list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacksjk/path-name-safety-2.4

When we find a blob at "a/b/c", we currently pass this to
our show_object_fn callbacks as two components: "a/b/" and
"c". Callbacks which want the full value then call
path_name(), which concatenates the two. But this is an
inefficient interface; the path is a strbuf, and we could
simply append "c" to it temporarily, then roll back the
length, without creating a new copy.

So we could improve this by teaching the callsites of
path_name() this trick (and there are only 3). But we can
also notice that no callback actually cares about the
broken-down representation, and simply pass each callback
the full path "a/b/c" as a string. The callback code becomes
even simpler, then, as we do not have to worry about freeing
an allocated buffer, nor rolling back our modification to
the strbuf.

This is theoretically less efficient, as some callbacks
would not bother to format the final path component. But in
practice this is not measurable. Since we use the same
strbuf over and over, our work to grow it is amortized, and
we really only pay to memcpy a few bytes.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 1ff6709d4b..871812db2a 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -21,27 +21,14 @@
 
 volatile show_early_output_fn_t show_early_output;
 
-char *path_name(struct strbuf *path, const char *name)
+void show_object_with_name(FILE *out, struct object *obj, const char *name)
 {
-	struct strbuf ret = STRBUF_INIT;
-	if (path)
-		strbuf_addbuf(&ret, path);
-	strbuf_addstr(&ret, name);
-	return strbuf_detach(&ret, NULL);
-}
-
-void show_object_with_name(FILE *out, struct object *obj,
-			   struct strbuf *path, const char *component)
-{
-	char *name = path_name(path, component);
-	char *p;
+	const char *p;
 
 	fprintf(out, "%s ", sha1_to_hex(obj->sha1));
 	for (p = name; *p && *p != '\n'; p++)
 		fputc(*p, out);
 	fputc('\n', out);
-
-	free(name);
 }
 
 static void mark_blob_uninteresting(struct blob *blob)