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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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.

Stefan

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