On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 9:14 AM Oliver Webb via Toybox <toybox@lists.landley.net> wrote: > > To revive a old thread with new technical info I stumbled upon: > > On Saturday, March 30th, 2024 at 15:58, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > > > I set up gitea for Jeff on a j-core internal server, and it was fine except > > it > > used a BUNCH of memory and cpu for very vew users. Running cgi on > > dreamhost's > > servers is a bother at the best of times (I don't want to worry about > > exploits), > > and the available memory/CPU there is wind-up toy levels. > > > > My website is a bunch of static pages rsynced into place, some of which use > > xbithack to enable a crude #include syntax, and that's about what the > > server can > > handle. > > Going through the list of "minimal tools" on https://suckless.org/rocks/, I > stumbled > upon a git frontend called stagit > (https://git.codemadness.org/stagit/file/README.html) > which the suckless project uses as it's git frontend. And from looking at it, > works purely > via static pages and is fairly minimal (2000 LOC in pure C with only non-libc > dependency being > libgit2. One of it's "cons" is that it's "slow on repo's with 2000+ commits > due to diff > generation", And then says that it takes 3s to run on a repo with 1500 > commits). Have you considered it? > > The main downside of it is that it's MIT Licensed, which means if you wanted > to bundle it > in with the main repo there could be be licensing kerfuffles to deal with. > > But to have a solution, you must have a problem. The 2 main issues I have > with the current git management > are the fact there doesn't seem to be a way to clone the current repo > directly from landley.net (Making Microsoft > GitHub the middleman). And the fact I can't browse the source code without > github or android code search acting as > the middleman (This is a problem I've actually ran into on networks where > github is blocked for some utterly insane > reason, meaning I have to go to android code search to read through the code > occasionally).
have you tried cloning the repo? seems to work fine to me. $> git clone https://landley.net/toybox/git/ toybox > > The first of these seems near impossible to solve with _only_ static > webpages, since a git server is not > a static thing. I don't know yet tho. Git repo with read-only access over http(s) is a static thing. you dont need dedicated git spesific server software in order to give simple pull access. Just host your git folder with any generic http/https server that can host folder of files and knows atleast simple GET request. https://dev.to/chr15m/git-hacks-self-host-a-minimal-git-repo-over-ssh-388h so you can just serve your git folder with any http server (example with bloated python3. httpd should work fine but needs more setup) $>python -m http.server --directory whereever/mybare_repo.git then clone $>git clone http://localhost:8000/ test > The second one seems easier though, copying or maybe symlinking stuff from > the source directory with "find" > in a pipeline with bash to make a simple, browse-able tree would take > probably take a few dozen lines of > at most, It could also probably just be an rsync command if you don't want to > worry about listing out directory > contents. > > Both of these problems are remediable now, but in a year they might not be > (ProtonMail just said "If you > don't sign in for a long enough time we will delete all your data" like > Google drive is doing, it's not > hard to imagine Microsoft GitHub doing a similar thing with accounts they > locked out by their 2FA crusade) > Rob, Are you interested in future-proofing the codebase from whatever GitHub > and AOSP decide to do? This is a situation > where I'd normally create a patch and let Rob decide whether to apply it or > not. But since I probably shouldn't > put the source tree inside the commit/ folder, and this operation can be done > with a fancy rsync invocation > I'm not sure if writing any code is the correct solution. > > Thanks, > > - Oliver Webb <aquahobby...@proton.me> > > > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > Toybox@lists.landley.net > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net Jarno _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
