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When computing a changed-path Bloom filter, we need to take the files that changed from the diff computation and extract the parent directories. That way, a directory pathspec such as "Documentation" could match commits that change "Documentation/git.txt". However, the current code does a poor job of this process. The paths are added to a hashmap, but we do not check if an entry already exists with that path. This can create many duplicate entries and cause the filter to have a much larger length than it should. This means that the filter is more sparse than intended, which helps the false positive rate, but wastes a lot of space. Properly use hashmap_get() before hashmap_add(). Also be sure to include a comparison function so these can be matched correctly. This has an effect on a test in t0095-bloom.sh. This makes sense, there are ten changes inside "smallDir" so the total number of paths in the filter should be 11. This would result in 11 * 10 bits required, and with 8 bits per byte, this results in 14 bytes. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>maint
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