Re: [RFC] Gitweb: include minified version of js and css files in the repo

Mark Rada [off-list ref] writes:

I was catching up on the changes to gitweb changes in the
last little while and I noticed an option to pass gitweb.js
through a minifier during the make execution, which I thought
was pretty cool. 

However, I was wondering if there were any reasons why the
minified version of the javascript code was not distributed
in the git repository? It seems like you are leaving that
effort to be duplicated a lot by people who compile git
themselves.

The reason is that one should not include *generated* files in
version control.  We do not include ./configure script (from
configure.ac), we do not include gitweb.min.js (from gitweb.js).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git