cgit to replace gitweb?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 13 16:27:37 UTC 2009


seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>  In the last day I set up cgit as a replacement for gitweb. It's only in
> testing right now. You can see it here:
> 
> http://hosted2.fedoraproject.org/cgit/
> 
> I'd like to see it replace gitweb as our web-based git repo browser.
> However, it will mean the urls from gitweb won't work anymore for fairly
> obvious reasons. 
> 
> cgit is substantially faster than gitweb and appears to be much lighter
> on resources, too.
> 
> I'd like to get some feedback on the negatives/positives to swapping
> gitweb for cgit.

I've often put direct gitweb links in bugzilla as a pointer to
particular changesets for people to use/try/refer to. I'm probably not
the only one that has done that.

Do we have a count of hits on gitweb with referrers outside of gitweb?

Bill




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