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[PATCH v2] fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0

From
JTJonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Date
Nov 5, 2019, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20191105185619.207173-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20191101203830.231676-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

In fetch_pack() (and all functions it calls), pass OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT whenever we query an object that could be a tree or blob that we do not want to be lazy-fetched even if it is absent. Thus, the only lazy-fetches occurring for trees and blobs are when resolving deltas.

Thus, we can remove fetch_if_missing=0 from builtin/fetch.c. Remove this, and also add a test ensuring that such objects are not lazy-fetched. (We might be able to remove fetch_if_missing=0 from other places too, but I have limited myself to builtin/fetch.c in this commit because I have not written tests for the other commands yet.)

Note that commits and tags may still be lazy-fetched. I limited myself to objects that could be trees or blobs here because Git does not support creating such commit- and tag-excluding clones yet, and even if such a clone were manually created, Git does not have good support for fetching a single commit (when fetching a commit, it and all its ancestors would be sent).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
---
Changes from v1:
- Added NEEDSWORK in test, suggested by Jonathan Nieder
- Used printf in test, suggested by Eric Sunshine
Range-diff against v1:
1:  f52c8d4c11 ! 1:  8e93cb8b02 fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0
    @@ Commit message
         ancestors would be sent).
     
         Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
     
      ## builtin/fetch.c ##
     @@ builtin/fetch.c: static int check_exist_and_connected(struct ref *ref_map)
    @@ t/t5616-partial-clone.sh: test_expect_success 'partial clone with unresolvable s
     +setup_triangle () {
     +	rm -rf big-blob.txt server client promisor-remote &&
     +
    -+	touch big-blob.txt &&
    -+	for i in $(seq 1 100)
    -+	do
    -+		echo line $i >>big-blob.txt
    -+	done &&
    ++	printf "line %d\n" $(test_seq 1 100) >big-blob.txt
     +
     +	# Create a server with 2 commits: a commit with a big blob and a child
     +	# commit with an incremental change. Also, create a partial clone
    @@ t/t5616-partial-clone.sh: test_expect_success 'partial clone with unresolvable s
     +	git -C client remote set-url origin "file://$(pwd)/promisor-remote"
     +}
     +
    ++# NEEDSWORK: The tests beginning with "fetch lazy-fetches" below only
    ++# test that "fetch" avoid fetching trees and blobs, but not commits or
    ++# tags. Revisit this if Git is ever taught to support partial clones
    ++# with commits and/or tags filtered out.
    ++
     +test_expect_success 'fetch lazy-fetches only to resolve deltas' '
     +	setup_triangle &&
     +
 builtin/fetch.c          |  5 ++-
 fetch-pack.c             |  3 +-
 t/t5616-partial-clone.sh | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c
index 0c345b5dfe..5ff7367dd7 100644
--- a/builtin/fetch.c
+++ b/builtin/fetch.c
@@ -1074,7 +1074,8 @@ static int check_exist_and_connected(struct ref *ref_map)
 	 * we need all direct targets to exist.
 	 */
 	for (r = rm; r; r = r->next) {
-		if (!has_object_file(&r->old_oid))
+		if (!has_object_file_with_flags(&r->old_oid,
+						OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT))
 			return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -1755,8 +1756,6 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	packet_trace_identity("fetch");
 
-	fetch_if_missing = 0;
-
 	/* Record the command line for the reflog */
 	strbuf_addstr(&default_rla, "fetch");
 	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
diff --git a/fetch-pack.c b/fetch-pack.c
index 0130b44112..37178e2d34 100644
--- a/fetch-pack.c
+++ b/fetch-pack.c
@@ -673,7 +673,8 @@ static void mark_complete_and_common_ref(struct fetch_negotiator *negotiator,
 		struct object *o;
 
 		if (!has_object_file_with_flags(&ref->old_oid,
-						OBJECT_INFO_QUICK))
+						OBJECT_INFO_QUICK |
+							OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT))
 			continue;
 		o = parse_object(the_repository, &ref->old_oid);
 		if (!o)
diff --git a/t/t5616-partial-clone.sh b/t/t5616-partial-clone.sh
index 79f7b65f8c..e785fba7ed 100755
--- a/t/t5616-partial-clone.sh
+++ b/t/t5616-partial-clone.sh
@@ -296,6 +296,76 @@ test_expect_success 'partial clone with unresolvable sparse filter fails cleanly
 	test_i18ngrep "unable to parse sparse filter data in" err
 '
 
+setup_triangle () {
+	rm -rf big-blob.txt server client promisor-remote &&
+
+	printf "line %d\n" $(test_seq 1 100) >big-blob.txt
+
+	# Create a server with 2 commits: a commit with a big blob and a child
+	# commit with an incremental change. Also, create a partial clone
+	# client that only contains the first commit.
+	git init server &&
+	git -C server config --local uploadpack.allowfilter 1 &&
+	cp big-blob.txt server &&
+	git -C server add big-blob.txt &&
+	git -C server commit -m "initial" &&
+	git clone --bare --filter=tree:0 "file://$(pwd)/server" client &&
+	echo another line >>server/big-blob.txt &&
+	git -C server commit -am "append line to big blob" &&
+
+	# Create a promisor remote that only contains the blob from the first
+	# commit, and set it as the promisor remote of client. Thus, whenever
+	# the client lazy fetches, the lazy fetch will succeed only if it is
+	# for this blob.
+	git init promisor-remote &&
+	test_commit -C promisor-remote one && # so that ref advertisement is not empty
+	git -C promisor-remote config --local uploadpack.allowanysha1inwant 1 &&
+	git -C promisor-remote hash-object -w --stdin <big-blob.txt &&
+	git -C client remote set-url origin "file://$(pwd)/promisor-remote"
+}
+
+# NEEDSWORK: The tests beginning with "fetch lazy-fetches" below only
+# test that "fetch" avoid fetching trees and blobs, but not commits or
+# tags. Revisit this if Git is ever taught to support partial clones
+# with commits and/or tags filtered out.
+
+test_expect_success 'fetch lazy-fetches only to resolve deltas' '
+	setup_triangle &&
+
+	# Exercise to make sure it works. Git will not fetch anything from the
+	# promisor remote other than for the big blob (because it needs to
+	# resolve the delta).
+	GIT_TRACE_PACKET="$(pwd)/trace" git -C client \
+		fetch "file://$(pwd)/server" master &&
+
+	# Verify the assumption that the client needed to fetch the delta base
+	# to resolve the delta.
+	git hash-object big-blob.txt >hash &&
+	grep "want $(cat hash)" trace
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'fetch lazy-fetches only to resolve deltas, protocol v2' '
+	setup_triangle &&
+
+	git -C server config --local protocol.version 2 &&
+	git -C client config --local protocol.version 2 &&
+	git -C promisor-remote config --local protocol.version 2 &&
+
+	# Exercise to make sure it works. Git will not fetch anything from the
+	# promisor remote other than for the big blob (because it needs to
+	# resolve the delta).
+	GIT_TRACE_PACKET="$(pwd)/trace" git -C client \
+		fetch "file://$(pwd)/server" master &&
+
+	# Verify that protocol version 2 was used.
+	grep "fetch< version 2" trace &&
+
+	# Verify the assumption that the client needed to fetch the delta base
+	# to resolve the delta.
+	git hash-object big-blob.txt >hash &&
+	grep "want $(cat hash)" trace
+'
+
 . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-httpd.sh
 start_httpd
 
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Previous: Jonathan NiederNext: Eric Sunshine
Message 8 of 12 in “fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0”
  1. fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0Jonathan Tan, Nov 1, 2019
  2. Jonathan NiederNov 1, 2019
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2019
  4. Eric SunshineNov 2, 2019
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2019
  6. Jonathan TanNov 5, 2019
  7. Jonathan NiederNov 5, 2019
  8. fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0Jonathan Tan, Nov 5, 2019
  9. Eric SunshineNov 5, 2019
  10. Junio C HamanoNov 6, 2019
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2019
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2019

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