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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] pack-bitmap-write: sort pseudo-merge commit lookup table in pack order
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:56:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f5835e8c62880d40187989466fdc70dfe89989f.1776124588.git.me@ttaylorr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1776124588.git.me@ttaylorr.com>

The pseudo-merge commit lookup table stores each commit's position in
the pack- or pseudo-pack order, and is used to perform a binary search
in order to determine which pseudo-merge(s) a given commit belongs to.

However, the table was previously sorted in lexical order (via
`oid_array_sort()`), causing the binary search to fail.

While this causes pseudo-merge bitmaps to be de-facto broken for fill-in
traversal, there are a couple of important points to keep in mind:

 * Pseudo-merge application during the initial phases of a bitmap-based
   traversal are applied via `cascade_pseudo_merges_1()`. This function
   enumerates the known pseudo-merges and determines if its parents are
   a subset of the traversal roots.

   This is a different path than the fill-in traversal, where we are
   looking for any pseudo-merges which may be satisfied after visiting
   some commit along an object walk, which involves the aforementioned
   (broken) binary search.

   As a consequence, any pseudo-merges we apply at this stage are done
   so correctly.

 * While this bug makes applying pseudo-merges during fill-in traversal
   effectively broken, it does not produce wrong results. Instead of
   applying the *wrong* pseudo-merge, we will simply fail to find
   satisfied pseudo-merges, leaving the traversal to use the existing
   fill-in routines.

Fix this by sorting the table by bit position before writing, matching
the order that the reader's binary search expects.

This does produce a change the on-disk format insofar as the actual code
now complies with the documented format (for more details, refer to:
Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.adoc). Given that this never
worked in the first place, such a change should be OK to perform.

If an out-of-tree implementation of pseudo-merges happened to generate
bitmaps that comply with the documented format, they will continue to be
read and interpreted as normal.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
---
 pack-bitmap-write.c             | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 t/t5333-pseudo-merge-bitmaps.sh |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pack-bitmap-write.c b/pack-bitmap-write.c
index 8338d7217ef..86ed6a5d78c 100644
--- a/pack-bitmap-write.c
+++ b/pack-bitmap-write.c
@@ -819,6 +819,20 @@ static void write_selected_commits_v1(struct bitmap_writer *writer,
 	}
 }
 
+static int pseudo_merge_commit_pos_cmp(const void *_va, const void *_vb,
+				       void *_data)
+{
+	struct bitmap_writer *writer = _data;
+	uint32_t pos_a = find_object_pos(writer, _va, NULL);
+	uint32_t pos_b = find_object_pos(writer, _vb, NULL);
+
+	if (pos_a < pos_b)
+		return -1;
+	if (pos_a > pos_b)
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static void write_pseudo_merges(struct bitmap_writer *writer,
 				struct hashfile *f)
 {
@@ -876,7 +890,12 @@ static void write_pseudo_merges(struct bitmap_writer *writer,
 		oid_array_append(&commits, &kh_key(writer->pseudo_merge_commits, i));
 	}
 
-	oid_array_sort(&commits);
+	/*
+	 * Sort the commits by their bit position so that the lookup
+	 * table can be binary searched by the reader (see
+	 * find_pseudo_merge()).
+	 */
+	QSORT_S(commits.oid, commits.nr, pseudo_merge_commit_pos_cmp, writer);
 
 	/* write lookup table (non-extended) */
 	for (i = 0; i < commits.nr; i++) {
diff --git a/t/t5333-pseudo-merge-bitmaps.sh b/t/t5333-pseudo-merge-bitmaps.sh
index 20e77ab4390..dce43ed8dc6 100755
--- a/t/t5333-pseudo-merge-bitmaps.sh
+++ b/t/t5333-pseudo-merge-bitmaps.sh
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ test_expect_success 'use pseudo-merge in boundary traversal' '
 	)
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'apply pseudo-merges during fill-in traversal' '
+test_expect_success 'apply pseudo-merges during fill-in traversal' '
 	git init pseudo-merge-fill-in-traversal &&
 	test_when_finished "rm -fr pseudo-merge-fill-in-traversal" &&
 	(
-- 
2.54.0.rc1.73.g8f4e0170952


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-13 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-13 23:56 [PATCH 0/8] pack-bitmap: fix various pseudo-merge bugs Taylor Blau
2026-04-13 23:56 ` [PATCH 1/8] t/helper: add 'test-tool bitmap write' subcommand Taylor Blau
2026-04-14 19:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-14 21:29     ` Taylor Blau
2026-04-14 21:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-14 21:40         ` Taylor Blau
2026-04-14 20:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-14 21:40     ` Taylor Blau
2026-04-19  0:24   ` Elijah Newren
2026-04-21 18:51     ` Taylor Blau
2026-04-13 23:56 ` [PATCH 2/8] t5333: demonstrate various pseudo-merge bugs Taylor Blau
2026-04-19  0:25   ` Elijah Newren
2026-04-13 23:56 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2026-04-13 23:56 ` [PATCH 4/8] pack-bitmap: fix inverted binary search in `pseudo_merge_at()` Taylor Blau
2026-04-13 23:56 ` [PATCH 5/8] pack-bitmap: fix pseudo-merge lookup for shared commits Taylor Blau
2026-04-13 23:56 ` [PATCH 6/8] pack-bitmap: parse commits in `find_pseudo_merge_group_for_ref()` Taylor Blau
2026-04-13 23:56 ` [PATCH 7/8] pack-bitmap: reject pseudo-merge "sampleRate" of 0 Taylor Blau
2026-04-19  0:26   ` Elijah Newren
2026-04-13 23:57 ` [PATCH 8/8] pack-bitmap: prevent pattern leak on pseudo-merge re-assignment Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:01 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] pack-bitmap: fix various pseudo-merge bugs Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:01   ` [PATCH v2 1/9] t/helper: add 'test-tool bitmap write' subcommand Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:01   ` [PATCH v2 2/9] t5333: demonstrate various pseudo-merge bugs Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:02   ` [PATCH v2 3/9] pack-bitmap-write: sort pseudo-merge commit lookup table in pack order Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:02   ` [PATCH v2 4/9] pack-bitmap: fix inverted binary search in `pseudo_merge_at()` Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:02   ` [PATCH v2 5/9] pack-bitmap: fix pseudo-merge lookup for shared commits Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:02   ` [PATCH v2 6/9] pack-bitmap: parse commits in `find_pseudo_merge_group_for_ref()` Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:02   ` [PATCH v2 7/9] pack-bitmap: reject pseudo-merge "sampleRate" of 0 Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:02   ` [PATCH v2 8/9] Documentation: fix broken `sampleRate` in gitpacking(7) Taylor Blau
2026-04-21 20:02   ` [PATCH v2 9/9] pack-bitmap: prevent pattern leak on pseudo-merge re-assignment Taylor Blau
2026-04-22  1:37   ` [PATCH v2 0/9] pack-bitmap: fix various pseudo-merge bugs Elijah Newren
2026-05-11  2:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-12  0:48       ` Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:10     ` Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:46 ` [PATCH v3 " Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:46   ` [PATCH v3 1/9] t/helper: add 'test-tool bitmap write' subcommand Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:46   ` [PATCH v3 2/9] t5333: demonstrate various pseudo-merge bugs Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:46   ` [PATCH v3 3/9] pack-bitmap-write: sort pseudo-merge commit lookup table in pack order Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:46   ` [PATCH v3 4/9] pack-bitmap: fix inverted binary search in `pseudo_merge_at()` Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:47   ` [PATCH v3 5/9] pack-bitmap: fix pseudo-merge lookup for shared commits Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:47   ` [PATCH v3 6/9] pack-bitmap: parse commits in `find_pseudo_merge_group_for_ref()` Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:47   ` [PATCH v3 7/9] pack-bitmap: reject pseudo-merge "sampleRate" of 0 Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:47   ` [PATCH v3 8/9] Documentation: fix broken `sampleRate` in gitpacking(7) Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  0:47   ` [PATCH v3 9/9] pack-bitmap: prevent pattern leak on pseudo-merge re-assignment Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  1:38   ` [PATCH v3 0/9] pack-bitmap: fix various pseudo-merge bugs Junio C Hamano
2026-05-12  1:46     ` Taylor Blau
2026-05-12  1:49     ` Junio C Hamano

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