Re: [PATCH] gitweb: snapshot cleanups & support for offering multiple formats

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, 19 July 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> I really hate to having to say something like that in the
>> RelNotes.  I do not think this is a good enough reason to break
>> existing configurations; I would not want to be defending that
>> change.
>
> Would it be sufficient to put above alert/warning in commit message,
> RelNotes and gitweb/INSTALL (or gitweb/README), and add rule to Makefile
> to convert old configuration, or at least check if GITWEB_CONFIG uses
> old snapshot configuration? This way if somebody is installing/upgrading
> gitweb by hand he/she would know what needs possibly to be changes, and
> if somebody uses "make gitweb/gitweb.cgi" he would get big fat warning,
> and info how to convert gitweb config.
>
> By the way, I think it was a mistake to use different syntax in the
> %feature hash ([content-encoding, suffix, program]) than in repo config
> override (name).

That's true.  I'd rather see this polished a bit more before
applying.

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