Add "--branches", "--tags" and "--remotes" options to git-rev-parse.

"git branch" uses "rev-parse --all" and becomes much too slow when
there are many tags (it scans all refs).  Use the new "--branches"
option of rev-parse to speed things up.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 275b914b2..6c91ae646 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ int read_ref(const char *filename, unsigned char *sha1)
 	return -1;
 }
 
-static int do_for_each_ref(const char *base, int (*fn)(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1))
+static int do_for_each_ref(const char *base, int (*fn)(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1), int trim)
 {
 	int retval = 0;
 	DIR *dir = opendir(git_path("%s", base));
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static int do_for_each_ref(const char *base, int (*fn)(const char *path, const u
 			if (stat(git_path("%s", path), &st) < 0)
 				continue;
 			if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
-				retval = do_for_each_ref(path, fn);
+				retval = do_for_each_ref(path, fn, trim);
 				if (retval)
 					break;
 				continue;
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int do_for_each_ref(const char *base, int (*fn)(const char *path, const u
 				      "commit object!", path);
 				continue;
 			}
-			retval = fn(path, sha1);
+			retval = fn(path + trim, sha1);
 			if (retval)
 				break;
 		}
@@ -180,7 +180,22 @@ int head_ref(int (*fn)(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1))
 
 int for_each_ref(int (*fn)(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1))
 {
-	return do_for_each_ref("refs", fn);
+	return do_for_each_ref("refs", fn, 0);
+}
+
+int for_each_tag_ref(int (*fn)(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1))
+{
+	return do_for_each_ref("refs/tags", fn, 10);
+}
+
+int for_each_branch_ref(int (*fn)(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1))
+{
+	return do_for_each_ref("refs/heads", fn, 11);
+}
+
+int for_each_remote_ref(int (*fn)(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1))
+{
+	return do_for_each_ref("refs/remotes", fn, 13);
 }
 
 static char *ref_file_name(const char *ref)