[PATCH v2 19/19] reset [--mixed]: use diff-based reset whether or not pathspec was given

Thanks to b65982b (Optimize "diff-index --cached" using cache-tree, 2009-05-20), resetting with paths is much faster than resetting without paths. Some timings for the linux-2.6 repo to illustrate this (best of five, warm cache):

        reset       reset .
real    0m0.219s    0m0.080s
user    0m0.140s    0m0.040s
sys     0m0.070s    0m0.030s

These two commands should do the same thing, so instead of having the user type the trailing " ." to get the faster do_diff_cache()-based implementation, always use it when doing a mixed reset, with or without paths (so "git reset $rev" would also be faster).

Timing "git reset" shows that it indeed becomes as fast as "git reset ." after this patch.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
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It seems like a better solution would be for unpack_trees() learn the
same tricks as do_diff_cache(). I'm leaving that a challange for the
reader :-). I did have a look a unpack_trees(), but it looked rather
overwhelming.

 builtin/reset.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)