Re: [PATCH 0/5] en/object-list-with-pathspec (v3?)

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

2010/9/8 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>:
> 2010/9/7 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
>> Changes from last time is tree_entry_interesting() now takes
>> struct exclude * as the pathspecs.
>>
>> I think there'll be a bit of performance loss because diff_options.el
>> is not initialized from the beginning. But that requires more changes
>> outside tree-diff.c (makes sure that diff_options.el is copied properly,
>> makes sure that diff_tree_setup_* is called ...) So one step at a time.
>> I'm working on it.
>
> Looks reasonable to me so far.  I believe your series already makes
> nr_paths, paths, and pathlens fields from diff_options unused (other
> than via exclude_list) -- yes?  If so, that suggests that we could
> just modify diff_tree_setup_paths() to do the work that your new
> diff_tree_setup_exclude_lists() is doing (and to take an exclude_list*
> instead of a diff_options*).  Then you wouldn't need to worry about
> doing the setup "on-the-fly" and the performance differences should go
> away.

They are used elsewhere, passed around as prune data, even fed to
read_cache_preload().. so they won't go away soon.

> Am I understanding correctly, and is that the route you're going?

Yes. Except that both nr_paths, paths and pathlens will stay along with
exclude_list. Getting rid of "paths" takes time (the other two fields are
easier to deal with).
-- 
Duy