tree 91ff2e5dd3d8bfe5ad054c1ddcf7ab58edf6822b
parent 52aa9c81fcc72961d2ecb4ecadea6d869a6f878a
author Kaushik Lingarkar <quic_kaushikl@quicinc.com> 1670016062 -0800
committer Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com> 1672930356 +0100

Introduce core.trustPackedRefsStat config

Currently, we always read packed-refs file when 'trustFolderStat'
is false. Introduce a new config 'trustPackedRefsStat' which takes
precedence over 'trustFolderStat' when reading packed refs. Possible
values for this new config are:

* always: Trust packed-refs file attributes
* after_open: Same as 'always', but refresh the file attributes of
              packed-refs before trusting it
* never: Always read the packed-refs file
* unset: Fallback to 'trustFolderStat' to determine if the file
  attributes of packed-refs can be trusted

Folks whose repositories are on NFS and have traditionally been
setting 'trustFolderStat=false' can now get some performance improvement
with 'trustPackedRefsStat=after_open' as it refreshes the file
attributes of packed-refs (at least on some NFS clients) before
considering it.

For example, consider a repository on NFS with ~500k packed-refs. Here
are some stats which illustrate the improvement with this new config
when reading packed refs on NFS:

trustFolderStat=true trustPackedRefsStat=unset: 0.2ms
trustFolderStat=false trustPackedRefsStat=unset: 155ms
trustFolderStat=false trustPackedRefsStat=after_open: 1.5ms

Change-Id: I00da88e4cceebbcf3475be0fc0011ff65767c111
Signed-off-by: Kaushik Lingarkar <quic_kaushikl@quicinc.com>