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Having postgresql.org link to cgit instead of gitweb

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> — 2025-09-19T01:12:15Z

Hi,

While prepping the website for the PG18 GA, I stumbled on the inability 
to access parts of commits through the gitweb links, specifically 
hitting 429 status code errors (this seems to be intermittent). After 
some briefing on why it's disabled and how this isn't an issue with 
cgit, I prepped a patch for postgresql.org (the main website) that would 
update the git.postgresql.org reference to use cgit instead of gitweb.

However, as this could impact some hacker workflows (e.g. the commit 
search page), I wanted to run this patch by -hackers before committing. 
Basically, the patch:

* 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

Please note that this doesn't impact the availability of gitweb, rather 
the main parts of the postgresql.org website will link to cgit first, 
and people will have a more consistent experience overall (e.g. no 429 
errors).

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Jonathan

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/developer/related-projects/
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/developer/coding/