diff-tree: convert base+baselen to writable strbuf
In traversing trees, a full path is splitted into two parts: base
directory and entry. They are however quite often concatenated
whenever a full path is needed. Current code allocates a new buffer,
do two memcpy(), use it, then release.
Instead this patch turns "base" to a writable, extendable buffer. When
a concatenation is needed, the callee only needs to append "entry" to
base, use it, then truncate the entry out again. "base" must remain
unchanged before and after entering a function.
This avoids quite a bit of malloc() and memcpy().
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>