Re: CGit and repository list

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2008, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580809141101u53536064oe9ad740a03a81390@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <59ad55d30809141022r6973155fh933976d25ef4cf01@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> wrote:
>> The script we're using on freedesktop.org is something like this:
>>
>>  http://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/find-repos.sh

Thanks.

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>> which isn't too scary.  We run it from a cron script, every ten
>> minutes or so.  It's much better than  rescanning all the dirs every
>> time somebody requests the repo listing (we have a lot of repos, check
>> cgit.freedesktop.org).  We have no need for cgit to to this
>> automatically on every request, and I don't see us using that feature
>> if it gets implemented.

Yeah, I'm not interested in a full rescan for each request either. But having something similar to your script available as a command line option for cgit wouldn't hurt.

> A feature that would be useful, though, would be support for listing a
> sub-set of repos... for example, cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh would list
> just my repos and cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver would list all the
> X.org driver repos.

This sounds nice, and shouldn't be very difficult...

>  Another idea is a javascript/css frontpage that
> supports folding repos away according to the groups and possibly
> common path elements in the url.

This could also be nice as long as non-javascript clients doesn't suffer ;-)

-- larsh