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We'll still be keeping "repobrowse" for the public API
for use with .psgi files, but shortening the name means
less typing and we may have command-line tools, too.
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"foreach (<$fh>)" in Perl requests lines in array
context, so use "while" instead for lazy reading.
This follows ba4c50c20b95679580beba1ef290a4281d5285b7
in master ("config: do not slurp lines into memory")
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This does not make installation easier, but lightens runtime a
bit. Plack::Request is unnecessary bloat and indirection which
does things behind our back. $env has all the stuff we need.
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We currently do not display links to snapshots, but may in the
future (optionally, like cgit). However, support snapshots for
compatibility reasons in case people had cached URLs or
auto-generated them somewhere.
We won't natively support xz and bzip2 just yet, but will
document (at least in comments) how to enable these expensive
compression schemes via git-config(1). Also, support disabling
certain archive types to twart URL guessing or old cached links
from spiders burning bandwidth.
In retrospect, enabling snapshots for my own cgit views was a
bad idea since it wastes bandwidth from crawlers and is
is often not useful for users with maintainer-built files
(e.g. "configure" from "configure.ac" for autoconf, where
only the latter is stored in git and the former is
generated in release tarballs).
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We already dropped CGI from the master branch, drop it from
repobrowse as well to simplify code.
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We shall save clients the overhead of making extra HTTP requests
to follow partial paths. This ought to improve cache hit
effectiveness on both the server and client side by reducing
the potential different pages we may set.
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It is expensive and of dubious usefulness to have tree content
auto-followed and indexed by search engines. Reduce the
links we recommend to crawlers so they don't waste resources
of users running our code or waste the time of search engine
users finding low-value content.
We will allow indexing blobs, however, as they may contain
useful information for others to refer to.
Of course, I definitely want search engines to index commit
messages; as I consider those to be the most important data
served.
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PDFs are no more harmful than images or audio files
(they're not innocuous, but they're more difficult to use as an
XSS vector).
This prepares us to allow access the MIME_TYPE_WHITELIST for
serving random file types. But perhaps this will become
object-local to allow serving multiple, independent repobrowse
instances within one process...
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While we want to keep a consistent set of parameters across
different VCSes, we cannot expect users of non-git VCSes to
use the same parameter names which make sense for git users.
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We mainly call it "repobrowse" (all lowercase), so do not imply
it is two separate words by capitalizing "Browse".
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