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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
November 6, 2016 14:41
Subject:
Re: Gitweb upgrade on camel
Message ID:
CA+vYcVxiT45WSWsgTF+ZzOHG9-K2=VsVcCj0xW=MiSKwh+fPpQ@mail.gmail.com
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Dennis Kaarsemaker
<dennis@kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> We've been running the same ancient version of gitweb (a 2009 vintage)
> ever since moving to git. It had a few customizations, which made
> upgrading non-obvious.
>
> I've now done so though, and made some significant changes to our
> customizations. It's live on http://git.perl.space, which is a separate
> vhost but runs on camel on top of the normal perl.git.
>
> Please have a look at this version and report any issues.
>
> The changes:
> - Now using stock gitweb, automatically upgraded with git
> - Tweaks to the blame view were dropped at least temporarily
> - Custom search for and custom snapshot generator moved to
>   gitweb.conf so they still work
> - blame/history/snapshot views should no longer be indexed by bots,
>   we'll see how well they respect rel=nofollow and robots.txt
> - committers.cgi has been replaced with a custom 'committers' view
>   at http://git.perl.space/perl.git/committers/

Looks very nice. Now I have to decide whether I'm glad I don't have a
gravatar or whether I should go out and get one.

However, the snapshot links provide a gzipped tarball containing only
the .patch file and nothing else.

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