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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] gitweb: Don't pass --full-history to git-log(1)
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=C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 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.