Branch Age Sorting and Idle Most Recent Sorting [Was: Re: Today is a big day for us]

Branch Age Sorting and Idle Most Recent Sorting [Was: Re: Today is a big day for us]

[Jason]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon at kernel.org> wrote:
>> In gitweb branches (...repo.git/refs/heads) were sorted by modification time,
>> which was very convenient. I don't see such option in cgit. Is it possible to
>> restore this functionality?
>>
>> It seems to me that the "Idle" column in global view reflects the last
>> change on master branch of a given repository, but most of the development
>> is happening on other branches, so this doesn't give any good overview
>> about how alive the repository is. gitweb was always showing the time
>> elapsed from latest modification on any of the branches in the repository.

These are both worthwhile tweaks. I'll implement these this week or next.

Branch Age Sorting and Idle Most Recent Sorting [Was: Re: Today is a big day for us]

[hjemli]

> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon at kernel.org> wrote:
>>> It seems to me that the "Idle" column in global view reflects the last
>>> change on master branch of a given repository, but most of the development
>>> is happening on other branches, so this doesn't give any good overview
>>> about how alive the repository is. gitweb was always showing the time
>>> elapsed from latest modification on any of the branches in the repository.

To make cgits idle-time appear similar to gitwebs, one can use the
'agefile' (http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/tree/cgitrc.5.txt#n36) combined
with a git hook in each repository.

As an example, here is the post-receive hook installed in the cgit
repo on hjemli.net:

  #!/bin/sh

  cd /pub/git/cgit
  git for-each-ref --sort=-authordate --format='%(authordate:iso8601)'
--count=1 >info/touched


By doing it this way, the loading of the index page is a much cheaper
operation (which is especially important on a heavily used site like
kernel.org).

--
larsh

Branch Age Sorting and Idle Most Recent Sorting [Was: Re: Today is a big day for us]

[Jason]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon at kernel.org> wrote:
> That's excellent! Thanks very much -- I look forward to testing that out.

Hey Konstantin,

Just letting you know, I haven't forgotten about this request.

Jason

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[john]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:00:00PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon at kernel.org> wrote:
> > That's excellent! Thanks very much -- I look forward to testing that out.
> 
> Just letting you know, I haven't forgotten about this request.

What do you think about introducing a "compat" directory in CGit that
could include things like Lars' post-receive script from the parallel
thread?

With the documentation tweaked to point at that it might make things
more discoverable.

Branch Age Sorting and Idle Most Recent Sorting [Was: Re: Today is a big day for us]

[Jason]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon at kernel.org> wrote:
>>> In gitweb branches (...repo.git/refs/heads) were sorted by modification time,
>>> which was very convenient. I don't see such option in cgit. Is it possible to
>>> restore this functionality?

This is being implemented inside the jd/branch-sort branch, and should
land in the next version of cgit. Sorry for the delay in getting this
done.

http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?h=jd/branch-sort

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[Jason]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:13 PM, John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> What do you think about introducing a "compat" directory in CGit that
> could include things like Lars' post-receive script from the parallel
> thread?
>
> With the documentation tweaked to point at that it might make things
> more discoverable.


I would very much welcome this. "contrib", perhaps, is a better name for it.

Branch Age Sorting and Idle Most Recent Sorting [Was: Re: Today is a big day for us]

[john]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:10:14PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:13 PM, John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> > What do you think about introducing a "compat" directory in CGit that
> > could include things like Lars' post-receive script from the parallel
> > thread?
> >
> > With the documentation tweaked to point at that it might make things
> > more discoverable.
> 
> 
> I would very much welcome this. "contrib", perhaps, is a better name for it.

I'm sure I wrote "contrib", I wonder how it managed to come out as
"compat"? :-S

You're completely correct that "contrib" is the right name.

Branch Age Sorting and Idle Most Recent Sorting [Was: Re: Today is a big day for us]

[Jason]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon at kernel.org> wrote:
> Awesome, good to hear that.

Merged to master. Let me know how it goes.