revwalk: don't try to find merge bases when there can be none

As a way to speed up the cases where we need to hide some commits, we
find out what the merge bases are so we know to stop marking commits as
uninteresting and avoid walking down a potentially very large amount of
commits which we will never see. There are however two oversights in
current code.

The merge-base finding algorithm fails to recognize that if it is only
given one commit, there can be no merge base. It instead walks down the
whole ancestor chain needlessly. Make it return an empty list
immediately in this situation.

The revwalk does not know whether the user has asked to hide any commits
at all. In situation where the user pushes multiple commits but doesn't
hide any, the above fix wouldn't do the trick. Keep track of whether the
user wants to hide any commits and only run the merge-base finding
algorithm when it's needed.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/revwalk.c b/src/revwalk.c
index 753911246..f037ee692 100644
--- a/src/revwalk.c
+++ b/src/revwalk.c
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ static int push_commit(git_revwalk *walk, const git_oid *oid, int uninteresting,
 	if (commit == NULL)
 		return -1; /* error already reported by failed lookup */
 
+	if (uninteresting)
+		walk->did_hide = 1;
+
 	commit->uninteresting = uninteresting;
 	if (walk->one == NULL && !uninteresting) {
 		walk->one = commit;
@@ -390,11 +393,18 @@ static int prepare_walk(git_revwalk *walk)
 		return GIT_ITEROVER;
 	}
 
-	/* first figure out what the merge bases are */
-	if (git_merge__bases_many(&bases, walk, walk->one, &walk->twos) < 0)
-		return -1;
+	/*
+	 * If the user asked to hide commits, we need to figure out
+	 * what the merge bases are so we can know when we can stop
+	 * marking parents uninteresting.
+	 */
+	if (walk->did_hide) {
+		if (git_merge__bases_many(&bases, walk, walk->one, &walk->twos) < 0)
+			return -1;
+
+		git_commit_list_free(&bases);
+	}
 
-	git_commit_list_free(&bases);
 	if (process_commit(walk, walk->one, walk->one->uninteresting) < 0)
 		return -1;