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[PATCH 10/20] merge-ort: avoid recursing into identical trees

From
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 30, 2020, 03:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20201030034131.1479968-11-newren@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20201030034131.1479968-1-newren@gmail.com>

When all three trees have the same oid, there is no need to recurse into these trees to find that all files within them happen to match. We can just record any one of the trees as the resolution of merging that particular path.

Immediately resolving trees for other types of trivial tree merges (such as one side matches the merge base, or the two sides match each other) would prevent us from detecting renames for some paths, and thus prevent us from doing three-way content merges for those paths whose renames we did not detect.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 merge-ort.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c
index 60e2b78e2d..2a402e18ed 100644
--- a/merge-ort.c
+++ b/merge-ort.c
@@ -202,6 +202,20 @@ static int collect_merge_info_callback(int n,
 	fullpath = xmalloc(len+1);
 	make_traverse_path(fullpath, len+1, info, p->path, p->pathlen);
 
+	/*
+	 * If mbase, side1, and side2 all match, we can resolve early.  Even
+	 * if these are trees, there will be no renames or anything
+	 * underneath.
+	 */
+	if (side1_matches_mbase && side2_matches_mbase) {
+		/* mbase, side1, & side2 all match; use mbase as resolution */
+		setup_path_info(opt, &pi, dirname, info->pathlen, fullpath,
+				names, names+0, mbase_null, 0,
+				filemask, dirmask, 1);
+		strmap_put(&opti->paths, pi.string, pi.util);
+		return mask;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Record information about the path so we can resolve later in
 	 * process_entries.
-- 
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Message 10 of 22 in “fundamentals of merge-ort implementation”
  1. 00/20 fundamentals of merge-ort implementationElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  2. 07/20 merge-ort: avoid repeating fill_tree_descriptor() on the same treeElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  3. 04/20 merge-ort: use histogram diffElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  4. 01/20 merge-ort: setup basic internal data structuresElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  5. 02/20 merge-ort: add some high-level algorithm structureElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  6. 06/20 merge-ort: implement a very basic collect_merge_info()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  7. 13/20 merge-ort: step 1 of tree writing -- record basenames, modes, and oidsElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  8. 11/20 merge-ort: add a preliminary simple process_entries() implementationElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  9. 12/20 merge-ort: have process_entries operate in a defined orderElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  10. 10/20 merge-ort: avoid recursing into identical treesElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  11. 14/20 merge-ort: step 2 of tree writing -- function to create tree objectElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  12. 15/20 merge-ort: step 3 of tree writing -- handling subdirectories as we goElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  13. 20/20 merge-ort: free data structures in merge_finalize()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  14. 19/20 merge-ort: add implementation of record_unmerged_index_entries()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  15. 18/20 tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhereElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  16. 17/20 merge-ort: add implementation of checkout()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  17. 16/20 merge-ort: basic outline for merge_switch_to_result()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  18. 05/20 merge-ort: add an err() function similar to one from merge-recursiveElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  19. 09/20 merge-ort: record stage and auxiliary info for every pathElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  20. 03/20 merge-ort: port merge_start() from merge-recursiveElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  21. 08/20 merge-ort: compute a few more useful fields for collect_merge_infoElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  22. Elijah NewrenOct 30, 2020

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