.git/info/refs

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Jan 24, 2007, 07:38 UTC
Message-ID: <45B70D06.3050506@zytor.com>

Would it be an incompatible change to add the commit date (and perhaps the author date) to .git/info/refs? I believe that would make it possible to dramatically (orders of magnitude) speed up the generation of the gitweb index page, which is easily the most expensive gitweb page to generate.

	-=hpa

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