From: hpa@zytor.com
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:45:00 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/refs
Message-ID: <2198.69.104.58.50.1169671500.squirrel@www.zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <200701242140.07459.jnareb@gmail.com>

> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>> Besides, we can't rely that .git/info/refs is up to date, or even
>>> exists.
>>> It is for dumb protocols, not for gitweb.
>>
>> Well, SOMETHING needs to be done for this page, since it can take 15
>> minutes or more to generate.  Caching doesn't help one iota, since it's
>> stale before being generated.
>
> The simple and fast solution would be to make post-update hook contain
> the git-for-each-ref with parameters like in git_get_last_activity,
> saving e.g. to .git/info/last-committer, and in gitweb read this file
> if it exist, run git-for-each-ref otherwise (similar to what we used to
> do with .git/info/refs and git-peek-remote in gitweb).
>

Right, this is basically what I'm saying; the question is only whether or
not this fits into .git/info/refs or should be a separate file.

Either way, I think git-update-server-info should generate all these files.

    -hpa