Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] gitweb: Add an option to show size of blobs in the tree view

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

It allows to play with 'tree' view with blob size. Currently you
have to start browsing by adding ";opt=-l" to the gitweb URL by
hand.  There is not link which will change view from ordinary 'tree'
view to 'tree' view with blob sizes.

The 'tree' with blob size view is slightly more costly than the
ordinary, old 'tree' view, but not much more (0.018s vs 0.012s
in the hot cache case), so I don't think we need to control it
as a enabled (or disabled) feature, overrideable or not.  It
probably should not be default.

I do not think there is any reason to forbid its use, as the
"-l" to ls-tree was introduced for exactly this purpose,
However, it might make sense to make the use of -l optional via
the %feature mechanism.  50% increase even on hot cache case is
not a price people who run busy sites would want to pay.