"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> +struct commit_list *get_reachable_subset(struct commit **from, int nr_from,
> + struct commit **to, int nr_to,
> + int reachable_flag)
This is OR'ed into object.flags, and I somoehow expected to see it
as 'unsigned int', not a signed one.
> +{
> + struct commit **item;
> + struct commit *current;
> + struct commit_list *found_commits = NULL;
> + struct commit **to_last = to + nr_to;
> + struct commit **from_last = from + nr_from;
> + uint32_t min_generation = GENERATION_NUMBER_INFINITY;
> + int num_to_find = 0;
> +
> + struct prio_queue queue = { compare_commits_by_gen_then_commit_date };
> +
> + for (item = to; item < to_last; item++) {
> + struct commit *c = *item;
> +
> + parse_commit(c);
> + if (c->generation < min_generation)
> + min_generation = c->generation;
> +
> + if (!(c->object.flags & PARENT1)) {
> + c->object.flags |= PARENT1;
> + num_to_find++;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + for (item = from; item < from_last; item++) {
> + struct commit *c = *item;
> + if (!(c->object.flags & PARENT2)) {
> + c->object.flags |= PARENT2;
> + parse_commit(c);
> +
> + prio_queue_put(&queue, *item);
> + }
> + }
OK, we marked "to" with PARENT1 and counted them in num_to_find
without dups. We also marked "from" with PARENT2 and threw them in
the "queue" without dups.
Mental note: the caller must guarantee that everybody reachable from
"to" and "from" have PARENT1 and PARENT2 clear. This might deserve
to be in the comment before the function.
> + while (num_to_find && (current = prio_queue_get(&queue)) != NULL) {
> + struct commit_list *parents;
> +
> + if (current->object.flags & PARENT1) {
> + current->object.flags &= ~PARENT1;
> + current->object.flags |= reachable_flag;
> + commit_list_insert(current, &found_commits);
> + num_to_find--;
What is in "queue" are all reachable from "from" so we found this
object in the "to" set is reachable. One down.
> + }
> +
> + for (parents = current->parents; parents; parents = parents->next) {
> + struct commit *p = parents->item;
> +
> + parse_commit(p);
> +
> + if (p->generation < min_generation)
> + continue;
Any commit reachable from "from" whose generation is too small
(i.e. old) can never reach any of "to", because all "to" are at
generation "min_generation" or greater. Makes sense.
> + if (p->object.flags & PARENT2)
> + continue;
If the object is painted with PARENT2, we know we have it in queue
and traversing to find more of its ancestors. Avoid recursing into
it twice. Makes sense.
> + p->object.flags |= PARENT2;
> + prio_queue_put(&queue, p);
Otherwise, explore this parent.
> + }
> + }
> +
> + clear_commit_marks_many(nr_to, to, PARENT1);
Among "to", the ones that were not found still have PARENT1.
Because we do not propagate this flag down the ancestry chain like
merge-base discovery, this only has to clear just one level.
> + clear_commit_marks_many(nr_from, from, PARENT2);
And then we smudged everything that are reachable from "from"
with this flag. In the worst case, i.e. when num_to_find is still
positive here, we would have painted all commits down to the root,
and we need to clear all of them.
> + return found_commits;
> +}
OK, this all makes sense. Unlike merge-base traversals, this does
not have to traverse from the "to" side at all, which makes it quite
simpler and straight-forward.
I do wonder if we can now reimplement in_merge_bases_many() in terms
of this helper, and if that gives us a better performance. It asks
"is 'commit', i.e. a single 'to', an ancestor of, i.e. reachable
from, one of the 'references', i.e. 'from'"?
> diff --git a/commit-reach.h b/commit-reach.h
> index 7d313e297..43bd50a70 100644
> --- a/commit-reach.h
> +++ b/commit-reach.h
> @@ -74,4 +74,14 @@ int can_all_from_reach_with_flag(struct object_array *from,
> int can_all_from_reach(struct commit_list *from, struct commit_list *to,
> int commit_date_cutoff);
>
> +
> +/*
> + * Return a list of commits containing the commits in the 'to' array
> + * that are reachable from at least one commit in the 'from' array.
> + * Also add the given 'flag' to each of the commits in the returned list.
> + */
> +struct commit_list *get_reachable_subset(struct commit **from, int nr_from,
> + struct commit **to, int nr_to,
> + int reachable_flag);
> +
> #endif
