From: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:22:12 GMT
Subject: Re: CGit and repository list
Message-ID: <59ad55d30809141022r6973155fh933976d25ef4cf01@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <59ad55d30809141014x2160d50dqb8ac20b4c108b4e1@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> wrote:
> The script we're using on freedesktop.org is something like this:
>
>  http://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/find-repos.sh
>
> which isn't too scary.  We run it from a cron script, every ten
> minutes or so.  It's much better than  rescanning all the dirs every
> time somebody requests the repo listing (we have a lot of repos, check
> cgit.freedesktop.org).  We have no need for cgit to to this
> automatically on every request, and I don't see us using that feature
> if it gets implemented.

A feature that would be useful, though, would be support for listing a
sub-set of repos... for example, cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh would list
just my repos and cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver would list all the
X.org driver repos.  Another idea is a javascript/css frontpage that
supports folding repos away according to the groups and possibly
common path elements in the url.  For example:

  [+] Freedesktop Repositories
  [-] User repositories
      [+] ~agdf5
      [+] ~ahuillet
      ...
      [-] ~krh
           ~krh/akamaru
           ~krh/bugzilla
           ~krh/compiz
      [-] ~kyle

etc.

Just throwing out a couple of ideas.

cheers,
Kristian