Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list

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

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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?

I was thinking about that same one, we found (and fixed) a bug or two
on top of that so my plan is to rebase it on top of the gitweb on next
;-)

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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).

I suspect it is doing a whole lot of git-merge-base invocations, which
are rather costly. I don't know of any cheaper way to ask that
question.

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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).

Right, some URLs are guaranteed to be static (those blob views), so it
can just cache on the full URL, for ever and ever. The other ones...
well, we just make sure we don't do anything too expensive there ;-)



martin