As we discovered in the `jj fix` tests,
`MergedTreeBuilder::write_tree()` doesn't try to resolve conflicts,
not even trivial ones. This patch fixes that.
I think this is a variant of the problem fixed by 7fda80fc22 "tree: simplify
conflict before resolving at hunk level." We need to simplify() the conflict
before and after extracting file ids because the source conflict values may
contain trees to be cancelled out, and the file values may differ only in exec
bits. Since the legacy tree passes a simplified conflict in to this function,
I made the merged tree do the same.
Fixes#2654
Otherwise an empty subtree would be added to the parent tree.
If the stored tree contained an empty subtree, simplify() wouldn't work
against new "absent" subtree representation. I don't know if there's a
such code path, but I believe it's very rare to encounter the problem.
#2654
This enables cheap str-to-RepoPath cast, which is useful when sorting and
filtering a large Vec<(String, _)> list by using matcher for example. It
will also eliminate temporary allocation by repo_path.parent().
This is a step towards introducing a borrowed RepoPath type. The current
RepoPath type is inefficient as each component String is usually short. We
could apply short-string optimization, but still each inlined component would
consume 24 bytes just for e.g. "src", and increase the chance of random memory
access. If the owned RepoPath type is backed by String, we can implement cheap
cast from &str to borrowed &RepoPath type.
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 want to fix error propagation before I start using async in this
code. This makes the diff iterator propagate errors from reading tree
objects.
Errors include the path and don't stop the iteration. The idea is that
we should be able to show the user an error inline in diff output if
we failed to read a tree. That's going to be especially useful for
backends that can return `BackendError::AccessDenied`. That error
variant doesn't yet exist, but I plan to add it, and use it in
Google's internal backend.
I'm going to add `MergedTreeValue` as an alias for
`Merge<Option<TreeValue>>`, but we already have a type by that name in
`merged_tree`. This patch renames it away, to make room for the new
alias. I used `MergedTreeVal` for this borrowing version to be a bit
like how `str` is a borrowed version of `String`.
I ran into a bug the other day where `jj status` said there was a
conflict in a file but there were no conflict markers in the working
copy. The commit was created when I squashed a conflict resolution
into the commit's parent. The rebased child commit then ended up in
this state. I.e., it looked something like this before squashing:
```
C (no conflict)
|
| B conflict
|/
A conflict
```
The conflict in B was different from the conflict in A. When I
squashed in C, jj would try to resolve the conflicts by first creating
a 7-way conflict (3 from A, 3 from B, 1 from C). Because of the exact
content-level changes, the 7-way conflict couldn't be automatically
resolved by `files::merge()` (the way it currently works
anyway). However, after simplifying the conflict, it could be
resolved. Because `MergedTree::merge()` does another round of conflict
simplification of the result at the end of the function, it was the
simplifed version that actually got stored in the commit. So when
inspecting the conflict later (e.g. in the working copy, as I did), it
could be automatically resolved.
I think there are at least two ways to solve this. One is to call
`merge_trees()` again after calling `tree.simplify()` in
`MergedTree::merge()`. However, I think it would only matter in the
case of content-level conflicts. Therefore, it seems better to make
the content-level resolution solve this case to start with. I've done
that by simplifying the conflict before passing it into
`files::merge()`. We could even do the fix in `files::merge()`, but
doing it before calling it has the advantage that we can avoid reading
some unchanged content from the backend.
This fixes a bug where we used the parent directory's path when trying
read trees and files for a child entry. Many tests in
`test_merged_tree` fail after switching to the test backend there
without this fix/
It makes the call sites clearer if we pass the `TestRepoBackend` enum
instead of the boolean `use_git` value. It's also more extensible (I
plan to add another backend for tests).
When restoring (`jj restore`) a 3-sided conflict from one tree into a
2-sided tree (or a resolved tree), we'll need to extend the size arity
of the target tree to that of the source tree. I had not considered
this case before. This patch relaxes the constraint in
`MergedTreeBuilder` to allow such cases. The additional trees are
based on empty trees with only the larger overrides in them.
Many (most?) callers of `Store::empty_tree_id()` really want a
`MergedTreeId`, so let's create a helper for that. It returns the
`Legacy` variant, which is what all current callers used. That should
be all we need since the two variants compare equal these days, and
since trees built based on the legacy variant can get promoted to the
new variant on write if the config is enabled.
I think most tests want a `MergedTree`, so this makes `create_tree()`
return that. I kept the old function as `create_single_tree()`. That's
now only used in `test_merge_trees` and `test_merged_tree`.
I also consistently imported the functions now, something I've
considered doing for a long time.
With the already existing `MergedTree::resolve()` and all the recent
refactorings into `Merge<T>`, it's now very easy to add support for
3-way merging of `MergedTree` instances.
If we're going to be able to replace most instances of `Tree` by
`MergedTree`, we'll need to be able to diff two `MergedTree`s. This
implements support for that. The implementation copies a lot from the
diff iterator we have for `Tree`. I suspect we should be able to reuse
some of the code by introducing some traits that can then be
implemented by both `Tree` and `MergedTree`. I've left a TODO about
that.
Since `Conflict<T>` can also represent a non-conflict state (a single
term), `Merge<T>` seems like better name.
Thanks to @ilyagr for the suggestion in
https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/pull/1774#discussion_r1257547709
Sorry about the churn. It would have been better if I thought of this
name before I introduced `Conflict<T>`.
With `MergedTree`, we can iterate over conflicts by descending into
only the subdirectories that cannot be trivially resolved. We assume
that the trees have previously been resolved as much as possible, so
we don't attempt to resolve conflicts again.
This adds a function for resolving conflicts that can be automatically
resolved, i.e. like our current `merge_trees()` function. However, the
new function is written to merge an arbitrary number of trees and, in
case of unresolvable conflicts, to produce a `Conflict<TreeId>` as
result instead of writing path-level conflicts to the backend. Like
`merge_trees()`, it still leaves conflicts unresolved at the file
level if any hunks conflict, and it resolves paths that can be
trivially resolved even if there are other paths that do conflict.
In order to store conflicts in the commit, as conflicts between a set
of trees, we want to be able merge those trees on the fly. This
introduces a type for that. It has a `Merge(Conflict(Tree))` variant,
where the individual trees cannot have path-level conflicts. It also
has a `Legacy(Tree)` variant, which does allow path-level conflicts. I
think that should help us with the migration.
