Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Here's the patch to make "show -B --stat" work. I'll give some more > thought to whether this is a good idea and prepare a series. > > One downside is that in the common case it causes us to look up each > object twice (once to get its size, and then again to load the content). > I wonder if we should have a function for "read this object, unless it's > over N bytes, in which case just tell me the size". That's weirdly > specific, but I think pretty much every user of core.bigfilethreshold > would want it. After reading through "git grep" hits for the global variable, I think it makes sense to have such a helper with a good name without configurable N (just use big_file_threshold that is global). The user of the interface either punt on size like this caller, or would switch to the streaming interface. > > --- > diff --git a/diffcore-break.c b/diffcore-break.c > index c64359f489..35f5b50bcc 100644 > --- a/diffcore-break.c > +++ b/diffcore-break.c > @@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ static int should_break(struct diff_filespec *src, > !oidcmp(&src->oid, &dst->oid)) > return 0; /* they are the same */ > > + if (diff_populate_filespec(src, CHECK_SIZE_ONLY) || > + diff_populate_filespec(dst, CHECK_SIZE_ONLY)) > + return 0; /* error but caught downstream */ > + > + if (src->size > big_file_threshold || dst->size > big_file_threshold) > + return 0; /* too big to be worth computation */ > + > if (diff_populate_filespec(src, 0) || diff_populate_filespec(dst, 0)) > return 0; /* error but caught downstream */ >