Ref-count the filespecs used by diffcore
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:19:10 +0000 (11:19 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:18:05 +0000 (23:18 -0700)
Rather than copy the filespecs when introducing new versions of them
(for rename or copy detection), use a refcount and increment the count
when reusing the diff_filespec.

This avoids unnecessary allocations, but the real reason behind this is
a future enhancement: we will want to track shared data across the
copy/rename detection. In order to efficiently notice when a filespec
is used by a rename, the rename machinery wants to keep track of a
rename usage count which is shared across all different users of the
filespec.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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