pr-git-2353/hferreiro/unpack-trees-quadratic-scan-v1
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07 Jul 21:01
From: Henrique Ferreiro <hferreiro@igalia.com> Diffing the working tree against a commit with a pathspec can take time quadratic in the size of the index when the pathspec matches a subtree whose entries are the first entries of the index. Fix it by having next_cache_entry() record how far it scanned in cache_bottom, so repeated calls no longer rescan the growing prefix of already-unpacked entries. On a Chromium checkout (~500k index entries), git diff HEAD -- .agents/OWNERS took about 8 minutes before this change and 0.07 seconds after it. The same diff without the commit, without the pathspec, or with --cached was already instant. Add p0009-diff-pathspec.sh, which builds a 100,000-entry index whose first path lives in a subtree, to guard against the regression. Comparing v2.55.0 with this change: Test v2.55.0 HEAD --------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted-As: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.2353.git.git.1783458106037.gitgitgadget@gmail.com