[TDF infra] Announcing Gitiles VCS browser (gitweb replacement) and https:// anon git URIs

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos fitoschido at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 09:29:05 UTC 2018


Hi, Guilhem:

> Right now https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/$CHANGENUM/ has both gitweb
> and Gitiles links, but unless we hear strong objection we'll disable
> gitweb at the end of the month

Here’s an objection! :P

Well, I have this use case: every diff in the translations repository
is huge, as translation-update commits touch hundreds of files and
diffs are very large. This has always been a problem with FDO’s cgit,
which isn’t even able to load any page. So I use gitweb to review the
commits and spot possible typos. It’s part of the QA I do for my
translations.

Since loading the whole diff for a commit would potentially crash my
browser, I find it very helpful to load each file’s individual diff in
a commit like this [1]. Also, I can open per-file diffs in separate
tabs for better organization.

Gitiles lacks this kind of per-file-diff links, so I can only load a
diff of all the files touched by the commit. This isn’t nice for my
underpowered computer, and it really breaks my workflow.

Adolfo


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