"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jakub Narebski wrote: >> 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. > > That IS hugely expensive. On kernel.org, that is 24175 calls to git. Do you mean you have 24k _REPOSITORIES_ served by gitweb on kernel.org? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html