blame: drop blob data after passing blame to the parent

We used to keep the blob data for each origin that has any remaining
line in the result, but this will get very costly with a huge file that
has a deep history.  This patch releases the blob after we ran diff
between the child rev and its parents.  When passing blame from a parent
to its parent (i.e. the grandparent), the blob data for the parent may
need to be read again, but it should be relatively cheap, thanks to
delta-base cache.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-blame.c b/builtin-blame.c
index c158d319dc..eda79d0f00 100644
--- a/builtin-blame.c
+++ b/builtin-blame.c
@@ -130,6 +130,14 @@ static void origin_decref(struct origin *o)
 	}
 }
 
+static void drop_origin_blob(struct origin *o)
+{
+	if (o->file.ptr) {
+		free(o->file.ptr);
+		o->file.ptr = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Each group of lines is described by a blame_entry; it can be split
  * as we pass blame to the parents.  They form a linked list in the
@@ -1274,8 +1282,13 @@ static void pass_blame(struct scoreboard *sb, struct origin *origin, int opt)
 		}
 
  finish:
-	for (i = 0; i < MAXPARENT; i++)
-		origin_decref(parent_origin[i]);
+	for (i = 0; i < MAXPARENT; i++) {
+		if (parent_origin[i]) {
+			drop_origin_blob(parent_origin[i]);
+			origin_decref(parent_origin[i]);
+		}
+	}
+	drop_origin_blob(origin);
 }
 
 /*