Kirill Smelkov authored Jan 20, 2014 and Junio C Hamano committed Feb 24, 2014

When generating combined diff, for each commit, we intersect diff
paths from diff(parent_0,commit) to diff(parent_i,commit) comparing
all paths pairs, i.e. doing it the quadratic way. That is correct,
but could be optimized.

Paths come from trees in sorted (= tree) order, and so does diff_tree()
emits resulting paths in that order too. Now if we look at diffcore
transformations, all of them, except diffcore_order, preserve resulting
path ordering:

    - skip_stat_unmatch, grep, pickaxe, filter
                            -- just skip elements -> order stays preserved

    - break                 -- just breaks diff for a path, adding path
                               dup after the path -> order stays preserved

    - detect rename/copy    -- resulting paths are emitted sorted
                               (verified empirically)

So only diffcore_order changes diff paths ordering.

But diffcore_order meaning affects only presentation - i.e. only how to
show the diff, so we could do all the internal computations without
paths reordering, and order only resultant paths set. This is faster,
since, if we know two paths sets are all ordered, their intersection
could be done in linear time.

This patch does just that.

Timings for `git log --raw --no-abbrev --no-renames` without `-c` ("git log")
and with `-c` ("git log -c") before and after the patch are as follows:

                linux.git v3.10..v3.11

            log     log -c

    before  1.9s    20.4s
    after   1.9s    16.6s

                navy.git    (private repo)

            log     log -c

    before  0.83s   15.6s
    after   0.83s    2.1s

P.S.

I think linux.git case is sped up not so much as the second one, since
in navy.git, there are more exotic (subtree, etc) merges.

P.P.S.

My tracing showed that the rest of the time (16.6s vs 1.9s) is usually
spent in computing huge diffs from commit to second parent. Will try to
deal with it, if I'll have time.

P.P.P.S.

For combine_diff_path, ->len is not needed anymore - will remove it in
the next noisy cleanup path, to maintain good signal/noise ratio here.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>