rebase -i: skip unnecessary picks using the rebase--helper

In particular on Windows, where shell scripts are even more expensive
than on MacOSX or Linux, it makes sense to move a loop that forks
Git at least once for every line in the todo list into a builtin.

Note: The original code did not try to skip unnecessary picks of root
commits but punts instead (probably --root was not considered common
enough of a use case to bother optimizing). We do the same, for now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

builtin/rebase--helper.c

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ int cmd_rebase__helper(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	int keep_empty = 0;
 	enum {
 		CONTINUE = 1, ABORT, MAKE_SCRIPT, SHORTEN_SHA1S, EXPAND_SHA1S,
-		CHECK_TODO_LIST
+		CHECK_TODO_LIST, SKIP_UNNECESSARY_PICKS
 	} command = 0;
 	struct option options[] = {
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "ff", &opts.allow_ff, N_("allow fast-forward")),
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ int cmd_rebase__helper(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			N_("expand SHA-1s in the todo list"), EXPAND_SHA1S),
 		OPT_CMDMODE(0, "check-todo-list", &command,
 			N_("check the todo list"), CHECK_TODO_LIST),
+		OPT_CMDMODE(0, "skip-unnecessary-picks", &command,
+			N_("skip unnecessary picks"), SKIP_UNNECESSARY_PICKS),
 		OPT_END()
 	};
 
@@ -56,5 +58,7 @@ int cmd_rebase__helper(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		return !!transform_todo_ids(0);
 	if (command == CHECK_TODO_LIST && argc == 1)
 		return !!check_todo_list();
+	if (command == SKIP_UNNECESSARY_PICKS && argc == 1)
+		return !!skip_unnecessary_picks();
 	usage_with_options(builtin_rebase_helper_usage, options);
 }

git-rebase--interactive.sh

@@ -713,43 +713,6 @@ do_rest () {
 	done
 }
 
-# skip picking commits whose parents are unchanged
-skip_unnecessary_picks () {
-	fd=3
-	while read -r command rest
-	do
-		# fd=3 means we skip the command
-		case "$fd,$command" in
-		3,pick|3,p)
-			# pick a commit whose parent is current $onto -> skip
-			sha1=${rest%% *}
-			case "$(git rev-parse --verify --quiet "$sha1"^)" in
-			"$onto"*)
-				onto=$sha1
-				;;
-			*)
-				fd=1
-				;;
-			esac
-			;;
-		3,"$comment_char"*|3,)
-			# copy comments
-			;;
-		*)
-			fd=1
-			;;
-		esac
-		printf '%s\n' "$command${rest:+ }$rest" >&$fd
-	done <"$todo" >"$todo.new" 3>>"$done" &&
-	mv -f "$todo".new "$todo" &&
-	case "$(peek_next_command)" in
-	squash|s|fixup|f)
-		record_in_rewritten "$onto"
-		;;
-	esac ||
-		die "$(gettext "Could not skip unnecessary pick commands")"
-}
-
 expand_todo_ids() {
 	git rebase--helper --expand-ids
 }
@@ -1149,7 +1112,9 @@ git rebase--helper --check-todo-list || {
 
 expand_todo_ids
 
-test -d "$rewritten" || test -n "$force_rebase" || skip_unnecessary_picks
+test -d "$rewritten" || test -n "$force_rebase" ||
+onto="$(git rebase--helper --skip-unnecessary-picks)" ||
+die "Could not skip unnecessary pick commands"
 
 checkout_onto
 if test -z "$rebase_root" && test ! -d "$rewritten"

sequencer.c

@@ -2641,3 +2641,110 @@ leave_check:
 
 	return res;
 }
+
+/* skip picking commits whose parents are unchanged */
+int skip_unnecessary_picks(void)
+{
+	const char *todo_file = rebase_path_todo();
+	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+	struct todo_list todo_list = TODO_LIST_INIT;
+	struct object_id onto_oid, *oid = &onto_oid, *parent_oid;
+	int fd, i;
+
+	if (!read_oneliner(&buf, rebase_path_onto(), 0))
+		return error(_("could not read 'onto'"));
+	if (get_oid(buf.buf, &onto_oid)) {
+		strbuf_release(&buf);
+		return error(_("need a HEAD to fixup"));
+	}
+	strbuf_release(&buf);
+
+	fd = open(todo_file, O_RDONLY);
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		return error_errno(_("could not open '%s'"), todo_file);
+	}
+	if (strbuf_read(&todo_list.buf, fd, 0) < 0) {
+		close(fd);
+		return error(_("could not read '%s'."), todo_file);
+	}
+	close(fd);
+	if (parse_insn_buffer(todo_list.buf.buf, &todo_list) < 0) {
+		todo_list_release(&todo_list);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < todo_list.nr; i++) {
+		struct todo_item *item = todo_list.items + i;
+
+		if (item->command >= TODO_NOOP)
+			continue;
+		if (item->command != TODO_PICK)
+			break;
+		if (parse_commit(item->commit)) {
+			todo_list_release(&todo_list);
+			return error(_("could not parse commit '%s'"),
+				oid_to_hex(&item->commit->object.oid));
+		}
+		if (!item->commit->parents)
+			break; /* root commit */
+		if (item->commit->parents->next)
+			break; /* merge commit */
+		parent_oid = &item->commit->parents->item->object.oid;
+		if (hashcmp(parent_oid->hash, oid->hash))
+			break;
+		oid = &item->commit->object.oid;
+	}
+	if (i > 0) {
+		int offset = i < todo_list.nr ?
+			todo_list.items[i].offset_in_buf : todo_list.buf.len;
+		const char *done_path = rebase_path_done();
+
+		fd = open(done_path, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_APPEND, 0666);
+		if (fd < 0) {
+			error_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"),
+				    done_path);
+			todo_list_release(&todo_list);
+			return -1;
+		}
+		if (write_in_full(fd, todo_list.buf.buf, offset) < 0) {
+			error_errno(_("could not write to '%s'"), done_path);
+			todo_list_release(&todo_list);
+			close(fd);
+			return -1;
+		}
+		close(fd);
+
+		fd = open(rebase_path_todo(), O_WRONLY, 0666);
+		if (fd < 0) {
+			error_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"),
+				    rebase_path_todo());
+			todo_list_release(&todo_list);
+			return -1;
+		}
+		if (write_in_full(fd, todo_list.buf.buf + offset,
+				todo_list.buf.len - offset) < 0) {
+			error_errno(_("could not write to '%s'"),
+				    rebase_path_todo());
+			close(fd);
+			todo_list_release(&todo_list);
+			return -1;
+		}
+		if (ftruncate(fd, todo_list.buf.len - offset) < 0) {
+			error_errno(_("could not truncate '%s'"),
+				    rebase_path_todo());
+			todo_list_release(&todo_list);
+			close(fd);
+			return -1;
+		}
+		close(fd);
+
+		todo_list.current = i;
+		if (is_fixup(peek_command(&todo_list, 0)))
+			record_in_rewritten(oid, peek_command(&todo_list, 0));
+	}
+
+	todo_list_release(&todo_list);
+	printf("%s\n", oid_to_hex(oid));
+
+	return 0;
+}

sequencer.h

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ int sequencer_make_script(int keep_empty, FILE *out,
 
 int transform_todo_ids(int shorten_ids);
 int check_todo_list(void);
+int skip_unnecessary_picks(void);
 
 extern const char sign_off_header[];