Re: [Qemu-devel] git.qemu.org gitweb misrenders on git/ URLs

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

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On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 06:35:40AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 5:25 AM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 06:13:34PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 16:48 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > > Hi Jeff,
> > > > Philippe noticed that the git HTTPS clone URL
> > > > https://git.qemu.org/git/libslirp.git renders a gitweb page that looks
> > > > right but has broken links.  The correct gitweb URL listed on
> > > > https://git.qemu.org/ is https://git.qemu.org/?p=libslirp.git;a=summary,
> > > > but there's a chance that people will open the HTTPS clone URL in their
> > > > browser and expect to see gitweb working.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to tweak the Apache configuration so that
> > > > https://git.qemu.org/git/libslirp.git[/] redirects to the working gitweb
> > > > URL?
> > > >
> > > > The tricky part is not breaking HTTPS git clone, which accesses URLs
> > > > below https://git.qemu.org/git/libslirp.git/ :).
> > >
> > > I know that's not quite the answer to your question, but if you look
> > > for example at
> > >
> > >   https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit
> > >
> > > you'll see that the same URL can be used both for viewing with a
> > > browser *and* cloning.
> > >
> > > Basically with cgit all requests go through the CGI script, and an
> > > advantage of that is that you don't even need to call
> > >
> > >   git update-server-info
> > >
> > > to make the repository accessible via HTTPs. It's also pretty fast
> > > and extremely easy to setup. Maybe consider switching from gitweb
> > > to it?
> >
> > Thanks, switching to cgit is an option.  Let's see what Jeff thinks.
> >
> 
> Hi Stefan & Andrea,
> 
> I'm not familiar with cgit, but I am happy to investigate it as an
> option if it looks to be a better fit.  I can't get to it until this weekend
> however (Sept 7), as I'm traveling right now.   Is that soon enough?

Yes, thanks.  This is not urgent.

Stefan

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