From: Giuseppe Bilotta Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:21:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/4] gitweb: introduce remote_heads feature Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vabbz35d9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Giuseppe Bilotta" writes: > >> For example, because the only remote for the tree is the author's own >> private tree, or because the only remotes are the mirrors on gitorious >> or github. In both cases, there would be no reaso to waste resources, >> bandwidth and screen estate loading and displaying the remote >> references. > > Sorry, but you are not making sense. The above may be a reason not to run > gitweb in such a repository, but if you are viewing such a private tree, > perhaps thru instaweb, wouldn't you be interested in viewing them? No, I'm talking about the PUBLIC tree whose only remote is the private one, or the gitorious/github mirrors, an example of the latter being the rbot tree http://www.ruby-rbot.org/gitweb/rbot.git >> OTOH, it might make sense to make remote_heads enabled by default (and >> overridable). > > Perhaps. I'll stop commenting on "should this be optional, if so what > should be the default" and let others chime in. Honestly I do not care > that deeply either way. Me either, actually. 8-D -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta