commit-graph is cool (overcoming add_missing_tags() perf issues)

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Just wanted to give a shout-out for the commit-graph work and how
impressive it is.  I had an internal report from a user that git
pushes containing only one new tiny commit were taking over a minute
(in a moderate size repo with good network connectivity). After
digging for a while, I noticed three unusual things about the repo[1]:
  * he had push.followTags set to true
  * upstream repo had about 20k tags (despite only 55k commits)
  * his repo had an additional 2.5k tags, but none of these were in
    the history of the branches he was pushing and thus would not be
    included in any pushes.

Digging in, almost all the time was CPU-bound and spent in
add_missing_tags()[2].  If I'm reading the code correctly, it appears
that function loops over each tag, calling in_merge_bases_many() once
per tag.  Thus, for his case, we were potentially walking all of
history of the main branch 2.5k times.  That seemed rather suboptimal.

Before attempting to optimize, I decided to try out the commit-graph
with a version of git from pu.  While I expected a speed-up, I was a
bit suprised that it was a factor of over 100; dropping the time for
local dry-run push[2] to sub-second.  A quick look suggests that
commit-graph doesn't fix the fact that we call in_merge_bases_many() N
times from add_missing_tags() and thus likely need to do N merge base
computations, it just makes each of the N much faster.  So, perhaps
there's still another scaling issue we'll eventually need to address,
but for now, I'm pretty excited about commit-graph.

(And in the mean time I gave the user a one-liner to nuke his
local-only tags that I suspect he doesn't need.)

Thanks,
Elijah


[1] lerna seems to scale horribly, especially when you suddenly
transition dozens of web developers and even more independent
repositories into a single large monorepo.  Usage of lerna was
thankfully ripped out at some point, but the crazy number of
historical tags remain.  Also, this user did a bunch of the
filter-branch'ing to suck extra repos into the monorepo, likely
involved somehow in the many extra tags he had.

[2] In fact, I still had timings of over a minute when adjusting the command to:
  git push --follow-tags --dry-run /PATH/TO/LOCAL-MIRROR $BRANCH