Re: [PATCHv5] Add Gitweb support for XZ compressed snapshots

2009/8/1 Jakub Narebski [off-list ref]:

demerphq [off-list ref] writes:

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FWIW the perl project ripped out all the snapshot generation logic
from gitweb, and replaced it with a tool that generates snapshots
correctly for our requirements (if the build process needs additional
files /currently/ git-archive does not support adding them), this
includes a disk level cache for the snapshots since creating the tar,
adding the additional files, then gziping is quite slow.

If its interesting to people I can post it and the other changes here,
although its not a "nice" change, as I literally ripped out the
existing code.

Do you mean gitweb serving http://perl5.git.perl.org/ ?

Yes. I updated it to a relatively recent version just the other week.

Well, at least publish this version of gitweb somewhere (snapshot or
better git repository), and add it to the list of gitweb forks at
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Gitweb wiki page.

Sure, we have been discussing doing that recently.

I need to cleanup how I set up the repository for it tho.

Also probably there are one or two patches that should be pushed back to you.

Sidenote: snapshot support appeared, as far as I know, first at fork of
gitweb that had been used by XMMS2, but the snapshot was generated by
a separate snapshot.cgi script... written in Python.  (Now they use
stock (if old) gitweb, I think.)

Ah, I'm not generating it with a separate cgi script, I just replaced
the call to git-archive to be a call to my own tool.

P.S. Perhaps you or other Perl Mongers would be interested in creating
yet another git web interface, in Perl, but contrary to (current)
gitweb modular and using more of CPAN modules?  For example convert
SVN::Web or Insurrection (or other Perl module) from Subversion (or
other SCM) to Git (and rename it to Git::Web, or ???).

I think that there is some interest in doing that and likely over time
there will be more. It has come up at least a few times in our
discussion forums. I think you could easily make a public call for
support on places like Perlmonks to get more action tho.

A better git api toolset for perl would make things a lot easier.
Especially an XS one.

P.P.S. Could you per chance post announcement of Git User's Survey 2009
on http://perl5.git.perl.org, just like it is done on http://repo.or.cz
and http://git.kernel.org?  TIA.

Sure.

cheers,
Yves
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