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From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
To: jonathantanmy@google.com
Cc: newren@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, stolee@gmail.com,
	git@jeffhostetler.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:04:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200312180427.192096-1-jonathantanmy@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200310225641.96556-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

> > Does this suggest that the cherry-pick detection is suboptimal and
> > needs to be improved?  When rebasing, it is typical that you are just
> > rebasing a small number of patches compared to how many exist
> > upstream.  As such, any upstream patch modifying files outside the set
> > of files modified on the rebased side is known to not be PATCHSAME
> > without looking at those new files.
> 
> That's true - and this would drastically reduce the fetches necessary in
> partial clone, perhaps enough that we no longer need this check.
> 
> In the absence of partial clone, this also might improve performance
> sufficiently, such that we no longer need my new option. (Or it might
> not.)

I took a further look at this. patch-ids.c and its caller
(cherry_pick_list() in revision.c) implement duplicate checking by first
generating full diff outputs for the commits in the shorter side,
putting them in a hashmap keyed by the SHA-1 of the diff output (and
values being the commit itself), and then generating full diff outputs
for the commits in the longer side and checking them against the
hashmap. When processing the shorter side, we could also generate
filename-only diffs and put their hashes into a hashset; so when
processing the longer side, we could generate the filename-only diff
first (without reading any blobs) and checking them against our new
hashset, and only if it appears in our new hashset, then do we generate
the full diff (thus reading blobs).

One issue with this is unpredictability to the user (since which blobs
get read depend on which side is longer), but that seems resolvable by
not doing any length checks but always reading the blobs on the right
side (that is, the non-upstream side).

So I would say that yes, the cherry-pick detection is suboptimal and
could be improved. So the question is...what to do with my patch? An
argument could be made that my patch should be dropped because an
improvement in cherry-pick detection would eliminate the need for the
option I'm introducing in my patch, but after some thought, I think that
this option will still be useful even with cherry-pick detection. If we
move in a direction where not only blobs but also trees (or even
commits) are omitted, we'll definitely want this new option. And even if
a user is not using partial clone at all, I think it is still useful to
suppress both the filtering of commits (e.g. when upstream has a commit
then revert, it would be reasonable to cherry-pick the same commit on
top) and reduce disk reads (although I don't know if this will be the
case in practice).

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-12 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-09 20:55 [PATCH] rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits Jonathan Tan
2020-03-10  2:10 ` Taylor Blau
2020-03-10 15:51   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-10 12:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-10 16:00   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-10 18:56 ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-10 22:56   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-12 18:04     ` Jonathan Tan [this message]
2020-03-12 22:40       ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-14  8:04         ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-17  3:03           ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-18 17:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Tan
2020-03-18 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-18 19:28     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-18 19:55       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-18 20:41         ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-18 23:39           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-19  0:17             ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-18 20:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-26 17:50   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-26 19:17     ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-26 19:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] t3402: use POSIX compliant regex(7) Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-30  4:06 ` [PATCH v3] rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits Jonathan Tan
2020-03-30  5:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-30  5:22   ` Danh Doan
2020-03-30 12:13   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-03-30 16:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-30 16:57     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-31 11:55       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-03-31 16:27   ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-31 18:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-31 18:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-10 22:27     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-04-11  0:06       ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-11  1:11         ` Jonathan Tan
2020-04-11  2:46           ` Elijah Newren
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-03-26  7:35 [PATCH 0/3] add travis job for linux with musl libc Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26  7:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] ci: libify logic for usage and checking CI_USER Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26  7:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 16:06   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-03-28 17:53   ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-03-29  6:36     ` Danh Doan
2020-03-26  7:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-29  5:49 ` [PATCH 0/3] add travis job for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-03-29 10:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Travis + Azure jobs " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ci: libify logic for usage and checking CI_USER Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-01 21:51     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-01 22:18     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-04-02  1:42       ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 14:53       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-07 21:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-10 13:38           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-29 16:23   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Travis + Azure jobs for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-04-02 13:03   ` [PATCH v3 0/6] " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 1/6] ci: make MAKEFLAGS available inside the Docker container in the Linux32 job Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 2/6] ci/lib-docker: preserve required environment variables Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-03  8:22       ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-04-03 10:09         ` Danh Doan
2020-04-03 19:55           ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 3/6] ci/linux32: parameterise command to switch arch Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 4/6] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 5/6] ci/linux32: libify install-dependencies step Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 6/6] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 17:53     ` [PATCH v3 0/6] Travis + Azure jobs for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-04-03  0:23       ` Danh Doan
2020-04-04  1:08   ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Travis " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 1/6] ci: make MAKEFLAGS available inside the Docker container in the Linux32 job Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 2/6] ci/lib-docker: preserve required environment variables Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 3/6] ci/linux32: parameterise command to switch arch Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 4/6] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 5/6] ci/linux32: libify install-dependencies step Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 6/6] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-05 20:39     ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Travis jobs for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-04-07 14:55       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-07 19:25         ` Junio C Hamano

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