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Re: Having postgresql.org link to cgit instead of gitweb

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> — 2025-09-19T14:55:30Z

On 9/19/25 10:47 AM, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Sep-19, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
>> On 19.09.25 03:12, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>> * Moves any web links to git.postgresql.org repos to use the cgit
>>> interface instead of gitweb (e.g. [1])
>>> * Update the commit search[2] to use cgit instead of gitweb
>>
>> If we're doing that -- which seems reasonable -- then perhaps also update
>> the forwarder for the links sent to pgsql-committers, like
>>
>> https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ed1aad15e09d7d523f4ef413e3c4d410497c8065
>>
>> This might be related to the second item, not sure.
> 
> No, I think Jonathan wasn't thinking of these links when he mentioned
> that second item.

I can confirm that I was thinking about them in the second item; I was 
thinking about them though, but was unsure if it needed to be in this 
discussion as it isn't directly in the pgweb scope. But holistically, I 
guess it does.

>  I do have the /pg/commitdiff/ URLs in mind, but
> that's a pginfra configuration file that needs to be changed.  I'll
> see about changing that as well, because I've been bitten by this
> problem there too.
> 
> BTW regarding Jon's second item, I was again reminded that we have
> this "backend flowchart" page there,
> https://www.postgresql.org/developer/backend/
> I think this is a prime example of something that we could do much
> better by adding one more item to our numerous collection of diagrams in
> the docbook core docs.

And we support images now (and for a few releases)!

Jonathan