fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files.

When the index is read from disk, the fsmonitor index extension is used
to flag the last known potentially dirty index entries. The registered
core.fsmonitor command is called with the time the index was last
updated and returns the list of files changed since that time. This list
is used to flag any additional dirty cache entries and untracked cache
directories.

We can then use this valid state to speed up preload_index(),
ie_match_stat(), and refresh_cache_ent() as they do not need to lstat()
files to detect potential changes for those entries marked
CE_FSMONITOR_VALID.

In addition, if the untracked cache is turned on valid_cached_dir() can
skip checking directories for new or changed files as fsmonitor will
invalidate the cache only for those directories that have been
identified as having potential changes.

To keep the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID state accurate during git operations;
when git updates a cache entry to match the current state on disk,
it will now set the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bit.

Inversely, anytime git changes a cache entry, the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bit
is cleared and the corresponding untracked cache directory is marked
invalid.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index d0d8ce823..ddda96e58 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -2165,6 +2165,20 @@ int git_config_get_max_percent_split_change(void)
 	return -1; /* default value */
 }
 
+int git_config_get_fsmonitor(void)
+{
+	if (git_config_get_pathname("core.fsmonitor", &core_fsmonitor))
+		core_fsmonitor = getenv("GIT_FSMONITOR_TEST");
+
+	if (core_fsmonitor && !*core_fsmonitor)
+		core_fsmonitor = NULL;
+
+	if (core_fsmonitor)
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 NORETURN
 void git_die_config_linenr(const char *key, const char *filename, int linenr)
 {