Re: [PATCH v3 01/14] commit-graph: introduce 'get_bloom_filter_settings()'

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On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:18:30PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 04:51:19PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:
> > Many places in the code often need a pointer to the commit-graph's
> > 'struct bloom_filter_settings', in which case they often take the value
> > from the top-most commit-graph.
> >
> > In the non-split case, this works as expected. In the split case,
> > however, things get a little tricky. Not all layers in a chain of
> > incremental commit-graphs are required to themselves have Bloom data,
> > and so whether or not some part of the code uses Bloom filters depends
> > entirely on whether or not the top-most level of the commit-graph chain
> > has Bloom filters.
> >
> > This has been the behavior since Bloom filters were introduced, and has
> > been codified into the tests since a759bfa9ee (t4216: add end to end
> > tests for git log with Bloom filters, 2020-04-06). In fact, t4216.130
> > requires that Bloom filters are not used in exactly the case described
> > earlier.
> >
> > There is no reason that this needs to be the case, since it is perfectly
> > valid for commits in an earlier layer to have Bloom filters when commits
> > in a newer layer do not.
> >
> > Since Bloom settings are guaranteed to be the same for any layer in a
> > chain that has Bloom data,
>
> Is it?  Where is that guaranteed?

There is no mechanism whatsoever to customize these settings that is
exposed to the user (except for the undocumented 'GIT_TEST' environment
variables).

> > it is sufficient to traverse the
> > '->base_graph' pointer until either (1) a non-null 'struct
> > bloom_filter_settings *' is found, or (2) until we are at the root of
> > the commit-graph chain.
> >
> > Introduce a 'get_bloom_filter_settings()' function that does just this,
> > and use it instead of purely dereferencing the top-most graph's
> > '->bloom_filter_settings' pointer.
> >
> > While we're at it, add an additional test in t5324 to guard against code
> > in the commit-graph writing machinery that doesn't correctly handle a
> > NULL 'struct bloom_filter *'.
> >
> > Co-authored-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Taylor



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