On 8/19/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > --- "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This adds snapshort support in gitweb. To enable one need to
> >> set gitweb.snapshot = true in the config file.
> >
> > Could you use bzip2?  It generates smaller files (better compression),
> > which is a good thing when downloading over a network.
>
> Because bzip2 is heavier on the server than gzip is (and gzip is
> heavier than "gzip -1" is), there obviously is a trade-off.  We
> would want it to be configurable just like blame and snapshot
> itself.
>
> Maybe:
>
>         config.snapshot = no | yes | gzip | bzip2 ...
>
> By the way, I think it is a mistake to use only $GIT_DIR/config
> to control these features.
>

I have coded this at

What should be the content-encoding in this case x-$snapshot ?

This is the untested diff that i have. Is this what we are looking for ?


-aneesh