Don't fflush(stdout) when it's not helpful

This patch arose from a discussion started by Jim Meyering's patch
whose intention was to provide better diagnostics for failed writes.
Linus proposed a better way to do things, which also had the added
benefit that adding a fflush() to git-log-* operations and incremental
git-blame operations could improve interactive respose time feel, at
the cost of making things a bit slower when we aren't piping the
output to a downstream program.

This patch skips the fflush() calls when stdout is a regular file, or
if the environment variable GIT_FLUSH is set to "0".  This latter can
speed up a command such as:

GIT_FLUSH=0 strace -c -f -e write time git-rev-list HEAD | wc -l

a tiny amount.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-rev-list.c b/builtin-rev-list.c
index 813aadf596..86db8b03fe 100644
--- a/builtin-rev-list.c
+++ b/builtin-rev-list.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static void show_commit(struct commit *commit)
 		printf("%s%c", buf, hdr_termination);
 		free(buf);
 	}
-	fflush(stdout);
+	maybe_flush_or_die(stdout, "stdout");
 	if (commit->parents) {
 		free_commit_list(commit->parents);
 		commit->parents = NULL;