From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:07:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] gitweb: add isDumbClient() check
Message-ID: <7vzksd9nq2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D01A5F3.8030108@eaglescrag.net>

"J.H." <warthog9@eaglescrag.net> writes:

> My initial look indicated that perl-http-browserdetect wasn't available
> for RHEL / CentOS 5 - it is however available in EPEL.
>
> However there are a couple of things to note about User Agents at all:
> 	- They lie... a lot
> 	- Robots lie even more
>
> Blacklisting is still the better option, by a lot.  I'll re-work this
> some in v9, as I'm fine with the added dependency.

Thanks, both.  I sense that we finally are going to get a single version
of gitweb that can be used at larger sites ;-)