On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Daniel Friesen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:09:29 -0700, Thomas Gries <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> RE: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_conversion
>>
>> For Subversion SVN, ViewVC is a nice repository browser, which we also
>> use on
>> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/
>>
>> I searched for similar browsers for "git", but could not find similar
>> ones.
>>
>> My starting point was
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/438163/whats-the-best-web-interface-for-git-repositories
>>
>> found:
>> gitalist http://www.gitalist.com/
>> gitweb http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Gitweb
>> cgit http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/
>> FishEye (Atlassian, not free)
>>
>> Perhaps, ViewVC can be "patched" to work with git ?
>>
>> This page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_Graphical_User_Interfaces
>> is (currently) only dedicated to Git GUIs, not to Git Viewers:
>> perhaps a page for Git Viewers should be started, too?
>>
>>
>
> The general standard is GitWeb, it's even bundled with Gerrit so it will
> be the default available when git is setup:
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations%2Fpuppet.git
>
> 'patching' ViewVC to work with git will be impossible. git is
> fundamentally different from svn so there are so many differences you'll
> have to rewrite it completely.
>
> Besides the ones you list there is one built into Gitorious:
> https://gitorious.org/mediawiki/mediawiki-trunk-phase3/trees/master
>
> When I talked with Ryan Lane about our git setup one of the things he
> mentioned was how with Labs it would be possible for me to setup Gitorious
> on Labs, puppetize it, and later have it pushed out to production. Since
> git is distributed there isn't much to setting up a new git ui. So later
> on it should be possible for anye of us to setup whatever other git ui we
> like and have it pushed out to production... heck, we could have as many
> as we want.
>
> --
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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I'll throw GitLab into the ring, http://gitlabhq.com/

It's ruby though, so I don't know if ops will care for that. It does
look pretty sweet though.

-- 
John

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