gitweb performance of summary page

[Florian La Roche]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:51:49AM +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:29:54PM +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> > Loading the summary page can still take quite some time
> > as this server is also a Fedora mirror, so the overview
> > page often needs to read in all data from disk.
> 
> 
> For the summary page gitweb calls for each project the
> external command:
>     git for-each-ref --format=%(committer) --sort=-committerdate --count=1 refs/heads
> 
> If the data is not already cached, this adds quite some time until
> the overview page is ready. While seeing the time of the last commit
> is pretty nice, it should also not be really essential, so I have
> just removed it for now. The right thing todo would be to cache this
> time somehow intelligently. Even better is to read new patches
> coming in via RSS instead of looking at the summary page.
> 
> 
> > If anyone feels like hacking on gitweb: The main summary
> > page only displays the time of last change as special info
> > on the individual projects, so if that part would not call
> > "git" as external app, then loading that page should be much
> > less of a resource problem.
> 
> 
> Resolved for me, but might wait for an even better patch.


Hello all,

if other people are interested, I've put up the changes I use for
git up to:
http://www.jur-linux.org/git/?p=git-laroche.git;a=summary

That's a few changes from Petr Baudis that are used also for
repo.or.cz and the mostly "delete owner/date for summary page"
patch from above.

regards,

Florian La Roche