Re: [RFC] Git config file reader in Perl (WIP)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 15, 2007, 10:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20070115100141.GA12257@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070115095613.GA4037@localdomain>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

> If the Perl output is redirected to a file (say .git/config.perl) and
> only regenerated when .git/config changes, `do(".git/config.perl")' will
> likely be faster since all the parsing will be done by Perl itself.

So long as its automatic in gitweb.cgi and based on the stat attributes of .git/config, OK. But my database background tells me two copies of the same thing is fishy...

-- 
Shawn.

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