tag: speed up --contains calculation

When we want to know if commit A contains commit B (or any
one of a set of commits, B through Z), we generally
calculate the merge bases and see if B is a merge base of A
(or for a set, if any of the commits B through Z have that
property).

When we are going to check a series of commits A1 through An
to see whether each contains B (e.g., because we are
deciding which tags to show with "git tag --contains"), we
do a series of merge base calculations. This can be very
expensive, as we repeat a lot of traversal work.

Instead, let's leverage the fact that we are going to use
the same --contains list for each tag, and mark areas of the
commit graph is definitely containing those commits, or
definitely not containing those commits. Later tags can then
stop traversing as soon as they see a previously calculated
answer.

This sped up "git tag --contains HEAD~200" in the linux-2.6
repository from:

  real    0m15.417s
  user    0m15.197s
  sys     0m0.220s

to:

  real    0m5.329s
  user    0m5.144s
  sys     0m0.184s

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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