From 101d15e09712a0183db99d228d975c62970654cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:18:29 -0800
Subject: Introduce for_each_recent_reflog_ent().

This can be used to scan only the last few kilobytes of a reflog, as a
cheap optimization when the data you are looking for is likely to be
found near the end of it.  The caller is expected to fall back to the
full scan if that is not the case.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 33ced65..024211d 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ int read_ref_at(const char *ref, unsigned long at_time, int cnt, unsigned char *
 	return 1;
 }
 
-int for_each_reflog_ent(const char *ref, each_reflog_ent_fn fn, void *cb_data)
+int for_each_recent_reflog_ent(const char *ref, each_reflog_ent_fn fn, long ofs, void *cb_data)
 {
 	const char *logfile;
 	FILE *logfp;
@@ -1464,6 +1464,16 @@ int for_each_reflog_ent(const char *ref, each_reflog_ent_fn fn, void *cb_data)
 	logfp = fopen(logfile, "r");
 	if (!logfp)
 		return -1;
+
+	if (ofs) {
+		struct stat statbuf;
+		if (fstat(fileno(logfp), &statbuf) ||
+		    statbuf.st_size < ofs ||
+		    fseek(logfp, -ofs, SEEK_END) ||
+		    fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), logfp))
+			return -1;
+	}
+
 	while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), logfp)) {
 		unsigned char osha1[20], nsha1[20];
 		char *email_end, *message;
@@ -1497,6 +1507,11 @@ int for_each_reflog_ent(const char *ref, each_reflog_ent_fn fn, void *cb_data)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+int for_each_reflog_ent(const char *ref, each_reflog_ent_fn fn, void *cb_data)
+{
+	return for_each_recent_reflog_ent(ref, fn, 0, cb_data);
+}
+
 static int do_for_each_reflog(const char *base, each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data)
 {
 	DIR *dir = opendir(git_path("logs/%s", base));
diff --git a/refs.h b/refs.h
index 06ad260..3bb529d 100644
--- a/refs.h
+++ b/refs.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern int read_ref_at(const char *ref, unsigned long at_time, int cnt, unsigned
 /* iterate over reflog entries */
 typedef int each_reflog_ent_fn(unsigned char *osha1, unsigned char *nsha1, const char *, unsigned long, int, const char *, void *);
 int for_each_reflog_ent(const char *ref, each_reflog_ent_fn fn, void *cb_data);
+int for_each_recent_reflog_ent(const char *ref, each_reflog_ent_fn fn, long, void *cb_data);
 
 /*
  * Calls the specified function for each reflog file until it returns nonzero,
diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 4c0370b..38c9f1b 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -775,7 +775,13 @@ int interpret_nth_last_branch(const char *name, struct strbuf *buf)
 		strbuf_init(&cb.buf[i], 20);
 	cb.cnt = 0;
 	retval = 0;
-	for_each_reflog_ent("HEAD", grab_nth_branch_switch, &cb);
+	for_each_recent_reflog_ent("HEAD", grab_nth_branch_switch, 40960, &cb);
+	if (cb.cnt < nth) {
+		cb.cnt = 0;
+		for (i = 0; i < nth; i++)
+			strbuf_release(&cb.buf[i]);
+		for_each_reflog_ent("HEAD", grab_nth_branch_switch, &cb);
+	}
 	if (cb.cnt < nth)
 		goto release_return;
 	i = cb.cnt % nth;
-- 
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