Instead of special-casing creations and deletions let's just generate a diff for them. This logic of not running a diff under -G if we don't have both sides dates back to the original implementation of -S in 52e9578985f ([PATCH] Introducing software archaeologist's tool "pickaxe"., 2005-05-21). In the case of -S we were not working with the xdiff interface and needed to do this, but when -G was implemented in f506b8e8b5f (git log/diff: add -G<regexp> that greps in the patch text, 2010-08-23) this logic was diligently copied over. But as the performance test added earlier in this series shows, this does not make much of a difference. With: time GIT_TEST_LONG= GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10 GIT_PERF_MAKE_OPTS='-j8 CFLAGS=-O3' ./run origin/next HEAD~ HEAD -- p4209-pickaxe.sh With the HEAD~ commit being the preceding "pickaxe -G: terminate early on matching lines" we get these results. Note that it's only the -G codepaths that are relevant to this change: Test origin/next HEAD~ HEAD ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4209.1: git log -S'int main' <limit-rev>.. 0.35(0.32+0.03) 0.35(0.33+0.02) +0.0% 0.35(0.30+0.05) +0.0% 4209.2: git log -S'æ' <limit-rev>.. 0.46(0.42+0.04) 0.46(0.41+0.05) +0.0% 0.46(0.42+0.04) +0.0% 4209.3: git log --pickaxe-regex -S'(int|void|null)' <limit-rev>.. 0.65(0.62+0.02) 0.64(0.61+0.02) -1.5% 0.64(0.60+0.04) -1.5% 4209.4: git log --pickaxe-regex -S'if *\([^ ]+ & ' <limit-rev>.. 0.52(0.45+0.06) 0.52(0.50+0.01) +0.0% 0.54(0.47+0.04) +3.8% 4209.5: git log --pickaxe-regex -S'[àáâãäåæñøùúûüýþ]' <limit-rev>.. 0.39(0.34+0.05) 0.39(0.34+0.04) +0.0% 0.39(0.36+0.03) +0.0% 4209.6: git log -G'(int|void|null)' <limit-rev>.. 0.60(0.55+0.04) 0.58(0.54+0.03) -3.3% 0.58(0.49+0.08) -3.3% 4209.7: git log -G'if *\([^ ]+ & ' <limit-rev>.. 0.61(0.52+0.06) 0.59(0.53+0.05) -3.3% 0.59(0.54+0.05) -3.3% 4209.8: git log -G'[àáâãäåæñøùúûüýþ]' <limit-rev>.. 0.61(0.51+0.07) 0.58(0.54+0.04) -4.9% 0.57(0.51+0.06) -6.6% 4209.9: git log -i -S'int main' <limit-rev>.. 0.36(0.31+0.04) 0.36(0.34+0.02) +0.0% 0.35(0.32+0.03) -2.8% 4209.10: git log -i -S'æ' <limit-rev>.. 0.36(0.33+0.03) 0.39(0.34+0.01) +8.3% 0.36(0.32+0.03) +0.0% 4209.11: git log -i --pickaxe-regex -S'(int|void|null)' <limit-rev>.. 0.83(0.77+0.05) 0.82(0.77+0.05) -1.2% 0.80(0.75+0.04) -3.6% 4209.12: git log -i --pickaxe-regex -S'if *\([^ ]+ & ' <limit-rev>.. 0.67(0.61+0.03) 0.64(0.61+0.03) -4.5% 0.63(0.61+0.02) -6.0% 4209.13: git log -i --pickaxe-regex -S'[àáâãäåæñøùúûüýþ]' <limit-rev>.. 0.40(0.37+0.02) 0.40(0.37+0.03) +0.0% 0.40(0.36+0.04) +0.0% 4209.14: git log -i -G'(int|void|null)' <limit-rev>.. 0.58(0.51+0.07) 0.59(0.52+0.06) +1.7% 0.58(0.52+0.05) +0.0% 4209.15: git log -i -G'if *\([^ ]+ & ' <limit-rev>.. 0.60(0.54+0.05) 0.60(0.54+0.06) +0.0% 0.60(0.56+0.03) +0.0% 4209.16: git log -i -G'[àáâãäåæñøùúûüýþ]' <limit-rev>.. 0.58(0.51+0.06) 0.57(0.52+0.05) -1.7% 0.60(0.48+0.09) +3.4% This small simplification really doesn't buy us much now, but I've got plans to both convert the pickaxe code to using a PCREv2 backend[1] and to implement additional pickaxe modes to do custom searches through the diff[2]. Always having the diff available under -G is going to help to simplify both of those changes. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210203032811.14979-22-avarab@xxxxxxxxx/ 2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190424152215.16251-3-avarab@xxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- diffcore-pickaxe.c | 12 +----------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/diffcore-pickaxe.c b/diffcore-pickaxe.c index 2147afef722..96183f4cfab 100644 --- a/diffcore-pickaxe.c +++ b/diffcore-pickaxe.c @@ -40,19 +40,11 @@ static int diff_grep(mmfile_t *one, mmfile_t *two, struct diff_options *o, regex_t *regexp, kwset_t kws) { - regmatch_t regmatch; struct diffgrep_cb ecbdata; xpparam_t xpp; xdemitconf_t xecfg; int ret; - if (!one) - return !regexec_buf(regexp, two->ptr, two->size, - 1, ®match, 0); - if (!two) - return !regexec_buf(regexp, one->ptr, one->size, - 1, ®match, 0); - /* * We have both sides; need to run textual diff and see if * the pattern appears on added/deleted lines. @@ -172,9 +164,7 @@ static int pickaxe_match(struct diff_filepair *p, struct diff_options *o, mf1.size = fill_textconv(o->repo, textconv_one, p->one, &mf1.ptr); mf2.size = fill_textconv(o->repo, textconv_two, p->two, &mf2.ptr); - ret = fn(DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->one) ? &mf1 : NULL, - DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->two) ? &mf2 : NULL, - o, regexp, kws); + ret = fn(&mf1, &mf2, o, regexp, kws); if (textconv_one) free(mf1.ptr); -- 2.31.1.639.g3d04783866f