peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify

When we are asked to peel a ref to a sha1, we internally call
deref_tag, which will recursively parse each tagged object
until we reach a non-tag. This has the benefit that we will
verify our ability to load and parse the pointed-to object.

However, there is a performance downside: we may not need to
load that object at all (e.g., if we are listing peeled
simply listing peeled refs), or it may be a large object
that should follow a streaming code path (e.g., an annotated
tag of a large blob).

It makes more sense for peel_ref to choose the fast thing
rather than performing the extra check, for two reasons:

  1. We will already sometimes short-circuit the tag parsing
     in favor of a peeled entry from a packed-refs file. So
     we are already favoring speed in some cases, and it is
     not wise for a caller to rely on peel_ref to detect
     corruption.

  2. We already silently ignore much larger corruptions,
     like a ref that points to a non-existent object, or a
     tag object that exists but is corrupted.

  2. peel_ref is not the right place to check for such a
     database corruption. It is returning only the sha1
     anyway, not the actual object. Any callers which use
     that sha1 to load an object will soon discover the
     corruption anyway, so we are really just pushing back
     the discovery to later in the program.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index da74a2b29a20a2c94fef61641e35980007c1ab95..0a916a0c2aafea1c87333dee2da595d58db3f9e6 100644 (file)
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ int peel_ref(const char *refname, unsigned char *sha1)
 fallback:
        o = parse_object(base);
        if (o && o->type == OBJ_TAG) {
-               o = deref_tag(o, refname, 0);
+               o = deref_tag_noverify(o);
                if (o) {
                        hashcpy(sha1, o->sha1);
                        return 0;