Bruno Cesar Ribas <ribas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:16:16PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Bruno Ribas <ribas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> <snip> >> 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. - 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
