{"thread":{"id":"16901","subject":"many git sites homepages megabytes big","startedAt":"2008-12-29T05:03:40Z","lastAt":"2008-12-30T15:57:31Z","messageCount":5,"participants":["jidanni@jidanni.org","J.H.","Jakub Narebski","Anders Melchiorsen"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"98857","messageId":"87r63r374j.fsf@jidanni.org","threadId":"16901","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"many git sites homepages megabytes big","fromName":"","fromEmail":"jidanni@jidanni.org","sentAt":"2008-12-29T05:03:40Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-29T05:03:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jidanni@jidanni.org","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/36568d4af4c8d3e71627ef3b8c8d00e39065b12f29676cccd38ced75e68fa2a6?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"I notice the web interfaces to many git sites are very risky to just\nclick on. E.g., just clicking http://repo.or.cz/ sends megabytes to\nthe users browser. At least the homepage of such sites should be\nsomething lighter in weight.\n"},{"id":"98858","messageId":"1230527852.6992.2.camel@localhost.localdomain","threadId":"16901","inReplyTo":"87r63r374j.fsf@jidanni.org","subject":"Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big","fromName":"J.H.","fromEmail":"warthog19@eaglescrag.net","sentAt":"2008-12-29T05:17:32Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-29T05:17:32Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"warthog19@eaglescrag.net","avatar":null},"body":"There are lots of reasons fore and against what your proposing, and\nthere is no good answer.  Yes it sends a lot of data, but one could\nargue - more data is better than less data.\n\n- John 'Warthog9' Hawley\n\nOn Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:03 +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:\n> I notice the web interfaces to many git sites are very risky to just\n> click on. E.g., just clicking http://repo.or.cz/ sends megabytes to\n> the users browser. At least the homepage of such sites should be\n> something lighter in weight.\n> --\n> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line \"unsubscribe git\" in\n> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org\n> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html\n"},{"id":"98930","messageId":"m31vvqcvzp.fsf@localhost.localdomain","threadId":"16901","inReplyTo":"87r63r374j.fsf@jidanni.org","subject":"Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-12-30T01:07:27Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-30T01:07:27Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"jidanni@jidanni.org writes:\n\n> I notice the web interfaces to many git sites are very risky to just\n> click on. E.g., just clicking http://repo.or.cz/ sends megabytes to\n> the users browser. At least the homepage of such sites should be\n> something lighter in weight.\n\nThat is a bit of historical artifact. Currently the \"index\" page for\ngitweb installation is 'projects_list' page with _all_ the projects\nhosted. It is not split into pages, like for example 'log' or 'heads'\nviews are; there were some patches for that, but would have to be\nredone as the area changed a bit since. It could have been replaced by\nprojects search page...\n\nIt is a bit of historical reason.\n-- \nJakub Narebski\nPoland\nShadeHawk on #git\n"},{"id":"98960","messageId":"4959FFA2.4050403@cup.kalibalik.dk","threadId":"16901","inReplyTo":"m31vvqcvzp.fsf@localhost.localdomain","subject":"Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big","fromName":"Anders Melchiorsen","fromEmail":"mail@cup.kalibalik.dk","sentAt":"2008-12-30T11:01:54Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-30T11:01:54Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mail@cup.kalibalik.dk","avatar":null},"body":"Jakub Narebski wrote:\n> jidanni@jidanni.org writes:\n>\n>   \n>> I notice the web interfaces to many git sites are very risky to just\n>> click on. E.g., just clicking http://repo.or.cz/ sends megabytes to\n>> the users browser. At least the homepage of such sites should be\n>> something lighter in weight.\n>>     \n>\n> That is a bit of historical artifact. Currently the \"index\" page for\n> gitweb installation is 'projects_list' page with _all_ the projects\n> hosted. It is not split into pages, like for example 'log' or 'heads'\n> views are; there were some patches for that, but would have to be\n> redone as the area changed a bit since. It could have been replaced by\n> projects search page...\n>\n> It is a bit of historical reason.\n>   \n\nFor the specific case of repo.or.cz, I guess that turning on HTTP \ncompression might help a lot.\n\n\nAnders.\n"},{"id":"98979","messageId":"877i5hsljo.fsf@jidanni.org","threadId":"16901","inReplyTo":"4959FFA2.4050403@cup.kalibalik.dk","subject":"Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big","fromName":"","fromEmail":"jidanni@jidanni.org","sentAt":"2008-12-30T15:57:31Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-30T15:57:31Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jidanni@jidanni.org","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/36568d4af4c8d3e71627ef3b8c8d00e39065b12f29676cccd38ced75e68fa2a6?d=mp&s=160"},"body":">>>>> \"AM\" == Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> writes:\n\nAM> For the specific case of repo.or.cz, I guess that turning on HTTP\nAM> compression might help a lot.\n\nIt's the billion bytes to the innocents' browser that huts the most.\nBad to put such large homepages into browsers.\n"}]}