fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument

After updating a set of remove refs during a 'git fetch', we walk the commits in the new ref value and not in the old ref value to discover if the update was a forced update. This results in two things happening during the command: 1. The line including the ref update has an additional "(forced-update)" marker at the end. 2. The ref log for that remote branch includes a bit saying that update is a forced update. For many situations, this forced-update message happens infrequently, or is a small bit of information among many ref updates. Many users ignore these messages, but the calculation required here slows down their fetches significantly. Keep in mind that they do not have the opportunity to calculate a commit-graph file containing the newly-fetched commits, so these comparisons can be very slow. Add a '--[no-]show-forced-updates' option that allows a user to skip this calculation. The only permanent result is dropping the forced-update bit in the reflog. Include a new fetch.showForcedUpdates config setting that allows this behavior without including the argument in every command. The config setting is overridden by the command-line arguments. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Derrick Stolee committed Jun 18, 2019 at 13:25 UTC cdbd70c43773d534aa81ea2c83905a45ff0e74e4
4 files changed +51 -1
Documentation/config/fetch.txt
+5
@@ -63,3 +63,8 @@ fetch.negotiationAlgorithm::
63 Unknown values will cause 'git fetch' to error out.
64 +
65 See also the `--negotiation-tip` option for linkgit:git-fetch[1].
66 +
67 +fetch.showForcedUpdates::
68 + Set to false to enable `--no-show-forced-updates` in
69 + linkgit:git-fetch[1] and linkgit:git-pull[1] commands.
70 + Defaults to true.
Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+13
@@ -221,6 +221,19 @@ endif::git-pull[]
221 When multiple `--server-option=<option>` are given, they are all
222 sent to the other side in the order listed on the command line.
223
224 +--show-forced-updates::
225 + By default, git checks if a branch is force-updated during
226 + fetch. This can be disabled through fetch.showForcedUpdates, but
227 + the --show-forced-updates option guarantees this check occurs.
228 + See linkgit:git-config[1].
229 +
230 +--no-show-forced-updates::
231 + By default, git checks if a branch is force-updated during
232 + fetch. Pass --no-show-forced-updates or set fetch.showForcedUpdates
233 + to false to skip this check for performance reasons. If used during
234 + 'git-pull' the --ff-only option will still check for forced updates
235 + before attempting a fast-forward update. See linkgit:git-config[1].
236 +
237 -4::
238 --ipv4::
239 Use IPv4 addresses only, ignoring IPv6 addresses.
builtin/fetch.c
+10 -1
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ enum {
39 };
40
41 static int fetch_prune_config = -1; /* unspecified */
42 +static int fetch_show_forced_updates = 1;
43 static int prune = -1; /* unspecified */
44 #define PRUNE_BY_DEFAULT 0 /* do we prune by default? */
45
@@ -79,6 +80,11 @@ static int git_fetch_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
80 return 0;
81 }
82
83 + if (!strcmp(k, "fetch.showforcedupdates")) {
84 + fetch_show_forced_updates = git_config_bool(k, v);
85 + return 0;
86 + }
87 +
88 if (!strcmp(k, "submodule.recurse")) {
89 int r = git_config_bool(k, v) ?
90 RECURSE_SUBMODULES_ON : RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF;
@@ -169,6 +175,8 @@ static struct option builtin_fetch_options[] = {
175 OPT_STRING_LIST(0, "negotiation-tip", &negotiation_tip, N_("revision"),
176 N_("report that we have only objects reachable from this object")),
177 OPT_PARSE_LIST_OBJECTS_FILTER(&filter_options),
178 + OPT_BOOL(0, "show-forced-updates", &fetch_show_forced_updates,
179 + N_("check for forced-updates on all updated branches")),
180 OPT_END()
181 };
182
@@ -773,9 +781,10 @@ static int update_local_ref(struct ref *ref,
781 return r;
782 }
783
776 - if (in_merge_bases(current, updated)) {
784 + if (!fetch_show_forced_updates || in_merge_bases(current, updated)) {
785 struct strbuf quickref = STRBUF_INIT;
786 int r;
787 +
788 strbuf_add_unique_abbrev(&quickref, &current->object.oid, DEFAULT_ABBREV);
789 strbuf_addstr(&quickref, "..");
790 strbuf_add_unique_abbrev(&quickref, &ref->new_oid, DEFAULT_ABBREV);
t/t5510-fetch.sh
+23
@@ -978,4 +978,27 @@ test_expect_success '--negotiation-tip limits "have" lines sent with HTTP protoc
978 check_negotiation_tip
979 '
980
981 +test_expect_success '--no-show-forced-updates' '
982 + mkdir forced-updates &&
983 + (
984 + cd forced-updates &&
985 + git init &&
986 + test_commit 1 &&
987 + test_commit 2
988 + ) &&
989 + git clone forced-updates forced-update-clone &&
990 + git clone forced-updates no-forced-update-clone &&
991 + git -C forced-updates reset --hard HEAD~1 &&
992 + (
993 + cd forced-update-clone &&
994 + git fetch --show-forced-updates origin 2>output &&
995 + test_i18ngrep "(forced update)" output
996 + ) &&
997 + (
998 + cd no-forced-update-clone &&
999 + git fetch --no-show-forced-updates origin 2>output &&
1000 + ! test_i18ngrep "(forced update)" output
1001 + )
1002 +'
1003 +
1004 test_done