Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2010, #02; Wed, 17)

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Sidenote: recently sent
>
>   gitweb: selectable configurations that change with each request
>
> practically reverts
>
>   gitweb: Move call to evaluate_git_version after evaluate_gitweb_config
>
> Just FYI.

Hmph, will have to look at it again.

>> * jn/gitweb-time-hires-comes-with-5.8 (2010-11-09) 1 commit
>>  - gitweb: Time::HiRes is in core for Perl 5.8
>> 
>> Looked reasonable.  Will merge to next.
>
> Thanks. With or without improvement to commit message?

I think what I pushed out has already been reworded.  Please check.

>> * jh/gitweb-caching (2010-11-01) 4 commits
>>  . gitweb: Minimal testing of gitweb caching
>>  . gitweb: File based caching layer (from git.kernel.org)
>>  . gitweb: add output buffering and associated functions
>>  . gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitweb
>> 
>> Temporarily ejected while I shuffled jn/gitweb-testing; will queue the
>> latest back in pu or perhaps in next.
>
> The advantage of 'gitweb: File based caching layer (from git.kernel.org)'
> is that it is tested in real-life on heavy load (assuming that 
> git.kernel.org uses the same version as is/would be in pu/next).
>
> The disadvantage is that it is seriously messy code.  Something that I
> wanted to improve in my rewrite.  This is only minimal fixup.

Which is exactly what we want at this point (I want to release 1.7.4 by
the end-of-year holidays, which means a feature-freeze will have to start
soon).  My understanding is that the serious messiness does not come from
the caching layer.

> I am thinking about splitting main 'gitweb: File based caching layer
> (from git.kernel.org)' patch in two, separating moving test for
> $caching_enabled out of cache_fetch to separate commit (largest change
> to original J.H. submission), but leaving hardening "do 'cache.pl';"
> and replacing 0/1 valued $cache_enable with boolean valued 
> $caching_enabled.
>
> Because currently new tests in t9501 and t9502 (examining status and
> output of gitweb with caching enabled) do not pass, I am thinking
> about adding new configuration know turning off "Generating..." page.
>
> BTW. should I forge J.H. signoffs, and add mine?

Just ping him beforehand ;-)
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