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Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 30, 2008, 01:07 UTC
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jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> I notice the web interfaces to many git sites are very risky to just
> click on. E.g., just clicking http://repo.or.cz/ sends megabytes to
> the users browser. At least the homepage of such sites should be
> something lighter in weight.

That is a bit of historical artifact. Currently the "index" page for gitweb installation is 'projects_list' page with _all_ the projects hosted. It is not split into pages, like for example 'log' or 'heads' views are; there were some patches for that, but would have to be redone as the area changed a bit since. It could have been replaced by projects search page...

It is a bit of historical reason.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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