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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Colby Ranger <cranger@google.com>,
	David Barr <barr@github.com>
Subject: Re: Using bitmaps to accelerate fetch and clone
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:36:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120927213602.GA12512@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfw63p2wi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 02:33:01PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > So yeah, we would want to put the pack trailer sha1 into the
> > supplementary index file, and check that it matches when we open it.
> > It's a slight annoyance, but it's O(1).
> 
> Yes.  If I am not mistaken, that is exactly how an .idx file makes
> sure that it describes the matching .pack file (it has packfile
> checksum in its trailer).  Otherwise you can repack the same set of
> objects into a new .pack file and make existing .idx very confused.

Yeah. In theory you wouldn't name the new packfile into place without
also generating a new index for it. But even if you do it right, there's
a race condition, and checking the trailer sha1 at least lets us know
that they don't match (I assume we just reject the index, then; I guess
this can result in an operation failing, but in practice it doesn't
really happen, as we don't bother packing unless there are actually new
objects).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-27  0:47 Using bitmaps to accelerate fetch and clone Shawn Pearce
2012-09-27 12:17 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-27 14:33   ` Shawn Pearce
2012-09-28  1:37     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-27 17:20   ` Jeff King
2012-09-27 17:35     ` Shawn Pearce
2012-09-27 18:22       ` Jeff King
2012-09-27 18:36         ` Shawn Pearce
2012-09-27 18:52           ` Jeff King
2012-09-27 20:18             ` Jeff King
2012-09-27 21:33               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-27 21:36                 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-09-27 19:47     ` David Michael Barr
2012-09-28  1:38     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-28 12:00 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-01  1:07   ` Shawn Pearce
2012-10-01  1:59     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-01  2:26       ` Shawn Pearce
2012-10-01 12:48         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-02 15:00           ` Shawn Pearce

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