From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:03:09 GMT Subject: Re: gitweb feature request: tarball for each commit Message-ID: <4320449D.2070306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050908113207.GA30178@vrfy.org> Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:45:45AM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: >>On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:30:22PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: >>>Actually... should get it done. I'll see if I can sneak it in sometime soon... >>This has been done at least twice already. >>See e.g., http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/gitweb.cgi?p=gitweb.git;a=summary >>Check the archives for the other implementation. > > Yes, this is nice for smaller projects. But I don't think, that we want > to do such a thing on the kernel.org servers. We already have the daily > snapshots and individual patches can be downloaded from gitweb. Anybody > else should use git/cogito instead of letting the server packaging a huge > tree for every requested revison, I think. I think this is a very useful feature for for some, but not all, repositories. Default it to off and have a magic file (like git-daemon), or a config variable turn it on.