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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>
Cc: Git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] gitweb: Don't pass --full-history to git-log(1)
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:45:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvbct1kb3.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX5GvCqx3LkWBDb4kDFpyaEwK-Fnhtof6nhKsctmx22m1g@mail.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Wed, 5 Aug 2015 23:28:38 +0200")

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail•com> writes:

> I'm reminded of the make(1) story about not supporting spaces instead
> of tabs because the guy already had a few dozen users.
>
> We could have changed this in 2008, when Git already had much fewer
> users,

Heh, in 2008 we already had more than a few dozen.

I think

 (1) It is perfectly OK to add an UI option to let the web visitor
     choose between simplified and full history at runtime,
     optionally with a new gitweb.conf option to let the project
     owner choose which one is the default;

 (2) It is also OK to add gitweb.conf option to let the project/site
     choose between the two, optionally allowing the web visitor to
     override it with something like (1).

Anything else would not give the same out-of-the-box experience and
would probably not fly well.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-05 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-05 14:21 [PATCH/RFC] gitweb: Don't pass --full-history to git-log(1) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-08-05 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-05 21:28   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-08-05 21:45     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-08-06  7:41       ` Junio C Hamano

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