Lady @Lady@cat.family

@aescling really posting thru it huh

@xsssm it was kind of sudden; j’s mom was like “do you want to buy a house??” and that quickly progressed to “well we should probably get married first” and “oh god this is happening”

@coriander @wallhackio across the river from us is new jersey

@wallhackio @aescling we could try co-op if you aren't willing to install it on your work computer and don't have another that can run it

@wallhackio DOM is fine but has been nerfed by browser implementers who Hate XML, and the specification has gotten substantially worse since it was taken over by WHATWG, who is actively hostile to new implementations

@aescling @akjcv@types.pl it's a cgi script; you don't have to handle networking yourself aside from routing and content negotiation, which probably needs to be bespoke

for xml, i'll obviously be using libxml2 and libxslt but cgit just does bespoke raw html output so like you can yolo it if you want

if the data structure is really basic, i’m not sure what the benefit is to using a library. basic data structures don’t have high maintenance burdens

@aescling @akjcv@types.pl cgit just includes git as a subrepo and statically links as far as i can tell

@aescling @akjcv@types.pl not too worried about that; the only “library” needed in this case is git

@akjcv@types.pl might just need to do my own implementation from scratch

@akjcv@types.pl i jotted down a list of improvements i would make and wow i really need to learn C now because it is lengthy

@akjcv@types.pl call it clit

@akjcv@types.pl i still need to learn C but maybe once i do i should fork cgit lmao

@akjcv@types.pl (worth noting i suppose that i think gitweb does do much better than cgit in terms of its UI and i mostly prefer that one; it's just a perl script tho lmao so)

@akjcv@types.pl after using it for a year i think i’ve come around on having the default view be a shortlog and a list of tags, even though i never use branches, because i find myself referencing commits other than HEAD as often as i find myself referencing HEAD. i actually think that the github-style display has encouraged people to think of repositories as buckets of files rather than histories of changes, which has encouraged worse commit messages and practices and kind of obviated the utility of using git at all over just sticking everything in dropbox.

agreed on the other points, though. i’ve been meaning to restyle my gitweb because i think the default styling is terrible, but i haven’t found the time. i think better CSS could really improve things, and i've done a bit of JS to hack things like markdown rendering on after-the-fact.

@akjcv@types.pl curious what your specific criticisms are if you care to elaborate?

@akjcv@types.pl there is an rgit it's just only at v0.1.4 https://github.com/w4/rgit

@akjcv@types.pl yeah i mean if you don't care about having a web frontend, issues, or pull requests not sure why you would bother

i personally find having a web frontend is nice and do appreciate strangers being able to view and clone my code, but don't believe in the public commons open source collaboration ideology that more fully-featured forges support