I suppose this actually opens the door to other ways of doing things.
Instead of modifying gitweb.perl for XZ support, there could just be
additional documentation on how to add new formats for compression
in $GITWEB_CONFIG.
Does Gitweb install a default $GITWEB_CONFIG file?
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Mark A Rada (ferrous26)
marada@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Mark A Rada<marada@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Documentation is now a little bit clearer.
>
> --
> Mark A Rada (ferrous26)
> marada@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -------->8-----------------
> From: Mark Rada <marada@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:36:54 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] gitweb: update INSTALL w.r.t. snapshot format changes
>
> Details about how to enable/disable a compression format and how to
> set the compression level for any given format, except Zip which does
> not have that ability to set a compression level.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rada <marada@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> gitweb/INSTALL | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL
> index 18c9ce3..d53e1bb 100644
> --- a/gitweb/INSTALL
> +++ b/gitweb/INSTALL
> @@ -123,6 +123,17 @@ GITWEB_CONFIG file:
> $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz'];
> $feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1;
>
> +Furthermore, if you enable overriding of the snapshot feature you can
> +still disable specific compression formats from being used (XZ is
> +disabled by default). You can also change the default compression level
> +for non-Zip formats by specifying the level after the compressor name.
> +For example, we can disable BZip2 compression, and enable XZ compression
> +at level 6 by adding the following to your GITWEB_CONFIG file:
> +
> + $known_snapshot_formats{'tbz2'}{'disabled'} = 1;
> + $known_snapshot_formats{'txz'}{'disabled'} = 0;
> + $known_snapshot_formats{'txz'}{'compressor'} = ['xz','-6'];
> +
>
> Gitweb repositories
> -------------------
> --
> 1.6.4
>
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