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Re: [PATCH 4/8] git-remote-mediawiki: get rid of O(N^2) loop

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 16, 2012, 18:19 UTC
Message-ID
<7v394r36ws.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
> The algorithm to find a path from the local revision to the remote one
> was calling "git rev-list" and parsing its output N times. Run rev-list
> only once, and fill a hashtable with the result to optimize the body of
> the loop.

Good thinking. I wonder if it would further reduce the overhead if you stop using --children and do this using --parents instead, as you will be reading the parsed_sha1..local range either way yourself anyway.

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> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
> ---
>  contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki
> index 8e46e4e..f9c0cc6 100755
> --- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki
> +++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki
> @@ -1196,16 +1196,27 @@ sub mw_push_revision {
>  	if ($last_local_revid > 0) {
>  		my $parsed_sha1 = $remoteorigin_sha1;
>  		# Find a path from last MediaWiki commit to pushed commit
> +		print STDERR "Computing path from local to remote ...\n";
> +		my @local_ancestry = split(/\n/, run_git("rev-list --boundary --children $local ^$parsed_sha1"));
> +		my %local_ancestry;
> +		foreach my $line (@local_ancestry) {
> +			if (my ($parent, $child) = $line =~ m/^-?([a-f0-9]+) ([a-f0-9]+)/) {
> +				$local_ancestry{$parent} = $child;
> +				if ($parent eq $parsed_sha1 || $child eq $parsed_sha1) {
> +					print STDERR "$parent -> $child\n";
> +				}
> +			} elsif (!$line =~ m/^([a-f0-9]+)/) {
> +				die "Unexpected output from git rev-list: $line";
> +			}
> +		}
>  		while ($parsed_sha1 ne $HEAD_sha1) {
> -			my @commit_info =  grep(/^$parsed_sha1/, split(/\n/, run_git("rev-list --children $local")));
> -			if (!@commit_info) {
> +			my $child = $local_ancestry{$parsed_sha1};
> +			if (!$child) {
> +				printf STDERR "Cannot find a path in history from remote commit to last commit\n";
>  				return error_non_fast_forward($remote);
>  			}
> -			my @commit_info_split = split(/ |\n/, $commit_info[0]);
> -			# $commit_info_split[1] is the sha1 of the commit to export
> -			# $commit_info_split[0] is the sha1 of its direct child
> -			push(@commit_pairs, \@commit_info_split);
> -			$parsed_sha1 = $commit_info_split[1];
> +			push(@commit_pairs, [$parsed_sha1, $child]);
> +			$parsed_sha1 = $child;
>  		}
>  	} else {
>  		# No remote mediawiki revision. Export the whole
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Message 12 of 33 in “git-remote-mediawiki: fixes, optimizations, and progress report”
  1. 0/8 git-remote-mediawiki: fixes, optimizations, and progress reportMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  2. 1/8 git-remote-mediawiki: don't split namespaces with spacesMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  4. 2/8 git-remote-mediawiki: actually send empty comment when they're emptyMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  6. Matthieu MoyJul 16, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  8. 3/8 git-remote-mediawiki: make mediafiles export optionalMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  10. Matthieu MoyJul 16, 2012
  11. 4/8 git-remote-mediawiki: get rid of O(N^2) loopMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  13. Matthieu MoyJul 16, 2012
  14. 5/8 git-remote-mediawiki: use --force when adding notesMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  15. 6/8 git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when listing pagesMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  16. 7/8 git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when getting last remote revisionMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  17. 8/8 git-remote-mediawiki: properly deal with invalid remote revisionsMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  19. 0/8 git-remote-mediawiki: fixes, optimizations, and progress reportMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  20. 1/8 git-remote-mediawiki: don't split namespaces with spacesMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  21. 2/8 git-remote-mediawiki: actually send empty comment when they're emptyMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  22. 3/8 git-remote-mediawiki: make mediafiles export optionalMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  23. 4/8 git-remote-mediawiki: get rid of O(N^2) loopMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  24. 5/8 git-remote-mediawiki: use --force when adding notesMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  25. 6/8 git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when listing pagesMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  26. 7/8 git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when getting last remote revisionMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  27. 8/8 git-remote-mediawiki: properly deal with invalid remote revisionsMatthieu Moy, Jul 16, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  29. 0/2 git-remote-mediawiki: two more fixesMatthieu Moy, Jul 17, 2012
  30. 1/2 git-remote-mediawiki: fix incorrect test usage in testMatthieu Moy, Jul 17, 2012
  31. 2/2 git-remote-mediawiki: allow page names with a ':'Matthieu Moy, Jul 17, 2012
  32. Dan JohnsonJul 20, 2012
  33. Matthieu MoyJul 23, 2012

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