For what it’s worth my group transitioned from GitWeb to cgit a couple of years ago. The performance increase was dramatic. I imagine there are other git-to-http options out there as well.
Terry From: reviewboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:reviewboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Trowbridge Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:10 PM To: reviewboard Subject: Re: Why does a Git local clone need to be kept in sync? Review Board uses the repository to fetch the "original" version of the files for each change in order to construct the side-by-side view (since the diffs that are uploaded are just unified diffs with limited context). Updating every 5 minutes is likely to work almost all the time, but if someone were to push a commit and then immediately post a review request for a change based on that commit, it might fail because it thinks the parent revision doesn't exist. For this reason many people choose to run something like GitWeb (or the new rb-gateway) on the same server as the canonical repository, which will never be out of sync. Unfortunately if Review Board is on a separate server from your git repository, it does require either the local clone or some API frontend because git's remote protocol does not allow fetching individual files. -David On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:02 PM John Borries <pippent...@gmail.com<mailto:pippent...@gmail.com>> wrote: On the reviewboard site it says "In order to work with Review Board, a local clone needs to be kept in sync regularly. It should either have direct access to a central Git server, or it needs to be updated on every commit to the central Git server." My question is why? What features will break if the git repo is out of date? I'm in the process of setting up ReviewBoard and I have a cron job that does a git pull on all the Git repos every 5 minutes. Is that sufficient or do I need to update on each commit? https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.0/admin/configuration/repositories/#local-clone -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -David -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
