Hi Dmitry,
> in this case of blob_plain requests there is
> obviously no difference except that cgit is usually faster.
It is a lesser problem that a script takes 0.3 seconds longer to execute,
than that a developer gets confused when they want to take a look at a
git repository and the foremost
Hi Bruno,
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 03:18:15PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> > * MODULES.html.sh: Prefer cgit URLs over gitweb.
>
> I don't think this is a good idea.
>
> For a particular file, the result of both wget commands is the same.
I vaguely remember we had different points
Hi Dmitry,
> * MODULES.html.sh: Prefer cgit URLs over gitweb.
I don't think this is a good idea.
For a particular file, the result of both wget commands is the same.
But the use in such scripts also encourages users to use similar URLs to
access to git repository. Here, gitweb is more human-fri
Prefer cgit URLs over gitweb as the former are usually served faster:
$ time -f %e wget -q
'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=build-aux/config.guess'
1.06
$ time -f %e wget -q
'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/build-aux/config.guess'
0.73
This fol
