We don't have a perf script for git-describe, despite it often being
accused of slowness. Let's add a few simple tests to start with.
Rather than use the existing tags from our test repo, we'll make our own
so that we have a known quantity and position. We'll add a "new" tag
near the tip of HEAD, and an "old" one that is at the very bottom. And
then our tests are:
1. Describing HEAD naively requires walking all the way down to the
old tag as we collect candidates. This gives us a baseline for what
"slow" looks like.
2. Doing the same with --candidates=1 can potentially be fast, because
we can quie after finding "new". But we don't, and it's also slow.
3. Likewise we should be able to quit when there are no more tags to
find. This can happen naturally if a repo has few tags, but also if
you restrict the set of tags with --match.
Here are the results running against linux.git. Note that I have a
commit-graph built for the repo, so "slow" here is ~700ms. Without a
commit graph it's more like 9s!
Test HEAD
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6100.2: describe HEAD 0.70(0.66+0.04)
6100.3: describe HEAD with one max candidate 0.70(0.66+0.04)
6100.4: describe HEAD with one tag 0.70(0.64+0.06)
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King