Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list

Martin Langhoff wrote:

On 6/21/06, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

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* Add (of course optional, like blame support) snapshot support. There are
  at least two different implementations. I'd prefer to do without second
  CGI script, but perhaps this is better from the performance point of view.
  gitweb-xmms2 has snapshot.cgi in Python: should it be rewritten in Perl?

I intend to post a patch that adds snapshot support in Perl, in the
main code. Just need to make it optional ;-)

Check http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111909432415478&w=2 for 
in the main code snapshot implementation.

http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/gitweb.cgi?p=gitweb.git;a=summary
http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/gitweb.git

Would separate snapshot CGI script make it work faster?

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Any further ideas for other useful features?

Now what I think would rock too is something similar to gitk's "nearby
tags" feature. When reading a commit, it lists the heads and tags that
this commit is part of. It's very useful. Now I'll have to read up on
how gitk does it.

If I remember correctly, it was done in the background, and it was done 
at least partially _in_ gitk (Tcl/Tk).
 

And, as you mention in your other post, mod_perl support. And a bit of
speed. Gitweb right now is really really slow.

Perhaps mod_cache would help. Especially if cache can be configured to 
look only at the hash part, plus formatting (normal, plain/raw, blame,
search match highlighting).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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