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[PATCH 4/4] Why is "git tag --contains" so slow?

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 11, 2011, 19:04 UTC
Message-ID
<1307819051-25748-5-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 08:27:23AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> As you probably guessed from the specificity of the number, I wrote a
> short program to actually traverse and find the worst skew. It takes
> about 5 seconds to run (unsurprisingly, since it is doing the same full
> traversal that we end up doing in the above numbers). So we could
> "autoskew" by setting up the configuration on clone, and then
> periodically updating it as part of "git gc".

This patch doesn't implement auto-detection of skew, but is the program I used to calculate, and would provide the basis for such auto-detection. It would be interesting to see average skew numbers for popular repositories. You can run it as "git skew --all".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 .gitignore     |    1 +
 Makefile       |    1 +
 builtin.h      |    1 +
 builtin/skew.c |   50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 git.c          |    1 +
 5 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 builtin/skew.c
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index acffdfa..503ef8b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@
 /git-show-branch
 /git-show-index
 /git-show-ref
+/git-skew
 /git-stage
 /git-stash
 /git-status
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e40ac0c..4ba5542 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -763,6 +763,7 @@ BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/send-pack.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/shortlog.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/show-branch.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/show-ref.o
+BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/skew.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/stripspace.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/symbolic-ref.o
 BUILTIN_OBJS += builtin/tag.o
diff --git a/builtin.h b/builtin.h
index 0e9da90..0be47ca 100644
--- a/builtin.h
+++ b/builtin.h
@@ -143,5 +143,6 @@ extern int cmd_verify_pack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_show_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_pack_refs(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 extern int cmd_replace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
+extern int cmd_skew(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/builtin/skew.c b/builtin/skew.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1046f5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/builtin/skew.c
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#include "cache.h"
+#include "commit.h"
+#include "diff.h"
+#include "revision.h"
+
+unsigned long worst_skew = 0;
+
+static void check_skew_recurse(struct commit *c, unsigned long when)
+{
+	struct commit_list *p;
+
+	if (c->object.flags & SEEN)
+		return;
+	c->object.flags |= SEEN;
+
+	if (parse_commit(c) < 0)
+		return;
+
+	if (c->date > when) {
+		unsigned long skew = c->date - when;
+		if (skew > worst_skew)
+			worst_skew = skew;
+	}
+
+	for (p = c->parents; p; p = p->next)
+		check_skew_recurse(p->item, c->date < when ? c->date : when);
+}
+
+static void check_skew(struct commit *c)
+{
+	check_skew_recurse(c, time(NULL));
+}
+
+int cmd_skew(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) {
+	struct rev_info revs;
+	int i;
+
+	git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
+	init_revisions(&revs, prefix);
+	argc = setup_revisions(argc, argv, &revs, NULL);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < revs.pending.nr; i++) {
+		struct object *o = revs.pending.objects[i].item;
+		if (o->type == OBJ_COMMIT)
+			check_skew((struct commit *)o);
+	}
+
+	printf("%lu\n", worst_skew);
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 89721d4..2404bf3 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
 		{ "version", cmd_version },
 		{ "whatchanged", cmd_whatchanged, RUN_SETUP },
 		{ "write-tree", cmd_write_tree, RUN_SETUP },
+		{ "skew", cmd_skew, RUN_SETUP },
 	};
 	int i;
 	static const char ext[] = STRIP_EXTENSION;
-- 
1.7.5.3
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  1. 0/4 Speed up git tag --containsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jun 11, 2011
  2. 1/4 tag: speed up --contains calculationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jun 11, 2011
  3. 2/4 limit "contains" traversals based on commit timestampÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jun 11, 2011
  4. 3/4 default core.clockskew variable to one dayÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jun 11, 2011
  5. 4/4 Why is "git tag --contains" so slow?Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jun 11, 2011
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  9. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  10. Jeff KingJul 6, 2011
  11. Jakub NarebskiJul 6, 2011
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  13. Jeff KingJul 6, 2011
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  16. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2011
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  19. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2011
  20. Jeff KingJul 8, 2011
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  22. Jeff KingJul 7, 2011
  23. Jakub NarebskiJul 7, 2011
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