1. The license header is technically not valid if it doesn't have a
copyright signature.
2. The COPYING file has been updated with the different licenses used in
the project.
3. The full GPLv2 header in each file annoys me.
The old hash table with chained buckets has been replaced by a new one
using Cuckoo hashing, which offers guaranteed constant lookup times.
This should improve speeds on most use cases, since hash tables in
libgit2 are usually used as caches where the objects are stored once and
queried several times.
The Cuckoo hash implementation is based off the one in the Basekit
library [1] for the IO language, but rewritten to support an arbritrary
number of hashes. We currently use 3 to maximize the usage of the nodes pool.
[1]: https://github.com/stevedekorte/basekit/blob/master/source/CHash.c
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
A new method 'git_repository_object_free' allows to manually force the
freeing of a repository object, even though they are still automatically
managed by the repository and don't need to be freed by the user.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
The old 'git_revpool' object has been removed and
split into two distinct objects with separate
functionality, in order to have separate methods for
object management and object walking.
* A new object 'git_repository' does the high-level
management of a repository's objects (commits, trees,
tags, etc) on top of a 'git_odb'.
Eventually, it will also manage other repository
attributes (e.g. tag resolution, references, etc).
See: src/git/repository.h
* A new external method
'git_repository_lookup(repo, oid, type)'
has been added to the 'git_repository' API.
All object lookups (git_XXX_lookup()) are now
wrappers to this method, and duplicated code
has been removed. The method does automatic type
checking and returns a generic 'git_revpool_object'
that can be cast to any specific object.
See: src/git/repository.h
* The external methods for object parsing of repository
objects (git_XXX_parse()) have been removed.
Loading objects from the repository is now managed
through the 'lookup' functions. These objects are
loaded with minimal information, and the relevant
parsing is done automatically when the user requests
any of the parsed attributes through accessor methods.
An attribute has been added to 'git_repository' in
order to force the parsing of all the repository objects
immediately after lookup.
See: src/git/commit.h
See: src/git/tag.h
See: src/git/tree.h
* The previous walking functionality of the revpool
is now found in 'git_revwalk', which does the actual
revision walking on a repository; the attributes
when walking through commits in a database have been
decoupled from the actual commit objects.
This increases performance when accessing commits
during the walk and allows to have several
'git_revwalk' instances working at the same time on
top of the same repository, without having to load
commits in memory several times.
See: src/git/revwalk.h
* The old 'git_revpool_table' has been renamed to
'git_hashtable' and now works as a generic hashtable
with support for any kind of object and custom hash
functions.
See: src/hashtable.h
* All the relevant unit tests have been updated, renamed
and grouped accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
