From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, me@ttaylorr.com,
vdye@github.com, Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] for-each-ref: add --stdin option
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:49:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZBIFEXuE5Um9Z4zM@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1d9e0f6ff6660c9264673be18bc24956f74eb9c.1678468864.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 05:20:56PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
> When a user wishes to input a large list of patterns to 'git
> for-each-ref' (likely a long list of exact refs) there are frequently
> system limits on the number of command-line arguments.
>
> Add a new --stdin option to instead read the patterns from standard
> input. Add tests that check that any unrecognized arguments are
> considered an error when --stdin is provided. Also, an empty pattern
> list is interpreted as the complete ref set.
>
> When reading from stdin, we populate the filter.name_patterns array
> dynamically as opposed to pointing to the 'argv' array directly. This
> requires a careful cast while freeing the individual strings,
> conditioned on the --stdin option.
This is a nice feature to have, but I suspect like other pattern
features in Git (e.g., pathspecs), the matching is linear, and thus
pre-expanding the set of refs you're interested in becomes accidentally
quadratic.
And that seems to be the case here. If I have N refs and feed the whole
set as patterns via --stdin:
-- >8 --
for i in 4000 8000 16000 32000; do
rm -rf repo
git init -q repo
(
cd repo
git commit --allow-empty -qm foo
perl -e '
my ($oid, $n) = @ARGV;
print "create refs/heads/branch$_ $oid\n" for (1..$n);
' $(git rev-parse HEAD) $i |
git update-ref --stdin
git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' >refs
echo -n "$i: "
command time -f %U \
git.compile for-each-ref --stdin <refs 2>&1 >/dev/null
)
done
-- 8< --
then the result quadruples for every doubling of the refs.
4000: 0.32
8000: 1.33
16000: 5.10
32000: 20.90
That may or may not be a show-stopper for your use case, and if not,
I don't think it's something we need to address immediately. But we may
want some kind of "literal" mode, that takes in a list of refs rather
than a list of patterns, and does a sorted-merge with the list of
available refs (or uses a hash table, I guess, but for-each-ref also
tries to avoid even being linear in the total number of refs, so you'd
still want to find the lowest/highest to bound the iteration).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-15 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-06 14:06 [PATCH 0/8] ahead-behind: new builtin for counting multiple commit ranges Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-06 14:06 ` [PATCH 1/8] ahead-behind: create empty builtin Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-06 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-07 0:40 ` Taylor Blau
2023-03-08 22:14 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-08 22:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-06 14:06 ` [PATCH 2/8] ahead-behind: parse tip references Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-07 0:43 ` Taylor Blau
2023-03-06 14:06 ` [PATCH 3/8] ahead-behind: implement --ignore-missing option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-07 0:46 ` Taylor Blau
2023-03-06 14:06 ` [PATCH 4/8] commit-graph: combine generation computations Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-06 14:06 ` [PATCH 5/8] commit-graph: return generation from memory Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-06 14:06 ` [PATCH 6/8] commit-graph: introduce `ensure_generations_valid()` Taylor Blau via GitGitGadget
2023-03-06 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-07 0:50 ` Taylor Blau
2023-03-06 14:06 ` [PATCH 7/8] ahead-behind: implement ahead_behind() logic Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-07 1:05 ` Taylor Blau
2023-03-09 17:32 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-06 14:06 ` [PATCH 8/8] ahead-behind: add --contains mode Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-06 18:26 ` [PATCH 0/8] ahead-behind: new builtin for counting multiple commit ranges Junio C Hamano
2023-03-06 20:18 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-06 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-07 0:36 ` Taylor Blau
2023-03-09 9:20 ` Jeff King
2023-03-09 21:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-07 0:33 ` Taylor Blau
2023-03-10 17:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] ref-filter: ahead/behind counting, faster --merged option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-10 17:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] for-each-ref: add --stdin option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-10 18:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-13 10:31 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-13 13:33 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-13 21:10 ` Taylor Blau
2023-03-15 13:37 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-03-15 17:17 ` Jeff King
2023-03-15 17:49 ` Jeff King [this message]
2023-03-15 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-15 19:44 ` Jeff King
2023-03-10 17:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] for-each-ref: explicitly test no matches Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-10 17:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] commit-graph: combine generation computations Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-10 17:20 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] commit-graph: return generation from memory Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-10 17:21 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] commit-graph: introduce `ensure_generations_valid()` Taylor Blau via GitGitGadget
2023-03-10 17:21 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] commit-reach: implement ahead_behind() logic Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 13:50 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-03-15 16:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-15 16:13 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-10 17:21 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] for-each-ref: add ahead-behind format atom Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-10 19:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-15 13:57 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-03-15 16:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-15 16:12 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-15 16:11 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-10 17:21 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] commit-reach: add tips_reachable_from_bases() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 14:13 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-03-15 16:17 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-15 16:18 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-10 19:16 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] ref-filter: ahead/behind counting, faster --merged option Junio C Hamano
2023-03-10 19:25 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-15 17:31 ` Jeff King
2023-03-15 17:44 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-15 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-15 13:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-03-15 13:54 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-15 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] for-each-ref: add --stdin option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 18:06 ` Jeff King
2023-03-15 19:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-15 22:41 ` Jonathan Tan
2023-03-15 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] for-each-ref: explicitly test no matches Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] commit-graph: combine generation computations Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 22:49 ` Jonathan Tan
2023-03-17 18:30 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-15 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] commit-graph: return generation from memory Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 22:58 ` Jonathan Tan
2023-03-15 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] commit-graph: introduce `ensure_generations_valid()` Taylor Blau via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] commit-reach: implement ahead_behind() logic Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 23:28 ` Jonathan Tan
2023-03-17 18:44 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-03-15 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] for-each-ref: add ahead-behind format atom Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-15 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] commit-reach: add tips_reachable_from_bases() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] ref-filter: ahead/behind counting, faster --merged option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] for-each-ref: add --stdin option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] for-each-ref: explicitly test no matches Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] commit-graph: refactor compute_topological_levels() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] commit-graph: simplify compute_generation_numbers() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] commit-graph: return generation from memory Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] commit-graph: introduce `ensure_generations_valid()` Taylor Blau via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] commit-reach: implement ahead_behind() logic Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 20:40 ` Jonathan Tan
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] for-each-ref: add ahead-behind format atom Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2023-03-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] commit-reach: add tips_reachable_from_bases() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
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