Re: .git/info/refs

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 24, 2007, 09:28 UTC
Message-ID: <ep78r0$h2u$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <45B70D06.3050506@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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> 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.

Besides, we can't rely that .git/info/refs is up to date, or even exists. It is for dumb protocols, not for gitweb.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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