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Author SHA1 Message Date
Junio C Hamano
d6b0749ec8 Merge branch 'ps/odb-streams' into seen
The 'struct odb_read_stream' and 'struct odb_write_stream'
structures have been consolidated into a single unified 'struct
odb_stream' structure, simplifying object database streaming APIs
and enabling streaming of arbitrary object types.

* ps/odb-streams:
  odb/streaming: unify function names to create new streams
  odb/streaming: rename `struct input_zstream_data`
  odb/streaming: rename `struct read_object_fd_data`
  odb/streaming: consolidate read and write streams
  odb/streaming: rename `struct odb_read_stream`
  odb/streaming: support streaming arbitrary object types
  odb/streaming: drop `is_finished` field
  odb/streaming: track write stream size in the structure
2026-08-07 14:48:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
83a75e1733 Merge branch 'mm/diff-process-hunks' into seen
A new 'diff.<driver>.process' configuration has been introduced to
allow a long-running external process to act as a hunk provider,
enabling external tools to control which lines Git considers changed
while leaving all output formatting (word diff, color, blame, etc.) to
Git's standard pipeline.

* mm/diff-process-hunks:
  diff: consult oid-only hunk providers via diff.<driver>.process
  userdiff: add diff.<driver>.process config
  sub-process: add a gentle status read
  sub-process: separate process lifecycle from hashmap management
  blame: read precomputed hunks
  diff: read precomputed hunks for stat output
  diff: record precomputed hunks during stat output
  diff-hunks: add the store format, library, and command
  diff: introduce a hunk provider interface
  gitattributes: document how external diff drivers relate to diff features
2026-08-07 14:48:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f8777198e5 Merge branch 'ps/cat-file-remote-object-info-type' into seen
The 'remote-object-info' command for 'git cat-file --batch-command'
has been extended to support the '%(objecttype)' placeholder.

* ps/cat-file-remote-object-info-type:
  cat-file: unify default format
  serve: advertise type capability
  fetch-object-info: parse type from server response
  protocol-caps: add type support to object-info
  fetch-object-info: die() on the remaining error path
  fetch-object-info: use dedicated struct for the results
  fetch-object-info: pass arguments directly instead of a struct
  fetch-object-info: detect malformed server responses
  t5701: use test_file_size() to get the size of a file
2026-08-07 14:48:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8280e235be Merge branch 'ps/odb-make-creation-pluggable' into seen
The creation of the on-disk data structures for the object database
has been made pluggable, allowing future backends to customize their
setup.  As part of this, the initialization of the object database
has been deferred, and the loading of the loose-object map has been
detangled from repository initialization.

* ps/odb-make-creation-pluggable:
  odb: make creation of on-disk structures pluggable
  odb/source: introduce function to map source type to name
  setup: defer object database creation
  setup: handle ODB-related environment variables in `odb_new()`
  setup: detangle loading of loose object maps
  loose: load loose object map for the correct source
2026-08-07 14:48:27 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
30bc6f0e8c setup: handle ODB-related environment variables in odb_new()
When initializing a repository's object database we have to respect the
GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY and GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES environment
variables, which can be set by the user to override the default location
of where we write objects to and read objects from.

This is handled in `apply_repository_format()`, which is fine. But in a
subsequent commit we'll have to defer constructing the object database
to a later point in some cases, and that will require a second site
where we call `odb_new()`. And of course, that second site would have to
handle those environment variables, as well.

It would be somewhat awkward to duplicate the logic though. But there's
a better alternative: instead of handling this logic in "setup.c", we
can easily handle environment variables in `odb_new()` itself. This
ensures that object database creation is neatly self-contained, and we
don't have to duplicate any of the logic.

Another benefit is that in a future patch series we plan to move
handling of alternates into the backends themselves [1], and that will
require us to also handle those environment variables in the "files"
backend itself. So moving the logic into the ODB level already gets us
one step closer to that goal.

Refactor the logic accordingly.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/amLgMqkqxR8mKIbT@pks.im/

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-08-06 21:24:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
82c48eae1f Merge branch 'ps/odb-pluggable-housekeeping'
Object database housekeeping in 'git gc' and 'git maintenance' has
been refactored to be pluggable.  The files-backend-specific logic,
including incremental and geometric repacking as well as object
pruning, has been moved out of the command implementation and into the
files object database source, enabling future alternative object
database backends to implement their own housekeeping services.

* ps/odb-pluggable-housekeeping:
  odb: make optimizations pluggable
  builtin/gc: fix signedness issues in ODB-related functionality
  builtin/gc: refactor ODB optimizations to operate on "files" source
  builtin/gc: introduce `odb_optimize_required()`
  builtin/gc: move geometric repacking into `odb_optimize()`
  builtin/gc: introduce object database optimization options
  builtin/gc: inline config values specific to the "files" backend
  builtin/gc: make repack arguments self-contained
  builtin/gc: extract object database optimizations into separate function
  builtin/gc: move worktree and rerere tasks before object optimizations
  odb: run "pre-auto-gc" hook for all maintenance tasks
  t7900: simplify how we check for maintenance tasks
2026-08-05 11:10:51 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
e837b812fe odb/streaming: consolidate read and write streams
The `struct odb_read_stream` and `struct odb_write_stream` both provide
the same functionality: they allow a caller to read object data from an
arbitrary source. Historically, the only difference was that the read
stream was used to read data out of the object database, whereas the
write stream was used to write data into the object database, but the
interfaces were mostly the same.

Over the preceding commits we have refactored the write stream to have
almost exactly the same interface as the read stream. With these
refactorings we can now easily merge those two streams into a single
interface that's used for both use cases.

While most of the changes are mechanical, there are two sites that need
special mention:

  - "builtin/unpack-objects.c" creates a write stream from compressed
    object data.

  - "odb/streaming.c" creates a write stream from a file descriptor.

Adapting these sites to yield the new stream type requires a couple more
changes. Most importantly, instead of embedding the pointer to the data
in `struct odb_write_stream`, we now allocate a structure that wraps the
new `struct odb_stream` base. Other than that though, the changes are
rather straight forward.

Some of the structures and functions are now somewhat misnamed. These
will be fixed in subsequent commits.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-08-05 09:42:50 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
b1b008fa2b odb/streaming: track write stream size in the structure
When passing around a `struct odb_write_stream` we typically also have
to pass the number of bytes that the stream will yield. This is required
because the object header itself contains that size, and consequently we
cannot write the header without that information.

Move this information into the stream itself so that it becomes self-
describing. In addition to that, this also brings the `struct
odb_write_stream` a bit closer to the `struct odb_read_stream` so that
we can eventually merge both stream types.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-08-05 09:42:49 -07:00
Pablo Sabater
1d3d7f19ac fetch-object-info: use dedicated struct for the results
fetch_object_info() collects information about N objects, but it stores
the results in an array of object_info. That struct holds the extended
parameters of read_object_info() (The optional outputs the caller wants
filled). Its pointers tell that function where to write the answers for
a single object. object_info is not meant to be the final storage, and
since fetch_object_info() does not call read_object_info(), there is no
reason to use it. Using it means allocating one scalar per object per
attribute just to have those pointers somewhere to point at.

Add struct fetch_object_info_results. The caller sets the wants_* flags
to say what it is interested in, and fetch_object_info() allocates one
array per attribute. A set wants_* flag means "asked for", while a
non-NULL array means "available". The caller releases the arrays with
free_fetch_object_info_results().

The object_info_options string list is no longer needed. Filtering
against the server's advertisement now sets local ask_* flags, and
send_object_info_request() turns those into the v2 protocol option
strings. remote_atom_map[] existed only to map those strings back into
atom names, so drop it and build remote_allowed_atoms from the result
arrays.

Currently for wants_* and ask_* there is only the 'size' variant but a
subsequent commit will add '*_type'.

free_object_info_contents() loses its only caller and is dropped.

Dropping the allow-list check makes the final else reachable from the
wire, so die() instead of BUG(): an unknown attribute is the server's
error, not ours.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Sabater <pabloosabaterr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-08-04 13:35:37 -07:00
Michael Montalbo
42824db113 diff-hunks: add the store format, library, and command
Blame and "git log --stat" recover hunk coordinates by diffing blob
pairs, and recompute them on every run.  Add a cache of those
coordinates at $GIT_DIR/objects/info/diff-hunks, beside the
commit-graph, so a later run can look them up instead of decompressing
the blobs and running xdiff again.

The store is a single chunk-format file (see gitformat-chunk(5)): an
8-byte header, a DHIX index of fixed-size entries sorted by key, a DHDT
segment of hunk records, and a trailing hash checksum.  An entry is
keyed by the two blob object ids and the xdl_opts the pair was diffed
under, so a stored result is served only where that exact key recurs,
independent of path.  A zero-context diff trims unchanged lines from
hunk edges and can pick a different but equally valid set of hunks than
an untrimmed diff, so a recording caller stores a pair only when its
trimmed and untrimmed diffs are identical; such an entry answers any
consumer at any context, and the rare divergent pair is always
computed.  Identical hunk blocks are interned once and shared across
keys.

The library provides a reader (repo_diff_hunks_store and _replay, gated
by core.diffHunks), loaded once and cached on the object database as the
commit-graph is, and a writer that accumulates entries and flushes them
in one atomic pass.  An absent, corrupt, or disabled store reads as all
misses.  A record with no hunks is invalid too: replaying it would claim
the pair equivalent, which the store never asserts, so it reads as a
miss.

Ordinary reads are diagnostic-free.  Loading parses the chunk table
through read_table_of_contents_quiet(), new in chunk-format, which
prints nothing on a malformed table and takes the repository's hash
algorithm rather than the_hash_algo, so the file is bounds-checked under
the algorithm it is keyed by.

The flush closes the repository's mmapped store and forgets that loading
was attempted before committing the lockfile.  A warming run that also
reads may hold the file it is replacing mapped, and the rename must not
land on a live mapping, which Windows refuses; a read after the flush
then observes the committed file.  commit-graph closes its graph before
committing for the same reason.

Writing is off by default, enabled per run by GIT_DIFF_HUNKS_WRITE or
persistently by diffHunks.write, the environment winning.  A writer
seeds from the existing store, so a flush merges rather than replaces.
The seed's checksum is verified first: a corrupt store is discarded, not
rewritten with a fresh checksum verify could no longer catch.  An entry
that fails the shared diff_provider_check_hunk() or names no blob is
dropped with a warning, since it would only ever read as a miss.  A seed
that discarded or dropped anything forces the flush even when the
warming run computed nothing new.  The writer fsyncs through a new
diff-hunks core.fsync component.

"git diff-hunks" inspects and manages the file: "verify" checks the
checksum, chunk table, sort order, entry bounds, and every entry's hunk
sequence against that shared check, so a store whose entries could only
read as misses fails verify; "clear" removes the file.  Later patches
wire the readers and the writer into the diff and blame paths.

Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-08-01 15:09:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d407e69787 Merge branch 'ps/odb-move-loose-object-writing'
The logic to write loose objects has been refactored and moved from
'object-file.c' to the loose backend source file 'odb/source-loose.c',
making the loose backend more self-contained.  This is achieved by
first refactoring force_object_loose() to use generic ODB write
interfaces instead of loose-backend internals.

* ps/odb-move-loose-object-writing:
  object-file: move logic to write loose objects
  object-file: move `force_object_loose()`
  object-file: force objects loose via generic interface
  object-file: fix memory leak in `force_object_loose()`
  odb: support setting mtime when writing objects
  odb: lift object existence check out of the "loose" backend
  odb: compute object hash in `odb_write_object_ext()`
  t/u-odb-inmemory: implement wrapper for writing objects
  odb: compute compat object ID in `odb_write_object_ext()`
2026-07-30 10:32:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e1fb641cfa Merge branch 'ps/cat-file-remote-object-info'
The 'remote-object-info' command has been added to 'git cat-file
--batch-command', allowing clients to request object metadata
(currently size) from a remote server via protocol v2 without
downloading the entire object.  Format placeholders are dynamically
filtered on the client based on server-advertised capabilities,
returning empty strings for inapplicable or unsupported fields.

* ps/cat-file-remote-object-info:
  cat-file: make remote-object-info allow-list adapt to the server
  cat-file: add remote-object-info to batch-command
  transport: add client support for object-info
  serve: advertise object-info feature
  protocol-caps: check object existence regardless of the attributes requested
  fetch-pack: move fetch initialization
  connect: make write_fetch_command_and_capabilities() more generic
  fetch-pack: move write_fetch_command_and_capabilities() to connect.c
  fetch-pack: use unsigned int for hash_algo variable
  fetch-pack: drop the static advertise_sid variable
  t1006: extract helper functions into new 'lib-cat-file.sh'
  cat-file: declare loop counter inside for()
  transport-helper: fix memory leak of helper on disconnect
2026-07-30 10:32:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
669c4ad5dc Merge branch 'ps/cat-file-remote-object-info' into ps/cat-file-remote-object-info-type
* ps/cat-file-remote-object-info:
  cat-file: make remote-object-info allow-list adapt to the server
  cat-file: add remote-object-info to batch-command
  transport: add client support for object-info
  serve: advertise object-info feature
  protocol-caps: check object existence regardless of the attributes requested
  fetch-pack: move fetch initialization
  connect: make write_fetch_command_and_capabilities() more generic
  fetch-pack: move write_fetch_command_and_capabilities() to connect.c
  fetch-pack: use unsigned int for hash_algo variable
  fetch-pack: drop the static advertise_sid variable
  t1006: extract helper functions into new 'lib-cat-file.sh'
  cat-file: declare loop counter inside for()
  transport-helper: fix memory leak of helper on disconnect
2026-07-25 14:06:10 -07:00
Eric Ju
0ae93f56ec cat-file: add remote-object-info to batch-command
Since the info command in cat-file --batch-command prints object
info for a given object, it is natural to add another command in
cat-file --batch-command to print object info for a given object
from a remote.

Add remote-object-info command to cat-file --batch-command.

While info takes object ids one at a time, this creates overhead when
making requests to a server. So remote-object-info instead can take
multiple object ids at once.

The cat-file --batch-command command is generally implemented in the
following manner:

 - Receive and parse input from user
 - Call respective function attached to command
 - Get object info, print object info

In --buffer mode, this changes to:

 - Receive and parse input from user
 - Store respective function attached to command in a queue
 - After flush, loop through commands in queue
    - Call respective function attached to command
    - Get object info, print object info

Notice how the getting and printing of object info is accomplished one
at a time. As described above, this creates a problem for making
requests to a server. Therefore, remote-object-info is implemented in
the following manner:

 - Receive and parse input from user
 If command is remote-object-info:
    - Get object info from remote
    - Loop through and print each object info
 Else:
    - Call respective function attached to command
    - Parse input, get object info, print object info

And finally for --buffer mode remote-object-info:
 - Receive and parse input from user
 - Store respective function attached to command in a queue
 - After flush, loop through commands in queue:
    If command is remote-object-info:
        - Get object info from remote
        - Loop through and print each object info
    Else:
        - Call respective function attached to command
        - Get object info, print object info

To summarize, remote-object-info gets object info from the remote and
then loops through the object info passed in, printing the info.

In order for remote-object-info to avoid remote communication
overhead in the non-buffer mode, the objects are passed in as such:

remote-object-info <remote> <oid> <oid> ... <oid>

rather than

remote-object-info <remote> <oid>
remote-object-info <remote> <oid>
...
remote-object-info <remote> <oid>

Placeholders in the format are validated against an allow-list of the
atoms the remote path supports: "objectname" and "objectsize".
Unsupported atoms expand to an empty string, honoring how for-each-ref
handles known but inapplicable atoms.
Without this, atoms like %(objecttype) would mark data->info.typep and
because the server only sends size, type_name() would later crash.
As extra safety, even outside of the remote path, initialize
expand_data's type to OBJ_BAD and handle type_name() returning NULL.

Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Helped-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Ju <eric.peijian@gmail.com>
[pablo: added the atom allow-list validation]
Signed-off-by: Pablo Sabater <pabloosabaterr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-24 08:49:09 -07:00
Calvin Wan
12a19eec1d transport: add client support for object-info
Sometimes, it is beneficial to retrieve information about an object
without downloading it entirely. The server-side logic for this
functionality was implemented in commit "a2ba162cda (object-info:
support for retrieving object info, 2021-04-20)." And the wire
format is documented at
https://git-scm.com/docs/protocol-v2#_object_info.

Introduce client-side support for the object-info capability.

Add its own function for object-info separate from existing fetch
infrastructure.

Currently, the client supports requesting a list of OIDs with the size
attribute from a v2 server. If the server does not advertise this
feature (i.e., transfer.advertiseobjectinfo is set to false), the client
returns an error and exits.

Note that:

1. The entire request is written into req_buf before being sent to the
   remote. This approach follows the pattern used in the
   send_fetch_request() logic within 'fetch-pack.c'. Streaming the
   request is not addressed in this patch.

2. A new field 'unrecognized' has been added to object_info. This new
   field is set at fetch_object_info() when the object is unrecognized
   by the server.

Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Helped-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Ju <eric.peijian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Sabater <pabloosabaterr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-24 08:46:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
518368999a Merge branch 'ps/odb-for-each-object-filter'
The object database enumeration interface odb_for_each_object() has
been taught to accept object filters, allowing the underlying backends
to optimize the traversal by using reachability bitmaps when
available.  'git cat-file --batch-all-objects' has been updated to use
this generic interface, simplifying its code and avoiding direct
access to ODB backend internals.

* ps/odb-for-each-object-filter:
  builtin/cat-file: filter objects via object database
  odb: introduce object filters to `odb_for_each_object()`
  pack-bitmap: introduce function to open bitmap for a single source
  pack-bitmap: drop `_1` suffix from functions that open bitmaps
  pack-bitmap: iterate object sources when opening bitmaps
  pack-bitmap: allow aborting iteration of bitmapped objects
  pack-objects: drop unused return value from add_object_entry()
  pack-bitmap: mark object filter as `const`
  odb/source-packed: improve lookup when enumerating objects
2026-07-22 10:30:54 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
215d305f45 odb: compute compat object ID in odb_write_object_ext()
Repositories can have a compatibility hash configured, which means that
such a repository is expected to maintain a mapping between canonical
and compatibility object hashes. Maintaining this mapping is the
responsibility of the object database sources, where we either store
them as part of the loose objects map or in packfile indices v3 (once we
gain support for this feature).

But besides storing these compatibility hashes, the sources are also
responsible for generating the compatibility hash in the first place.
This is somewhat unnecessary though, as the compatibility hash should be
computed the same no matter which source is being used. The consequence
is that we need to duplicate this functionality across the different
backends, which does not make a lot of sense.

Refactor the code so that we instead compute the compatibility hash in
`odb_write_object_ext()` and then pass the computed value to the
sources. No callers need adjustment as there are none that write objects
via the source interfaces directly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-18 19:03:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a9d2d2acde Merge branch 'ps/odb-drop-whence'
The 'whence' field in 'struct object_info' has been removed.  The
backend-specific object information retrieval has been refactored into
an opt-in 'struct object_info_source' structure.

* ps/odb-drop-whence:
  odb: document object info fields
  odb: drop `whence` field from object info
  treewide: convert users of `whence` to the new source field
  odb: add `source` field to struct object_info_source
  odb: make backend-specific fields optional
  packfile: thread odb_source_packed through packed_object_info()
2026-07-15 13:24:18 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
204daf5e5c odb: introduce object filters to odb_for_each_object()
The function `for_each_bitmapped_object()` can be used to iterate
through all objects covered by a bitmap. The benefit of this function is
that it allows the caller to efficiently handle some object filters. For
example, this can be used to filter out objects of a specific type with
some simple bitmap operations. But callers are currently required to
manually wire up the use of bitmaps though, and to do so they have to
reach into internals of a given object database source.

Introduce a new `struct odb_for_each_object_options::filter` field so
that the interface becomes generic. When set, then a backend may
optionally use the filter to skip some objects that it would have
otherwise yielded.

Note that the respective backends are free to ignore this field if they
cannot meaningfully optimize for a given filter, and consequently
callers need to verify whether they actually want the returned objects.
While annoying, we cannot easily lift this restriction anyway as the
object filter infrastructure supports some filters that cannot be
answered by the object database alone.

An alternative might be to limit the filters to only those that _can_ be
answered by backends. But ultimately, the filters that can be answered
efficiently by the "packed" backend are completely disjunct from those
that can be answered by the "loose" backend, and consequently the set of
filters supported by all backends would be empty. Furthermore, it would
require us to make assumptions about capabilities of future backends,
which may be able to efficiently handle more filters than current ones.
So in the end, this alternative would only limit us artificially.

Implement the logic for the "packed" source. Note that we use the new
function `prepare_bitmap_git_for_source()` to open the bitmap: as the
backend operates on a single object source, we must only use bitmaps
that belong to that specific source. Otherwise we might yield objects
that are not part of the source at all, and with multiple sources we
would enumerate the same bitmap once per source.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-15 07:19:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6eb10fffa5 Merge branch 'ps/odb-generalize-prepare'
The 'reprepare()' callback for object database sources has been
generalized into a 'prepare()' callback with an optional flush cache
flag, and a new 'odb_prepare()' wrapper has been introduced to allow
pre-opening object database sources.

* ps/odb-generalize-prepare:
  odb: introduce `odb_prepare()`
  odb/source: generalize `reprepare()` callback
2026-07-13 08:27:28 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
56f3fc9520 odb: make optimizations pluggable
Move `odb_optimize()` and `odb_optimize_required()` from "builtin/gc.c"
into the "files" source and wire them up via newly introduced vtable
pointers for the object database sources. This makes the logic pluggable
and thus allows other backends to have their own, custom implementation.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-13 08:13:17 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
8a7ad23e11 odb: document object info fields
Some of the fields in `struct object_info` are undocumented. Add these
missing comments.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-02 09:52:32 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
aea037e534 odb: drop whence field from object info
In the preceding commits we have migrated all callers to derive their
information of how a specific object is stored to use the new object
info source instead, and hence the field is now unused. Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-02 09:52:32 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
32a95be604 odb: add source field to struct object_info_source
The previous commit introduced `struct object_info_source` as an opt-in
container for backend-specific information, but for now we only moved
preexisting data into this structure. Most importantly, the caller has
no way yet to learn about which source an object was actually looked up
from. Instead, callers have to rely on the `whence` enum to distinguish
the object type, but cannot use that enum to tell the object source.

Add a `struct odb_source *source` field to the structure and populate it
from each backend's lookup path.

The `whence` enum is still set and used by callers; it will be removed
in a subsequent commit now that `sourcep->source` can identify the
backend on its own.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-02 09:52:32 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
126076b62f odb: make backend-specific fields optional
The `struct object_info` carries two pieces of information
about how an object was looked up:

  - The `whence` enum identifying the backend.

  - The backend-tagged union `u` exposing backend-specific details
    (currently only the packed-source case, which records the owning
    pack, offset and packed object type).

The union is populated unconditionally, even though most callers don't
care about provenance at all.

Split the backend-specific union out into a new public type, `struct
object_info_source`, and make the object info structure carry it via
just another opt-in request pointer. As with all the other requestable
information, callers that need source info allocate a `struct
object_info_source` on the stack and point `sourcep` at it; callers that
don't care about it simply leave the field as a `NULL` pointer. Adapt
callers accordingly.

Note that the `whence` enum is strictly-speaking also backend-specific
information, so it would be another good candidate to be moved into the
`struct object_info_source`. For now though it is left alone, as it will
be replaced by a `struct odb_source` pointer in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-07-02 09:52:32 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
b7fe8f0672 odb: introduce odb_prepare()
Introduce `odb_prepare()` as a simple wrapper to prepare alternates and
then prepare each individual source. Adapt git-grep(1) to use it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-06-22 10:41:03 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
27bba4258b odb/source: generalize reprepare() callback
The `reprepare()` callback function can be used to flush caches of a
given object source and then prepare it anew. This is for example used
when a concurrent process may have written new objects. Ultimately, this
can be seen as doing two separate steps:

  1. We drop any caches.

  2. We prepare the source.

We have one callsite in git-grep(1) though that really only want to do
(2). This is done by reaching into the "files" backend directly and then
calling `odb_source_packed_prepare()`, which of course may not work with
alternate backends.

We could in theory just call `reprepare()` here, and that would likely
not have any significant downside. But this would certainly feel like a
code smell.

Instead, generalize the `reprepare()` callback to `prepare()` with a
flag that optionally instructs the backend to also flush the caches,
which allows us to drop the external `odb_source_packed_prepare()`
declaration.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-06-22 10:41:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
02bb39c5cb Merge branch 'js/objects-larger-than-4gb-on-windows-more'
* js/objects-larger-than-4gb-on-windows-more:
  odb: use size_t for object_info.sizep and the size APIs
  packfile,delta: drop the `cast_size_t_to_ulong()` wrappers
  pack-objects: use size_t for in-core object sizes
  packfile: widen unpack_entry()'s size out-parameter to size_t
  pack-objects(check_pack_inflate()): use size_t instead of unsigned long
  patch-delta: use size_t for sizes
  compat/msvc: use _chsize_s for ftruncate
2026-06-21 16:41:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5255d04a9c Merge branch 'wy/docs-typofixes'
Various typos, grammatical errors, and duplicated words in both
documentation and code comments have been corrected.

* wy/docs-typofixes:
  docs: fix typos and grammar
2026-06-16 09:01:03 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
c6a4629e32 odb: use size_t for object_info.sizep and the size APIs
When `js/objects-larger-than-4gb-on-windows` widened the streaming,
index-pack and unpack-objects code paths, in the interest of keeping the
patches somewhat reasonably-sized, it left the public ODB API still
typed in `unsigned long`. In particular `struct object_info::sizep` and
the four wrappers built on top of it (`odb_read_object`,
`odb_read_object_peeled`, `odb_read_object_info`, `odb_pretend_object`)
still return the unpacked size through `unsigned long *`, so on Windows
`cat-file -s` and the `git add` / `git status` paths for a >4 GiB blob
silently cap at 4 GiB.

Widen the field and the four wrappers. The previous commits already
widened the `unpack_entry()` cascade and pack-objects' in-core size
accessors, so most of the cascade arrives here with no further work: the
temporary shims in `packed_object_info_with_index_pos()` and in
`unpack_entry()`'s delta-base recovery path go away, the two
`SET_SIZE(entry, cast_size_t_to_ulong(canonical_size))` calls in
`check_object()` and the matching one in `drop_reused_delta()` collapse
to plain `SET_SIZE`, and `oe_get_size_slow()`'s tail
`cast_size_t_to_ulong()` is gone too.

What remains narrow are the boundaries this series does not
intend to touch: the diff, blame, textconv and fast-import machinery.

Even so, this patch is unfortunately quite large.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-06-15 07:45:41 -07:00
Weijie Yuan
dc6068df67 docs: fix typos and grammar
Fix several spelling mistakes, subject-verb agreement issues, and
duplicated words.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-30 07:07:27 +09:00
Patrick Steinhardt
fdf74cb2ca odb: generic in-memory source
Make the in-memory source generic.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-15 04:50:45 +09:00
Patrick Steinhardt
822d403651 odb: introduce "in-memory" source
Next to our typical object database sources, each object database also
has an implicit source of "cached" objects. These cached objects only
exist in memory and some use cases:

  - They contain evergreen objects that we expect to always exist, like
    for example the empty tree.

  - They can be used to store temporary objects that we don't want to
    persist to disk, which is used by git-blame(1) to create a fake
    worktree commit.

Overall, their use is somewhat restricted though. For example, we don't
provide the ability to use it as a temporary object database source that
allows the user to write objects, but discard them after Git exists. So
while these cached objects behave almost like a source, they aren't used
as one.

This is about to change over the following commits, where we will turn
cached objects into a new "in-memory" source. This will allow us to use
it exactly the same as any other source by providing the same common
interface as the "files" source.

For now, the in-memory source only hosts the cached objects and doesn't
provide any logic yet. This will change with subsequent commits, where
we move respective functionality into the source.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-15 04:50:44 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
2f124686e8 Merge branch 'jt/odb-transaction-write' into ps/odb-in-memory
* jt/odb-transaction-write:
  odb/transaction: make `write_object_stream()` pluggable
  object-file: generalize packfile writes to use odb_write_stream
  object-file: avoid fd seekback by checking object size upfront
  object-file: remove flags from transaction packfile writes
  odb: update `struct odb_write_stream` read() callback
  odb/transaction: use pluggable `begin_transaction()`
  odb: split `struct odb_transaction` into separate header
2026-05-15 04:50:31 +09:00
Justin Tobler
970f63519e odb: update struct odb_write_stream read() callback
The `read()` callback used by `struct odb_write_stream` currently
returns a pointer to an internal buffer along with the number of bytes
read. This makes buffer ownership unclear and provides no way to report
errors.

Update the interface to instead require the caller to provide a buffer,
and have the callback return the number of bytes written to it or a
negative value on error. While at it, also move the `struct
odb_write_stream` definition to "odb/streaming.h". Call sites are
updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-15 04:44:40 +09:00
Justin Tobler
5f6744d3eb odb: split struct odb_transaction into separate header
The current ODB transaction interface is colocated with other ODB
interfaces in "odb.{c,h}". Subsequent commits will expand `struct
odb_transaction` to support write operations on the transaction
directly. To keep things organized and prevent "odb.{c,h}" from becoming
more unwieldy, split out `struct odb_transaction` into a separate
header.

Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-15 04:44:39 +09:00
Patrick Steinhardt
109bcb7d1d odb: drop unneeded headers and forward decls
There's a couple of unneeded forward declarations and headers in
"odb.h". Drop these.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-31 20:43:14 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
c63911b052 odb: rename odb_has_object() flags
Rename `odb_has_object()` flags to be properly prefixed with the
function name.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-31 20:43:14 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
b2d421ece6 odb: use enum for odb_write_object flags
We've got a couple of functions that accept `odb_write_object()` flags,
but all of them accept the flags as an `unsigned` integer. In fact, we
don't even have an `enum` for the flags field.

Introduce this `enum` and adapt functions accordingly according to our
coding style.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-31 20:43:13 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
ff2e9d85d6 odb: rename odb_write_object() flags
Rename `odb_write_object()` flags to be properly prefixed with the
function name.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-31 20:43:13 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
75c702624d treewide: use enum for odb_for_each_object() flags
We've got a couple of callsites where we pass `odb_for_each_object()`
flags, but accept an `unsigned` flags field instead of the corresponding
enum. Adapt these to accept the enum type instead.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-31 20:43:13 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
83869e15fa odb: introduce generic odb_find_abbrev_len()
Introduce a new generic `odb_find_abbrev_len()` function as well as
source-specific callback functions. This makes the logic to compute the
required prefix length to make a given object unique fully pluggable.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-20 13:16:42 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
284b7862be object-name: move logic to iterate through loose prefixed objects
The logic to iterate through loose objects that have a certain prefix is
currently hosted in "object-name.c". This logic reaches into specifics
of the loose object source, so it breaks once a different backend is
used for the object storage.

Move the logic to iterate through loose objects with a prefix into
"object-file.c". This is done by extending the for-each-object options
to support an optional prefix that is then honored by the loose source.
Naturally, we'll also have this support in the packfile store. This is
done in the next commit.

Furthermore, there are no users of the loose cache outside of
"object-file.c" anymore. As such, convert `odb_source_loose_cache()` to
have file scope.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-20 13:16:42 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
cfd575f0a9 odb: introduce struct odb_for_each_object_options
The `odb_for_each_object()` function only accepts a bitset of flags. In
a subsequent commit we'll want to change object iteration to also
support iterating over only those objects that have a specific prefix.
While we could of course add the prefix to the function signature, or
alternatively introduce a new function, both of these options don't
really seem to be that sensible.

Instead, introduce a new `struct odb_for_each_object_options` that can
be passed to a new `odb_for_each_object_ext()` function. Splice through
the options structure into the respective object database sources.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-20 13:16:41 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
6801ffd37d odb: introduce generic object counting
Similar to the preceding commit, introduce counting of objects on the
object database level, replacing the logic that we have in
`repo_approximate_object_count()`.

Note that the function knows to cache the object count. It's unclear
whether this cache is really required as we shouldn't have that many
cases where we count objects repeatedly. But to be on the safe side the
caching mechanism is retained, with the only excepting being that we
also have to use the passed flags as caching key.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-12 08:38:43 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
2b24db1110 object-file: generalize counting objects
Generalize the function introduced in the preceding commit to not only
be able to approximate the number of loose objects, but to also provide
an accurate count. The behaviour can be toggled via a new flag.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-12 08:38:42 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
6daeb66baa odb: stop including "odb/source.h"
The "odb.h" header currently includes the "odb/source.h" file. This is
somewhat roundabout though: most callers shouldn't have to care about
the `struct odb_source`, but should rather use the ODB-level functions.
Furthermore, it means that a couple of definitions have to live on the
source level even though they should be part of the generic interface.

Reverse the relation between "odb/source.h" and "odb.h" and move the
enums and typedefs that relate to the generic interfaces back into
"odb.h". Add the necessary includes to all files that rely on the
transitive include.

Suggested-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-12 08:38:42 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
7ae23630c3 odb/source: make read_alternates() function pluggable
Introduce a new callback function in `struct odb_source` to make the
function pluggable.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-05 11:45:16 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
fdefdc2e69 odb/source: make for_each_object() function pluggable
Introduce a new callback function in `struct odb_source` to make the
function pluggable.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-05 11:45:16 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
5946a564cd odb/source: make read_object_info() function pluggable
Introduce a new callback function in `struct odb_source` to make the
function pluggable.

Note that this function is a bit less straight-forward to convert
compared to the other functions. The reason here is that the logic to
read an object is:

  1. We try to read the object. If it exists we return it.

  2. If the object does not exist we reprepare the object database
     source.

  3. We then try reading the object info a second time in case the
     reprepare caused it to appear.

The second read is only supposed to happen for the packfile store
though, as reading loose objects is not impacted by repreparing the
object database.

Ideally, we'd just move this whole logic into the ODB source. But that's
not easily possible because we try to avoid the reprepare unless really
required, which is after we have found out that no other ODB source
contains the object, either. So the logic spans across multiple ODB
sources, and consequently we cannot move it into an individual source.

Instead, introduce a new flag `OBJECT_INFO_SECOND_READ` that tells the
backend that we already tried to look up the object once, and that this
time around the ODB source should try to find any new objects that may
have surfaced due to an on-disk change.

With this flag, the "files" backend can trivially skip trying to re-read
the object as a loose object. Furthermore, as we know that we only try
the second read via the packfile store, we can skip repreparing loose
objects and only reprepare the packfile store.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-05 11:45:15 -08:00