gitweb: Use git-show-ref instead of git-peek-remote

Use "git show-ref --dereference" instead of "git peek-remote
$projectroot/project" in git_get_references. git-show-ref is faster
than git-peek-remote (40ms vs 56ms user+sys for git.git repository);
even faster is reading info/refs file (if it exists), but the
information in info/refs can be stale; that and the fact that
info/refs is meant for dumb protocol transports, not for gitweb.

git-show-ref is available since v1.4.4; the output format is slightly
different than git-peek-remote output format, but we accept both.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>

diff --git a/gitweb.perl b/gitweb.perl
index e1b5fde9422e4152206c2d0f302623883cb30d105f609402ddae5ba9eff8d72b..0fac8e25f2d91302e77b173ce4ad1cf9d22c74de3ff475e70731df5b8089ff9c 100755 (executable)
--- a/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb.perl
@@ -1155,14 +1155,15 @@ sub git_get_last_activity {
 sub git_get_references {
        my $type = shift || "";
        my %refs;
-       # 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c      refs/tags/v2.6.11
-       # c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a      refs/tags/v2.6.11^{}
-       open my $fd, "-|", $GIT, "peek-remote", "$projectroot/$project/"
+       # 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c refs/tags/v2.6.11
+       # c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a refs/tags/v2.6.11^{}
+       open my $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "show-ref", "--dereference",
+               ($type ? ("--", "refs/$type") : ()) # use -- <pattern> if $type
                or return;
 
        while (my $line = <$fd>) {
                chomp $line;
-               if ($line =~ m/^([0-9a-fA-F]{40})\trefs\/($type\/?[^\^]+)/) {
+               if ($line =~ m!^([0-9a-fA-F]{40})\srefs/($type/?[^^]+)!) {
                        if (defined $refs{$1}) {
                                push @{$refs{$1}}, $2;
                        } else {