Make "struct tree" contain the pointer to the tree buffer

This allows us to avoid allocating information for names etc, because
we can just use the information from the tree buffer directly.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index 4d46e0d5e4..1a7823c234 100644
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -200,8 +200,11 @@ struct object *parse_object(const unsigned char *sha1)
 			obj = &blob->object;
 		} else if (!strcmp(type, tree_type)) {
 			struct tree *tree = lookup_tree(sha1);
-			parse_tree_buffer(tree, buffer, size);
 			obj = &tree->object;
+			if (!tree->object.parsed) {
+				parse_tree_buffer(tree, buffer, size);
+				buffer = NULL;
+			}
 		} else if (!strcmp(type, commit_type)) {
 			struct commit *commit = lookup_commit(sha1);
 			parse_commit_buffer(commit, buffer, size);