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[PATCH v3] Enable minimal stat checking

From
Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date
Jan 22, 2013, 07:49 UTC
Message-ID
<1358840962-12316-1-git-send-email-robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To
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Specifically the fields uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev are set to zero by JGit. Other implementations, eg. Git in cygwin are allegedly also somewhat incompatible with Git For Windows and on *nix platforms the resolution of the timestamps may differ.

Any stat checking by git will then need to check content, which may be very slow, particularly on Windows. Since mtime and size is typically enough we should allow the user to tell git to avoid checking these fields if they are set to zero in the index.

This change introduces a core.checkstat config option where the the user can select to check all fields (default), or just size and the whole second part of mtime (minimal).

Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |  6 ++++++
 cache.h                  |  1 +
 config.c                 |  8 ++++++++
 environment.c            |  1 +
 read-cache.c             | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------
 5 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d5809e0..47c213d 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -235,6 +235,12 @@ core.trustctime::
 	crawlers and some backup systems).
 	See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
 
+core.checkstat::
+	Determines which stat fields to match between the index
+	and work tree. The user can set this to 'default' or
+	'minimal'. Default (or explicitly 'default'), is to check
+	all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime.
+
 core.quotepath::
 	The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files',
 	'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index c257953..ab20c4d 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -536,6 +536,7 @@ extern int delete_ref(const char *, const unsigned char *sha1, int delopt);
 /* Environment bits from configuration mechanism */
 extern int trust_executable_bit;
 extern int trust_ctime;
+extern int check_stat;
 extern int quote_path_fully;
 extern int has_symlinks;
 extern int minimum_abbrev, default_abbrev;
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 7b444b6..2b58c75 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -566,6 +566,14 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 		trust_ctime = git_config_bool(var, value);
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.statinfo")) {
+		if (!strcasecmp(value, "default"))
+			check_stat = 1;
+		else if (!strcasecmp(value, "minimal"))
+			check_stat = 0;
+		else
+			die_bad_config(var);
+	}
 
 	if (!strcmp(var, "core.quotepath")) {
 		quote_path_fully = git_config_bool(var, value);
diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index 85edd7f..e828b37 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 int trust_executable_bit = 1;
 int trust_ctime = 1;
+int check_stat = 1;
 int has_symlinks = 1;
 int minimum_abbrev = 4, default_abbrev = 7;
 int ignore_case;
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index fda78bc..23db681 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -197,21 +197,25 @@ static int ce_match_stat_basic(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
 	}
 	if (ce->ce_mtime.sec != (unsigned int)st->st_mtime)
 		changed |= MTIME_CHANGED;
-	if (trust_ctime && ce->ce_ctime.sec != (unsigned int)st->st_ctime)
-		changed |= CTIME_CHANGED;
+	if (trust_ctime ? check_stat : trust_ctime/*false*/)
+		if (ce->ce_ctime.sec != (unsigned int)st->st_ctime)
+			changed |= CTIME_CHANGED;
 
 #ifdef USE_NSEC
-	if (ce->ce_mtime.nsec != ST_MTIME_NSEC(*st))
+	if (check_stat && ce->ce_mtime.nsec != ST_MTIME_NSEC(*st))
 		changed |= MTIME_CHANGED;
-	if (trust_ctime && ce->ce_ctime.nsec != ST_CTIME_NSEC(*st))
-		changed |= CTIME_CHANGED;
+	if (trust_ctime ? check_stat : trust_ctime/*false*/)
+		if (ce->ce_ctime.nsec != ST_CTIME_NSEC(*st))
+			changed |= CTIME_CHANGED;
 #endif
 
-	if (ce->ce_uid != (unsigned int) st->st_uid ||
-	    ce->ce_gid != (unsigned int) st->st_gid)
-		changed |= OWNER_CHANGED;
-	if (ce->ce_ino != (unsigned int) st->st_ino)
-		changed |= INODE_CHANGED;
+	if (check_stat) {
+		if (ce->ce_uid != (unsigned int) st->st_uid ||
+			ce->ce_gid != (unsigned int) st->st_gid)
+			changed |= OWNER_CHANGED;
+		if (ce->ce_ino != (unsigned int) st->st_ino)
+			changed |= INODE_CHANGED;
+	}
 
 #ifdef USE_STDEV
 	/*
@@ -219,8 +223,8 @@ static int ce_match_stat_basic(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
 	 * clients will have different views of what "device"
 	 * the filesystem is on
 	 */
-	if (ce->ce_dev != (unsigned int) st->st_dev)
-		changed |= INODE_CHANGED;
+	if (check_stat && ce->ce_dev != (unsigned int) st->st_dev)
+			changed |= INODE_CHANGED;
 #endif
 
 	if (ce->ce_size != (unsigned int) st->st_size)
-- 
1.8.1.337.g6672977.dirty
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Johannes Sixt
Message 17 of 29 in “Perform minimal stat comparison when some stat fields are not set”
  1. Perform minimal stat comparison when some stat fields are not setRobin Rosenberg, Dec 5, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2012
  3. Robin RosenbergDec 6, 2012
  4. Johannes SixtDec 6, 2012
  5. Robin RosenbergDec 6, 2012
  6. Make git selectively and conditionally ignore certain stat fieldsRobin Rosenberg, Jan 14, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2013
  8. Robin RosenbergJan 14, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2013
  10. Robin RosenbergJan 15, 2013
  11. Johannes SixtJan 15, 2013
  12. Robin RosenbergJan 15, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2013
  14. Ramsay JonesJan 16, 2013
  15. Robin RosenbergJan 20, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2013
  17. Enable minimal stat checkingRobin Rosenberg, Jan 22, 2013
  18. Johannes SixtJan 22, 2013
  19. Torsten BögershausenJan 22, 2013
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 22, 2013
  21. Robin RosenbergJan 22, 2013
  22. Jeff KingMay 6, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2013
  24. deprecate core.statinfo at Git 2.0 boundaryJunio C Hamano, May 7, 2013
  25. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2013
  26. Jeff KingMay 7, 2013
  27. Robin RosenbergMay 7, 2013
  28. Make git selectively and conditionally ignore certain stat fieldsRobin Rosenberg, Jan 14, 2013
  29. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2013

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