Re: .git/info/refs

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 25, 2007, 21:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3b5yai6c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45B92332.5060206@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

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>>>> 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.

Then that would mean 250 calls to git-for-each-ref, wouldn't it?

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