git-p4: speed up search for branch parent

For every new branch that git-p4 imports, it needs to find the commit
where it branched off its parent branch. While p4 doesn't record this
information explicitly, the first changelist on a branch is usually an
identical copy of the parent branch.

The method searchParent() tries to find a commit in the history of the
given "parent" branch whose tree exactly matches the initial changelist
of the new branch, "target". The code iterates through the parent
commits and compares each of them to this initial changelist using
diff-tree.

Since we already know the tree object name we are looking for, spawning
diff-tree for each commit is wasteful.

Use the "--format" option of "rev-list" to find out the tree object name
of each commit in the history, and find the tree whose name is exactly
the same as the tree of the target commit to optimize this.

This results in a considerable speed-up, at least on Windows. On one
Windows machine with a fairly large repository of about 16000 commits in
the parent branch, the current code takes over 7 minutes, while the new
code only takes just over 10 seconds for the same changelist:

Before:

    $ time git p4 sync
    Importing from/into multiple branches
    Depot paths: //depot
    Importing revision 31274 (100.0%)
    Updated branches: b1

    real    7m41.458s
    user    0m0.000s
    sys     0m0.077s

After:

    $ time git p4 sync
    Importing from/into multiple branches
    Depot paths: //depot
    Importing revision 31274 (100.0%)
    Updated branches: b1

    real    0m10.235s
    user    0m0.000s
    sys     0m0.062s

Signed-off-by: Joachim Kuebart <joachim.kuebart@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 09c9e93..d34a194 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -3600,19 +3600,18 @@ class P4Sync(Command, P4UserMap):
         return True
 
     def searchParent(self, parent, branch, target):
-        parentFound = False
-        for blob in read_pipe_lines(["git", "rev-list", "--reverse",
+        targetTree = read_pipe(["git", "rev-parse",
+                                "{}^{{tree}}".format(target)]).strip()
+        for line in read_pipe_lines(["git", "rev-list", "--format=%H %T",
                                      "--no-merges", parent]):
-            blob = blob.strip()
-            if len(read_pipe(["git", "diff-tree", blob, target])) == 0:
-                parentFound = True
+            if line.startswith("commit "):
+                continue
+            commit, tree = line.strip().split(" ")
+            if tree == targetTree:
                 if self.verbose:
-                    print("Found parent of %s in commit %s" % (branch, blob))
-                break
-        if parentFound:
-            return blob
-        else:
-            return None
+                    print("Found parent of %s in commit %s" % (branch, commit))
+                return commit
+        return None
 
     def importChanges(self, changes, origin_revision=0):
         cnt = 1