Merge branch 'jk/filter-branch-no-index'

Speed up filter-branch for cases where we only care about rewriting
commits, not tree data.

* jk/filter-branch-no-index:
  filter-branch: skip index read/write when possible

Author: gitster

git-filter-branch.sh

@@ -306,14 +306,26 @@ then
 	start_timestamp=$(date '+%s')
 fi
 
+if test -n "$filter_index" ||
+   test -n "$filter_tree" ||
+   test -n "$filter_subdir"
+then
+	need_index=t
+else
+	need_index=
+fi
+
 while read commit parents; do
 	git_filter_branch__commit_count=$(($git_filter_branch__commit_count+1))
 
 	report_progress
 
 	case "$filter_subdir" in
 	"")
-		GIT_ALLOW_NULL_SHA1=1 git read-tree -i -m $commit
+		if test -n "$need_index"
+		then
+			GIT_ALLOW_NULL_SHA1=1 git read-tree -i -m $commit
+		fi
 		;;
 	*)
 		# The commit may not have the subdirectory at all
@@ -387,8 +399,15 @@ while read commit parents; do
 	} <../commit |
 		eval "$filter_msg" > ../message ||
 			die "msg filter failed: $filter_msg"
+
+	if test -n "$need_index"
+	then
+		tree=$(git write-tree)
+	else
+		tree="$commit^{tree}"
+	fi
 	workdir=$workdir @SHELL_PATH@ -c "$filter_commit" "git commit-tree" \
-		$(git write-tree) $parentstr < ../message > ../map/$commit ||
+		"$tree" $parentstr < ../message > ../map/$commit ||
 			die "could not write rewritten commit"
 done <../revs
 

t/perf/p7000-filter-branch.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='performance of filter-branch'
+. ./perf-lib.sh
+
+test_perf_default_repo
+test_checkout_worktree
+
+test_expect_success 'mark bases for tests' '
+	git tag -f tip &&
+	git tag -f base HEAD~100
+'
+
+test_perf 'noop filter' '
+	git checkout --detach tip &&
+	git filter-branch -f base..HEAD
+'
+
+test_done