show-branch: fix performance problem.
The core function used in show-branch, join_revs(), was supposed
to be exactly the same algorithm as merge_bases(), except that
it was a version enhanced for use with more than two heads.
However, it needed to mark and keep a list of all the commits it
has seen, because it needed them for its semi-graphical output.
The function to implement this list, mark_seen(), stupidly used
insert_by_date(), when it did not need to keep the list sorted
during its processing. This made "show-branch --merge-base"
more than 20x slower compared to "merge-base --all" in some
cases (e.g. between
b5032a5 and
48ce8b0 in the Linux 2.6 kernel
archive). The performance of "show-branch --independent"
suffered from the same reason.
This patch sorts the resulting list after the list traversal
just once to fix these problems.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>