# many git sites homepages megabytes big 5 messages from 2008-12-29 to 2008-12-30. Participants: jidanni@jidanni.org, J.H., Jakub Narebski, Anders Melchiorsen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16901 ## jidanni@jidanni.org, 2008-12-29 05:03 Subject: many git sites homepages megabytes big Message-ID: <87r63r374j.fsf@jidanni.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87r63r374j.fsf%40jidanni.org ``` 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. ``` ## J.H., 2008-12-29 05:17 Subject: Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big Message-ID: <1230527852.6992.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1230527852.6992.2.camel%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <87r63r374j.fsf@jidanni.org> ``` There are lots of reasons fore and against what your proposing, and there is no good answer. Yes it sends a lot of data, but one could argue - more data is better than less data. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:03 +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > 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. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-12-30 01:07 Subject: Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m31vvqcvzp.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <87r63r374j.fsf@jidanni.org> ``` 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 It could have been replaced by projects search page...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 ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Anders Melchiorsen, 2008-12-30 11:01 Subject: Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big Message-ID: <4959FFA2.4050403@cup.kalibalik.dk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4959FFA2.4050403%40cup.kalibalik.dk In-Reply-To: ``` Jakub Narebski wrote: > 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. > For the specific case of repo.or.cz, I guess that turning on HTTP compression might help a lot. Anders. ``` ## jidanni@jidanni.org, 2008-12-30 15:57 Subject: Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big Message-ID: <877i5hsljo.fsf@jidanni.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/877i5hsljo.fsf%40jidanni.org In-Reply-To: <4959FFA2.4050403@cup.kalibalik.dk> ``` >>>>> "AM" == Anders Melchiorsen writes: AM> For the specific case of repo.or.cz, I guess that turning on HTTP AM> compression might help a lot. It's the billion bytes to the innocents' browser that huts the most. Bad to put such large homepages into browsers. ```