On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 12:25 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote: > > When fetching with the `--prune` flag we will delete any local > references matching the fetch refspec which have disappeared on the > remote. This step is not currently covered by the `--atomic` flag: we > delete branches even though updating of local references has failed, > which means that the fetch is not an all-or-nothing operation. > > Fix this bug by passing in the global transaction into `prune_refs()`: > if one is given, then we'll only queue up deletions and not commit them > right away. > > This change also improves performance when pruning many branches in a > repository with a big packed-refs file: every references is pruned in > its own transaction, which means that we potentially have to rewrite > the packed-refs files for every single reference we're about to prune. > > The following benchmark demonstrates this: it performs a pruning fetch > from a repository with a single reference into a repository with 100k > references, which causes us to prune all but one reference. This is of > course a very artificial setup, but serves to demonstrate the impact of > only having to write the packed-refs file once: > > Benchmark 1: git fetch --prune --atomic +refs/*:refs/* (HEAD~) > Time (mean ± σ): 2.366 s ± 0.021 s [User: 0.858 s, System: 1.508 s] > Range (min … max): 2.328 s … 2.407 s 10 runs > > Benchmark 2: git fetch --prune --atomic +refs/*:refs/* (HEAD) > Time (mean ± σ): 1.369 s ± 0.017 s [User: 0.715 s, System: 0.641 s] > Range (min … max): 1.346 s … 1.400 s 10 runs > > Summary > 'git fetch --prune --atomic +refs/*:refs/* (HEAD)' ran > 1.73 ± 0.03 times faster than 'git fetch --prune --atomic +refs/*:refs/* (HEAD~)' Very nice! [...] > diff --git a/t/t5510-fetch.sh b/t/t5510-fetch.sh > index 93a0db3c68..afa6bf9f7d 100755 > --- a/t/t5510-fetch.sh > +++ b/t/t5510-fetch.sh > @@ -349,11 +349,9 @@ test_expect_success 'fetch --atomic --prune executes a single reference transact > cat >expected <<-EOF && > prepared > $ZERO_OID $ZERO_OID refs/remotes/origin/scheduled-for-deletion > - committed > - $ZERO_OID $ZERO_OID refs/remotes/origin/scheduled-for-deletion > - prepared > $ZERO_OID $head_oid refs/remotes/origin/new-branch > committed Up to here this is just what I expected. > + $ZERO_OID $ZERO_OID refs/remotes/origin/scheduled-for-deletion > $ZERO_OID $head_oid refs/remotes/origin/new-branch But now scheduled-for-deletion and new-branch are both listed again even with your fixes? Is this some peculiarity of the reference transaction hook that it lists the refs again after the prepared...committed block? (It may well be; I'm not that familiar with this area of the code.)