perf: add test for writing the index

A performance test for writing the index to be able to
determine if changes to allocating ondisk structure help.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <kewillf@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

t/perf/p0007-write-cache.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description="Tests performance of writing the index"
+
+. ./perf-lib.sh
+
+test_perf_default_repo
+
+test_expect_success "setup repo" '
+	if git rev-parse --verify refs/heads/p0006-ballast^{commit}
+	then
+		echo Assuming synthetic repo from many-files.sh
+		git config --local core.sparsecheckout 1
+		cat >.git/info/sparse-checkout <<-EOF
+		/*
+		!ballast/*
+		EOF
+	else
+		echo Assuming non-synthetic repo...
+	fi &&
+	nr_files=$(git ls-files | wc -l)
+'
+
+count=3
+test_perf "write_locked_index $count times ($nr_files files)" "
+	test-write-cache $count
+"
+
+test_done