t/perf: add scripts to bisect performance regressions

The new bisect_regression script can be used to automatically bisect
performance regressions. It will pass the new bisect_run_script to
`git bisect run`.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

t/perf/bisect_run_script

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+script="$1"
+test_number="$2"
+info_dir="$3"
+
+# This aborts the bisection immediately
+die () {
+	echo >&2 "error: $*"
+	exit 255
+}
+
+bisect_head=$(git rev-parse --verify BISECT_HEAD) || die "Failed to find BISECT_HEAD ref"
+
+script_number=$(echo "$script" | sed -e "s/^p\([0-9]*\).*\$/\1/") || die "Failed to get script number for '$script'"
+
+oldtime=$(cat "$info_dir/oldtime") || die "Failed to access '$info_dir/oldtime'"
+newtime=$(cat "$info_dir/newtime") || die "Failed to access '$info_dir/newtime'"
+
+cd t/perf || die "Failed to cd into 't/perf'"
+
+result_file="$info_dir/perf_${script_number}_${bisect_head}_results.txt"
+
+GIT_PERF_DIRS_OR_REVS="$bisect_head"
+export GIT_PERF_DIRS_OR_REVS
+
+./run "$script" >"$result_file" 2>&1 || die "Failed to run perf test '$script'"
+
+rtime=$(sed -n "s/^$script_number\.$test_number:.*\([0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\)(.*).*\$/\1/p" "$result_file")
+
+echo "newtime: $newtime"
+echo "rtime: $rtime"
+echo "oldtime: $oldtime"
+
+# Compare ($newtime - $rtime) with ($rtime - $oldtime)
+# Times are decimal number, not integers
+
+if test $(echo "$newtime" "$rtime" "$oldtime" | awk '{ print ($1 - $2 > $2 - $3) }') = 1
+then
+	# Current commit is considered "good/old"
+	echo "$rtime" >"$info_dir/oldtime"
+	exit 0
+else
+	# Current commit is considered "bad/new"
+	echo "$rtime" >"$info_dir/newtime"
+	exit 1
+fi