Re: [PATCH 19/19] gitweb: Remove creating directory for temporary files

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
>>    "get-following" is inherently a very expensive operation, so
>>    I would suggest not doing this.  It seems that nobody uses
>>    these two subs yet, so probably it is better to yank them
>>    before they cause damages.
>
> A bit of clarification.  gitk has preceding/following but unlike
> gitweb it has three things that go in favor of having it.
>
>  - gitk can afford to use as much CPU as the user throw at it,
>    since it runs locally.
>
>  - gitk finds preceding/following in the background so the user
>    does not have to wait, and it is done while it gets the list
>    of commits which it needs to do anyway.