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Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big

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JJ.H. <warthog19@eaglescrag.net>
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Dec 29, 2008, 05:17 UTC
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There are lots of reasons fore and against what your proposing, and there is no good answer. Yes it sends a lot of data, but one could argue - more data is better than less data.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:03 +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
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> I notice the web interfaces to many git sites are very risky to just
> click on. E.g., just clicking http://repo.or.cz/ sends megabytes to
> the users browser. At least the homepage of such sites should be
> something lighter in weight.
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