Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #02; Wed, 12)

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> * mr/gitweb-xz (Thu Aug 6 10:28:25 2009 -0400) 3 commits
>  - gitweb: add support for XZ compressed snapshots
>  - gitweb: update INSTALL regarding specific snapshot settings
>  - gitweb: support to globally disable a snapshot format
> 
> This should be safe as long as it does not silently enable itself for
> folks who merely updated gitweb to this version without explicitly asking
> for the new format (but I do not remember if that is what the patch does).

The latest version (v5, from 6.08) has XZ compressed snapshot ('txz')
disabled by default.
 
> * zf/maint-gitweb-acname (Sun Aug 2 09:42:24 2009 +0200) 1 commit
>  - gitweb: parse_commit_text encoding fix

Good.

> * jn/gitweb-blame (Thu Aug 6 19:11:52 2009 +0200) 14 commits
>  - gitweb: Create links leading to 'blame_incremental' using
>    JavaScript
>  - gitweb: Incremental blame (proof of concept)
>  - gitweb: Add optional "time to generate page" info in footer
>  + Revert the four topmost commits from jn/gitweb-blame topic
>  + gitweb: Create links leading to 'blame_incremental' using
>    JavaScript
>  + gitweb: Incremental blame (proof of concept)
>  + gitweb: Add optional "time to generate page" info in footer
>  + gitweb: Add -partial_query option to href() subroutine
>  + gitweb: Use light/dark for class names also in 'blame' view
>  + gitweb: Add author initials in 'blame' view, a la "git gui blame"
>  + gitweb: Mark commits with no "previous" in 'blame' view
>  + gitweb: Use "previous" header of git-blame -p in 'blame' view
>  + gitweb: Mark boundary commits in 'blame' view
>  + gitweb: Make .error style generic
> 
> I haven't picked up Jakub's replacement to the second one from the tip.
> We probably should merge up to "Use light/dark" (aef3768) to 'master' and
> start the rest over.

That would be good idea.
 
[...]

What about 'gitweb: fix variable scoping issue in git_get_projects_list'
latest version of patch, adding (re)declaring $project_maxdepth,
$projectroot as global variables using our?  Or are you waiting for
response of our resident Perl expert: Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn)?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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