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The changed-path Bloom filters help reduce the amount of tree parsing required during history queries. Before calculating a diff, we can ask the filter if a path changed between a commit and its first parent. If the filter says "no" then we can move on without parsing trees. If the filter says "maybe" then we parse trees to discover if the answer is actually "yes" or "no". When computing a blame, there is a section in find_origin() that computes a diff between a commit and one of its parents. When this is the first parent, we can check the Bloom filters before calling diff_tree_oid(). In order to make this work with the blame machinery, we need to initialize a struct bloom_key with the initial path. But also, we need to add more keys to a list if a rename is detected. We then check to see if _any_ of these keys answer "maybe" in the diff. During development, I purposefully left out this "add a new key when a rename is detected" to see if the test suite would catch my error. That is how I discovered the issues with GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_CHANGED_PATHS from the previous change. With that change, we can feel some confidence in the coverage of this change. If a user requests copy detection using "git blame -C", then there are more places where the set of "important" files can expand. I do not know enough about how this happens in the blame machinery. Thus, the Bloom filter integration is explicitly disabled in this mode. A later change could expand the bloom_key data with an appropriate call (or calls) to add_bloom_key(). If we did not disable this mode, then the following tests would fail: t8003-blame-corner-cases.sh t8011-blame-split-file.sh Generally, this is a performance enhancement and should not change the behavior of 'git blame' in any way. If a repo has a commit-graph file with computed changed-path Bloom filters, then they should notice improved performance for their 'git blame' commands. Here are some example timings that I found by blaming some paths in the Linux kernel repository: git blame arch/x86/kernel/topology.c >/dev/null Before: 0.83s After: 0.24s git blame kernel/time/time.c >/dev/null Before: 0.72s After: 0.24s git blame tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c >/dev/null Before: 0.27s After: 0.11s I specifically looked for "deep" paths that were also edited many times. As a counterpoint, the MAINTAINERS file was edited many times but is located in the root tree. This means that the cost of computing a diff relative to the pathspec is very small. Here are the timings for that command: git blame MAINTAINERS >/dev/null Before: 20.1s After: 18.0s These timings are the best of five. The worst-case runs were on the order of 2.5 minutes for both cases. Note that the MAINTAINERS file has 18,740 lines across 17,000+ commits. This happens to be one of the cases where this change provides the least improvement. The lack of improvement for the MAINTAINERS file and the relatively modest improvement for the other examples can be easily explained. The blame machinery needs to compute line-level diffs to determine which lines were changed by each commit. That makes up a large proportion of the computation time, and this change does not attempt to improve on that section of the algorithm. The MAINTAINERS file is large and changed often, so it takes time to determine which lines were updated by which commit. In contrast, the code files are much smaller, and it takes longer to comute the line-by-line diff for a single patch on the Linux mailing lists. Outside of the "-C" integration, I believe there is little more to gain from the changed-path Bloom filters for 'git blame' after this patch. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> 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