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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 455923e0a1 ls-tree: introduce "--format" option
Add a --format option to ls-tree. It has an existing default output,
and then --long and --name-only options to emit the default output
along with the objectsize and, or to only emit object paths.

Rather than add --type-only, --object-only etc. we can just support a
--format using a strbuf_expand() similar to "for-each-ref
--format". We might still add such options in the future for
convenience.

The --format implementation is slower than the existing code, but this
change does not cause any performance regressions. We'll leave the
existing show_tree() unchanged, and only run show_tree_fmt() in if
a --format different than the hardcoded built-in ones corresponding to
the existing modes is provided.

I.e. something like the "--long" output would be much slower with
this, mainly due to how we need to allocate various things to do with
quote.c instead of spewing the output directly to stdout.

The new option of '--format' comes from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmasonn's
idea and suggestion, this commit makes modifications in terms of the
original discussion on community [1].

In [1] there was a "GIT_TEST_LS_TREE_FORMAT_BACKEND" variable to
ensure that we had test coverage for passing tests that would
otherwise use show_tree() through show_tree_fmt(), and thus that the
formatting mechanism could handle all the same cases as the
non-formatting options.

Somewhere in subsequent re-rolls of that we seem to have drifted away
from what the goal of these tests should be. We're trying to ensure
correctness of show_tree_fmt(). We can't tell if we "hit [the]
fast-path" here, and instead of having an explicit test for that, we
can just add it to something our "test_ls_tree_format" tests for.

Here is the statistics about performance tests:

1. Default format (hitten the builtin formats):

    "git ls-tree <tree-ish>" vs "--format='%(mode) %(type) %(object)%x09%(file)'"

    $hyperfine --warmup=10 "/opt/git/master/bin/git ls-tree -r HEAD"
    Benchmark 1: /opt/git/master/bin/git ls-tree -r HEAD
    Time (mean ± σ):     105.2 ms ±   3.3 ms    [User: 84.3 ms, System: 20.8 ms]
    Range (min … max):    99.2 ms … 113.2 ms    28 runs

    $hyperfine --warmup=10 "/opt/git/ls-tree-oid-only/bin/git ls-tree -r --format='%(mode) %(type) %(object)%x09%(file)'  HEAD"
    Benchmark 1: /opt/git/ls-tree-oid-only/bin/git ls-tree -r --format='%(mode) %(type) %(object)%x09%(file)'  HEAD
    Time (mean ± σ):     106.4 ms ±   2.7 ms    [User: 86.1 ms, System: 20.2 ms]
    Range (min … max):   100.2 ms … 110.5 ms    29 runs

2. Default format includes object size (hitten the builtin formats):

    "git ls-tree -l <tree-ish>" vs "--format='%(mode) %(type) %(object) %(size:padded)%x09%(file)'"

    $hyperfine --warmup=10 "/opt/git/master/bin/git ls-tree -r -l HEAD"
    Benchmark 1: /opt/git/master/bin/git ls-tree -r -l HEAD
    Time (mean ± σ):     335.1 ms ±   6.5 ms    [User: 304.6 ms, System: 30.4 ms]
    Range (min … max):   327.5 ms … 348.4 ms    10 runs

    $hyperfine --warmup=10 "/opt/git/ls-tree-oid-only/bin/git ls-tree -r --format='%(mode) %(type) %(object) %(size:padded)%x09%(file)'  HEAD"
    Benchmark 1: /opt/git/ls-tree-oid-only/bin/git ls-tree -r --format='%(mode) %(type) %(object) %(size:padded)%x09%(file)'  HEAD
    Time (mean ± σ):     337.2 ms ±   8.2 ms    [User: 309.2 ms, System: 27.9 ms]
    Range (min … max):   328.8 ms … 349.4 ms    10 runs

Links:
	[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/RFC-patch-6.7-eac299f06ff-20211217T131635Z-avarab@gmail.com/
	[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/cb717d08be87e3239117c6c667cb32caabaad33d.1646390152.git.dyroneteng@gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-23 11:38:40 -07:00
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