Re: [PATCH 3/4] fast-export: don't parse all the commits

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> We don't need the parsed objects at this point, merely the information
>> that they have marks.
>>
>> Seems to be three times faster in my setup with lots of objects.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  builtin/fast-export.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/fast-export.c b/builtin/fast-export.c
>> index a5b8da8..3c5a701 100644
>> --- a/builtin/fast-export.c
>> +++ b/builtin/fast-export.c
>> @@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ static void import_marks(char *input_file)
>>                       /* only commits */
>>                       continue;
>>
>> -             object = parse_object(sha1);
>> +             object = lookup_unknown_object(sha1);
>
> This updates the parse_object() moved by the previous patch. At this
> point in the codeflow, unlike the original, we already _know_ the
> object must be a commit; wouldn't an equivalent of:
>
>         object = &(lookup_commit(sha1)->object)
>
> be more correct here?

Maybe, if we want to run some extra code we don't care about.

The only actual difference is that object->type will be OBJ_COMMIT,
but a) this is not going to be used anywhere, and b) we can set that
ourselves.

In fact, my original code was:

	object = lookup_object(sha1);
	if (!object)
		object = create_object(sha1, OBJ_COMMIT, alloc_object_node());

But I figured there's no need for those extra lines of code.

-- 
Felipe Contreras