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The fact that this is news to people here is confirmation that it was a mistake.
by rkuykendall-com 7y ago
The fact that this is news to people here is confirmation that it was a mistake.
- recursive 7y agoAre all HN stories about mistakes?
- tinix 7y agoI disagree, the fact that it's news to people here means people don't know their tools as well as one might assume. Implying that it's a mistake because people don't know about it is very odd. Clearly, I know about it, as do others. It's been possible for 10+ years to serve git repos using gitweb, and mercurial repos using hgweb. We did this in like 2007-2009ish, locally, in our LAN, among developers... because our code couldn't be pushed to a third party for... reasons. Eventually I did setup our own internal SSH server to serve the repos, but for quick browsing of a team's repo state, using the built in HTTP server is just fine.