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2025-11-04refs: drop infrastructure to peel via iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt1-36/+0
Now that the peeled object ID gets propagated via the `struct reference` there is no need anymore to call into the reference iterator itself to dereference an object. Remove this infrastructure. Most of the changes are straight-forward deletions of code. There is one exception though in `refs/packed-backend.c::write_with_updates()`. Here we stop peeling the iterator and instead just pass the peeled object ID of that iterator directly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-04refs: drop `current_ref_iter` hackPatrick Steinhardt1-5/+0
In preceding commits we have refactored all callers of `peel_iterated_oid()` to instead use `reference_get_peeled_oid()`. This allows us to thus get rid of the former function. Getting rid of that function is nice, but even nicer is that this also allows us to get rid of the `current_ref_iter` hack. This global variable tracked the currently-active ref iterator so that we can use it to peel an object ID. Now that the peeled object ID is propagated via `struct reference` though we don't have to depend on this hack anymore, which makes for a more robust and easier-to-understand infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-04refs: introduce `.ref` field for the base iteratorPatrick Steinhardt1-27/+12
The base iterator has a couple of fields that tracks the name, target, object ID and flags for the current reference. Due to this design we have to create a new `struct reference` whenever we want to hand over that reference to the callback function, which is tedious and not very efficient. Convert the structure to instead contain a `struct reference` as member. This member is expected to be populated by the implementations of the iterator and is handed over to the callback directly. While at it, simplify `should_pack_ref()` to take a `struct reference` directly instead of passing its respective fields. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-04refs: introduce wrapper struct for `each_ref_fn`Patrick Steinhardt1-1/+8
The `each_ref_fn` callback function type is used across our code base for several different functions that iterate through reference. There's a bunch of callbacks implementing this type, which makes any changes to the callback signature extremely noisy. An example of the required churn is e8207717f1 (refs: add referent to each_ref_fn, 2024-08-09): adding a single argument required us to change 48 files. It was already proposed back then [1] that we might want to introduce a wrapper structure to alleviate the pain going forward. While this of course requires the same kind of global refactoring as just introducing a new parameter, it at least allows us to more change the callback type afterwards by just extending the wrapper structure. One counterargument to this refactoring is that it makes the structure more opaque. While it is obvious which callsites need to be fixed up when we change the function type, it's not obvious anymore once we use a structure. That being said, we only have a handful of sites that actually need to populate this wrapper structure: our ref backends, "refs/iterator.c" as well as very few sites that invoke the iterator callback functions directly. Introduce this wrapper structure so that we can adapt the iterator interfaces more readily. [1]: <ZmarVcF5JjsZx0dl@tanuki> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-15refs: selectively set prefix in the seek functionsKarthik Nayak1-11/+15
The ref iterator exposes a `ref_iterator_seek()` function. The name suggests that this would seek the iterator to a specific reference in some ways similar to how `fseek()` works for the filesystem. However, the function actually sets the prefix for refs iteration. So further iteration would only yield references which match the particular prefix. This is a bit confusing. Let's add a 'flags' field to the function, which when set with the 'REF_ITERATOR_SEEK_SET_PREFIX' flag, will set the prefix for the iteration in-line with the existing behavior. Otherwise, the reference backends will simply seek to the specified reference and clears any previously set prefix. This allows users to start iteration from a specific reference. In the packed and reftable backend, since references are available in a sorted list, the changes are simply setting the prefix if needed. The changes on the files-backend are a little more involved, since the files backend uses the 'ref-cache' mechanism. We move out the existing logic within `cache_ref_iterator_seek()` to `cache_ref_iterator_set_prefix()` which is called when the 'REF_ITERATOR_SEEK_SET_PREFIX' flag is set. We then parse the provided seek string and set the required levels and their indexes to ensure that seeking is possible. Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-12refs/iterator: implement seeking for merged iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt1-9/+29
Implement seeking on merged iterators. The implementation is rather straight forward, with the only exception that we must not deallocate the underlying iterators once they have been exhausted. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-12refs/iterator: provide infrastructure to re-seek iteratorsPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+24
Reftable iterators need to be scrapped after they have either been exhausted or aren't useful to the caller anymore, and it is explicitly not possible to reuse them for iterations. But enabling for reuse of iterators may allow us to tune them by reusing internal state of an iterator. The reftable iterators for example can already be reused internally, but we're not able to expose this to any users outside of the reftable backend. Introduce a new `.seek` function in the ref iterator vtable that allows callers to seek an iterator multiple times. It is expected to be functionally the same as calling `refs_ref_iterator_begin()` with a different (or the same) prefix. Note that it is not possible to adjust parameters other than the seeked prefix for now, so exclude patterns, trimmed prefixes and flags will remain unchanged. We do not have a usecase for changing these parameters right now, but if we ever find one we can adapt accordingly. Implement the callback for trivial cases. The other iterators will be implemented in subsequent commits. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-12refs/iterator: separate lifecycle from iterationPatrick Steinhardt1-65/+35
The ref and reflog iterators have their lifecycle attached to iteration: once the iterator reaches its end, it is automatically released and the caller doesn't have to care about that anymore. When the iterator should be released before it has been exhausted, callers must explicitly abort the iterator via `ref_iterator_abort()`. This lifecycle is somewhat unusual in the Git codebase and creates two problems: - Callsites need to be very careful about when exactly they call `ref_iterator_abort()`, as calling the function is only valid when the iterator itself still is. This leads to somewhat awkward calling patterns in some situations. - It is impossible to reuse iterators and re-seek them to a different prefix. This feature isn't supported by any iterator implementation except for the reftable iterators anyway, but if it was implemented it would allow us to optimize cases where we need to search for specific references repeatedly by reusing internal state. Detangle the lifecycle from iteration so that we don't deallocate the iterator anymore once it is exhausted. Instead, callers are now expected to always call a newly introduce `ref_iterator_free()` function that deallocates the iterator and its internal state. Note that the `dir_iterator` is somewhat special because it does not implement the `ref_iterator` interface, but is only used to implement other iterators. Consequently, we have to provide `dir_iterator_free()` instead of `dir_iterator_release()` as the allocated structure itself is managed by the `dir_iterator` interfaces, as well, and not freed by `ref_iterator_free()` like in all the other cases. While at it, drop the return value of `ref_iterator_abort()`, which wasn't really required by any of the iterator implementations anyway. Furthermore, stop calling `base_ref_iterator_free()` in any of the backends, but instead call it in `ref_iterator_free()`. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-06global: mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`Patrick Steinhardt1-0/+2
Mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`. This allows for a structured approach to get rid of all such warnings over time in a way that can be easily measured. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-09refs: add referent to each_ref_fnJohn Cai1-1/+1
Add a parameter to each_ref_fn so that callers to the ref APIs that use this function as a callback can have acess to the unresolved value of a symbolic ref. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-09refs: keep track of unresolved reference value in iteratorsJohn Cai1-0/+2
Since ref iterators do not hold onto the direct value of a reference without resolving it, the only way to get ahold of a direct value of a symbolic ref is to make a separate call to refs_read_symbolic_ref. To make accessing the direct value of a symbolic ref more efficient, let's save the direct value of the ref in the iterators for both the files backend and the reftable backend. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-05-17refs: convert iteration over replace refs to accept ref storePatrick Steinhardt1-3/+3
The function `for_each_replace_ref()` is a bit of an oddball across the refs interfaces as it accepts a pointer to the repository instead of a pointer to the ref store. The only reason for us to accept a repository is so that we can eventually pass it back to the callback function that the caller has provided. This is somewhat arbitrary though, as callers that need the repository can instead make it accessible via the callback payload. Refactor the function to instead accept the ref store and adjust callers accordingly. This allows us to get rid of some of the boilerplate that we had to carry to pass along the repository and brings us in line with the other functions that iterate through refs. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21refs: always treat iterators as orderedPatrick Steinhardt1-18/+8
In the preceding commit we have converted the reflog iterator of the "files" backend to be ordered, which was the only remaining ref iterator that wasn't ordered. Refactor the ref iterator infrastructure so that we always assume iterators to be ordered, thus simplifying the code. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-21refs/files: sort merged worktree and common reflogsPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+43
When iterating through reflogs in a worktree we create a merged iterator that merges reflogs from both refdbs. The resulting refs are ordered so that instead we first return all worktree reflogs before we return all common refs. This is the only remaining case where a ref iterator returns entries in a non-lexicographic order. The result would look something like the following (listed with a command we introduce in a subsequent commit): ``` $ git reflog list HEAD refs/worktree/per-worktree refs/heads/main refs/heads/wt ``` So we first print the per-worktree reflogs in lexicographic order, then the common reflogs in lexicographic order. This is confusing and not consistent with how we print per-worktree refs, which are exclusively sorted lexicographically. Sort reflogs lexicographically in the same way as we sort normal refs. As this is already implemented properly by the "reftable" backend via a separate selection function, we simply pull out that logic and reuse it for the "files" backend. As logs are properly sorted now, mark the merged reflog iterator as sorted. Tests will be added in a subsequent commit. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h inclusion from several sourcesElijah Newren1-1/+1
A number of files were apparently including cache.h solely to get gettext.h. By making those files explicitly include gettext.h, we can already drop the include of cache.h in these files. On top of that, there were some files using cache.h that didn't need to for any reason. Remove these unnecessary includes. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-01git-compat-util.h: use "UNUSED", not "UNUSED(var)"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-3/+3
As reported in [1] the "UNUSED(var)" macro introduced in 2174b8c75de (Merge branch 'jk/unused-annotation' into next, 2022-08-24) breaks coccinelle's parsing of our sources in files where it occurs. Let's instead partially go with the approach suggested in [2] of making this not take an argument. As noted in [1] "coccinelle" will ignore such tokens in argument lists that it doesn't know about, and it's less of a surprise to syntax highlighters. This undoes the "help us notice when a parameter marked as unused is actually use" part of 9b240347543 (git-compat-util: add UNUSED macro, 2022-08-19), a subsequent commit will further tweak the macro to implement a replacement for that functionality. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220825.86ilmg4mil.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/ 2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220819.868rnk54ju.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19refs: mark unused virtual method parametersJeff King1-3/+3
The refs code uses various polymorphic types (e.g., loose vs packed ref_stores, abstracted iterators). Not every virtual function or callback needs all of its parameters. Let's mark the unused ones to quiet -Wunused-parameter. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-17refs: use designated initializers for "struct ref_iterator_vtable"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-13use CALLOC_ARRAYRené Scharfe1-1/+1
Add and apply a semantic patch for converting code that open-codes CALLOC_ARRAY to use it instead. It shortens the code and infers the element size automatically. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-21refs.c: migrate internal ref iteration to pass thru repository argumentStefan Beller1-3/+3
In 60ce76d3581 (refs: add repository argument to for_each_replace_ref, 2018-04-11) and 0d296c57aec (refs: allow for_each_replace_ref to handle arbitrary repositories, 2018-04-11), for_each_replace_ref learned how to iterate over refs by a given arbitrary repository. New attempts in the object store conversion have shown that it is useful to have the repository handle available that the refs iteration is currently iterating over. To achieve this goal we will need to add a repository argument to each_ref_fn in refs.h. However as many callers rely on the signature such a patch would be too large. So convert the internals of the ref subsystem first to pass through a repository argument without exposing the change to the user. Assume the_repository for the passed through repository, although it is not used anywhere yet. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-06Replace all die("BUG: ...") calls by BUG() onesJohannes Schindelin1-3/+3
In d8193743e08 (usage.c: add BUG() function, 2017-05-12), a new macro was introduced to use for reporting bugs instead of die(). It was then subsequently used to convert one single caller in 588a538ae55 (setup_git_env: convert die("BUG") to BUG(), 2017-05-12). The cover letter of the patch series containing this patch (cf 20170513032414.mfrwabt4hovujde2@sigill.intra.peff.net) is not terribly clear why only one call site was converted, or what the plan is for other, similar calls to die() to report bugs. Let's just convert all remaining ones in one fell swoop. This trick was performed by this invocation: sed -i 's/die("BUG: /BUG("/g' $(git grep -l 'die("BUG' \*.c) Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14prefix_ref_iterator: break when we leave the prefixJeff King1-1/+31
If the underlying iterator is ordered, then `prefix_ref_iterator` can stop as soon as it sees a refname that comes after the prefix. This will rarely make a big difference now, because `ref_cache_iterator` only iterates over the directory containing the prefix (and usually the prefix will span a whole directory anyway). But if *hint, hint* a future reference backend doesn't itself know where to stop the iteration, then this optimization will be a big win. Note that there is no guarantee that the underlying iterator doesn't include output preceding the prefix, so we have to skip over any unwanted references before we get to the ones that we want. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14ref_iterator: keep track of whether the iterator output is orderedMichael Haggerty1-5/+10
References are iterated over in order by refname, but reflogs are not. Some consumers of reference iteration care about the difference. Teach each `ref_iterator` to keep track of whether its output is ordered. `overlay_ref_iterator` is one of the picky consumers. Add a sanity check in `overlay_ref_iterator_begin()` to verify that its inputs are ordered. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-23prefix_ref_iterator: don't trim too muchMichael Haggerty1-1/+17
The `trim` parameter can be set independently of `prefix`. So if some caller were to set `trim` to be greater than `strlen(prefix)`, we could end up pointing the `refname` field of the iterator past the NUL of the actual reference name string. That can't happen currently, because `trim` is always set either to zero or to `strlen(prefix)`. But even the latter could lead to confusion, if a refname is exactly equal to the prefix, because then we would set the outgoing `refname` to the empty string. And we're about to decouple the `prefix` and `trim` arguments even more, so let's be cautious here. Report a bug if ever asked to trim a reference whose name is not longer than `trim`. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20do_for_each_ref(): reimplement using reference iterationMichael Haggerty1-0/+29
Use the reference iterator interface to implement do_for_each_ref(). Delete a bunch of code supporting the old for_each_ref() implementation. And now that do_for_each_ref() is generic code (it is no longer tied to the files backend), move it to refs.c. The implementation is via a new function, do_for_each_ref_iterator(), which takes a reference iterator as argument and calls a callback function for each of the references in the iterator. This change requires the current_ref performance hack for peel_ref() to be implemented via ref_iterator_peel() rather than peel_entry() because we don't have a ref_entry handy (it is hidden under three layers: file_ref_iterator, merge_ref_iterator, and cache_ref_iterator). So: * do_for_each_ref_iterator() records the active iterator in current_ref_iter while it is running. * peel_ref() checks whether current_ref_iter is pointing at the requested reference. If so, it asks the iterator to peel the reference (which it can do efficiently via its "peel" virtual function). For extra safety, we do the optimization only if the refname *addresses* are the same, not only if the refname *strings* are the same, to forestall possible mixups between refnames that come from different ref_iterators. Please note that this optimization of peel_ref() is only available when iterating via do_for_each_ref_iterator() (including all of the for_each_ref() functions, which call it indirectly). It would be complicated to implement a similar optimization when iterating directly using a reference iterator, because multiple reference iterators can be in use at the same time, with interleaved calls to ref_iterator_advance(). (In fact we do exactly that in merge_ref_iterator.) But that is not necessary. peel_ref() is only called while iterating over references. Callers who iterate using the for_each_ref() functions benefit from the optimization described above. Callers who iterate using reference iterators directly have access to the ref_iterator, so they can call ref_iterator_peel() themselves to get an analogous optimization in a more straightforward manner. If we rewrite all callers to use the reference iteration API, then we can remove the current_ref_iter hack permanently. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20refs: introduce an iterator interfaceMichael Haggerty1-0/+355
Currently, the API for iterating over references is via a family of for_each_ref()-type functions that invoke a callback function for each selected reference. All of these eventually call do_for_each_ref(), which knows how to do one thing: iterate in parallel through two ref_caches, one for loose and one for packed refs, giving loose references precedence over packed refs. This is rather complicated code, and is quite specialized to the files backend. It also requires callers to encapsulate their work into a callback function, which often means that they have to define and use a "cb_data" struct to manage their context. The current design is already bursting at the seams, and will become even more awkward in the upcoming world of multiple reference storage backends: * Per-worktree vs. shared references are currently handled via a kludge in git_path() rather than iterating over each part of the reference namespace separately and merging the results. This kludge will cease to work when we have multiple reference storage backends. * The current scheme is inflexible. What if we sometimes want to bypass the ref_cache, or use it only for packed or only for loose refs? What if we want to store symbolic refs in one type of storage backend and non-symbolic ones in another? In the future, each reference backend will need to define its own way of iterating over references. The crux of the problem with the current design is that it is impossible to compose for_each_ref()-style iterations, because the flow of control is owned by the for_each_ref() function. There is nothing that a caller can do but iterate through all references in a single burst, so there is no way for it to interleave references from multiple backends and present the result to the rest of the world as a single compound backend. This commit introduces a new iteration primitive for references: a ref_iterator. A ref_iterator is a polymorphic object that a reference storage backend can be asked to instantiate. There are three functions that can be applied to a ref_iterator: * ref_iterator_advance(): move to the next reference in the iteration * ref_iterator_abort(): end the iteration before it is exhausted * ref_iterator_peel(): peel the reference currently being looked at Iterating using a ref_iterator leaves the flow of control in the hands of the caller, which means that ref_iterators from multiple sources (e.g., loose and packed refs) can be composed and presented to the world as a single compound ref_iterator. It also means that the backend code for implementing reference iteration will sometimes be more complicated. For example, the cache_ref_iterator (which iterates over a ref_cache) can't use the C stack to recurse; instead, it must manage its own stack internally as explicit data structures. There is also a lot of boilerplate connected with object-oriented programming in C. Eventually, end-user callers will be able to be written in a more natural way—managing their own flow of control rather than having to work via callbacks. Since there will only be a few reference backends but there are many consumers of this API, this is a good tradeoff. More importantly, we gain composability, and especially the possibility of writing interchangeable parts that can work with any ref_iterator. For example, merge_ref_iterator implements a generic way of merging the contents of any two ref_iterators. It is used to merge loose + packed refs as part of the implementation of the files_ref_iterator. But it will also be possible to use it to merge other pairs of reference sources (e.g., per-worktree vs. shared refs). Another example is prefix_ref_iterator, which can be used to trim a prefix off the front of reference names before presenting them to the caller (e.g., "refs/heads/master" -> "master"). In this patch, we introduce the iterator abstraction and many utilities, and implement a reference iterator for the files ref storage backend. (I've written several other obvious utilities, for example a generic way to filter references being iterated over. These will probably be useful in the future. But they are not needed for this patch series, so I am not including them at this time.) In a moment we will rewrite do_for_each_ref() to work via reference iterators (allowing some special-purpose code to be discarded), and do something similar for reflogs. In future patch series, we will expose the ref_iterator abstraction in the public refs API so that callers can use it directly. Implementation note: I tried abstracting this a layer further to allow generic iterators (over arbitrary types of objects) and generic utilities like a generic merge_iterator. But the implementation in C was very cumbersome, involving (in my opinion) too much boilerplate and too much unsafe casting, some of which would have had to be done on the caller side. However, I did put a few iterator-related constants in a top-level header file, iterator.h, as they will be useful in a moment to implement iteration over directory trees and possibly other types of iterators in the future. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>