From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:26:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formats
Message-ID: <7vir8q4opc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200707111755.50018.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure if we want to store whole 'application/x-gzip' or only
> 'x-gzip' part of mime type, and if we want to store compressor as
> '| gzip' or simply as 'gzip'.
>  
>> This however will break people's existing gitweb configuration,
>> so if we were to do this it should be post 1.5.3, I would say.
>
> This would break not only existing _gitweb_ configuration (when
> gitweb admin installs new gitweb it isn't that hard to correct
> gitweb config), but also git _repositories_ config: gitweb.snapshot
> no longer work as it worked before, for example neither 'gzip'
> nor 'bzip2' values work anymore ('zip' doesn't stop working).

I realized after seeing your other message on this patch that
this can be done while retaining backward compatibility, as you
suggested.  Matt, does Jakub's suggestion make sense to you?