Re: .git/info/refs

> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin 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.