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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: add a setting to control the tabstop width
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:08:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803040108.58243.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080303225200.GA8145@hashpling.org>

Charles Bailey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:33:28PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling•org> writes:
>>> 
>>> The untabify function seems the sensible place to make the change. As
>>> untabify is called once per line from various different locations it
>>> also makes sense to cache the result of the config lookup in a package
>>> variable, though this makes the change slightly less neat.
>> 
>> Since b201927 (gitweb: Read repo config using 'git config -z -l')
>> repository config is cached in %config hash (per repository), so
>> I don't think global / package variable $tabstop_width is really
>> needed...
> 
> Fair point, although we still save the cost of some 'is the config
> variable overrideable and if so is it overriden' logic.  Untabify is a
> once per line call which is more frequesnt than most gitweb config
> checking calls.

Good enough.

One think I'd worry about is interaction with mod_perl (or FastCGI),
namely if $tabstop_width wouldn't get stale information.  Perhaps
writing

  our $tabstop_width = undef;

as initializer would be enough.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-04  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-03 22:11 [PATCH] gitweb: add a setting to control the tabstop width Charles Bailey
2008-03-03 22:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-03 22:52   ` Charles Bailey
2008-03-04  0:08     ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-03-03 22:52   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-03 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-04  3:35   ` Martin Langhoff
2008-03-04  8:19     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-04  8:41       ` Charles Bailey
2008-03-04  8:36   ` Charles Bailey

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