Re: announce: git browser

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 6, 2005, 07:45 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd5ka653t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <40b2b7d90512052331s22adb055y9f99b8cafe20c0c3@mail.gmail.com>

Artem Khodush <greenkaa@gmail.com> writes:

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>> This is not to discourage yet another web based one, but I wish
>> there were an NNTP interface, that feeds each repository/branch
>> as a newsgroup and each commit as if it is "git-format-patch"
>> output, with References: pointing at its parent commit "articles".
>>
>> A merge commit would probably become a multipart with usually 2
>> attachments (but N attachments for a N-way octopus), showing
>> diff from each branch.
>
> I'll see if I can do something with Perl and Net::NNTP..

"Ask and it shall be given you" ;-)

In case it was not obvious, I was talking about an NNTP server, not a client.

You would probably have to keep a mapping between sequence number and commit object name in each "newsgroup", which is the only nontrivial part.