Re: Migration of git-scm.com to a static web site: ready for review/testing

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Kaartic,

On Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

> On 17/11/23 18:55, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > To that end, I deployed this branch to GitHub Pages so that anyone
> > interested (hopefully many!) can have a look at
> > https://git.github.io/git-scm.com/ and compare to the existing
> > https://git-scm.com/.
> >
>
> Thanks for hosting it to easily check things!
>
> I gave a quick try at the search and it seems to be behaving a bit strangely.
>
> For instance, I searched for 'commit' and 'log'. I was hoping to see the
> corresponding reference page show up in the results but they don't seem to
> show up. At least they don't show up in the first few results. They show up in
> the first few results in the existing site.
>
> Here are some screenshots:
>
> Existing site: https://ibb.co/pZHx9TM
>
> New site:
> https://ibb.co/dMpNth3
> https://ibb.co/h26J5Rx
>
> This not always the case, though. Some terms like 'checkout' seem to bring the
> relevant results properly in the top results.

This was quite the adventure to figure out. I worked with the maintainer
of Pagefind in the meantime, to add better controls regarding how much
impact various dimensions should have on the search results. And I am
happy to report that the fruit of these labors is now available to all, in
the form of Pagefind v1.1.1.

I have integrated this into https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/pull/1804.

Ciao,
Johannes