The direct-writes commit left some (slow) internals methods that
were no longer needed. These have been removed.
Also, the Reflog code was using the old `git_signature__write`, so
it has been rewritten to use a normal buffer and the new `writebuf`
signature writer. It's now slightly simpler and faster.
DIRECT WRITES ARE BACK AND FASTER THAN EVER. The streaming writer to the
ODB was an overkill for the smaller objects like Commit and Tags; most
of the streaming logic was taking too long.
This commit makes Commits, Tags and Trees to be built-up in memory, and
then written to disk in 2 pushes (header + data), instead of streaming
everything.
This is *always* faster, even for big files (since the git_filebuf class
still does streaming writes when the memory cache overflows). This is
also a gazillion lines of code smaller, because we don't have to
precompute the final size of the object before starting the stream (this
was kind of defeating the point of streaming, anyway).
Blobs are still written with full streaming instead of loading them in
memory, since this is still the fastest way.
A new `git_buf` class has been added. It's missing some features, but
it'll get there.
Cleaned up the structure of the whole OS-abstraction layer.
fileops.c now contains a set of utility methods for file management used
by the library. These are abstractions on top of the original POSIX
calls.
There's a new file called `posix.c` that contains
emulations/reimplementations of all the POSIX calls the library uses.
These are prefixed with `p_`. There's a specific posix file for each
platform (win32 and unix).
All the path-related methods have been moved from `utils.c` to `path.c`
and have their own prefix.
A bunch of redundant methods have been removed from the external API.
- All the reference/tag creation methods with `_f` are gone. The force
flag is now passed as an argument to the normal create methods.
- All the different commit creation methods are gone; commit creation
now always requires a `git_commit` pointer for parents and a `git_tree`
pointer for tree, to ensure that corrupted commits cannot be generated.
- All the different tag creation methods are gone; tag creation now
always requires a `git_object` pointer to ensure that tags are not
created to inexisting objects.
Before this commit, malformed tag and signature were considered as
valid by the parser. See the test t3800-mktag.sh of git to see example
of malformed tag and signature.
Don't blindly pass the target type to git_tag_type2string as it will
give an empty string on GIT_OBJ_ANY which would cause us to create an
invalid tag object.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Expose the tag parsing capabilities already present in the
library.
Exporting this function makes it possible to implement the
mktag command without duplicating this functionality.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Hey. Apologies in advance -- I broke your bindings.
This is a major commit that includes a long-overdue redesign of the
whole object-database structure. This is expected to be the last major
external API redesign of the library until the first non-alpha release.
Please get your bindings up to date with these changes. They will be
included in the next minor release. Sorry again!
Major features include:
- Real caching and refcounting on parsed objects
- Real caching and refcounting on objects read from the ODB
- Streaming writes & reads from the ODB
- Single-method writes for all object types
- The external API is now partially thread-safe
The speed increases are significant in all aspects, specially when
reading an object several times from the ODB (revwalking) and when
writing big objects to the ODB.
Here's a full changelog for the external API:
blob.h
------
- Remove `git_blob_new`
- Remove `git_blob_set_rawcontent`
- Remove `git_blob_set_rawcontent_fromfile`
- Rename `git_blob_writefile` -> `git_blob_create_fromfile`
- Change `git_blob_create_fromfile`:
The `path` argument is now relative to the repository's working dir
- Add `git_blob_create_frombuffer`
commit.h
--------
- Remove `git_commit_new`
- Remove `git_commit_add_parent`
- Remove `git_commit_set_message`
- Remove `git_commit_set_committer`
- Remove `git_commit_set_author`
- Remove `git_commit_set_tree`
- Add `git_commit_create`
- Add `git_commit_create_v`
- Add `git_commit_create_o`
- Add `git_commit_create_ov`
tag.h
-----
- Remove `git_tag_new`
- Remove `git_tag_set_target`
- Remove `git_tag_set_name`
- Remove `git_tag_set_tagger`
- Remove `git_tag_set_message`
- Add `git_tag_create`
- Add `git_tag_create_o`
tree.h
------
- Change `git_tree_entry_2object`:
New signature is `(git_object **object_out, git_repository *repo, git_tree_entry *entry)`
- Remove `git_tree_new`
- Remove `git_tree_add_entry`
- Remove `git_tree_remove_entry_byindex`
- Remove `git_tree_remove_entry_byname`
- Remove `git_tree_clearentries`
- Remove `git_tree_entry_set_id`
- Remove `git_tree_entry_set_name`
- Remove `git_tree_entry_set_attributes`
object.h
------------
- Remove `git_object_new
- Remove `git_object_write`
- Change `git_object_close`:
This method is now *mandatory*. Not closing an object causes a
memory leak.
odb.h
-----
- Remove type `git_rawobj`
- Remove `git_rawobj_close`
- Rename `git_rawobj_hash` -> `git_odb_hash`
- Change `git_odb_hash`:
New signature is `(git_oid *id, const void *data, size_t len, git_otype type)`
- Add type `git_odb_object`
- Add `git_odb_object_close`
- Change `git_odb_read`:
New signature is `(git_odb_object **out, git_odb *db, const git_oid *id)`
- Change `git_odb_read_header`:
New signature is `(size_t *len_p, git_otype *type_p, git_odb *db, const git_oid *id)`
- Remove `git_odb_write`
- Add `git_odb_open_wstream`
- Add `git_odb_open_rstream`
odb_backend.h
-------------
- Change type `git_odb_backend`:
New internal signatures are as follows
int (* read)(void **, size_t *, git_otype *, struct git_odb_backend *, const git_oid *)
int (* read_header)(size_t *, git_otype *, struct git_odb_backend *, const git_oid *)
int (* writestream)(struct git_odb_stream **, struct git_odb_backend *, size_t, git_otype)
int (* readstream)( struct git_odb_stream **, struct git_odb_backend *, const git_oid *)
- Add type `git_odb_stream`
- Add enum `git_odb_streammode`
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
It's no longer retarded. All object interdependencies are stored as OIDs
instead of actual objects. This should be hundreds of times faster,
specially on big repositories. Heck, who knows, maye it doesn't even
segfault -- wouldn't that be awesome?
What has changed on the API?
`git_commit_parent`, `git_commit_tree`, `git_tag_target` now return
their values through a pointer-to-pointer, and have an error code.
`git_commit_set_tree` and `git_tag_set_target` now return an error
code and may fail.
`git_repository_free__no_gc` has been deprecated because it's
stupid. Since there are no longer any interdependencies between
objects, we don't need internal reference counting, and GC
never fails or double-free's pointers.
`git_object_close` now does a very sane thing: marks an object
as unused. Closed objects will be eventually free'd from the
object cache based on LRU. Please use `git_object_close` from
the garbage collector `destroy` method on your bindings. It's
100% safe.
`git_repository_gc` is a new method that forces a garbage collector
pass through the repo, to free as many LRU objects as possible.
This is useful if we are running out of memory.
Disable garbage collection of cross-references to prevent
double-freeing. Internal reference management is now done
with a separate method.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
All `git_object` instances looked up from the repository are reference
counted. User is expected to use the new `git_object_close` when an
object is no longer needed to force freeing it.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
The methods previously known as
git_repository_lookup
git_repository_newobject
git_repository_lookup_ref
are now part of their respective namespaces:
git_object_lookup
git_object_new
git_reference_lookup
This makes the API more consistent with the new references API.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
The new signature struct is public, and contains information about the
timezone offset. Must be free'd manually by the user.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Libgit2 is now officially include as
#include "<git2.h>"
or indidividual files may be included as
#include <git2/index.h>
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
The maze with include dependencies has been fixed.
There is now a global include:
#include <git.h>
The git_odb_backend API has been exposed.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
All initialization functions now return error codes instead of pointers.
Error codes are now properly propagated on most functions. Several new
and more specific error codes have been added in common.h
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
String mememory is now managed in a much more sane manner.
Fixes include:
- git_person email and name is no longer limited to 64 characters
- git_tree_entry filename is no longer limited to 255 characters
- raw objects are properly opened & closed the minimum amount of
times required for parsing
- unit tests no longer leak
- removed 5 other misc memory leaks as reported by Valgrind
- tree writeback no longer segfaults on rare ocassions
The git_person struct is no longer public. It is now managed by the
library, and getter methods are in place to access its internal
attributes.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Tag files can now be created and modified in-memory (all the setter
methods have been implemented), and written back to disk using the
generic git_object_write() method.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
