Since 3b1d9e04 (eoie: add End of Index Entry (EOIE) extension, 2018-10-10) Git defaults to writing the new EOIE section when writing out an index file. Usually that is a good thing because it improves threaded performance, but when a Git repository is shared with older versions of Git, it produces a confusing warning: $ git status ignoring EOIE extension HEAD detached at 371ed0defa nothing to commit, working tree clean Let's introduce the new index extension more gently. First we'll roll out the new version of Git that understands it, and then once sufficiently many users are using such a version, we can flip the default to writing it by default. Introduce a '[index] recordEndOfIndexEntries' configuration variable to allow interested users to benefit from this index extension early. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 7 +++++++ read-cache.c | 11 ++++++++++- t/t1700-split-index.sh | 11 +++++++---- 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 41a9ff2b6a..d702379db4 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -2188,6 +2188,13 @@ imap:: The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described in linkgit:git-imap-send[1]. +index.recordEndOfIndexEntries:: + Specifies whether the index file should include an "End Of Index + Entry" section. This reduces index load time on multiprocessor + machines but produces a message "ignoring EOIE extension" when + reading the index using Git versions before 2.20. Defaults to + 'false'. + index.threads:: Specifies the number of threads to spawn when loading the index. This is meant to reduce index load time on multiprocessor machines. diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c index f3a848d61c..4bfe93c4c2 100644 --- a/read-cache.c +++ b/read-cache.c @@ -2698,6 +2698,15 @@ void update_index_if_able(struct index_state *istate, struct lock_file *lockfile rollback_lock_file(lockfile); } +static int record_eoie(void) +{ + int val; + + if (!git_config_get_bool("index.recordendofindexentries", &val)) + return val; + return 0; +} + /* * On success, `tempfile` is closed. If it is the temporary file * of a `struct lock_file`, we will therefore effectively perform @@ -2945,7 +2954,7 @@ static int do_write_index(struct index_state *istate, struct tempfile *tempfile, * read. Write it out regardless of the strip_extensions parameter as we need it * when loading the shared index. */ - if (offset) { + if (offset && record_eoie()) { struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; write_eoie_extension(&sb, &eoie_c, offset); diff --git a/t/t1700-split-index.sh b/t/t1700-split-index.sh index 2ac47aa0e4..0cbac64e28 100755 --- a/t/t1700-split-index.sh +++ b/t/t1700-split-index.sh @@ -25,14 +25,17 @@ test_expect_success 'enable split index' ' git update-index --split-index && test-tool dump-split-index .git/index >actual && indexversion=$(test-tool index-version <.git/index) && + + # NEEDSWORK: Stop hard-coding checksums. if test "$indexversion" = "4" then - own=3527df833c6c100d3d1d921a9a782d62a8be4b58 - base=746f7ab2ed44fb839efdfbffcf399d0b113fb4cb + own=432ef4b63f32193984f339431fd50ca796493569 + base=508851a7f0dfa8691e9f69c7f055865389012491 else - own=5e9b60117ece18da410ddecc8b8d43766a0e4204 - base=4370042739b31cd17a5c5cd6043a77c9a00df113 + own=8299b0bcd1ac364e5f1d7768efb62fa2da79a339 + base=39d890139ee5356c7ef572216cebcd27aa41f9df fi && + cat >expect <<-EOF && own $own base $base -- 2.19.1.930.g4563a0d9d0