Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jun 20, 2006, 19:46 UTC
Message-ID: <7vpsh37gqu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <e79921$u0e$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> I am planning on copying features from xmms2's gitweb version 
> to git's gitweb, and introducing new ones.
>
> Which of those should be implemented first?

Clean-ups and obvious fixes without introducing new features first please.

> * Add (of course optional, like blame support) snapshot support. There are
>   at least two different implementations. I'd prefer to do without second
>   CGI script, but perhaps this is better from the performance point of view.
>   gitweb-xmms2 has snapshot.cgi in Python: should it be rewritten in Perl?

Isn't it just the matter of spawning git-tar-tree?

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> * gitweb-xmms2 has something called committags support: it means that
>   'BUG(n)', 'FEATURE(n)' and 'RELEASE: xx' in commit message are turned into
>   bugtracker (Mantis for xmms2) or wiki links. It is extension of turning
>   sha1-ids into references. Probably needs some extra configuration file,
>   and some per repository configuration. Of course we want to support not
>   only Mantis, but also e.g. Bugzilla (e.g. Linux kernel) and conventions
>   for marking bugs therein.

Yes, I found this quite nice.

BTW, are you in touch with xmms2 folks?