Revision 663b2b1b90bf76275044824ddeca96aaec240f09 authored by Derrick Stolee on 17 September 2020, 18:11:46 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 17 September 2020, 18:30:05 UTC
The first new task in the 'git maintenance' builtin is the
'commit-graph' task. This updates the commit-graph file
incrementally with the command

	git commit-graph write --reachable --split

By writing an incremental commit-graph file using the "--split"
option we minimize the disruption from this operation. The default
behavior is to merge layers until the new "top" layer is less than
half the size of the layer below. This provides quick writes most
of the time, with the longer writes following a power law
distribution.

Most importantly, concurrent Git processes only look at the
commit-graph-chain file for a very short amount of time, so they
will verly likely not be holding a handle to the file when we try
to replace it. (This only matters on Windows.)

If a concurrent process reads the old commit-graph-chain file, but
our job expires some of the .graph files before they can be read,
then those processes will see a warning message (but not fail).
This could be avoided by a future update to use the --expire-time
argument when writing the commit-graph.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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blob.h
#ifndef BLOB_H
#define BLOB_H

#include "object.h"

extern const char *blob_type;

struct blob {
	struct object object;
};

struct blob *lookup_blob(struct repository *r, const struct object_id *oid);

int parse_blob_buffer(struct blob *item, void *buffer, unsigned long size);

/**
 * Blobs do not contain references to other objects and do not have
 * structured data that needs parsing. However, code may use the
 * "parsed" bit in the struct object for a blob to determine whether
 * its content has been found to actually be available, so
 * parse_blob_buffer() is used (by object.c) to flag that the object
 * has been read successfully from the database.
 **/

#endif /* BLOB_H */
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