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Re: gitweb: latest blob date (request)

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 16, 2006, 17:55 UTC
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Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:
> Hmm, where do I find this information? It is recorded in last commit,
> that changed the file, right? I'm not sure, if we can get this out of
> the git tools?

Yes we can. But it is rather expensive. You would do an equivalent of "git whatchanged" for each and every path.

Of course commit chain is immutable so you could do this once and cache the results.

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