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On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 8:18 AM Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > So how are things supposed to be done? > and more generally - getting the most out of github, without getting > railroaded by defaults and features that don't fit what we need My current pet peeve is that there is no replacement for the "git blame" interface of standard gitweb. Try to do any blame view in GitHub on any file more than a few hundred lines long and you'll get a great big angry unicorn icon and a message that says, "This page is taking way too long to load. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists." I don't know what metrics they are using exactly, but whether it's number of lines in the file or number of commits on the file, it gives up way too easily and hangs up on you in a fraction of a second. There seems to have been an explicit decision made that making a version control system show versions is too expensive and one shouldn't ask for it. I know we had no choice, really, and that BitBucket or GitLab or SourceForge or whatever would have had various different and possibly worse problems. But not being able to do archive diving for a long-running project with large source files is a major defect in GitHub, and is something that standard gitweb does quite handily out of the box. I spent an hour a week or two ago trying to teach myself how to do git blame with line ranges from the command line and it didn't go well. Is there any chance we could get https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git to be a reasonably up-to-date mirror? If so, then all of the things GitHub doesn't do would be less of a problem.Thread Previous | Thread Next