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From: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup•kalibalik.dk>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>, jidanni@jidanni•org, pasky@ucw•cz
Subject: Re: many git sites homepages megabytes big
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:01:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4959FFA2.4050403@cup.kalibalik.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31vvqcvzp.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> jidanni@jidanni•org writes:
>
>   
>> I notice the web interfaces to many git sites are very risky to just
>> click on. E.g., just clicking http://repo.or.cz/ sends megabytes to
>> the users browser. At least the homepage of such sites should be
>> something lighter in weight.
>>     
>
> That is a bit of historical artifact. Currently the "index" page for
> gitweb installation is 'projects_list' page with _all_ the projects
> hosted. It is not split into pages, like for example 'log' or 'heads'
> views are; there were some patches for that, but would have to be
> redone as the area changed a bit since. It could have been replaced by
> projects search page...
>
> It is a bit of historical reason.
>   

For the specific case of repo.or.cz, I guess that turning on HTTP 
compression might help a lot.


Anders.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-30 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-29  5:03 many git sites homepages megabytes big jidanni
2008-12-29  5:17 ` J.H.
2008-12-30  1:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-12-30 11:01   ` Anders Melchiorsen [this message]
2008-12-30 15:57     ` jidanni

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