git gc and idle times

git gc and idle times

[thomas.moschny]

Hi,

we are using cgit 0.9 successfully on a bunch of repositories. Nice
tool!

One question however: After running git-gc on some of the repositories,
the overview page of cgit misses idle times for those. The idle time is
back after pushing a commit. Is there something that needs to be
adjusted/fixed manually after running git-gc? Or is it a bug of cgit?

Thanks,
-- 
Thomas Moschny  <thomas.moschny at gmx.de>

git gc and idle times

[cgit]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:06:28PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are using cgit 0.9 successfully on a bunch of repositories. Nice
> tool!
> 
> One question however: After running git-gc on some of the repositories,
> the overview page of cgit misses idle times for those. The idle time is
> back after pushing a commit. Is there something that needs to be
> adjusted/fixed manually after running git-gc? Or is it a bug of cgit?

cgit uses the mtime of the file containing the default branch's HEAD ref
to guess the idle time if there's no agefile. If you pack heads and tags
there won't be such a file anymore, resulting in no idle time being
displayed.

You could try to set "gc.packrefs" to "notbare" to prevent the garbage
collector from packing refs as a workaround.

git gc and idle times

[mailings]

On 05/11/2011 04:47 PM, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:06:28PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are using cgit 0.9 successfully on a bunch of repositories. Nice
>> tool!
>>
>> One question however: After running git-gc on some of the repositories,
>> the overview page of cgit misses idle times for those. The idle time is
>> back after pushing a commit. Is there something that needs to be
>> adjusted/fixed manually after running git-gc? Or is it a bug of cgit?
> 
> cgit uses the mtime of the file containing the default branch's HEAD ref
> to guess the idle time if there's no agefile. If you pack heads and tags
> there won't be such a file anymore, resulting in no idle time being
> displayed.
> 
> You could try to set "gc.packrefs" to "notbare" to prevent the garbage
> collector from packing refs as a workaround.
> 

I have this too.

When repos are repacked then some refs can end up in packed-refs,
including the ref for the default branch.

I think cgit should add one more fallback to look for packed-refs before
giving up.

I'll be submitting a patch later to this effect.

grtz

-- 
Ferry Huberts

git gc and idle times

[mailings]

On 05/11/2011 04:06 PM, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are using cgit 0.9 successfully on a bunch of repositories. Nice
> tool!
> 
> One question however: After running git-gc on some of the repositories,
> the overview page of cgit misses idle times for those. The idle time is
> back after pushing a commit. Is there something that needs to be
> adjusted/fixed manually after running git-gc? Or is it a bug of cgit?
> 

patch is in master: 21e0e0bfac660072a4518f91f59d5c4bf6e764b5

grtz

-- 
Ferry Huberts

git gc and idle times

[thomas.moschny]

Ferry Huberts <mailings at hupie.com>:
> On 05/11/2011 04:06 PM, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> > One question however: After running git-gc on some of the
> > repositories, the overview page of cgit misses idle times for
> > those. The idle time is back after pushing a commit. Is there
> > something that needs to be adjusted/fixed manually after running
> > git-gc? Or is it a bug of cgit?
> 
> patch is in master: 21e0e0bfac660072a4518f91f59d5c4bf6e764b5

Thanks!

Meanwhile, I added this code to each post-update hook

git for-each-ref --format='%(committerdate)' \
  --sort=-committerdate --count=1 \
  > $GIT_DIR/info/web/last-modified

Works fine.

-- 
Thomas Moschny  <thomas.moschny at gmx.de>