Re: git ports-tree doesn't work, please check!

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 08:39:24PM +0200, Peter wrote:
> 
> $ fetch https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/devel/py-python-dateutil
> fetch: transfer timed out
> 
> My local replica has the same problem, git goes into a loop at that
> location.

Hmm, testing locally there's only a single commit to that path (moving
it from Move devel/py-dateutil) so git has to read the whole commit
history to discover there is only one commit.  Even on a 40-core machine
with nvme disks that's very slow process (but it does eventually
complete).

I suspect cgit is timing out because it's looking for enough logs to fill
a single page before sending a reply.  This is an advantage of github's
progressive rendering (and the pile of javascript it requires).  For
example, see:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commits/main/devel/py-python-dateutil

where you get the first commit and then a spinning thing for a bit
before "End of commit history for this file" appears.

-- Brooks