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The reference updates performed as a part of 'git-fetch(1)', take place one at a time. For each reference update, a new transaction is created and committed. This is necessary to ensure we can allow individual updates to fail without failing the entire command. The command also supports an '--atomic' mode, which uses a single transaction to update all of the references. But this mode has an all-or-nothing approach, where if a single update fails, all updates would fail. In23fc8e4f61(refs: implement batch reference update support, 2025-04-08), we introduced a new mechanism to batch reference updates. Under the hood, this uses a single transaction to perform a batch of reference updates, while allowing only individual updates to fail. Utilize this newly introduced batch update mechanism in 'git-fetch(1)'. This provides a significant bump in performance, especially when dealing with repositories with large number of references. Adding support for batched updates is simply modifying the flow to also create a batch update transaction in the non-atomic flow. With the reftable backend there is a 22x performance improvement, when performing 'git-fetch(1)' with 10000 refs: Benchmark 1: fetch: many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 10000, revision = master) Time (mean ± σ): 3.403 s ± 0.775 s [User: 1.875 s, System: 1.417 s] Range (min … max): 2.454 s … 4.529 s 10 runs Benchmark 2: fetch: many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 154.3 ms ± 17.6 ms [User: 102.5 ms, System: 56.1 ms] Range (min … max): 145.2 ms … 220.5 ms 18 runs Summary fetch: many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD) ran 22.06 ± 5.62 times faster than fetch: many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 10000, revision = master) In similar conditions, the files backend sees a 1.25x performance improvement: Benchmark 1: fetch: many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 10000, revision = master) Time (mean ± σ): 605.5 ms ± 9.4 ms [User: 117.8 ms, System: 483.3 ms] Range (min … max): 595.6 ms … 621.5 ms 10 runs Benchmark 2: fetch: many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD) Time (mean ± σ): 485.8 ms ± 4.3 ms [User: 91.1 ms, System: 396.7 ms] Range (min … max): 477.6 ms … 494.3 ms 10 runs Summary fetch: many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 10000, revision = HEAD) ran 1.25 ± 0.02 times faster than fetch: many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 10000, revision = master) With this we'll either be using a regular transaction or a batch update transaction. This helps cleanup some code which is no longer needed as we'll now always have some type of 'ref_transaction' object being propagated. One big change is that earlier, each individual update would propagate a failure. Whereas now, the `ref_transaction_for_each_rejected_update` function is called at the end of the flow to capture the exit status for 'git-fetch(1)' and also to print F/D conflict errors. This does change the order of the errors being printed, but the behavior stays the same. Since transaction errors are now explicitly defined as part of76e760b999(refs: introduce enum-based transaction error types, 2025-04-08), utilize them and get rid of custom errors defined within 'builtin/fetch.c'. Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>