The most expensive part of packing a repository for transport to
another system is enumerating all of the objects in the repository.
Once this gets to the size of the linux-2.6 repository (1.8 million
objects), enumeration can take several CPU minutes and costs a lot
of temporary working set memory.

Teach PackWriter to efficiently reuse an existing "cached pack"
by answering a clone request with a thin pack followed by a larger
cached pack appended to the end.  This requires the repository
owner to first construct the cached pack by hand, and record the
tip commits inside of $GIT_DIR/objects/info/cached-packs:

  cd $GIT_DIR
  root=$(git rev-parse master)
  tmp=objects/.tmp-$$
  names=$(echo $root | git pack-objects --keep-true-parents --revs $tmp)
  for n in $names; do
    chmod a-w $tmp-$n.pack $tmp-$n.idx
    touch objects/pack/pack-$n.keep
    mv $tmp-$n.pack objects/pack/pack-$n.pack
    mv $tmp-$n.idx objects/pack/pack-$n.idx
  done

  (echo "+ $root";
   for n in $names; do echo "P $n"; done;
   echo) >>objects/info/cached-packs

  git repack -a -d

When a clone request needs to include $root, the corresponding
cached pack will be copied as-is, rather than enumerating all of
the objects that are reachable from $root.

For a linux-2.6 kernel repository that should be about 376 MiB,
the above process creates two packs of 368 MiB and 38 MiB[1].
This is a local disk usage increase of ~26 MiB, due to reduced
delta compression between the large cached pack and the smaller
recent activity pack.  The overhead is similar to 1 full copy of
the compressed project sources.

With this cached pack in hand, JGit daemon completes a clone request
in 1m17s less time, but a slightly larger data transfer (+2.39 MiB):

  Before:
    remote: Counting objects: 1861830, done
    remote: Finding sources: 100% (1861830/1861830)
    remote: Getting sizes: 100% (88243/88243)
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (88184/88184)
    Receiving objects: 100% (1861830/1861830), 376.01 MiB | 19.01 MiB/s, done.
    remote: Total 1861830 (delta 4706), reused 1851053 (delta 1553844)
    Resolving deltas: 100% (1564621/1564621), done.

    real  3m19.005s

  After:
    remote: Counting objects: 1601, done
    remote: Counting objects: 1828460, done
    remote: Finding sources: 100% (50475/50475)
    remote: Getting sizes: 100% (18843/18843)
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7585/7585)
    remote: Total 1861830 (delta 2407), reused 1856197 (delta 37510)
    Receiving objects: 100% (1861830/1861830), 378.40 MiB | 31.31 MiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (1559477/1559477), done.

    real 2m2.938s

Repository owners can periodically refresh their cached packs by
repacking their repository, folding all newer objects into a larger
cached pack.  Since repacking is already considered to be a normal
Git maintenance activity, this isn't a very big burden.

[1] In this test $root was set back about two weeks.

Change-Id: Ib87131d5c4b5e8c5cacb0f4fe16ff4ece554734b
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Rename the ByteWindow's inflate() method to setInput.  We have
completely refactored the purpose of this method to be feeding part
(or all) of the window as input to the Inflater, and the actual
inflate activity happens in the caller.

Change-Id: Ie93a5bae0e9e637b5e822d56993ce6b562c6ad15
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Very large delta instruction streams, or deltas which use very large
base objects, are now streamed through as large objects rather than
being inflated into a byte array.

This isn't the most efficient way to access delta encoded content, as
we may need to rewind and reprocess the base object when there was a
block moved within the file, but it will at least prevent the JVM from
having its heap explode.

When streaming a delta we have an inflater open for each level in the
delta chain, to inflate the instruction set of the delta, as well as
an inflater for the base level object.  The base object is buffered,
as is the top level delta requested by the application, but we do not
buffer the intermediate delta streams.  This keeps memory usage lower,
so its closer to 1024 bytes per level in the chain, without having an
adverse impact on raw throughput as the top-level buffer gets pushed
down to the lowest stream that has the next region.

Delta instructions transparently collapse here, if the top level does
not copy a region from its base, the base won't materialize that part
from its own base, etc.  This allows us to avoid copying around a lot
of segments which have been deleted from the final version.

Change-Id: I724d45245cebb4bad2deeae7b896fc55b2dd49b3
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

This move isolates all of the local file specific implementation code
into a single package, where their package-private methods and support
classes are properly hidden away from the rest of the core library.

Because of the sheer number of files impacted, I have limited this
change to only the renames and the updated imports.

Change-Id: Icca4884e1a418f83f8b617d0c4c78b73d8a4bd17
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Output of selected reuses is refactored to use a new ObjectReuseAsIs
interface that extends the ObjectReader.  This interface allows the
reader to control how it performs the reuse into the output stream,
but also allows it to throw an exception to request the writer to
find a different candidate representation.

The PackFile reuse code was overhauled, cleaning up the APIs so they
aren't exposed in the object loader, but instead are now a single
method on the PackFile itself.  The reuse algorithm was changed to do
a data verification pass, followed by the copy pass to the output.
This permits us to work around a corrupt object in a pack file by
seeking another copy of that object when this one is bad.

The reuse code was also optimized for the common case, where the
in-pack representation is under 16 KiB.  In these smaller cases
data is sent to the pack writer more directly, avoiding some copying.

Change-Id: I6350c2b444118305e8446ce1dfd049259832bcca
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Per CQ 3448 this is the initial contribution of the JGit project
to eclipse.org.  It is derived from the historical JGit repository
at commit 3a2dd9921c.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>