[savannah-help-public] [sr #109305] for nano, please order branches in cgit by age

[Benno Schulenberg]

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Summary: for nano, please order branches in cgit by age
Project: Savannah Administration
Submitted by: bens
Submitted on: Mon 01 May 2017 11:56:10 AM UTC
Category: Source code repositories - web browsing
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 2 - Minor
Status: None
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any

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Hi,

Just about everything in cgit is ordered by age: most recent first. But on
the main page the branches are ordered by name. I think it makes more sense
to order also the branches by age, most recent first.

If this cannot be set per repo but has to be done cgit-wide... I still would
like to request it, as I really think it makes the most sense.

Benno




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[Benno Schulenberg]

Follow-up Comment #1, sr #109305 (project administration):

Should have included a link to the page I'm referring to:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/

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[Bob Proulx]

Follow-up Comment #2, sr #109305 (project administration):

Hello Benno. Savannah is using a standard cgit installation.

http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/

The configuration doc is here.

https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/tree/cgitrc.5.txt

The upstream cgit seems to be using the sorting you desire. I look and find
this setting in the manual.

branch-sort::
Flag which, when set to "age", enables date ordering in the branch ref list,
and when set to "name" enables ordering by branch name. Default value:
"name".

That seems perfect. I have set it in the cgitrc file. However it seems to
have no effect. There may be some caching involved. I am going to let things
site like this for a bit and see if after a cache invalidation the ordering
changes.

If you have other suggestions that would be great.


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[Benno Schulenberg]

Follow-up Comment #3, sr #109305 (project administration):

Hi Bob. Maybe cgit needs to be prodded or restarted for it to reread the
cgitrc file? Or maybe the version on Savannah is too old? (Because upstream
seems to be at 1.1 plus nine months, not at 1.0 plus something.)

I've tried sorting the branches by age with a repository-specific cgitrc file,
but that has no effect either. (It requires a scan-path variable to be set,
but I think that most likely it is set on Savannah.)

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