on is that users who ran the
prefetch task on previous versions of Git will still have a
log.excludeDecoration value and that will prevent the new default
decoration filter from being active. Thus, when we add the refs/bundle/
namespace as part of the bundle URI feature, those users will see
refs/bundle/ decorations.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
