Re: .git/info/refs

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 25, 2007, 23:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701260029580.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <45B928AD.50508@zytor.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > Then that would mean 250 calls to git-for-each-ref, wouldn't it?
> 
> Well, I think it was Johannes that said once for each ref.  But either 
> which way, it's a totally unacceptable load with resulting unacceptable 
> latency.

No. I would never say that you have to run for-each-ref for each ref. That's plain stupid.

BTW I take some satisfaction in that you finally agreed (in another email) that some post-creation caching is necessary.

I would be even more satisfied if you finally agreed that it is a good practice to separate conceptually different things, and not continued ad infinitum (and ad nauseam) arguing that .git/info/refs should serve dumb transports, and gitweb, and eventually bring peace to everybody on this planet.

Ciao, Dscho