From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: .git/info/refs Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:28:56 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <45B70D06.3050506@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 24 10:28:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H9eQg-0000ee-SK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:28:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750696AbXAXJ20 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:28:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750725AbXAXJ20 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:28:26 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34836 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750696AbXAXJ2Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:28:25 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H9eQO-0002qN-Pw for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:28:12 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-20-200.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.20.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:28:12 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-20-200.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:28:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-20-200.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. Besides, we can't rely that .git/info/refs is up to date, or even exists. It is for dumb protocols, not for gitweb. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git