= problem = Gitweb is providing a nice way to download snapshots. For each revision there is commit | commitdiff | tree | snapshot links. It can be seen on e.g. http://git.kernel.org/?p=bluetooth/bluez-gnome.git;a=summary . But gitweb on fedorahosted is missing the snapshot link, see http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=eclipse-fedorapackager.git;a=summary .
I suppose this should be a simple configuration issue but it would be really nice if you enable it by default.
The snapshot option was disabled because it caused severe performance problems. Now that hosted is using gitweb-caching (courtesy of John 'Warthog9' Hawley, who runs git.kernel.org), perhaps it is possible to revisit this.
Do we have the necessary power to enable this now?
ccing John
John: Any thoughts on this - does gitweb-caching solve the perf problems with enabling the snapshot option?
Should be fine, if you don't mind waiting a little longer I have a couple of improvements that would be of serious benefit to snapshots specifically.
That said, just enabling it should be fine and not cause any extra load, assuming that gitweb-caching is enabled and actually working properly (which I'm not sure of currently)
ok, I have enabled snapshots.
If they cause issues, we may disable them again. :)
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