This finally removes the tree-entry list from "struct tree", since most of
the users can just use the tree-walk infrastructure to walk the raw tree
buffers instead of the tree-entry list.
The tree-entry list is inefficient, and generates tons of small
allocations for no good reason. The tree-walk infrastructure is generally
no harder to use than following a linked list, and allows us to do most
tree parsing in-place.
Some programs still use the old tree-entry lists, and are a bit painful to
convert without major surgery. For them we have a helper function that
creates a temporary tree-entry list on demand. We can convert those too
eventually, but with this they no longer affect any users who don't need
the explicit lists.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is preparatory work for further cleanups, where we try to make
tree_entry look more like the more efficient tree-walk descriptor.
Instead of having a union of pointers to blob/tree/objects, this just
makes "struct tree_entry" have the raw SHA1, and makes all the users use
that instead (often that implies adding a "lookup_tree(..)" on the sha1,
but sometimes the user just wanted the SHA1 in the first place, and it
just avoids an unnecessary indirection).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows us to avoid allocating information for names etc, because
we can just use the information from the tree buffer directly.
We still keep the old "tree_entry_list" in struct tree as well, so old
users aren't affected, apart from the fact that the allocations are
different (if you free a tree entry, you should no longer free the name
allocation for it, since it's allocated as part of "tree->buffer")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Linus Torvalds