From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 21:45:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] gitweb: Don't pass --full-history to git-log(1)
Message-ID: <xmqqvbct1kb3.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX5GvCqx3LkWBDb4kDFpyaEwK-Fnhtof6nhKsctmx22m1g@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm reminded of the make(1) story about not supporting spaces instead
> of tabs because the guy already had a few dozen users.
>
> We could have changed this in 2008, when Git already had much fewer
> users,

Heh, in 2008 we already had more than a few dozen.

I think

 (1) It is perfectly OK to add an UI option to let the web visitor
     choose between simplified and full history at runtime,
     optionally with a new gitweb.conf option to let the project
     owner choose which one is the default;

 (2) It is also OK to add gitweb.conf option to let the project/site
     choose between the two, optionally allowing the web visitor to
     override it with something like (1).

Anything else would not give the same out-of-the-box experience and
would probably not fly well.