From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:45:42 GMT Subject: Re: announce: git browser Message-ID: <7vd5ka653t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <40b2b7d90512052331s22adb055y9f99b8cafe20c0c3@mail.gmail.com> Artem Khodush writes: >> 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.