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

[Jeff Cody]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 5:25 AM Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Hi Stefan & Andrea,

I'm not familiar with cgit, but I am happy to investigate it as an
option if it looks to be a better fit.  I can't get to it until this weekend
however (Sept 7), as I'm traveling right now.   Is that soon enough?

Thanks,
Jeff