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[PATCH 2/5] log: avoid loading decorations for userformats that don't need it

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 22, 2021, 16:04 UTC
Message-ID
<YNIKItEutZcytcgb@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<YNIJw/8p0F3cPfzd@coredump.intra.peff.net>

If no --decorate option is given, we default to auto-decoration. And when that kicks in, cmd_log_init_finish() will unconditionally load the decoration refs.

However, if we are using a user-format that does not include "%d" or "%D", we won't show the decorations at all, so we don't need to load them. We can detect this case and auto-disable them by adding a new field to our userformat_want helper. We can do this even when the user explicitly asked for --decorate, because it can't affect the output at all.

This patch consistently reduces the time to run "git log -1 --format=%H" on my git.git clone (with ~2k refs) from 34ms to 7ms. On a much more extreme real-world repository (with ~220k refs), it goes from 2.5s to 4ms.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 builtin/log.c | 3 +++
 pretty.c      | 4 ++++
 pretty.h      | 1 +
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index 6102893fcc..6ba7f20726 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -245,6 +245,9 @@ static void cmd_log_init_finish(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
 			rev->abbrev_commit = 0;
 	}
 
+	if (rev->commit_format == CMIT_FMT_USERFORMAT && !w.decorate)
+		decoration_style = 0;
+
 	if (decoration_style) {
 		const struct string_list *config_exclude =
 			repo_config_get_value_multi(the_repository,
diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index b1ecd039ce..9631529c10 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -1735,6 +1735,10 @@ static size_t userformat_want_item(struct strbuf *sb, const char *placeholder,
 	case 'S':
 		w->source = 1;
 		break;
+	case 'd':
+	case 'D':
+		w->decorate = 1;
+		break;
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/pretty.h b/pretty.h
index c81cf40d38..2f16acd213 100644
--- a/pretty.h
+++ b/pretty.h
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static inline int cmit_fmt_is_mail(enum cmit_fmt fmt)
 struct userformat_want {
 	unsigned notes:1;
 	unsigned source:1;
+	unsigned decorate:1;
 };
 void userformat_find_requirements(const char *fmt, struct userformat_want *w);
 
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  2. 1/5 pretty.h: update and expand docstring for userformat_find_requirements()Jeff King, Jun 22, 2021
  3. 2/5 log: avoid loading decorations for userformats that don't need itJeff King, Jun 22, 2021
  4. 3/5 object.h: expand docstring for lookup_unknown_object()Jeff King, Jun 22, 2021
  5. 4/5 object.h: add lookup_object_by_type() functionJeff King, Jun 22, 2021
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