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[PATCH] gitweb: Use git-show-ref instead of git-peek-remote

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 24, 2006, 22:01 UTC
Message-ID
<11644056823095-git-send-email-jnareb@gmail.com>

Use "git show-ref --dereference" instead of "git peek-remote ." in git_get_references. git-show-ref is faster than git-peek-remote; even faster is reading info/refs file (if it exists), but the information in info/refs can be stale.

git-show-ref is available since v1.4.4; the output format is slightly different than git-peek-remote output format.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index f06cd3e..290751f 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1154,14 +1154,15 @@ sub git_get_last_activity {
 sub git_get_references {
 	my $type = shift || "";
 	my %refs;
-	# 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c	refs/tags/v2.6.11
-	# c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a	refs/tags/v2.6.11^{}
-	open my $fd, "-|", $GIT, "peek-remote", "$projectroot/$project/"
+	# 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c refs/tags/v2.6.11
+	# c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a refs/tags/v2.6.11^{}
+	open my $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "show-ref", "--dereference",
+		($type ? ("--", "refs/$type") : ()) # use -- <pattern> if $type
 		or return;
 
 	while (my $line = <$fd>) {
 		chomp $line;
-		if ($line =~ m/^([0-9a-fA-F]{40})\trefs\/($type\/?[^\^]+)/) {
+		if ($line =~ m/^([0-9a-fA-F]{40}) refs\/($type\/?[^\^]+)/) {
 			if (defined $refs{$1}) {
 				push @{$refs{$1}}, $2;
 			} else {
-- 
1.4.4.1
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  1. gitweb: Use git-show-ref instead of git-peek-remoteJakub Narebski, Nov 24, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 24, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiNov 24, 2006
  4. gitweb: Use git-show-ref instead of git-peek-remoteJakub Narebski, Nov 25, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 25, 2006
  6. gitweb: Use git-show-ref instead of git-peek-remoteJakub Narebski, Nov 25, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 25, 2006
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