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Re: The future of gitweb - part 2: JavaScript

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2011, 21:17 UTC
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Peter Vereshagin wrote:
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> God love is hard to find. You got lucky Jakub!
> 2011/04/16 21:32:56 +0200 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> => To Peter Vereshagin :
> 
> JN> No, fetching and pushing using HTTP transport, be it "smart" or "dumb"
> JN> Gitweb is web interface for _viewing and browsing_ repositories using
> 
> Good for purposes I described earlier.
> Bad for users to have different URLs as "URL is UI element" (c)

You can configure web server in such way that you can use the same URL for fetching with git as for browsing repository with web browser via gitweb, as described in git-http-backend manpage in one of examples and also at the end of gitweb/README.

Nevertheless web browsing and fetching is done by two different programs.

> JN> with ModPerl::Registry.
> 
> but not PerlRun?

If it runs ModPerl::Registry (persistently), then it runs ModPerl::PerlRun... but the reverse not always is true.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  2. Michael J GruberFeb 15, 2011
  3. Jakub NarebskiFeb 21, 2011
  4. Michael J GruberFeb 23, 2011
  5. The future of git-instaweb (was: Re: The future of gitweb (long term goals))Jakub Narebski, Feb 25, 2011
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 22, 2011
  7. Jakub NarebskiFeb 22, 2011
  8. The future of gitweb - part 2: JavaScriptJakub Narebski, Apr 14, 2011
  9. Michał ŁowickiApr 14, 2011
  10. david@lang.hmApr 15, 2011
  11. Peter VereshaginApr 16, 2011
  12. Jakub NarebskiApr 16, 2011
  13. Peter VereshaginApr 16, 2011
  14. Jakub NarebskiApr 16, 2011
  15. Peter VereshaginApr 16, 2011
  16. Jakub NarebskiApr 16, 2011
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  18. Peter VereshaginApr 16, 2011
  19. Jakub NarebskiApr 17, 2011
  20. Gitweb != HTTP back-end {Was: Re: The future of gitweb - part 2: JavaScript}Drew Northup, Apr 20, 2011
  21. Jakub NarebskiApr 20, 2011
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  30. Drew NorthupApr 20, 2011

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