[PATCH] dir: avoid allocation in fill_directory()

From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Feb 7, 2017, 22:04 UTC
Message-ID: <73ec9cc7-8a86-8ba9-90fd-a954fa031820@web.de>

Pass the match member of the first pathspec item directly to read_directory() instead of using common_prefix() to duplicate it first, thus avoiding memory duplication, strlen(3) and free(3).

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
This updates 966de3028 (dir: convert fill_directory to use the pathspec
struct interface).  The result is closer to the original, yet still
using the modern interface.

This patch eerily resembles 2b189435 (dir: simplify fill_directory()).

 dir.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 65c3e681b8..4541f9e146 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -174,20 +174,19 @@ char *common_prefix(const struct pathspec *pathspec)
 
 int fill_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const struct pathspec *pathspec)
 {
-	char *prefix;
+	const char *prefix;
 	size_t prefix_len;
 
 	/*
 	 * Calculate common prefix for the pathspec, and
 	 * use that to optimize the directory walk
 	 */
-	prefix = common_prefix(pathspec);
-	prefix_len = prefix ? strlen(prefix) : 0;
+	prefix_len = common_prefix_len(pathspec);
+	prefix = prefix_len ? pathspec->items[0].match : "";
 
 	/* Read the directory and prune it */
 	read_directory(dir, prefix, prefix_len, pathspec);
 
-	free(prefix);
 	return prefix_len;
 }

-- 
2.11.1