{"thread":{"id":"5614","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service","startedAt":"2006-09-20T00:48:28Z","lastAt":"2006-10-12T21:19:11Z","messageCount":8,"participants":["Petr Baudis","Jakub Narebski","Linus Torvalds","Anand Kumria","Nico -telmich- Schottelius"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"27205","messageId":"20060920004828.GI8259@pasky.or.cz","threadId":"5614","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service","fromName":"Petr Baudis","fromEmail":"pasky@suse.cz","sentAt":"2006-09-20T00:48:28Z","receivedAt":"2006-09-20T00:48:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pasky@ucw.cz","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18439?v=4"},"body":" Hi,\n\n there are various tiny repositories scatterred over the web that are\non crappy broken webhostings, don't have lifetime long enough and most\nimportantly have no gitweb interface for peeking inside - even e.g.\nthe StGIT repository suffers from that.\n\n To fix that problem, I've decided to quickly set up a public gitweb\nhosting service. The deal is basically that you tell the system your\nrepository URL (designed only for reasonably small repositories; if you\nhave big repository, you ought to have the resources to host it) and it\nwill mirror the repository and provide gitweb interface for it, as well\nas publish the mirror for cloning.\n\n It's running at\n\n\thttp://repo.or.cz/\n\nwith latest Git and Gitweb from #next and few custom patches (I've\nposted the interesting ones), all features enabled. If I get some\ntime, I will hopefully further improve the Gitweb interface (blame is\nalmost unusable, pickaxe is top secret functionality, etc.) and I will\ngenerally try to track #next gitweb version closely (at least for the\nstart).\n\n This is still very experimental - I will watch how much interest, load\nand traffic it generates; if it becomes unbearable, I will disable the\npublic mirror service and keep just the gitweb interface. Also, the web\ninterface is rather crude and you can currently use it only to register\nnew projects - if you want to make any adjustments to them, please drop\nme a mail. Also please do if you have some cool ideas, or want to do a\nnice design for the registration web interface. ;-)\n\n\n Note that there is also a glibc CVS import available at that address,\nentirely coincidentally. That one is an exception and is not synced from\nany other Git repository. It took git-cvsimport two days to chew through\non a decent machine (but over the network), the resulting size of 107M\nis pretty nice. I hope to set it up to automatically track glibc CVS\nfurther (and possibly other popular non-Git projects later). There's\ninsane amount of tags which means the gitweb summary page takes \"a bit\"\nlong to load, I wonder if using packed refs would improve that.\n\n Have fun,\n\n-- \n\t\t\t\tPetr \"Pasky\" Baudis\nStuff: http://pasky.or.cz/\nSnow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise.\nHides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam\n"},{"id":"27207","messageId":"eeq3sr$npj$1@sea.gmane.org","threadId":"5614","inReplyTo":"20060920004828.GI8259@pasky.or.cz","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2006-09-20T01:01:14Z","receivedAt":"2006-09-20T01:01:14Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"Petr Baudis wrote:\n\n> There's\n> insane amount of tags which means the gitweb summary page takes \"a bit\"\n> long to load, I wonder if using packed refs would improve that.\n\nUsing git-for-each-ref would certainly improve speed (one fork vs. one per\ntag), using packed refs (by the way, can it be limited to tags only?) will\nimprove speed further (one IO vs. one IO per tag).\n\n-- \nJakub Narebski\nWarsaw, Poland\nShadeHawk on #git\n"},{"id":"27210","messageId":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0609192033050.4388@g5.osdl.org","threadId":"5614","inReplyTo":"20060920004828.GI8259@pasky.or.cz","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service","fromName":"Linus Torvalds","fromEmail":"torvalds@osdl.org","sentAt":"2006-09-20T03:35:02Z","receivedAt":"2006-09-20T03:35:02Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"torvalds@linux-foundation.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1024025?v=4"},"body":"\n\nOn Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:\n> \n> It's running at\n> \n> \thttp://repo.or.cz/\n\nWell, \"running\" may be putting it a bit strongly.\n\nWhen I click \"summary\" for the glibc-cvs.git tree, I get just a\n\n\t
\n\t-------------------^\n\nthing back.\n\nBroken gitweb?\n\n\t\tLinus\n"},{"id":"27224","messageId":"20060920105133.GL8259@pasky.or.cz","threadId":"5614","inReplyTo":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0609192033050.4388@g5.osdl.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service","fromName":"Petr Baudis","fromEmail":"pasky@suse.cz","sentAt":"2006-09-20T10:51:33Z","receivedAt":"2006-09-20T10:51:33Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pasky@ucw.cz","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18439?v=4"},"body":"Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:35:02AM CEST, I got a letter\nwhere Linus Torvalds said that...\n> \n> \n> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:\n> > \n> > It's running at\n> > \n> > \thttp://repo.or.cz/\n> \n> Well, \"running\" may be putting it a bit strongly.\n> \n> When I click \"summary\" for the glibc-cvs.git tree, I get just a\n> \n> \t
\n> \t-------------------^\n> \n> thing back.\n> \n> Broken gitweb?\n\nThat's the start of the summary table. Did you wait long enough here? It\ntakes a while before the refs are processed and your browser might not\nshow you the data received meanwhile.\n\n-- \n\t\t\t\tPetr \"Pasky\" Baudis\nStuff: http://pasky.or.cz/\nSnow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise.\nHides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam\n"},{"id":"27233","messageId":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0609200753370.4388@g5.osdl.org","threadId":"5614","inReplyTo":"20060920105133.GL8259@pasky.or.cz","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service","fromName":"Linus Torvalds","fromEmail":"torvalds@osdl.org","sentAt":"2006-09-20T15:05:03Z","receivedAt":"2006-09-20T15:05:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"torvalds@linux-foundation.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1024025?v=4"},"body":"\n\nOn Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:\n\n> Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:35:02AM CEST, I got a letter\n> where Linus Torvalds said that...\n> > \n> > When I click \"summary\" for the glibc-cvs.git tree, I get just a\n> > \n> > \t
\n> > \t-------------------^\n> > \n> > thing back.\n> > \n> > Broken gitweb?\n> \n> That's the start of the summary table. Did you wait long enough here? It\n> takes a while before the refs are processed and your browser might not\n> show you the data received meanwhile.\n\nIt's _definitely_ broken for me. But it looks like that may be a firefox \non ppc issue (even if other sites work fine), because I don't have the \nsame problem on my Mac Mini. Strange.\n\nMaybe it's a \"yum install\" that upgraded firefox while it was running or \nsomething.\n\n\t\tLinus\n"},{"id":"27325","messageId":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0609201743550.4388@g5.osdl.org","threadId":"5614","inReplyTo":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0609200753370.4388@g5.osdl.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service","fromName":"Linus Torvalds","fromEmail":"torvalds@osdl.org","sentAt":"2006-09-21T00:45:29Z","receivedAt":"2006-09-21T00:45:29Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"torvalds@linux-foundation.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1024025?v=4"},"body":"\n\nOn Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:\n> \n> It's _definitely_ broken for me. But it looks like that may be a firefox \n> on ppc issue (even if other sites work fine), because I don't have the \n> same problem on my Mac Mini. Strange.\n> \n> Maybe it's a \"yum install\" that upgraded firefox while it was running or \n> something.\n\nIndeed, that seems to have been it. It all works for me now. Very strange \nfirefox bug that only affected one site ;)\n\n(kernel.org runs a much older gitweb, so it was possibly triggered by \nsomething that gitweb does in newer versions).\n\n\t\tLinus\n"},{"id":"27392","messageId":"eev4h8$cvu$1@sea.gmane.org","threadId":"5614","inReplyTo":"20060920004828.GI8259@pasky.or.cz","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service","fromName":"Anand Kumria","fromEmail":"wildfire@progsoc.org","sentAt":"2006-09-21T22:42:48Z","receivedAt":"2006-09-21T22:42:48Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"wildfire@progsoc.org","avatar":null},"body":"On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:48:28 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:\n\n> Hi,\n> \n> there are various tiny repositories scatterred over the web that are\n> on crappy broken webhostings, don't have lifetime long enough and most\n> importantly have no gitweb interface for peeking inside - even e.g. the\n> StGIT repository suffers from that.\n>\n\n[snip]\n \n> Note that there is also a glibc CVS import available at that address,\n> entirely coincidentally. That one is an exception and is not synced from\n> any other Git repository. It took git-cvsimport two days to chew through\n> on a decent machine (but over the network), the resulting size of 107M is\n> pretty nice. I hope to set it up to automatically track glibc CVS further\n> (and possibly other popular non-Git projects later). There's insane\n> amount of tags which means the gitweb summary page takes \"a bit\" long to\n> load, I wonder if using packed refs would improve that.\n\nI've got some imports of some projects that I am tracking as well.\n\nhttp://www.progsoc.org/~wildfire/git/\n\nI have not (yet) enabled git-daemon support for them, so anyone cloning\nthem might find it takes a long amount of time. I haven't updated to the\nmost recent gitweb/git lately so it might be a bit slow.\n\nI'll get around to making both git-daemon support available and updating\nto a newer version of gitweb shortly.\n\nIf anyone wants me to track other projects, let me know.\n\nCheers,\nAnand\n"},{"id":"28686","messageId":"20061012211911.GC4813@schottelius.org","threadId":"5614","inReplyTo":"20060920004828.GI8259@pasky.or.cz","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Public Gitweb Hosting Service","fromName":"Nico -telmich- Schottelius","fromEmail":"nico-linux-git@schottelius.org","sentAt":"2006-10-12T21:19:11Z","receivedAt":"2006-10-12T21:19:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nico-linux-git@schottelius.org","avatar":null},"body":"Petr Baudis [Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:48:28AM +0200]:\n> [long introduction, pasky seems to have too much time, perhaps\n> he should investigate more time in gitweb's character problems? ;-)]\n> \n> \thttp://repo.or.cz/\n\nVery nice service!\n\nIn fact I am currently building a oss-site for a small community\ncalled !eof and your repo service looks EXTREMLY interesting!\n\nWill have a look at it at the weekend!\n\nNico\n \n-- \n``...if there's one thing about Linux users, they're do-ers, not whiners.''\n(A quotation of Andy Patrizio I completely agree with)\n"}]}