We exit early from lookup_commit_in_graph() if the commit_graph pointer
is NULL, under the assumption that we don't have a graph to look at. But
the graph pointer is lazy-loaded; if no other code happens to have
called prepare_commit_graph(), we'll incorrectly assume that one isn't
available at all.
This has a pretty small performance impact in practice, because the
fallback will generally be to call parse_object() instead. That ends up
in parse_commit_buffer(), which loads the graph data itself. So the
first commit we see won't use the graph, but subsequent ones will. Since
using the graph is just an optimization there's generally no
user-visible difference, but if you instrument rev-list like so:
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index ee702e498a..63c488ffb6 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -381,6 +381,9 @@ static struct object *get_reference(struct rev_info *revs, const char *name,
* parsing commit data from disk.
*/
commit = lookup_commit_in_graph(revs->repo, oid);
+ warning("%s %s in commit graph",
+ commit ? "found" : "did not find",
+ name);
if (commit)
object = &commit->object;
else
and run (in git.git):
git commit-graph write --reachable
git rev-list origin/master origin/next >/dev/null
you'll see that we fail to find the first one:
warning: did not find origin/master in commit graph
warning: found origin/next in commit graph
After this patch, you'll see that we find both:
warning: found origin/master in commit graph
warning: found origin/next in commit graph
Even though the performance implication is small here, there are two
important reasons to do this:
- it's downright confusing if you are hunting a bug triggered by the
use of the commit graph. It may or may not trigger depending on the
number and ordering of tips you ask for.
- prepare_commit_graph() has other policy logic, too. In particular,
if we've loaded a commit graph and then disabled the graph via
disable_commit_graph(), that should take precedence.
I'm not sure if this can trigger bad behavior in practice. The only
caller there is upload-pack's deepen_by_rev_list(), which should be
avoiding the commit graph for its traversal tips, but probably
wasn't before this patch. Whether you could come up with a case
where that mattered is unclear. Still, this is obviously the right
thing to be doing.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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