Don't fflush(stdout) when it's not helpful

This patch arose from a discussion started by Jim Meyering's patch
whose intention was to provide better diagnostics for failed writes.
Linus proposed a better way to do things, which also had the added
benefit that adding a fflush() to git-log-* operations and incremental
git-blame operations could improve interactive respose time feel, at
the cost of making things a bit slower when we aren't piping the
output to a downstream program.

This patch skips the fflush() calls when stdout is a regular file, or
if the environment variable GIT_FLUSH is set to "0".  This latter can
speed up a command such as:

GIT_FLUSH=0 strace -c -f -e write time git-rev-list HEAD | wc -l

a tiny amount.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Theodore Ts'o
2007-06-29 13:40:46 -04:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent ee36856d8c
commit 06f59e9f5d
6 changed files with 55 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -532,6 +532,8 @@ extern char git_default_name[MAX_GITNAME];
extern const char *git_commit_encoding;
extern const char *git_log_output_encoding;
/* IO helper functions */
extern void maybe_flush_or_die(FILE *, const char *);
extern int copy_fd(int ifd, int ofd);
extern int read_in_full(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);
extern int write_in_full(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);