Subject: [PATCH v2] hash binary sha1 into patch id

From: Clemens Buchacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:20:43 +0200

Since commit 2f82f760 (Take binary diffs into
account for "git rebase"), binary files are
included in patch ID computation. Binary files are
diffed using the text diff algorithm, however,
which has a huge impact on performance. The
following tests performance for a 50000 line file
marked as binary in .gitattributes.

$ git format-patch --stdout --ignore-if-in-upstream master

real    0m0.367s
user    0m0.354s
sys     0m0.010s

Instead of diffing the binary files, hash the pre-
and post-image sha1, which is just as unique. As a
result, performance is much improved.

$ git format-patch --stdout --ignore-if-in-upstream master

real    0m0.016s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.001s

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <[email-masked]>
---

I am again attaching the corresponding test script. Since it mostly
tests performance, I am not sure how to incorporate it into the
main test suite.

 diff.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 17873f3..f4a23ab 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -3758,6 +3758,13 @@ static int diff_get_patch_id(struct diff_options *options, unsigned char *sha1)
 					len2, p->two->path);
 		git_SHA1_Update(&ctx, buffer, len1);
 
+		if (diff_filespec_is_binary(p->one) ||
+		    diff_filespec_is_binary(p->two)) {
+			git_SHA1_Update(&ctx, sha1_to_hex(p->one->sha1), 40);
+			git_SHA1_Update(&ctx, sha1_to_hex(p->two->sha1), 40);
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		xpp.flags = 0;
 		xecfg.ctxlen = 3;
 		xecfg.flags = XDL_EMIT_FUNCNAMES;
-- 
1.7.2.1.1.g202c