pathspec: apply "*.c" optimization from exclude

When a pattern contains only a single asterisk as wildcard,
e.g. "foo*bar", after literally comparing the leading part "foo" with
the string, we can compare the tail of the string and make sure it
matches "bar", instead of running fnmatch() on "*bar" against the
remainder of the string.

-O2 build on linux-2.6, without the patch:

$ time git rev-list --quiet HEAD -- '*.c'

real    0m40.770s
user    0m40.290s
sys     0m0.256s

With the patch

$ time ~/w/git/git rev-list --quiet HEAD -- '*.c'

real    0m34.288s
user    0m33.997s
sys     0m0.205s

The above command is not supposed to be widely popular. It's chosen
because it exercises pathspec matching a lot. The point is it cuts
down matching time for popular patterns like *.c, which could be used
as pathspec in other places.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index bf031f133..babf9e54c 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -473,6 +473,8 @@ extern int index_name_is_other(const struct index_state *, const char *, int);
 extern int ie_match_stat(const struct index_state *, struct cache_entry *, struct stat *, unsigned int);
 extern int ie_modified(const struct index_state *, struct cache_entry *, struct stat *, unsigned int);
 
+#define PATHSPEC_ONESTAR 1	/* the pathspec pattern sastisfies GFNM_ONESTAR */
+
 struct pathspec {
 	const char **raw; /* get_pathspec() result, not freed by free_pathspec() */
 	int nr;
@@ -483,6 +485,7 @@ struct pathspec {
 		const char *match;
 		int len;
 		int nowildcard_len;
+		int flags;
 	} *items;
 };