From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Use config file or file for repository owner's name. Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:48:43 -0800 Message-ID: <7vsl0eg16c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1201670898-15076-1-git-send-email-ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br> <7vwsprj0sv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080131023629.GB7778@c3sl.ufpr.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Bruno Cesar Ribas X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 31 03:49:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKPUd-0001NQ-Ls for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:49:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755338AbYAaCtE (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:49:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756237AbYAaCtD (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:49:03 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:38795 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752435AbYAaCtB (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:49:01 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0567347B; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:48:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748FA347A; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:48:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20080131023629.GB7778@c3sl.ufpr.br> (Bruno Cesar Ribas's message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:36:29 -0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Bruno Cesar Ribas writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:16:16PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Bruno Ribas writes: >> >> >> I am not sure about the effect of this change on a large scale >> site. If you do not have the project list file, originally we >> just needed a stat per project, but now you open an extra file >> (either "owner" or "config") and read it, once per every >> project. > > Opening the extra file has same problem as the description file. And, as > gitweb allow us to create "description" and "cloneurl" file there is no > problem having another file to open instead finding out who is the owner of > the directory asking to the filesystem. We heard the same argument when cloneurl was added, and a newcomer who does not know that may rightly use the same argument. But I think we should work towards _reducing_ the number of such ad-hoc one-line-per-information files, not using existing ones as an excuse to add _more_ of them.