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From:
Dennis Kaarsemaker
Date:
November 6, 2016 19:38
Subject:
Re: Gitweb upgrade on camel
Message ID:
1478461103.5504.1.camel@kaarsemaker.net
On Sun, 2016-11-06 at 08:41 -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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.

The gravatars are optional, I could disable them.

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

That's now fixed.

D.

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