Re: .git/info/refs

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2007, 16:16 UTC
Message-ID: <45C2124C.5070308@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702011501250.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I just had another idea: why not generate the content of the "cover page" 
> in a cron job, every minute or so, and save it into a static index.html? 
> This should take quite a load from the server, since not even Perl has to 
> be started to serve that page.
>

Ehm... because it often takes longer than that to generate the page?

We can pre-generate the page before the first hit, but that's not a replacement for update-time caching.

	-hpa

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