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Re: CGit and repository list

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LHLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 12, 2008, 16:12 UTC
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Petr Baudis wrote:
>> >
>> >   this finally tripped me over and I wanted to quickly add cgit as an
>> > alternate viewing interface at repo.or.cz. [...]
>>
>> Or you can wait a little while for "smart" HTTP server, which I guess
>> also generates automatically or/and on the fly objects/info/packs and
>> info/refs required by "dumb" protocols clients (including old HTTP
>> clients).
>
> The automatic generation of objects/info/packs and info/refs is
> planned for support in the smart CGI, but it doesn't help the
> "gitweb URL is same as clone URL" concept.  For that you need your
> HTTP server to know how to issue some requests to gitweb and others
> to the smart CGI or to the filesystem.
In the case of cgit this should work transparently.
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>
>> P.S. Could you please gather some statistics to compare the period
>> before and after installing "smart" HTTP server (and after smart
>> clients became widespread).
>
> Well, it would help if there was a working implementation of the
> "smart" HTTP server.  ;-)
I'll try to come up with a prototype for the smart server as part of cgit ;-)

-- larsh

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  1. sagi4Sep 12, 2008
  2. Ciprian Dorin CraciunSep 12, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiSep 12, 2008
  4. Lars HjemliSep 12, 2008
  5. CGit and repository listPetr Baudis, Sep 12, 2008
  6. Lars HjemliSep 12, 2008
  7. Jakub NarebskiSep 12, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceSep 12, 2008
  9. Lars HjemliSep 12, 2008
  10. Petr BaudisSep 12, 2008
  11. Shawn O. PearceSep 12, 2008
  12. Petr BaudisSep 12, 2008
  13. Shawn O. PearceSep 12, 2008
  14. Jakub NarebskiSep 12, 2008
  15. Shawn O. PearceSep 12, 2008
  16. Petr BaudisSep 12, 2008
  17. Petr BaudisSep 12, 2008
  18. Lars HjemliSep 12, 2008
  19. Petr BaudisSep 13, 2008
  20. Lars HjemliSep 13, 2008
  21. parsing.c: handle unexpected commit/tag contentLars Hjemli, Sep 14, 2008
  22. Lars HjemliSep 14, 2008
  23. Lars HjemliSep 15, 2008
  24. Kristian HøgsbergSep 14, 2008
  25. Kristian HøgsbergSep 14, 2008
  26. Lars HjemliSep 14, 2008

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