log: clean unneeded objects during `log --remerge-diff`

The --remerge-diff option will need to create new blobs and trees
representing the "automatic merge" state.  If one is traversing a
long project history, one can easily get hundreds of thousands of
loose objects generated during `log --remerge-diff`.  However, none of
those loose objects are needed after we have completed our diff
operation; they can be summarily deleted.

Add a new helper function to tmp_objdir to discard all the contained
objects, and call it after each merge is handled.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tmp-objdir.c b/tmp-objdir.c
index 3d38eeab66..adf6033549 100644
--- a/tmp-objdir.c
+++ b/tmp-objdir.c
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ static void remove_tmp_objdir_on_signal(int signo)
 	raise(signo);
 }
 
+void tmp_objdir_discard_objects(struct tmp_objdir *t)
+{
+	remove_dir_recursively(&t->path, REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_TOPLEVEL);
+}
+
 /*
  * These env_* functions are for setting up the child environment; the
  * "replace" variant overrides the value of any existing variable with that