Re: .git/info/refs
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>>>> 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.
>>> With new gitweb and new git it is not that expensive. It is now one call
>>> to git-for-each-ref per repository.
>> That IS hugely expensive. On kernel.org, that is 24175 calls to git.
>
> Do you mean you have 24k _REPOSITORIES_ served by gitweb on
> kernel.org?
>
No, we currently have 250 repositories with a total of 24175 refs.
-hpa