From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:12:43 GMT
Subject: Re: CGit and repository list
Message-ID: <8c5c35580809120912r22f16063sa779cd2ce43dd131@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080912160006.GI22960@spearce.org>

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> 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.

>
>> 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