[PATCH v3 2/2] blame: enable and test the sparse index

From: Lessley Dennington via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2021, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <cfdd33129ec6860cbec0cb20302598429db1115e.1635802069.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1050.v3.git.1635802069.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Lessley Dennington <lessleydennington@gmail.com>

Enable the sparse index for the 'git blame' command. The index was already not expanded with this command, so the most interesting thing to do is to add tests that verify that 'git blame' behaves correctly when the sparse index is enabled and that its performance improves. More specifically, these cases are:

1. The index is not expanded for 'blame' when given paths in the sparse
checkout cone at multiple levels.

2. Performance measurably improves for 'blame' with sparse index when given
paths in the sparse checkout cone at multiple levels.

The `p2000` tests demonstrate a ~60% execution time reduction when running 'blame' for a file two levels deep and and a ~30% execution time reduction for a file three levels deep.

Test before after ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2000.62: git blame f2/f4/a (full-v3) 0.31 0.32 +3.2% 2000.63: git blame f2/f4/a (full-v4) 0.29 0.31 +6.9% 2000.64: git blame f2/f4/a (sparse-v3) 0.55 0.23 -58.2% 2000.65: git blame f2/f4/a (sparse-v4) 0.57 0.23 -59.6% 2000.66: git blame f2/f4/f3/a (full-v3) 0.77 0.85 +10.4% 2000.67: git blame f2/f4/f3/a (full-v4) 0.78 0.81 +3.8% 2000.68: git blame f2/f4/f3/a (sparse-v3) 1.07 0.72 -32.7% 2000.99: git blame f2/f4/f3/a (sparse-v4) 1.05 0.73 -30.5%

We do not include paths outside the sparse checkout cone because blame currently does not support blaming files outside of the sparse definition. Attempting to do so fails with the following error:

  fatal: no such path '<path outside sparse definition>' in HEAD

Signed-off-by: Lessley Dennington <lessleydennington@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/blame.c                          |  3 ++
 t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh        |  2 +
 t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh | 48 ++++++++++++++++++------
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index 641523ff9af..af3d81e2bd4 100644
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -902,6 +902,9 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	long anchor;
 	const int hexsz = the_hash_algo->hexsz;
 
+	prepare_repo_settings(the_repository);
+	the_repository->settings.command_requires_full_index = 0;
+
 	setup_default_color_by_age();
 	git_config(git_blame_config, &output_option);
 	repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &revs, NULL);
diff --git a/t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh b/t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh
index bff93f16e93..9ac76a049b8 100755
--- a/t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh
+++ b/t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh
@@ -115,5 +115,7 @@ test_perf_on_all git reset --hard
 test_perf_on_all git reset -- does-not-exist
 test_perf_on_all git diff
 test_perf_on_all git diff --staged
+test_perf_on_all git blame $SPARSE_CONE/a
+test_perf_on_all git blame $SPARSE_CONE/f3/a
 
 test_done
diff --git a/t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh b/t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh
index 53524660759..da442f3dcff 100755
--- a/t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh
+++ b/t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh
@@ -442,21 +442,35 @@ test_expect_success 'log with pathspec outside sparse definition' '
 test_expect_success 'blame with pathspec inside sparse definition' '
 	init_repos &&
 
-	test_all_match git blame a &&
-	test_all_match git blame deep/a &&
-	test_all_match git blame deep/deeper1/a &&
-	test_all_match git blame deep/deeper1/deepest/a
+	for file in a \
+			deep/a \
+			deep/deeper1/a \
+			deep/deeper1/deepest/a
+	do
+		test_all_match git blame $file
+	done
 '
 
-# TODO: blame currently does not support blaming files outside of the
-# sparse definition. It complains that the file doesn't exist locally.
-test_expect_failure 'blame with pathspec outside sparse definition' '
+# Blame does not support blaming files outside of the sparse
+# definition, so we verify this scenario.
+test_expect_success 'blame with pathspec outside sparse definition' '
 	init_repos &&
+	test_sparse_match git sparse-checkout set &&
 
-	test_all_match git blame folder1/a &&
-	test_all_match git blame folder2/a &&
-	test_all_match git blame deep/deeper2/a &&
-	test_all_match git blame deep/deeper2/deepest/a
+	for file in a \
+			deep/a \
+			deep/deeper1/a \
+			deep/deeper1/deepest/a
+	do
+		test_sparse_match test_must_fail git blame $file &&
+		cat >expect <<-EOF &&
+		fatal: Cannot lstat '"'"'$file'"'"': No such file or directory
+		EOF
+		# We compare sparse-checkout-err and sparse-index-err in
+		# `test_sparse_match`. Given we know they are the same, we
+		# only check the content of sparse-index-err here.
+		test_cmp expect sparse-index-err
+	done
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'checkout and reset (mixed)' '
@@ -878,6 +892,18 @@ test_expect_success 'sparse index is not expanded: diff' '
 	ensure_not_expanded diff --staged
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'sparse index is not expanded: blame' '
+	init_repos &&
+
+	for file in a \
+			deep/a \
+			deep/deeper1/a \
+			deep/deeper1/deepest/a
+	do
+		ensure_not_expanded blame $file
+	done
+'
+
 # NEEDSWORK: a sparse-checkout behaves differently from a full checkout
 # in this scenario, but it shouldn't.
 test_expect_success 'reset mixed and checkout orphan' '

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