Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Sparse Index: Integrate with merge, cherry-pick, rebase, and revert

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On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 4:24 AM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series integrates the sparse index with commands that perform merges
> such as 'git merge', 'git cherry-pick', 'git revert' (free with
> cherry-pick), and 'git rebase'.
>
> When the ORT merge strategy is enabled, this allows most merges to succeed
> without expanding the sparse index, leading to significant performance
> gains. I tested these changes against an internal monorepo with over 2
> million paths at HEAD but with a sparse-checkout that only has ~60,000 files
> within the sparse-checkout cone. 'git merge' commands went from 5-6 seconds
> to 0.750-1.250s.
>
> In the case of the recursive merge strategy, the sparse index is expanded
> before the recursive algorithm proceeds. We expect that this is as good as
> we can get with that strategy. When the strategy shifts to ORT as the
> default, then this will not be a problem except for users who decide to
> change the behavior.
>
> Most of the hard work was done by previous series, such as
> ds/sparse-index-ignored-files (which this series is based on).
>
>
> Updates in V3
> =============
>
>  * Fixed a typo in patch 2 (it is then moved in patch 3, affecting the
>    range-diff)
>
>  * There was a recommendation to use test_config over git config, but that
>    is not possible in a subshell. So, it got moved outside of the subshell
>    and that works just fine.
>
>  * The other comments were about the use of GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM in the
>    test script, but the tests that isolate that environment variable are
>    only for the 'ensure_not_expanded' tests, not the rest of the tests that
>    already exist and are beneficial to cover the 'recursive' mode.

This round addresses all my feedback and looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>

>
>
> Updates in V2
> =============
>
>  * The tests no longer specify GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM or directly
>    reference "-s ort". By relaxing this condition, I found an issue with
>    'git cherry-pick' and 'git rebase' when using the 'recursive' algorithm
>    which is fixed in a new patch.
>
>  * Use the pull.twohead config to specify the ORT merge algorithm to avoid
>    expanding the sparse index when that is what we are testing.
>
>  * Corrected some misstatements in my commit messages.
>
> Thanks, -Stolee
>
> Derrick Stolee (6):
>   diff: ignore sparse paths in diffstat
>   merge: make sparse-aware with ORT
>   merge-ort: expand only for out-of-cone conflicts
>   t1092: add cherry-pick, rebase tests
>   sequencer: ensure full index if not ORT strategy
>   sparse-index: integrate with cherry-pick and rebase
>
>  builtin/merge.c                          |  3 +
>  builtin/rebase.c                         |  6 ++
>  builtin/revert.c                         |  3 +
>  diff.c                                   |  8 +++
>  merge-ort.c                              | 15 ++++
>  merge-recursive.c                        |  3 +
>  sequencer.c                              |  9 +++
>  t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++---
>  8 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 91b53f20109fe55635b1815f87afd5d5da68a182
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1019%2Fderrickstolee%2Fsparse-index%2Fmerge-v3
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1019/derrickstolee/sparse-index/merge-v3
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1019
>
> Range-diff vs v2:
>
>  1:  c5ae705648c = 1:  a6963182fe0 diff: ignore sparse paths in diffstat
>  2:  bb150483bcf ! 2:  141f7fb26d6 merge: make sparse-aware with ORT
>      @@ merge-ort.c: static int record_conflicted_index_entries(struct merge_options *op
>
>       + /*
>       +  * We are in a conflicted state. These conflicts might be inside
>      -+  * sparse-directory entries, so expand the index preemtively.
>      ++  * sparse-directory entries, so expand the index preemptively.
>       +  * Also, we set original_cache_nr below, but that might change if
>       +  * index_name_pos() calls ask for paths within sparse directories.
>       +  */
>      @@ t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh: test_expect_success 'sparse-index is n
>       + ensure_not_expanded add . &&
>       +
>       + ensure_not_expanded checkout -f update-deep &&
>      ++ test_config -C sparse-index pull.twohead ort &&
>       + (
>       +         sane_unset GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM &&
>      -+         git -C sparse-index config pull.twohead ort &&
>       +         ensure_not_expanded merge -m merge update-folder1 &&
>       +         ensure_not_expanded merge -m merge update-folder2
>       + )
>  3:  815b1b1cfbf ! 3:  c3c9ffd855c merge-ort: expand only for out-of-cone conflicts
>      @@ merge-ort.c: static int record_conflicted_index_entries(struct merge_options *op
>
>         /*
>          * We are in a conflicted state. These conflicts might be inside
>      --  * sparse-directory entries, so expand the index preemtively.
>      +-  * sparse-directory entries, so expand the index preemptively.
>       -  * Also, we set original_cache_nr below, but that might change if
>       +  * sparse-directory entries, so check if any entries are outside
>       +  * of the sparse-checkout cone preemptively.
>  4:  8032154bc8a = 4:  7aae5727fb7 t1092: add cherry-pick, rebase tests
>  5:  90ac85500b8 = 5:  20f5bbae546 sequencer: ensure full index if not ORT strategy
>  6:  df4bbec744f ! 6:  36cecb22330 sparse-index: integrate with cherry-pick and rebase
>      @@ t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh: test_expect_success 'merge with confli
>         init_repos &&
>
>       @@ t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh: test_expect_success 'sparse-index is not expanded' '
>      +  test_config -C sparse-index pull.twohead ort &&
>         (
>                 sane_unset GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM &&
>      -          git -C sparse-index config pull.twohead ort &&
>       -         ensure_not_expanded merge -m merge update-folder1 &&
>       -         ensure_not_expanded merge -m merge update-folder2
>       +         for OPERATION in "merge -m merge" cherry-pick rebase
>
> --
> gitgitgadget



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