On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 09:37:15PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> Hi,
> I am impressed, four answers within minutes, during "the" match of the year.
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 12:49:18PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> >
> > There should be a "git" before debian-science:
> > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/....
>
> Thanks! What is the difference between git and cgit, they seem to point to
> the same location (generated by cgit)? I guess I'll use git, to save a byte.
they used to be different:
/cgit/ only gave the output generated by cgit
/git/ only gave access to the raw git repository (i.e., what git(1)
would access).
So, you needed to use /cgit/ in Vcs-Browser and /git/ in Vcs-Git, as
what was served by alioth was actually different.
Around a month ago the alioth admin added some magic apache conf to
serve different content based on the user-agent (or some other kind of
black magic), so that now both URLs give the same thing, but connecting
using git(1) gives you the repository, with a browser the nicer cgit
view.
Some people started to use /git/ for both place, as it does look nicer.
> It seems the Lintian page could need an update, as well as the
ISTR lintian maintainers are waiting for an announcement from alioth
admins about what is actually going to be the canonical URL.
The last official announcement still refers gitweb from several years
ago...
And afaik the alioth admin wanted to completely change how the git
repository are deal with as fontforge is a PITA to manage, and he is
alone to do so.
> debian-science-policy page? Oh, it is more than two years old, it was
> probably written before secure URIs were recommended.
secure URIs are recommended only since this January.
But a policy update wouldn't harm, yeah.
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