Optimize "diff --cached" performance.

The read_tree() function is called only from the call chain to
run "git diff --cached" (this includes the internal call made by
git-runstatus to run_diff_index()).  The function vacates stage
without any funky "merge" magic.  The caller then goes and
compares stage #1 entries from the tree with stage #0 entries
from the original index.

When adding the cache entries this way, it used the general
purpose add_cache_entry().  This function looks for an existing
entry to replace or if there is none to find where to insert the
new entry, resolves D/F conflict and all the other things.

For the purpose of reading entries into an empty stage, none of
that processing is needed.  We can instead append everything and
then sort the result at the end.

This commit changes read_tree() to first make sure that there is
no existing cache entries at specified stage, and if that is the
case, it runs add_cache_entry() with ADD_CACHE_JUST_APPEND flag
(new), and then sort the resulting cache using qsort().

This new flag tells add_cache_entry() to omit all the checks
such as "Does this path already exist?  Does adding this path
remove other existing entries because it turns a directory to a
file?" and instead append the given cache entry straight at the
end of the active cache.  The caller of course is expected to
sort the resulting cache at the end before using the result.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index e97af18eea..e5276e6add 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ extern int index_name_pos(struct index_state *, const char *name, int namelen);
 #define ADD_CACHE_OK_TO_ADD 1		/* Ok to add */
 #define ADD_CACHE_OK_TO_REPLACE 2	/* Ok to replace file/directory */
 #define ADD_CACHE_SKIP_DFCHECK 4	/* Ok to skip DF conflict checks */
+#define ADD_CACHE_JUST_APPEND 8		/* Append only; tree.c::read_tree() */
 extern int add_index_entry(struct index_state *, struct cache_entry *ce, int option);
 extern struct cache_entry *refresh_cache_entry(struct cache_entry *ce, int really);
 extern int remove_index_entry_at(struct index_state *, int pos);