pack-objects: break out of want_object loop early

When pack-objects collects the list of objects to pack
(either from stdin, or via its internal rev-list), it
filters each one through want_object_in_pack().

This function loops through each existing packfile, looking
for the object. When we find it, we mark the pack/offset
combo for later use. However, we can't just return "yes, we
want it" at that point. If --honor-pack-keep is in effect,
we must keep looking to find it in _all_ packs, to make sure
none of them has a .keep. Likewise, if --local is in effect,
we must make sure it is not present in any non-local pack.

As a result, the sum effort of these calls is effectively
O(nr_objects * nr_packs). In an ordinary repository, we have
only a handful of packs, and this doesn't make a big
difference. But in pathological cases, it can slow the
counting phase to a crawl.

This patch notices the case that we have neither "--local"
nor "--honor-pack-keep" in effect and breaks out of the loop
early, after finding the first instance. Note that our worst
case is still "objects * packs" (i.e., we might find each
object in the last pack we look in), but in practice we will
often break out early. On an "average" repo, my git.git with
8 packs, this shows a modest 2% (a few dozen milliseconds)
improvement in the counting-objects phase of "git
pack-objects --all <foo" (hackily instrumented by sticking
exit(0) right after list_objects).

But in a much more pathological case, it makes a bigger
difference. I ran the same command on a real-world example
with ~9 million objects across 1300 packs. The counting time
dropped from 413s to 45s, an improvement of about 89%.

Note that this patch won't do anything by itself for a
normal "git gc", as it uses both --honor-pack-keep and
--local.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index a2f8cfdec0..a46bf5b7e4 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -977,6 +977,21 @@ static int want_object_in_pack(const unsigned char *sha1,
 				return 1;
 			if (incremental)
 				return 0;
+
+			/*
+			 * When asked to do --local (do not include an
+			 * object that appears in a pack we borrow
+			 * from elsewhere) or --honor-pack-keep (do not
+			 * include an object that appears in a pack marked
+			 * with .keep), we need to make sure no copy of this
+			 * object come from in _any_ pack that causes us to
+			 * omit it, and need to complete this loop.  When
+			 * neither option is in effect, we know the object
+			 * we just found is going to be packed, so break
+			 * out of the loop to return 1 now.
+			 */
+			if (!ignore_packed_keep && !local)
+				break;
 			if (local && !p->pack_local)
 				return 0;
 			if (ignore_packed_keep && p->pack_local && p->pack_keep)