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Re: [PATCH (take 2)] gitweb: Do not parse refs by hand, use git-peek-remote instead

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 15, 2006, 08:43 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > But, if we change git_get_refs_list to do also work of git_get_references,
> > we should also change git_get_references to not use info/refs file at all
> > (it can, and usually for unknown reasons is stale) but always use
> > git-peek-remote, for consistency.
> 
> Yes that would make sense.  A repository served by gitweb does
> not necessarily has to serve objects over http transport, so it
> is nicer not to require info/refs to even exist or up to date.

We do not require info/refs, as currently git_get_references falls back to git-ls-remotes (should be git-peek-remote as it is faster) if info/refs does not exist. But info/refs is usually stale; I guess it is updated on pull/fetch/push, but not on commit.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. gitweb: Do not parse refs by hand, use git-peek-remote insteadJakub Narebski, Sep 14, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2006
  3. gitweb: Do not parse refs by hand, use git-peek-remote insteadJakub Narebski, Sep 15, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 15, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiSep 15, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 15, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiSep 15, 2006
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