From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:37:54 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/refs
Message-ID: <45B92332.5060206@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vireuaj9d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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