Avoid accessing non-tag refs in git-describe unless --all is requested

If we aren't going to use a ref there is no reason for us to open
its object from the object database.  This avoids opening any of
the head commits reachable from refs/heads/ unless they are also
reachable through the commit we have been asked to describe and
we need to walk through it to find a tag.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin-describe.c b/builtin-describe.c
index bfd25e232454d977e2ad1b9e68ab6ff4c739381d..9c958bd84b839cb501c977ecb7a23ce5400c3f2c 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-describe.c
+++ b/builtin-describe.c
@@ -46,11 +46,15 @@ static void add_to_known_names(const char *path,
 
 static int get_name(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, void *cb_data)
 {
+       int might_be_tag = !prefixcmp(path, "refs/tags/");
        struct commit *commit;
        struct object *object;
        unsigned char peeled[20];
        int is_tag, prio;
 
+       if (!all && !might_be_tag)
+               return 0;
+
        if (!peel_ref(path, peeled) && !is_null_sha1(peeled)) {
                commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(peeled, 1);
                if (!commit)
@@ -68,7 +72,7 @@ static int get_name(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, void
         * If --tags, then any tags are used.
         * Otherwise only annotated tags are used.
         */
-       if (!prefixcmp(path, "refs/tags/")) {
+       if (might_be_tag) {
                if (is_tag) {
                        prio = 2;
                        if (pattern && fnmatch(pattern, path + 10, 0))