Re: git pull takes ~8 seconds on up-to-date Linux git tree

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:20:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >> > @@ -617,6 +618,8 @@ static struct commit_list *paint_down_to_common(struct commit *one, int n, struc
> >> >  
> >> >  	one->object.flags |= PARENT1;
> >> >  	commit_list_insert_by_date(one, &list);
> >> > +	if (!n)
> >> > +		return list;
> >> >  	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
> >> >  		twos[i]->object.flags |= PARENT2;
> >> >  		commit_list_insert_by_date(twos[i], &list);
> >
> > This seems like an obvious optimization, but does it really have
> > anything to do with the patch at hand?
> 
> The function picks one and paints it against all others, but the
> logic assumes there must be at least one other to paint against;
> otherwise the traversal will not ever find a node that is painted
> with both PARENT1 and PARENT2 to stop, leading us to traverse all
> the way down to root.

Ah, OK. I was thinking it was just a way to skip the further logic,
which would come to the same answer (it does, just not quickly). Makes
sense.

-Peff