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From: "Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jonathantanmy@google.com, dstolee@microsoft.com,
	"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
	"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 04/20] merge-ort: use histogram diff
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 20:47:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22fecf6ccd1e1eb80bb8391975b482b3d6233540.1607114890.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.923.v2.git.git.1607114890.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>

In my cursory investigation, histogram diffs are about 2% slower than
Myers diffs.  Others have probably done more detailed benchmarks.  But,
in short, histogram diffs have been around for years and in a number of
cases provide obviously better looking diffs where Myers diffs are
unintelligible but the performance hit has kept them from becoming the
default.

However, there are real merge bugs we know about that have triggered on
git.git and linux.git, which I don't have a clue how to address without
the additional information that I believe is provided by histogram
diffs.  See the following:

https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190816184051.GB13894@sigill.intra.peff.net/
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BHvJHpSJT7sdFwfNcPn_sOXwJi3=o14qjZS3M8Rzcxe2A@mail.gmail.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BGtez4qjbtFT1hQoREfcJPmk9MzjhY5eEq1QhXT23tFOw@mail.gmail.com/

I don't like mismerges.  I really don't like silent mismerges.  While I
am sometimes willing to make performance and correctness tradeoff, I'm
much more interested in correctness in general.  I want to fix the above
bugs.  I have not yet started doing so, but I believe histogram diff at
least gives me an angle.  Unfortunately, I can't rely on using the
information from histogram diff unless it's in use.  And it hasn't been
used because of a few percentage performance hit.

In testcases I have looked at, merge-ort is _much_ faster than
merge-recursive for non-trivial merges/rebases/cherry-picks.  As such,
this is a golden opportunity to switch out the underlying diff algorithm
(at least the one used by the merge machinery; git-diff and git-log are
separate questions); doing so will allow me to get additional data and
improved diffs, and I believe it will help me fix the above bugs at some
point in the future.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 merge-ort.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c
index f8ac721aa3..ff305bcbe4 100644
--- a/merge-ort.c
+++ b/merge-ort.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "diffcore.h"
 #include "strmap.h"
 #include "tree.h"
+#include "xdiff-interface.h"
 
 struct merge_options_internal {
 	/*
@@ -235,6 +236,9 @@ static void merge_start(struct merge_options *opt, struct merge_result *result)
 
 	assert(opt->priv == NULL);
 
+	/* Default to histogram diff.  Actually, just hardcode it...for now. */
+	opt->xdl_opts = DIFF_WITH_ALG(opt, HISTOGRAM_DIFF);
+
 	/* Initialization of opt->priv, our internal merge data */
 	opt->priv = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*opt->priv));
 
-- 
gitgitgadget


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-04 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-29  7:43 [PATCH 00/20] fundamentals of merge-ort implementation Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 01/20] merge-ort: setup basic internal data structures Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 02/20] merge-ort: add some high-level algorithm structure Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 03/20] merge-ort: port merge_start() from merge-recursive Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 04/20] merge-ort: use histogram diff Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 05/20] merge-ort: add an err() function similar to one from merge-recursive Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29 10:23   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-30 16:56     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-29 10:26   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 06/20] merge-ort: implement a very basic collect_merge_info() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 07/20] merge-ort: avoid repeating fill_tree_descriptor() on the same tree Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 08/20] merge-ort: compute a few more useful fields for collect_merge_info Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 09/20] merge-ort: record stage and auxiliary info for every path Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 10/20] merge-ort: avoid recursing into identical trees Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 11/20] merge-ort: add a preliminary simple process_entries() implementation Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 12/20] merge-ort: have process_entries operate in a defined order Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 13/20] merge-ort: step 1 of tree writing -- record basenames, modes, and oids Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 14/20] merge-ort: step 2 of tree writing -- function to create tree object Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 15/20] merge-ort: step 3 of tree writing -- handling subdirectories as we go Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 16/20] merge-ort: basic outline for merge_switch_to_result() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 17/20] merge-ort: add implementation of checkout() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 18/20] tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhere Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 19/20] merge-ort: add implementation of record_conflicted_index_entries() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29 10:20   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-29  7:43 ` [PATCH 20/20] merge-ort: free data structures in merge_finalize() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-11-29  7:47 ` [PATCH 00/20] fundamentals of merge-ort implementation Elijah Newren
2020-12-04 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 01/20] merge-ort: setup basic internal data structures Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 02/20] merge-ort: add some high-level algorithm structure Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 03/20] merge-ort: port merge_start() from merge-recursive Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:47   ` Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget [this message]
2020-12-04 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 05/20] merge-ort: add an err() function similar to one " Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 06/20] merge-ort: implement a very basic collect_merge_info() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 07/20] merge-ort: avoid repeating fill_tree_descriptor() on the same tree Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 08/20] merge-ort: compute a few more useful fields for collect_merge_info Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 09/20] merge-ort: record stage and auxiliary info for every path Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 10/20] merge-ort: avoid recursing into identical trees Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 11/20] merge-ort: add a preliminary simple process_entries() implementation Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 12/20] merge-ort: have process_entries operate in a defined order Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 13/20] merge-ort: step 1 of tree writing -- record basenames, modes, and oids Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 14/20] merge-ort: step 2 of tree writing -- function to create tree object Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 15/20] merge-ort: step 3 of tree writing -- handling subdirectories as we go Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 16/20] merge-ort: basic outline for merge_switch_to_result() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 17/20] merge-ort: add implementation of checkout() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 18/20] tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhere Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 19/20] merge-ort: add implementation of record_conflicted_index_entries() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-04 20:48   ` [PATCH v2 20/20] merge-ort: free data structures in merge_finalize() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04   ` [PATCH v3 00/20] fundamentals of merge-ort implementation Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 01/20] merge-ort: setup basic internal data structures Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 02/20] merge-ort: add some high-level algorithm structure Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 03/20] merge-ort: port merge_start() from merge-recursive Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 04/20] merge-ort: use histogram diff Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 05/20] merge-ort: add an err() function similar to one from merge-recursive Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 06/20] merge-ort: implement a very basic collect_merge_info() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 07/20] merge-ort: avoid repeating fill_tree_descriptor() on the same tree Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 08/20] merge-ort: compute a few more useful fields for collect_merge_info Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 09/20] merge-ort: record stage and auxiliary info for every path Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 10/20] merge-ort: avoid recursing into identical trees Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 11/20] merge-ort: add a preliminary simple process_entries() implementation Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 12/20] merge-ort: have process_entries operate in a defined order Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 13/20] merge-ort: step 1 of tree writing -- record basenames, modes, and oids Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 14/20] merge-ort: step 2 of tree writing -- function to create tree object Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 15/20] merge-ort: step 3 of tree writing -- handling subdirectories as we go Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 16/20] merge-ort: basic outline for merge_switch_to_result() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 17/20] merge-ort: add implementation of checkout() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 18/20] tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhere Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 19/20] merge-ort: add implementation of record_conflicted_index_entries() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-13  8:04     ` [PATCH v3 20/20] merge-ort: free data structures in merge_finalize() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-12-14 14:24     ` [PATCH v3 00/20] fundamentals of merge-ort implementation Felipe Contreras
2020-12-14 16:24       ` Elijah Newren
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-02 20:43 [PATCH v2 " Elijah Newren
2020-11-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 04/20] merge-ort: use histogram diff Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 13:54   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 16:47     ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-11 16:51       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-11 17:03         ` Elijah Newren

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