A bit off topic, but what about putting the ole CVSWEB behind some form of anonymous registration (maybe even send your self signed client certificate per mail), and refuse all who are not registered? That would be a small wall which robots can't easily climb.
On Fri 6. Mar 2026 at 01:05, Andrew Daugherity <[email protected]> wrote: > It is quite snappy, and seems to work well. Nice job! > > I certainly didn't expect a rewrite of cvsweb -- I would've expected > deployment of something like anubis in front of it. I know that > presents other issues, but this is literally what it was designed for: > the author created it to deal with her personal git forge being > hammered. And if you get blocked by anubis it's annoying, but much > less so than being redirected to theannoyingsite! A more resilient > webapp is a nice treat though. > > Some bikeshedding: > Am I remembering correctly, or did the old cvsweb have the path shown > at the top (e.g. src/sys/arch/arm64/conf/GENERIC) have each path > component linked, so you could click on e.g. sys to go directly there? > > I would also find it more readable if there was some separation > between the commit info (the revision and > date/author/diffstat/commitid lines) and the log message, either a > blank line, or some formatting distinction, e.g a light yellow or grey > background in the info lines. > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 8:41 PM Bryan Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > > This doesn't support CVS tags at all, e.g: OPENBSD_7_8, > > OPENBSD_7_8_BASE, and the old version did. > > Yeah, that's basically the main thing I used cvsweb for, since the git > mirror doesn't copy CVS tags to git tags. Was very handy to see > whether a certain change made it into a given release, or is only in > -current; or historically, to see what release something first showed > up in, etc. > > Speaking of git, it's nice to see the CVS commit ID for each revision > of a file, but that alone doesn't help me much without a local > checkout. What would be much nicer if that CVS commit ID was a link > to all the files + revisions updated in that commit, optionally with > diffs, a la 'git show'. > > AFAIK this is not something the old cvsweb did, so I guess this is a > "feature request" please? It should be possible, since the GitHub > mirror can do it, but I don't know how resource intensive that would > be. > > > Being able to "Compare with selected" revisions is also gone, and was > handy > > when you don't have access to cvs rdiff. > > Agreed. Perhaps something could be whipped up to let you click > somewhere in a given revision to use it as the "from revision" or "to > revision" in the top boxes without making it ripe for crawler abuse? > > > -Andrew > >
