fix overslow :/no-such-string-ever-existed diagnostics

"git cmd :/no-such-string-ever-existed" runs an extra round of get_sha1()
since 009fee4 (Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails.,
2009-12-07).  Once without error diagnosis to see there is no commit with
such a string in the log message (hence "it cannot be a ref"), and after
seeing that :/no-such-string-ever-existed is not a filename (hence "it
cannot be a path, either"), another time to give "better diagnosis".

The thing is, the second time it runs, we already know that traversing the
history all the way down to the root will _not_ find any matching commit.

Rename misguided "gently" parameter, which is turned off _only_ when the
"detailed diagnosis" codepath knows that it cannot be a ref and making the
call only for the caller to die with a message.  Flip its meaning (and
adjust the callers) and call it "only_to_die", which is not a great name,
but it describes far more clearly what the codepaths that switches their
behaviour based on this variable do.

On my box, the command spends ~1.8 seconds without the patch to make the
report; with the patch it spends ~1.12 seconds.

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

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index be6ce7237d..a9e641967a 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -785,15 +785,15 @@ struct object_context {
 };
 
 extern int get_sha1(const char *str, unsigned char *sha1);
-extern int get_sha1_with_mode_1(const char *str, unsigned char *sha1, unsigned *mode, int gently, const char *prefix);
+extern int get_sha1_with_mode_1(const char *str, unsigned char *sha1, unsigned *mode, int only_to_die, const char *prefix);
 static inline int get_sha1_with_mode(const char *str, unsigned char *sha1, unsigned *mode)
 {
-	return get_sha1_with_mode_1(str, sha1, mode, 1, NULL);
+	return get_sha1_with_mode_1(str, sha1, mode, 0, NULL);
 }
-extern int get_sha1_with_context_1(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1, struct object_context *orc, int gently, const char *prefix);
+extern int get_sha1_with_context_1(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1, struct object_context *orc, int only_to_die, const char *prefix);
 static inline int get_sha1_with_context(const char *str, unsigned char *sha1, struct object_context *orc)
 {
-	return get_sha1_with_context_1(str, sha1, orc, 1, NULL);
+	return get_sha1_with_context_1(str, sha1, orc, 0, NULL);
 }
 extern int get_sha1_hex(const char *hex, unsigned char *sha1);
 extern char *sha1_to_hex(const unsigned char *sha1);	/* static buffer result! */