diff --follow: do not waste cycles while recursing

The "--follow" logic is called from diff_tree_sha1() function, but the
input trees to diff_tree_sha1() are not necessarily the top-level trees
(compare_tree_entry() calls it while it recursively descends into
subtrees).  When a newly created path lives in somewhere deep in the
source hierarchy, e.g. "platform/", but the rename source is in a totally
different place in the destination hierarchy, e.g. "lang-api/src/com/...",
running "try_to_find_renames()" while base is set to "platform/" is a
wasted call.

We only need to run the rename following at the very top level.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Author: gitster

tree-diff.c

@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ int diff_tree_sha1(const unsigned char *old, const unsigned char *new, const cha
 	init_tree_desc(&t1, tree1, size1);
 	init_tree_desc(&t2, tree2, size2);
 	retval = diff_tree(&t1, &t2, base, opt);
-	if (DIFF_OPT_TST(opt, FOLLOW_RENAMES) && diff_might_be_rename()) {
+	if (!*base && DIFF_OPT_TST(opt, FOLLOW_RENAMES) && diff_might_be_rename()) {
 		init_tree_desc(&t1, tree1, size1);
 		init_tree_desc(&t2, tree2, size2);
 		try_to_follow_renames(&t1, &t2, base, opt);