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[PATCH] runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not needed

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 27, 2006, 11:16 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.63.0609271315470.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

This speeds up the case when you run git-status, having an untracked subdirectory containing huge amounts of files.

It also clarifies the handling of hide_empty_directories; the old version worked, but was hard to understand.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 dir.c |   24 +++++++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index e2f472b..e69663c 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -274,6 +274,15 @@ static int dir_exists(const char *dirnam
 	return !strncmp(active_cache[pos]->name, dirname, len);
 }
 
+static int dir_is_empty(const char *dirname)
+{
+	DIR *fdir = opendir(dirname);
+	int result = (readdir(fdir) == NULL);
+
+	closedir(fdir);
+	return result;
+}
+
 /*
  * Read a directory tree. We currently ignore anything but
  * directories, regular files and symlinks. That's because git
@@ -314,7 +323,6 @@ static int read_directory_recursive(stru
 
 			switch (DTYPE(de)) {
 			struct stat st;
-			int subdir, rewind_base;
 			default:
 				continue;
 			case DT_UNKNOWN:
@@ -328,18 +336,16 @@ static int read_directory_recursive(stru
 			case DT_DIR:
 				memcpy(fullname + baselen + len, "/", 2);
 				len++;
-				rewind_base = dir->nr;
-				subdir = read_directory_recursive(dir, fullname, fullname,
-				                        baselen + len);
 				if (dir->show_other_directories &&
-				    (subdir || !dir->hide_empty_directories) &&
 				    !dir_exists(fullname, baselen + len)) {
-					/* Rewind the read subdirectory */
-					while (dir->nr > rewind_base)
-						free(dir->entries[--dir->nr]);
+					if (dir->hide_empty_directories &&
+					    dir_is_empty(fullname))
+						continue;
 					break;
 				}
-				contents += subdir;
+
+				contents += read_directory_recursive(dir,
+					fullname, fullname, baselen + len);
 				continue;
 			case DT_REG:
 			case DT_LNK:
-- 
1.4.2.1.g78cd-dirty
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  1. runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not neededJohannes Schindelin, Sep 27, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinSep 28, 2006
  4. runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not neededJohannes Schindelin, Sep 28, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2006

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