As promised [1], this patch contains a way to serialize the commit graph. The current implementation defines a new file format to store the graph structure (parent relationships) and basic commit metadata (commit date, root tree OID) in order to prevent parsing raw commits while performing basic graph walks. For example, we do not need to parse the full commit when performing these walks: * 'git log --topo-order -1000' walks all reachable commits to avoid incorrect topological orders, but only needs the commit message for the top 1000 commits. * 'git merge-base <A> <B>' may walk many commits to find the correct boundary between the commits reachable from A and those reachable from B. No commit messages are needed. * 'git branch -vv' checks ahead/behind status for all local branches compared to their upstream remote branches. This is essentially as hard as computing merge bases for each. The current patch speeds up these calculations by injecting a check in parse_commit_gently() to check if there is a graph file and using that to provide the required metadata to the struct commit. The file format has room to store generation numbers, which will be provided as a patch after this framework is merged. Generation numbers are referenced by the design document but not implemented in order to make the current patch focus on the graph construction process. Once that is stable, it will be easier to add generation numbers and make graph walks aware of generation numbers one-by-one. Here are some performance results for a copy of the Linux repository where 'master' has 704,766 reachable commits and is behind 'origin/master' by 19,610 commits. | Command | Before | After | Rel % | |----------------------------------|--------|--------|-------| | log --oneline --topo-order -1000 | 5.9s | 0.7s | -88% | | branch -vv | 0.42s | 0.27s | -35% | | rev-list --all | 6.4s | 1.0s | -84% | | rev-list --all --objects | 32.6s | 27.6s | -15% | To test this yourself, run the following on your repo: git config core.graph true git show-ref -s | git graph --write --update-head The second command writes a commit graph file containing every commit reachable from your refs. Now, all git commands that walk commits will check your graph first before consulting the ODB. You can run your own performance comparisions by toggling the 'core.graph' setting. [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/d154319e-bb9e-b300-7c37-27b1dcd2a2ce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2018, #03; Tue, 23) [2] https://github.com/derrickstolee/git/pull/2 A GitHub pull request containing the latest version of this patch. P.S. I'm sending this patch from my gmail address to avoid Outlook munging the URLs included in the design document. Derrick Stolee (14): graph: add packed graph design document packed-graph: add core.graph setting packed-graph: create git-graph builtin packed-graph: add format document packed-graph: implement construct_graph() packed-graph: implement git-graph --write packed-graph: implement git-graph --read graph: implement git-graph --update-head packed-graph: implement git-graph --clear packed-graph: teach git-graph --delete-expired commit: integrate packed graph with commit parsing packed-graph: read only from specific pack-indexes packed-graph: close under reachability packed-graph: teach git-graph to read commits Documentation/config.txt | 3 + Documentation/git-graph.txt | 102 ++++ Documentation/technical/graph-format.txt | 88 ++++ Documentation/technical/packed-graph.txt | 185 +++++++ Makefile | 2 + alloc.c | 1 + builtin.h | 1 + builtin/graph.c | 231 +++++++++ cache.h | 1 + command-list.txt | 1 + commit.c | 20 +- commit.h | 2 + config.c | 5 + environment.c | 1 + git.c | 1 + log-tree.c | 3 +- packed-graph.c | 840 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ packed-graph.h | 65 +++ packfile.c | 4 +- packfile.h | 2 + t/t5319-graph.sh | 271 ++++++++++ 21 files changed, 1822 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-graph.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/technical/graph-format.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/technical/packed-graph.txt create mode 100644 builtin/graph.c create mode 100644 packed-graph.c create mode 100644 packed-graph.h create mode 100755 t/t5319-graph.sh -- 2.16.0
