fetch: skip formatting updated refs with --quiet

pks-t · gitster · commit f6bb64df82dd · 2021-08-30T10:13:55.000-07:00
When fetching, Git will by default print a list of all updated refs in a
nicely formatted table. In order to come up with this table, Git needs
to iterate refs twice: first to determine the maximum column width, and
a second time to actually format these changed refs.

While this table will not be printed in case the user passes `--quiet`,
we still go out of our way and do all these steps. In fact, we even do
more work compared to not passing `--quiet`: without the flag, we will
skip all references in the column width computation which have not been
updated, but if it is set we will now compute widths for all refs.

Fix this issue by completely skipping both preparation of the format and
formatting data for display in case the user passes `--quiet`, improving
performance especially with many refs. The following benchmark shows a
nice speedup for a quiet mirror-fetch in a repository with 2.3M refs:

    Benchmark #1: HEAD~: git-fetch
      Time (mean ± σ):     26.929 s ±  0.145 s    [User: 24.194 s, System: 4.656 s]
      Range (min … max):   26.692 s … 27.068 s    5 runs

    Benchmark #2: HEAD: git-fetch
      Time (mean ± σ):     25.189 s ±  0.094 s    [User: 22.556 s, System: 4.606 s]
      Range (min … max):   25.070 s … 25.314 s    5 runs

    Summary
      'HEAD: git-fetch' ran
        1.07 ± 0.01 times faster than 'HEAD~: git-fetch'

While at it, this patch also fixes `adjust_refcol_width()` such that it
skips unchanged refs in case the user passed `--quiet`, where verbosity
will be negative. While this function won't be called anymore if so,
this brings the comment in line with actual code. Furthermore, needless
`verbosity &gt;= 0` checks are now removed in `store_updated_refs()`: we
never print to the `note` buffer anymore in case `verbosity &lt; 0`, so we
won't end up in that code block anyway.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static void adjust_refcol_width(const struct ref *ref)
 	int max, rlen, llen, len;
 
 	/* uptodate lines are only shown on high verbosity level */
-	if (!verbosity && oideq(&ref->peer_ref->old_oid, &ref->old_oid))
+	if (verbosity <= 0 && oideq(&ref->peer_ref->old_oid, &ref->old_oid))
 		return;
 
 	max    = term_columns();
@@ -748,6 +748,9 @@ static void prepare_format_display(struct ref *ref_map)
 	struct ref *rm;
 	const char *format = "full";
 
+	if (verbosity < 0)
+		return;
+
 	git_config_get_string_tmp("fetch.output", &format);
 	if (!strcasecmp(format, "full"))
 		compact_format = 0;
@@ -827,7 +830,12 @@ static void format_display(struct strbuf *display, char code,
 			   const char *remote, const char *local,
 			   int summary_width)
 {
-	int width = (summary_width + strlen(summary) - gettext_width(summary));
+	int width;
+
+	if (verbosity < 0)
+		return;
+
+	width = (summary_width + strlen(summary) - gettext_width(summary));
 
 	strbuf_addf(display, "%c %-*s ", code, width, summary);
 	if (!compact_format)
@@ -1202,13 +1210,12 @@ static int store_updated_refs(const char *raw_url, const char *remote_name,
 					       "FETCH_HEAD", summary_width);
 			}
 			if (note.len) {
-				if (verbosity >= 0 && !shown_url) {
+				if (!shown_url) {
 					fprintf(stderr, _("From %.*s\n"),
 							url_len, url);
 					shown_url = 1;
 				}
-				if (verbosity >= 0)
-					fprintf(stderr, " %s\n", note.buf);
+				fprintf(stderr, " %s\n", note.buf);
 			}
 		}
 	}
