Re: [PATCH] builtin/repack.c: invalidate MIDX only when necessary

On 8/25/2020 10:41 AM, Taylor Blau wrote:

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 09:14:19AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:

quoted

The code in builtin/repack.c looks good for sure. I have a quick question
about this new test:

+test_expect_success 'repack preserves multi-pack-index when deleting unknown packs' '
+	git multi-pack-index write &&
+	cp $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak &&
+	test_when_finished "rm -f $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak" &&
+
+	# Write a new pack that is unknown to the multi-pack-index.
+	git hash-object -w </dev/null >blob &&
+	git pack-objects $objdir/pack/pack <blob &&
+
+	GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=0 git -c core.multiPackIndex repack -d &&
+	test_cmp_bin $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index \
+		$objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak
+'
+

You create an arbitrary blob, and then add it to a pack-file. Do we
know that 'git repack' is definitely creating a new pack-file that makes
our manually-created pack-file redundant?

My suggestion is to have the test check itself:

+test_expect_success 'repack preserves multi-pack-index when deleting unknown packs' '
+	git multi-pack-index write &&
+	cp $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak &&
+	test_when_finished "rm -f $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak" &&
+
+	# Write a new pack that is unknown to the multi-pack-index.
+	git hash-object -w </dev/null >blob &&
+	HASH=$(git pack-objects $objdir/pack/pack <blob) &&
+
+	GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=0 git -c core.multiPackIndex repack -d &&
+	test_cmp_bin $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index \
+		$objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak &&
+	test_path_is_missing $objdir/pack/pack-$HASH.pack
+'
+

This test fails for me, on the 'test_path_is_missing'. Likely, the
blob is seen as already in a pack-file so is just pruned by 'git repack'
instead. I thought that perhaps we need to add a new pack ourselves that
overrides the small pack. Here is my attempt:

test_expect_success 'repack preserves multi-pack-index when deleting unknown packs' '
	git multi-pack-index write &&
	cp $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak &&
	test_when_finished "rm -f $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak" &&

	# Write a new pack that is unknown to the multi-pack-index.
	BLOB1=$(echo blob1 | git hash-object -w --stdin) &&
	BLOB2=$(echo blob2 | git hash-object -w --stdin) &&
	cat >blobs <<-EOF &&
	$BLOB1
	$BLOB2
	EOF
	HASH1=$(echo $BLOB1 | git pack-objects $objdir/pack/pack) &&
	HASH2=$(git pack-objects $objdir/pack/pack <blobs) &&
	GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=0 git -c core.multiPackIndex repack -d &&
	test_cmp_bin $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index \
		$objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak &&
	test_path_is_file $objdir/pack/pack-$HASH2.pack &&
	test_path_is_missing $objdir/pack/pack-$HASH1.pack
'

However, this _still_ fails on the "test_path_is_missing" line, so I'm not sure
how to make sure your logic is tested. I saw that 'git repack' was writing
"nothing new to pack" in the output, so I also tested adding a few commits and
trying to force it to repack reachable data, but I cannot seem to trigger it
to create a new pack that overrides only one pack that is not in the MIDX.

Likely, I just don't know how 'git rebase' works well enough to trigger this
behavior. But the test as-is is not testing what you want it to test.

I think this case might actually be impossible to tickle in a test. I
thought that 'git repack -d' looked for existing packs whose objects are
a subset of some new pack generated. But, it's much simpler than that:
'-d' by itself just looks for packs that were already on disk with the
same SHA-1 as a new pack, and it removes the old one.

If 'git repack' never calls remove_redundant_pack() unless we are doing
a "full repack", then we could simplify this logic:

 static void remove_redundant_pack(const char *dir_name, const char *base_name)
 {
 	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
-	strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s/%s.pack", dir_name, base_name);
+	struct multi_pack_index *m = get_multi_pack_index(the_repository);
+	strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s.pack", base_name);
+	if (m && midx_contains_pack(m, buf.buf))
+		clear_midx_file(the_repository);
+	strbuf_insertf(&buf, 0, "%s/", dir_name);
 	unlink_pack_path(buf.buf, 1);
 	strbuf_release(&buf);
 }

to

 static void remove_redundant_pack(const char *dir_name, const char *base_name)
 {
 	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
	strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s/%s.pack", dir_name, base_name);
+	clear_midx_file(the_repository);
 	unlink_pack_path(buf.buf, 1);
 	strbuf_release(&buf);
 }

and get the same results as we are showing in these tests. This does
move us incrementally to a better situation: don't delete the MIDX
if we aren't deleting pack files. But, I think we can get around it.

Note that 'git repack' uses 'git pack-objects' internally to find
objects and generate a packfile. When calling 'git pack-objects', 'git
repack -d' passes '--all' and '--unpacked', which means that there is no
way we'd generate a new pack with the same SHA-1 as an existing pack
ordinarily.

So, I think this case is impossible, or at least astronomically
unlikely. What is more interesting (and untested) is that adding a _new_
pack doesn't cause us to invalidate the MIDX. Here's a patch that does
that:

  diff --git a/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh b/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh
  index 16a1ad040e..620f2058d6 100755
  --- a/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh
  +++ b/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh
  @@ -391,18 +391,27 @@ test_expect_success 'repack removes multi-pack-index when deleting packs' '
          test_path_is_missing $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index
   '

  -test_expect_success 'repack preserves multi-pack-index when deleting unknown packs' '
  -       git multi-pack-index write &&
  -       cp $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak &&
  -       test_when_finished "rm -f $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak" &&
  -
  -       # Write a new pack that is unknown to the multi-pack-index.
  -       git hash-object -w </dev/null >blob &&
  -       git pack-objects $objdir/pack/pack <blob &&
  -
  -       GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=0 git -c core.multiPackIndex repack -d &&
  -       test_cmp_bin $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index \
  -               $objdir/pack/multi-pack-index.bak
  +test_expect_success 'repack preserves multi-pack-index when creating packs' '
  +       git init preserve &&
  +       test_when_finished "rm -fr preserve" &&
  +       (
  +               cd preserve &&
  +               midx=.git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&
  +
  +               test_commit "initial" &&
  +               git repack -ad &&
  +               git multi-pack-index write &&
  +               ls .git/objects/pack | grep "\.pack$" >before &&
  +
  +               cp $midx $midx.bak &&
  +
  +               test_commit "another" &&
  +               GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=0 git -c core.multiPackIndex repack -d &&
  +               ls .git/objects/pack | grep "\.pack$" >after &&
  +
  +               test_cmp_bin $midx.bak $midx &&
  +               ! test_cmp before after
  +       )
   '

After looking at the callers to remote_redundant_pack() I noticed that it is only
called after inspecting the "names" struct, which contains the names of the packs
to group into a new pack-file. We can use a .keep file to preserve the pack-file(s) in
the MIDX but also to ensure multiple pack-files outside of the MIDX are repacked and
deleted. While this is very unlikely in the wild, it is definitely possible.

test_expect_success 'repack preserves multi-pack-index when deleting unknown packs' '
	git init preserve &&
	test_when_finished "rm -fr preserve" &&
	(
		cd preserve &&
		midx=.git/objects/pack/multi-pack-index &&

		test_commit 1 &&
		HASH1=$(git pack-objects --all .git/objects/pack/pack) &&
		touch .git/objects/pack/pack-$HASH1.keep &&

		cat >pack-input <<-\EOF &&
		HEAD
		^HEAD~1
		EOF

		test_commit 2 &&
		HASH2=$(git pack-objects --revs .git/objects/pack/pack <pack-input) &&
		touch .git/objects/pack/pack-$HASH2.keep &&

		git multi-pack-index write &&
		cp $midx $midx.bak &&

		test_commit 3 &&
		HASH3=$(git pack-objects --revs .git/objects/pack/pack <pack-input) &&

		test_commit 4 &&
		HASH4=$(git pack-objects --revs .git/objects/pack/pack <pack-input) &&

		GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=0 git -c core.multiPackIndex repack -ad &&
		test_path_is_file .git/objects/pack/pack-$HASH1.pack &&
		test_path_is_file .git/objects/pack/pack-$HASH2.pack &&
		test_path_is_missing .git/objects/pack/pack-$HASH3.pack &&
		test_path_is_missing .git/objects/pack/pack-$HASH4.pack
       )
'

I believe this checks your condition properly enough.

Thanks,
-Stolee