From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Subject: Re: unifying sequencer's options persisting, was Re: [PATCH v2] sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messages
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 14:10:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0375013-e287-06b1-2718-3736fc1b73e7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b117e65-bf9f-af13-b093-28bbbd6f9bb3@gmail.com>
one more thought below...
On 02/04/2021 12:28, Phillip Wood wrote:
> Hi Dscho and Elijah
>
> On 31/03/2021 14:48, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2021, Elijah Newren wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 3:13 AM Johannes Schindelin
>>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll allow myself one tangent: the subject of the sequencer's Unix
>>>> shell script heritage seems to come up with an increasing frequency,
>>>> in particular the awful "let's write out one file per setting"
>>>> strategy.
>>>>
>>>> I would _love_ for `save_opts()` to write a JSON instead (or an INI
>>>> via the `git_config_*()` family of functions, as is done already by
>>>> the cherry-pick/revert stuff), now that we no longer have any shell
>>>> script backend (apart from `--preserve-merges`, but that one is on its
>>>> way out anyway).
>>>>
>>>> The one thing that concerns me with this idea is that I know for a
>>>> fact that some enterprisey users play games with those files inside
>>>> `<GIT_DIR>/rebase-merge` that should be considered internal
>>>> implementation details. Not sure how to deprecate that properly, I
>>>> don't think we have a sane way to detect whether users rely on these
>>>> implementation details other than breaking their expectations, which
>>>> is not really a gentle way to ask them to update their scripts.
>
> I think it depends if users are just reading the files or writing to
> them. If they are reading them (which my scripts do) then we could
> continue to write the important files along side the new single-file
> that git actually reads. I think there is a distinction between the
> files such as git-rebase-todo which hold state and the one-line files
> which hold the options passed by the user. For example I have scripts
> that read git-rebase-todo, rewritten-pending, rewritten-list, amend-head
> and check that author-script exists. If a script starts a rebase then it
> should know what options are in effect without reading them from
> .git/rebase-merge.
>
>>> Ooh, I'm glad you took this tangent. May I follow it for a second?
>>> I'd really, really like this too, for three reasons:
>>>
>>> 1) I constantly get confused about the massive duplication and
>>> difference in control structures and which ones affect which type of
>>> operations in sequencer.c. Having them both use an ini-file would
>>> allow us to remove lots of that duplication. I'm sure there'll still
>>> be some rebase-specific or cherry-pick-specific options, but we don't
>>> need a separate parallel structure for every piece of config.
One thing to bear in mind is that you can cherry-pick or revert a
sequence of commits while rebasing - I think that means we need to store
the state for rebase in a separate location to that for cherry-pick/revert
Best Wishes
Phillip
>>> 2) In my merge-ort optimization work, rebasing 35 commits in linux.git
>>> across a massive set of 26K upstream renames has dropped rename
>>> detection time from the top spot. And it also dropped several other
>>> things in the merge machinery from their spots as well. Do you know
>>> what's the slowest now? Wasted time from sequencer.c: the unnecessary
>>> process forking and all the useless disk writing (which I suspect is
>>> mostly updating the index and working directory but also writing all
>>> the individual control files under .git/rebase-merge/). And this
>>> stuff from sequencer.c is not just barely the slowest part, it's the
>>> slowest by a wide margin.
>
> I think we do a lot of needless writing which is unrelated to whether we
> write to one file or may files. For example from memory picking a commit
> involves writing the 'message', 'author-script', 'rewritten-pending'
> (which is often immediately deleted), 'rewritten-list' (we append to
> that one) 'CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' (which is immediately deleted unless the
> pick has become empty), 'git-rebase-todo' is completely rewritten, and
> 'done' is appended to. None of this is necessary. For rewording and
> merges the only thing that needs to be written is the commit message for
> the external process to use. Fixup and squash add a couple more files
> into the mix.
>
> I think we would save a lot by only syncing the state to disk when we
> stop or run an exec command (the state needs to be synced so exec
> commands can alter the todo list). In those cases we need to write the
> index and possibly run an external process so writing a couple of files
> is probably insignificant.
>
> Where I think we can usefully consolidate is the one-line files which
> store the options rather than state - these are read an written much
> less frequently so I don't think they have much of a performance hit but
> it would be much nicer to just serialize the options to a single file.
>
>>>
>>> 3) I also want to allow cherry-picking or rebasing branches that
>>> aren't even checked out (assuming no conflicts are triggered;
>>> otherwise an error can be shown with the user asked to repeat with the
>>> operation connected to an active working directory).
>
> Exciting!
>
>>> For such an
>>> operation, the difference between "cherry-pick" and "rebase" is nearly
>>> irrelevant so you'd expect the code to be the same; every time I look
>>> at the code, though, it seems that the control structures are
>>> separating these two types of operations in more areas than just the
>>> reading and writing of the config.
>
> Yes this can be confusing, for example rebase and cherry-pick handle the
> todo list differently. Rebase removes the command before trying to pick
> the commit and adds it back if the pick fails for a non-conflict reason,
> cherry-pick only removes the command if the pick is successful.
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Phillip
>
>> Excellent, we're in agreement, then.
>>
>> The remaining question is: how do we want to go about it? Do we just want
>> to codify the notion that these are internal details that are nobody's
>> business, and if they are using the exact file system layout of the
>> current sequencer, then it's their responsibility to adapt?
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Dscho
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-02 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-26 7:16 [PATCH] sequencer: fix edit handling for cherry-pick and revert messages Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-03-26 12:27 ` Philip Oakley
2021-03-26 15:12 ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-28 1:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 9:23 ` Phillip Wood
2021-03-29 20:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29 21:25 ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-30 2:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-03-30 10:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-03-30 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-30 20:16 ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-31 17:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-31 17:52 ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-31 18:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-01 16:31 ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-30 19:37 ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-31 13:48 ` unifying sequencer's options persisting, was " Johannes Schindelin
2021-04-02 11:28 ` Phillip Wood
2021-04-02 13:10 ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2021-04-02 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-02 22:18 ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-02 22:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08 2:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-04-08 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08 19:58 ` Christian Couder
2021-04-09 13:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-03-31 6:52 ` [PATCH v3] " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-03-31 14:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-04-02 11:40 unifying sequencer's options persisting, was Re: [PATCH v2] " Gabriel Young
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