[cfe-dev] [lldb-dev] [llvm-dev] Sequential ID Git hook

[Tom Honermann via cfe-dev]

On 6/30/2016 5:20 PM, Robinson, Paul via cfe-dev wrote:
> We were using tags for a while in our own SVN->git conversion internally.
> (git branch is pushed to SVN and the SVN r-number used to create a tag.)
> They are convenient for some things, but each tag adds a new (if small)
> file to .git/tags and I don't know that it really scales well when you
> are talking about (long term) hundreds of thousands of them.  That was
> not what tags were designed for.

We're using tags in this manner for our internal repos and LLVM/Clang 
mirrors and haven't experienced any problems.  We're at ~50k tags for 
our most used repo, so not quite at hundreds of thousands yet.

When I look in .git/refs/tags of one of my repos, I do *not* see 50k 
files; I see ~400.  I'm not sure what causes some to appear here and 
others not.

I don't see how this use of tags is not representative of what tags were 
designed for.  They are designed to label a commit.  That seems to match 
well what is desired here.

> We've since stopped creating the tags, and gotten used to not having
> them.  We do the 'rev-list --count' trick which mainly gets recorded as
> one component of the version number, and it has been working for us.

As I understand it, 'git rev-list --count HEAD' requires walking the 
entire commit history.  Perhaps the performance is actually ok in 
practice, but I would be concerned about scaling with this approach as well:

$ time git rev-list --count HEAD
115968

real    0m1.170s
user    0m1.100s
sys     0m0.064s

> I think having the number in the commit log (even if it's just for the
> superproject) would be preferable.  You can use 'git log --grep' to
> find a particular rev if you need to.

Grepping every commit doesn't seem like the most scalable option either. 
  I did a quick test on a large repo.  First a grep for an identifier:

$ time git log --grep <id>
...
real    0m1.450s
user    0m1.340s
sys     0m0.092s

Then I did the same for the associated push tag:

$ time git log -n 1 <tag>
...
real    0m0.048s
user    0m0.024s
sys     0m0.016s

Tom.