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Re: gitweb - feature request

From
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
Aug 13, 2005, 04:13 UTC
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<pan.2005.08.13.04.13.18.159941@smurf.noris.de>
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<20050812211600.GA61428@gaz.sfgoth.com>
Hi, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Is it really hard to just make it purely time-based (git-rev-list
> --max-age)? Think of if Linus is merging with a lot of people and then
> pushes the results to the master repository -- suddenly there's, say,
> 400 new commits since the last time my aggregator checked 2 hours ago.

Think of Linus merging a bunch of trees with 1-month old commits, all of which you'd miss that way.

IMHO, you definitely need a static file for RSS -- do a git-rev-list between HEAD and HEAD-as-of-the-last-time-you-generated-the-RSS, concatenate with the old RSS, then trim appropriately.

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  13. Sam RavnborgAug 10, 2005
  14. Ian CampbellAug 10, 2005
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  16. Kay SieversAug 12, 2005
  17. Mitchell Blank JrAug 12, 2005
  18. Matthias UrlichsAug 13, 2005
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