alt Hacker NewsDo solutions like gitea not have prebuilt indexes of the git file contents? I know GitHub does this to some extent, especially for main repo pages. Seems wild that the default of a web forge would be to hit the actual git server on every http GET request.
The author discusses his efforts in trying caching; in most use cases, it makes no sense to pre-cache every possible piece of content (because real users don't need to load that much of the repository that fast), and in the case of bot scrapers it doesn't help to cache because they're only fetching each file once.