From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: gitweb: buggy 'commitdiff_plain' output
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:05:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907101405480.3352@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907101933.39424.jnareb@gmail.com>
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Fri, 10 July 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > It turns out that that duplication is because they use gitweb as a strange
> > patch distribution system (rather than emailing each other patches), and
> > download the 'commitdiff_plain' version of the diff and then apply it with
> > 'git am -s'.
>
> First question: do they use gitweb from git.git repository, or a custom
> fork of gitweb (like git.kernel.org gitweb, which has caching, but IIRC
> does not have all new gitweb features)?
I have no idea. Afaik, it was on samba.org:
http://git.samba.org/?p=jlayton/cifs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=acc11a88a4cb4ba16777099da00664347e0683f0
and I have no clue whether samba org uses plain git gitweb or something
fancier.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-10 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-10 17:04 gitweb: buggy 'commitdiff_plain' output Linus Torvalds
2009-07-10 17:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-07-10 17:38 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-07-10 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-07-10 21:50 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-07-10 17:34 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
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