Optimize diff-cache -p --cached

This patch optimizes "diff-cache -p --cached" by avoiding to
inflate blobs into temporary files when the blob recorded in the
cache matches the corresponding file in the work tree.  The file
in the work tree is passed as the comparison source in such a
case instead.

This optimization kicks in only when we have already read the
cache this optimization and this is deliberate.  Especially,
diff-tree does not use this code, because changes are contained
in small number of files relative to the project size most of
the time, and reading cache is so expensive for a large project
that the cost of reading it outweighs the savings by not
inflating blobs.

Also this patch cleans up the structure passed from diff clients
by removing one unused structure member.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/diff.h b/diff.h
index 8f269b2..0b76cc4 100644
--- a/diff.h
+++ b/diff.h
@@ -20,15 +20,12 @@ extern void diff_unmerge(const char *path);
 /* These are for diff-tree-helper */
 
 struct diff_spec {
-	union {
-		const char *name;       /* path on the filesystem */
-		unsigned char sha1[20]; /* blob object ID */
-	} u;
+	unsigned char blob_sha1[20];
 	unsigned short mode;	 /* file mode */
-	unsigned sha1_valid : 1; /* if true, use u.sha1 and trust mode.
-				  * (however with a NULL SHA1, read them
-				  * from the file!).
-				  * if false, use u.name and read mode from
+	unsigned sha1_valid : 1; /* if true, use blob_sha1 and trust mode;
+				  * however with a NULL SHA1, read them
+				  * from the file system.
+				  * if false, use the name and read mode from
 				  * the filesystem.
 				  */
 	unsigned file_valid : 1; /* if false the file does not even exist */