convert: return early when not tracing

When Git adds a file requiring encoding conversion and tracing of encoding
conversion is not requested via the GIT_TRACE_WORKING_TREE_ENCODING
environment variable, the `trace_encoding()` function still allocates &
prepares "human readable" copies of the file contents before and after
conversion to show in the trace. This results in a high memory footprint
and increased runtime without providing any user-visible benefit.

This fix introduces an early exit from the `trace_encoding()` function
when tracing is not requested, preventing unnecessary memory allocation
and processing.

Signed-off-by: D Harithamma <harithamma.d@ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/convert.c b/convert.c
index 35b25eb3cb..ee4d32978e 100644
--- a/convert.c
+++ b/convert.c
@@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ static void trace_encoding(const char *context, const char *path,
 	struct strbuf trace = STRBUF_INIT;
 	int i;
 
+	if (!trace_want(&coe))
+		return;
+
 	strbuf_addf(&trace, "%s (%s, considered %s):\n", context, path, encoding);
 	for (i = 0; i < len && buf; ++i) {
 		strbuf_addf(