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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>,
	Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit-graph: ignore duplicates when merging layers
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:15:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201008141527.GA351725@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.747.git.1602165413035.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:56:52PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
>
> Thomas reported [1] that a "git fetch" command was failing with an error
> saying "unexpected duplicate commit id". The root cause is that they had
> fetch.writeCommitGraph enabled which generates commit-graph chains, and
> this instance was merging two layers that both contained the same commit
> ID.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/55f8f00c-a61c-67d4-889e-a9501c596c39@virtuell-zuhause.de/
>
> The initial assumption is that Git would not write a commit ID into a
> commit-graph layer if it already exists in a lower commit-graph layer.
> Somehow, this specific case did get into that situation, leading to this
> error.
>
> While unexpected, this isn't actually invalid (as long as the two layers
> agree on the metadata for the commit). When we parse a commit that does
> not have a graph_pos in the commit_graph_data_slab, we use binary search
> in the commit-graph layers to find the commit and set graph_pos. That
> position is never used again in this case. However, when we parse a
> commit from the commit-graph file, we load its parents from the
> commit-graph and assign graph_pos at that point. If those parents were
> already parsed from the commit-graph, then nothing needs to be done.
> Otherwise, this graph_pos is a valid position in the commit-graph so we
> can parse the parents, when necessary.
>
> Thus, this die() is too aggignoring the duplicates.

s/aggignoring/aggressively ignoring ?

>
> This leads to some additional complication that we did no have before:

s/no/not, but I am more wondering about what "This" is. I think what
you're saying is: "Suppose we didn't die on duplicates, what would
happen? Well, there'd be some additional problems, but here's a way that
we can fix them (storing the de-duplicated OIDs separately)".

> if we only ignore the duplicates, then we will produce a commit-graph
> that has identical commit IDs listed in adjacent positions. This excess
> data will never be removed from the commit-graph, which could cascade
> into significantly bloated file sizes.
>
> Begrudgingly, the best way to fix this is to copy the commit pointers
> into a new list that only contains de-duplicated commit IDs. This adds a
> slight memory overhead, but it is small compared to having all of these
> commits parsed in memory, so it should be an acceptable cost for
> avoiding these failures.
>
> Since the root cause for producing commit-graph layers with these
> duplicate commits is currently unknown, it is difficult to create a test
> for this scenario. For now, we must rely on testing the example data
> graciously provided in [1]. My local test successfully merged layers,
> and 'git commit-graph verify' passed.
>
> Reported-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
> Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
> ---
>     commit-graph: ignore duplicates when merging layers
>
>     This wasn't quite as simple as what Peff had posted, since we really
>     don't want to keep duplicate commits around in the new merged layer.
>
>     I still don't have a grasp on how this happened in the first place, but
>     will keep looking.

I'm looking as well, but I haven't found any smoking guns yet. I could
imagine that this is a problem that existed before 0bd52e27e3
(commit-graph.h: store an odb in 'struct write_commit_graph_context',
2020-02-03), and simply couldn't be tickled because of how brittle
comparing ODB paths is. I could equally imagine that 0bd52e27e3 did
introduce this problem.
>
>     Thanks, -Stolee
>
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-747%2Fderrickstolee%2Fcommit-graph-dup-commits-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-747/derrickstolee/commit-graph-dup-commits-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/747
>
>  commit-graph.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/commit-graph.c b/commit-graph.c
> index cb042bdba8..29bac78dc3 100644
> --- a/commit-graph.c
> +++ b/commit-graph.c
> @@ -2009,6 +2009,7 @@ static int commit_compare(const void *_a, const void *_b)
>  static void sort_and_scan_merged_commits(struct write_commit_graph_context *ctx)
>  {
>  	uint32_t i;
> +	struct packed_commit_list deduped_commits = { NULL, 0, 0 };
>
>  	if (ctx->report_progress)
>  		ctx->progress = start_delayed_progress(
> @@ -2016,6 +2017,8 @@ static void sort_and_scan_merged_commits(struct write_commit_graph_context *ctx)
>  					ctx->commits.nr);
>
>  	QSORT(ctx->commits.list, ctx->commits.nr, commit_compare);
> +	deduped_commits.alloc = ctx->commits.nr;
> +	ALLOC_ARRAY(deduped_commits.list, deduped_commits.alloc);

I'm not sure that this deduped_commits list is actually necessary.

It would be nice for this caller if ctx->commits were a linked list
since it would make deleting duplicates easy, but I think that it would
be a burden for other callers. So, that's a dead end.

But what about marking the duplicate positions by NULL-ing them out, and
then taking another pass over the list to (1) compact it (i.e., push
everything down so that all of the NULLs occur at the end), and then (2)
truncate the length to the number of unique commits.

I could imagine that something like that is a little trickier, but it
seems worth it to avoid doubling the memory cost of this function.

>  	ctx->num_extra_edges = 0;
>  	for (i = 0; i < ctx->commits.nr; i++) {
> @@ -2023,17 +2026,30 @@ static void sort_and_scan_merged_commits(struct write_commit_graph_context *ctx)
>
>  		if (i && oideq(&ctx->commits.list[i - 1]->object.oid,
>  			  &ctx->commits.list[i]->object.oid)) {
> -			die(_("unexpected duplicate commit id %s"),
> -			    oid_to_hex(&ctx->commits.list[i]->object.oid));
> +			/*
> +			 * Silently ignore duplicates. These were likely
> +			 * created due to a commit appearing in multiple
> +			 * layers of the chain, which is unexpected but
> +			 * not invalid. We should make sure there is a
> +			 * unique copy in the new layer.
> +			 */
>  		} else {
>  			unsigned int num_parents;
>
> +			deduped_commits.list[deduped_commits.nr] = ctx->commits.list[i];
> +			deduped_commits.nr++;
> +
>  			num_parents = commit_list_count(ctx->commits.list[i]->parents);
>  			if (num_parents > 2)
>  				ctx->num_extra_edges += num_parents - 1;
>  		}
>  	}
>
> +	free(ctx->commits.list);
> +	ctx->commits.list = deduped_commits.list;
> +	ctx->commits.nr = deduped_commits.nr;
> +	ctx->commits.alloc = deduped_commits.alloc;
> +
>  	stop_progress(&ctx->progress);
>  }
>
>
> base-commit: d98273ba77e1ab9ec755576bc86c716a97bf59d7
> --
> gitgitgadget

Thanks,
Taylor

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-08 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-08 13:56 [PATCH] commit-graph: ignore duplicates when merging layers Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-10-08 14:15 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2020-10-08 14:29   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-10-08 14:59 ` [PATCH v2] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-10-08 15:04   ` [PATCH v3] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-10-08 15:53     ` Jeff King
2020-10-08 16:26       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-10-08 16:42         ` Taylor Blau
2020-10-08 16:43         ` Jeff King
2020-10-09 20:53     ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-10-09 20:53       ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-10-09 20:53       ` [PATCH v4 2/2] commit-graph: don't write commit-graph when disabled Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-10-09 21:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-09 21:17         ` Taylor Blau

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