From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:26:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Gitweb: include minified version of js and css files in the repo
Message-ID: <m3d3z8lj9x.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1B527F20-CF6C-451B-9C6E-1BE74992354D@gmail.com>

Mark Rada <markrada26@gmail.com> writes:

> I was catching up on the changes to gitweb changes in the
> last little while and I noticed an option to pass gitweb.js
> through a minifier during the make execution, which I thought
> was pretty cool. 
> 
> However, I was wondering if there were any reasons why the
> minified version of the javascript code was not distributed
> in the git repository? It seems like you are leaving that
> effort to be duplicated a lot by people who compile git
> themselves.

The reason is that one should not include *generated* files in
version control.  We do not include ./configure script (from
configure.ac), we do not include gitweb.min.js (from gitweb.js).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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