Add commit hook perf test with control baseline and scaling analysis

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Summary

• Rewrites commit_hook_perf_test.go to compare control commits (no Entire) against commits with hooks active across 100/200/500 sessions
• Seeds 75% of ENDED sessions with shadow branch refs (no LastCheckpointID) to match production behavior, where most sessions have unconsumed checkpoint data
• Uses full-history clone with 200 seeded branches, packed refs, and unique base commits per session for realistic ref scanning and object resolution overhead
• Adds docs/architecture/commit-hook-perf-analysis.md documenting findings

Key findings

PostCommit condensation is the dominant cost, not ref scanning:

Scenario	Sessions	Control	PrepareCommitMsg	PostCommit	Total Overhead
100	100	29ms	815ms	6.5s	7.3s
200	200	20ms	1.7s	14.6s	16.3s
500	500	29ms	4.4s	46.9s	51.3s

The 200-session result (16.3s) matches the real-world user report of ~16s for ~95 sessions, confirming the test methodology faithfully reproduces production overhead.

Cost breakdown per ENDED session (with shadow branch)

• Condensation: ~30-50ms — tree building + commit on entire/checkpoints/v1 (dominant)
• Ref lookups: ~2-4ms — 2-3 repo.Reference() calls across both hooks (packed-refs linear scan, no caching)
• Content detection: ~2-5ms — transcript/overlap check
• State I/O: ~0.5-1ms — JSON parse per session file

Highest-ROI optimizations

1. Batch condensation — condense all sessions in one commit instead of N commits
2. Session pruning — skip stale ENDED sessions during PostCommit
3. Batch ref resolution — load all refs into a map for O(1) lookups
4. Lazy condensation — defer to background process instead of blocking the commit

Test methodology evolution

Version	100 sess	Per-session	Issue
Shallow + shared base	1.74s	~18ms	Packfile too small, repeated ref scan
Full history + shared base	2.00s	~21ms	Same ref scanned N times
Full history + unique bases (cheap ENDED)	337ms	~3ms	ENDED had LastCheckpointID → no-ops
Full history + realistic ENDED (current)	7.3s	~73ms	Matches production

The critical fix was seeding 75% of ENDED sessions with shadow branch refs but no LastCheckpointID, forcing the full expensive path: ref lookup → commit/tree resolution → content detection → PostCommit condensation.

Test plan

• go build -tags hookperf ./cmd/entire/cli/strategy/ compiles
• go vet -tags hookperf ./cmd/entire/cli/strategy/ passes
• go test -v -run TestCommitHookPerformance -tags hookperf -timeout 15m ./cmd/entire/cli/strategy/ passes with results matching real-world reports

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PR Summary

Low Risk
Adds a test-only (build-tagged) performance benchmark plus documentation; no production logic changes, with the main risk being flaky/manual execution due to external git/GitHub and local .git/entire-sessions requirements.

Overview
Introduces a new build-tagged Go perf test (commit_hook_perf_test.go, //go:build hookperf) that benchmarks Entire’s prepare-commit-msg and post-commit hook overhead by comparing a baseline git commit (no Entire settings/hooks) vs. a commit with ManualCommitStrategy.PrepareCommitMsg + PostCommit across 100/200/500 seeded sessions in a locally-cloned repo.

Adds docs/architecture/commit-hook-perf-analysis.md summarizing measured results and attributing the linear per-session cost primarily to repeated go-git ref lookups (e.g., repo.Reference() in session listing/content checks), with a short list of suggested optimization directions.

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Pull request overview

Adds a reproducible (tagged) performance test and an accompanying analysis document to quantify and explain the overhead of Entire’s commit hooks as session count scales.

Changes:

• Add hookperf-tagged Go test that measures control commits vs PrepareCommitMsg + PostCommit across multiple session counts, using seeded branches/packed refs and real session templates.
• Add architecture documentation summarizing results and attributing dominant costs (notably repeated repo.Reference() calls), plus optimization opportunities.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
docs/architecture/commit-hook-perf-analysis.md	Documents measured hook overhead, scaling behavior, and suspected hotspots/optimizations.
cmd/entire/cli/strategy/commit_hook_perf_test.go	Implements the hookperf performance test harness (repo cloning, branch seeding, session seeding, timing).

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