Since the concurrent diff algorithm is significantly slower when using
the Git backend, I think we'll have to use switch between the two
algorithms depending on backend. Even if the concurrent version always
performed as well as the sequential version, exactly how concurrent it
should be probably still depends on the backend. This commit therefore
adds a function to the `Backend` trait, so each backend can say how
much concurrency they deal well with. I then use that number for
choosing between the sequential and concurrent versions in
`MergedTree::diff_stream()`, and also to decide the number of
concurrent reads to do in the concurrent version.
When diffing two trees, we currently start at the root and diff those
trees. Then we diff each subtree, one at a time, recursively. When
using a commit backend that uses remote storage, like our backend at
Google does, diffing the subtrees one at a time gets very slow. We
should be able to diff subtrees concurrently. That way, the number of
roundtrips to a server becomes determined by the depth of the deepest
difference instead of by the number of differing trees (times 2,
even). This patch implements such an algorithm behind a `Stream`
interface. It's not hooked in to `MergedTree::diff_stream()` yet; that
will happen in the next commit.
I timed the new implementation by updating `jj diff -s` to use the new
diff stream and then ran it on the Linux repo with `jj diff
--ignore-working-copy -s --from v5.0 --to v6.0`. That slowed down by
~20%, from ~750 ms to ~900 ms. Maybe we can get some of that
performance back but I think it'll be hard to match
`MergedTree::diff()`. We can decide later if we're okay with the
difference (after hopefully reducing the gap a bit) or if we want to
keep both implementations.
I also timed the new implementation on our cloud-based repo at
Google. As expected, it made some diffs much faster (I'm not sure if
I'm allowed to share figures).
I'm about to add a few more checks for diffing with a matcher. I think
it will help make it readable and reduce the risk of mixing up
variables between each part of the test if we use some nested blocks.
I also removed some unnecessary `.clone()` calls while at it.
I'm going to add a Merge method that removes negative/positive terms pair, and
swap_remove() is the easiest option. The order of the conflicted ref targets
doesn't matter.
Many callers use interleaved iterators, and recently-added serialization code
is built on top of that, so I think it's better to store terms in that format.
map() functions no longer use MergeBuilder as we know the mapped values are
ordered properly. flatten() and simplify() are reimplemented to work with the
interleaved values. The other changes are trivial.
This motivation for this is so we can easily skip calling the function
if the user has opted out of the propagation of abandoned commits we
usually do (#2504). However, it seems like a good piece of code to
extract regardless of that feature.
One less git2 API use in CLI.
The function name GitBackend::init_colocated() is a bit odd, but we need to
specify the work-tree path, not the ".git" repo path. So we can't eliminate
the notion of the working copy path anyway.
What make rebase_to_dest_parent a good candidate for jj_lib::rewrite module:
- It is used both in obslog and interdiff. It's a sign that it may be moved to a lower layer
- CommandError is returned by converting from TreeMergeError. Not explicitly.
- It only use jj_lib::rewrite fonctions.
This will make it a little faster to update the working copy at Google
once we've made `MergedTree::diff_stream()` fetch trees
concurrently. (It only makes it a little faster because we still fetch
files serially.)
I'm going to implement a `Stream`-based version optimized for
high-latency (RPC-based) commit backends. So far, that implementation
is about 20% slower in the Linux repo when running `jj diff
--ignore-working-copy -s --from v5.0 --to v6.0`. I think that's almost
only because the algorithm is different, not because it's async per
se.
This commit adds a `Stream`-based version of `MergedTree::diff()` that
just wraps the regular iterator in stream. I updated `jj diff` to use
it. I couldn't measure any difference on the command above in the
Linux repo. I think that means we can safely use the same
`Stream`-based interface regardless of backend, even if we end up
needing two different implementations of the `Stream`. We would then
be using the wrapped iterator from this commit for local backends, and
the new implementation for remote backends. But ideally we can make
the remote-friendly implementation fast enough that we don't need two
implementations.
During the transition to using more async code, I keep running into
https://github.com/rust-lang/futures-rs/issues/2090. Right now, I want
to convert `MergedTree::diff()` into a `Stream`. I don't want to
update all call sites at once, so instead I'm adding a
`MergedTree::diff_stream()` method, which just wraps
`MergedTree::diff()` in a `Stream. However, since the iterator is
synchronous, it needs to block on the async `Backend::read_tree()`
calls. If we then also block on the `Stream` in the CLI, we run into
the panic.
We had similar code in two places for restoring paths from one tree to
another. Let's reuse it instead.
I put the new function in the `rewrite` module. I'm not sure if that's
right place. Maybe it belongs in `tree`?
Since gix::Repository::config_snapshot() borrows the repo instance, it has to
be allocated in caller's stack. That's why GitBackend::git_config() is removed.
My gut feeling is that gitoxide aims to be more transparent than libgit2. We'll
need to know more about the underlying Git data model.
Random comments on gix API:
* gix::Repository provides API similar to git2::Repository, but has less
"convenient" functions. For example, we need to use .find_object() +
.try_to/into_<kind>() instead of .find_<kind>().
* gix::Object, Blob, etc. own raw data as bytes. gix::object and gix::objs
types provide high-level views on such data.
* Tree building is pretty low-level compared to git2.
* gix leverages bstr (i.e. bytes) extensively.
It's probably not difficult to migrate git::import/export_refs(). It might
help eliminate the startup overhead of libssl initialization. The gix-based
GitBackend appears to be a bit faster, but that wouldn't practically matter.
#2316
Otherwise, the initialized repo could have a different work-dir path than the
load()-ed one. libgit2 appears to do some normalization somewhere, but gix
won't.
I've enabled the "index" component from the "basic" feature set, which would
be needed to implement colocated repo functionality. The doc suggests that
a library shouldn't activate "max-performance-safe", but our crate is also
an application so it would be okay to enable the feature. We'll need "parallel"
anyway to make GitBackend Sync.
https://docs.rs/gix/latest/gix/#feature-flags
