Re: [PATCH] gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formats

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

I'm not sure if we want to store whole 'application/x-gzip' or only
'x-gzip' part of mime type, and if we want to store compressor as
'| gzip' or simply as 'gzip'.
 

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This however will break people's existing gitweb configuration,
so if we were to do this it should be post 1.5.3, I would say.

This would break not only existing _gitweb_ configuration (when
gitweb admin installs new gitweb it isn't that hard to correct
gitweb config), but also git _repositories_ config: gitweb.snapshot
no longer work as it worked before, for example neither 'gzip'
nor 'bzip2' values work anymore ('zip' doesn't stop working).

I realized after seeing your other message on this patch that
this can be done while retaining backward compatibility, as you
suggested.  Matt, does Jakub's suggestion make sense to you?