Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf: add test showing exponential growth in path globbing

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 22:53:16 +0000

Add a test showing that ls-files times grow exponentially in the face
of some pathological globs, whereas refglobs via for-each-ref don't in
practice suffer from the same issue.

As noted in the test description this is a test to see whether Git
suffers from the issue noted in an article Russ Cox posted today about
common bugs in various glob implementations:
https://research.swtch.com/glob

The pathological git-ls-files globbing is done by wildmatch() in
wildmatch.c. The for-each-ref codepath also uses wildmatch(), but will
always match against e.g. "refs/tags/aaa...", not "aaa.." as
git-ls-files will.

I'm unsure why the pathological case isn't triggered by for-each-ref,
but in any case, now we have a performance test for it.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]>
---
 t/perf/p0100-globbing.sh | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 t/perf/p0100-globbing.sh

diff --git a/t/perf/p0100-globbing.sh b/t/perf/p0100-globbing.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..e98fd7ce4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/perf/p0100-globbing.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description="Tests pathalogical globbing performance
+
+Shows how Git's globbing performance performs when given the sort of
+pathalogical patterns described in at https://research.swtch.com/glob
+"
+
+. ./perf-lib.sh
+
+test_globs_big='10 25 50 75 100'
+test_globs_small='1 2 3 4 5 6'
+
+test_perf_fresh_repo
+
+test_expect_success 'setup' '
+	for i in $(test_seq 1 100)
+	do
+		printf "a" >>refname &&
+		for j in $(test_seq 1 $i)
+		do
+			printf "a*" >>refglob.$i
+		done &&
+		echo b >>refglob.$i
+	done &&
+	test_commit $(cat refname) &&
+	for i in $(test_seq 1 100)
+	do
+	echo	git tag $(cat refname)-$i
+	done &&
+	test_commit hello
+'
+
+for i in $test_globs_big
+do
+	test_perf "refglob((a*)^nb) against tag a^100; n = $i" '
+		git for-each-ref "refs/tags/$(cat refglob.'$i')b"
+	'
+done
+
+for i in $test_globs_small
+do
+	test_perf "fileglob((a*)^nb) against file (a^100).t; n = $i" '
+		git ls-files "$(cat refglob.'$i')b"
+	'
+done
+
+test_done
-- 
2.11.0