Re: [PATCH] Avoid errors from git-rev-parse in gitweb blame (take 2)

["Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>]

2008/6/3 Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>:
> Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
>>
>> Finally, to avoid forking git-rev-parse too many times, cache its
>> results in a new hash %parent_commits.
>
> I'm not too happy with this:
>
> 1) Minor point: I'm working on caching for the backend right now (IOW,
> basically what you're doing, just centralized in a separate module), so
> you're essentially duplicating work, and you're making it (a little) harder
> for me to refactor gitweb since I have to rip out your cache code.  Those
> few lines won't hurt, but in general I suggest that nobody make any larger
> efforts to cache stuff in gitweb for the next few weeks.

Sorry for that. I failed to consider that your work was applying there as well.

> 2) Major point: You're still forking a lot.  The Right Thing is to condense
> everything into a single call -- I believe "git-rev-list --parents --no-walk
> hash hash hash..." is correct and easily parsable. Its output seems to be
> lines of
>    hash parent_1 parent_2 ... parent_n
> with n >= 0.  Can you implement that?  It would be very useful and also
> reusable for me!

Ok, I see what you mean -- but I suppose that's the kind of
information that would be nicely abstracted out somewhere. At least I
would put it in a sub. And that sub would fit perfectly in your
caching module, too! Looking at the source, a generic git-rev-list
wrapper could be used.

If you want I can produce a patch against your version, but I'm afraid
I'll end up being a bit short on time, so I might be slow to do it.

> P.S.: I believe that the usual way to post follow-up patches is to label
> them [PATCH vN] for N >= 2 in the subject (since "take 2" shouldn't be part
> of the commit message), and to send them as In-reply-to a message in the
> original thread -- just provide git-send-email with the Message-ID of the
> message you want to reply to.  </nitpick>
>

Ok, noted. Also, next time, I'll send smaller patches.