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Correct tracking of the 'cache_bottom' for cases where sparse directories
are present in the index.

BACKGROUND
----------
The 'unpack_trees_options.cache_bottom' is a variable that tracks the
in-progress "bottom" of the cache as 'unpack_trees()' iterates through the
contents of the index. Most importantly, this value informs the sequential
return values of 'next_cache_entry()' which, in the "diff cache" usage of
'unpack_callback()', are either unpacked as-is or are passed into the diff
machinery.

The 'cache_bottom' is intended to track the position of the first entry in
the index that has not yet been diffed or unpacked. It is advanced in two
main ways: either it is incremented when an index entry is marked as "used"
(in 'mark_ce_used()'), indicating that it was unpacked or diffed, or when a
directory is unpacked, in which case it is increased by an amount equaling
the number of index entries inside that tree.

In 17a1bb5 (unpack-trees: preserve cache_bottom, 2021-07-14), it was
identified that sparse directories posed a problem to the above
'cache_bottom' advancement logic - because a sparse directory was both an
index entry that could be "used" and a directory that can be unpacked, the
'cache_bottom' would be incremented too many times. To solve this problem,
the 'mark_ce_used()' advancement of 'cache_bottom' was skipped for sparse
directories.

INCORRECT CACHE_BOTTOM TRACKING
-------------------------------
Skipping the 'cache_bottom' advancement for sparse directories in
'mark_ce_used()' breaks down in two cases:

1. When the 'unpack_trees()' operation is *not* a "cache diff" (because the
   directory contents-based incrementing of 'cache_bottom' does not happen).
2. When a cache diff is performed with a pathspec (because
   'unpack_index_entry()' will unpack a sparse directory not matched by the
   pathspec without performing the directory contents-based increment).

The former luckily does not appear to affect 'git' behavior, likely because
'cache_bottom' is largely unused (non-"cache diff" 'unpack_trees()' uses
'find_index_entry()' - rather than 'next_cache_entry()' - to find the index
entries to unpack).

The latter, however, causes 'cache_bottom' to "lag behind" its intended
position by an amount equal to the number of sparse directories unpacked so
far with 'unpack_index_entry()'. If a repository is structured such that any
sparse directories are ordered lexicographically *after* any
pathspec-matching directories, though, this issue won't present any adverse
behavior.

This was the case with the 't1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh' tests
before the addition of the 'before/' sparse directory (ordered *before* the
in-cone 'deep/' directory), therefore sidestepping the issue. Once the
'before/' directory was added, though, 'cache_bottom' began to lag behind
its intended position, causing 'next_cache_entry()' to return index entries
it had already processed and, ultimately, an incorrect diff.

CORRECTING CACHE_BOTTOM
-----------------------
The problems observed in 't1092' come from 'cache_bottom' lagging behind in
cases where the cache tree-based advancement doesn't occur. To solve this,
then, the fix in 17a1bb5 is "reversed"; rather than skipping
'cache_bottom' advancement in 'mark_ce_used()', we skip the directory
contents-based advancement for sparse directories. Now, every index entry
can be accounted for in 'cache_bottom':

* if you're working with a single index entry, 'cache_bottom' is incremented
  in 'mark_ce_used()'
* if you're working with a directory that contains index entries (but is not
  one itself), 'cache_bottom' is incremented by the number of entries in
  that directory.

Finally, change the 'test_expect_failure' tests in 't1092' failing due to
this bug back to 'test_expect_success'.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh
Expand Up @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ test_expect_success 'deep changes during checkout' '
test_all_match git checkout base
'

test_expect_failure 'add outside sparse cone' '
test_expect_success 'add outside sparse cone' '
init_repos &&
run_on_sparse mkdir folder1 &&
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test_all_match git status --porcelain=v2
'

test_expect_failure 'status/add: outside sparse cone' '
test_expect_success 'status/add: outside sparse cone' '
init_repos &&
# folder1 is at HEAD, but outside the sparse cone
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ test_expect_success 'checkout and reset (keep)' '
test_all_match test_must_fail git reset --keep deepest
'

test_expect_failure 'reset with pathspecs inside sparse definition' '
test_expect_success 'reset with pathspecs inside sparse definition' '
init_repos &&
write_script edit-contents <<-\EOF &&
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16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions unpack-trees.c
Expand Up @@ -595,13 +595,6 @@ static void mark_ce_used(struct cache_entry *ce, struct unpack_trees_options *o)
{
ce->ce_flags |= CE_UNPACKED;

/*
* If this is a sparse directory, don't advance cache_bottom.
* That will be advanced later using the cache-tree data.
*/
if (S_ISSPARSEDIR(ce->ce_mode))
return;

if (o->cache_bottom < o->src_index->cache_nr &&
o->src_index->cache[o->cache_bottom] == ce) {
int bottom = o->cache_bottom;
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* it does not do any look-ahead, so this is safe.
*/
if (matches) {
o->cache_bottom += matches;
/*
* Only increment the cache_bottom if the
* directory isn't a sparse directory index
* entry (if it is, it was already incremented)
* in 'mark_ce_used()'
*/
if (!src[0] || !S_ISSPARSEDIR(src[0]->ce_mode))
o->cache_bottom += matches;
return mask;
}
}
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