Re: [PATCH] gitweb: add a setting to control the tabstop width

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:33:28PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> writes:
>>> 
>>> The untabify function seems the sensible place to make the change. As
>>> untabify is called once per line from various different locations it
>>> also makes sense to cache the result of the config lookup in a package
>>> variable, though this makes the change slightly less neat.
>> 
>> Since b201927 (gitweb: Read repo config using 'git config -z -l')
>> repository config is cached in %config hash (per repository), so
>> I don't think global / package variable $tabstop_width is really
>> needed...
> 
> Fair point, although we still save the cost of some 'is the config
> variable overrideable and if so is it overriden' logic.  Untabify is a
> once per line call which is more frequesnt than most gitweb config
> checking calls.