We pass our prune expiration to mark_reachable_objects(), which will traverse not only the reachable objects, but consider any recent ones as tips for reachability; seed3038d22f9(prune: keep objects reachable from recent objects, 2014-10-15) for details. However, this interacts badly with the bitmap code path added infde67d6896(prune: use bitmaps for reachability traversal, 2019-02-13). If we hit the bitmap-optimized path, we return immediately to avoid the regular traversal, accidentally skipping the "also traverse recent" code. Instead, we should do an if-else for the bitmap versus regular traversal, and then follow up with the "recent" traversal in either case. This reuses the "rev_info" for a bitmap and then a regular traversal, but that should work OK (the bitmap code clears the pending array in the usual way, just like a regular traversal would). Note that I dropped the comment above the regular traversal here. It has little explanatory value, and makes the if-else logic much harder to read. Here are a few variants that I rejected: - it seems like both the reachability and recent traversals could be done in a single traversal. This was rejected byd3038d22f9(prune: keep objects reachable from recent objects, 2014-10-15), though the balance may be different when using bitmaps. However, there's a subtle correctness issue, too: we use revs->ignore_missing_links for the recent traversal, but not the reachability one. - we could try using bitmaps for the recent traversal, too, which could possibly improve performance. But it would require some fixes in the bitmap code, which uses ignore_missing_links for its own purposes. Plus it would probably not help all that much in practice. We use the reachable tips to generate bitmaps, so those objects are likely not covered by bitmaps (unless they just became unreachable). And in general, we expect the set of unreachable objects to be much smaller anyway, so there's less to gain. The test in t5304 detects the bug and confirms the fix. I also beefed up the tests in t6501, which covers the mtime-checking code more thoroughly, to handle the bitmap case (in addition to just "loose" and "packed" cases). Interestingly, this test doesn't actually detect the bug, because it is running "git gc", and not "prune" directly. And "gc" will call "repack" first, which does not suffer the same bug. So the old-but-reachable-from-recent objects get scooped up into the new pack along with the actually-recent objects, which gives both a recent mtime. But it seemed prudent to get more coverage of the bitmap case for related code. Reported-by: David Emett <dave@sp4m.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-<commandname>.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://lore.kernel.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks