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Re:New tools for open source maintainers by anarazel on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:54AM (#16876924)
> (actually, I didn't completely give up, I just browsed the Github mirror, which was the only usable part of their version control).

What makes our git own git repo unusable?

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;

I personally find that quicker to get around in than github.

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Re:New tools for open source maintainers by kazinator on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:21PM (#16877183)
Man, why doesn't gitweb serve up the clone links as links that you can right click and copy?

You have to swipe the cursor over "https://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git" and copy; how lame.

CGIT is so much nicer. It also serves up tarballs out of tags. If you do a "git tag foo-123" and push it out, then on your CGIT interface, there will be a foo-123.tar.gz URL for download (as well as .bz2 and .zip), pulled right out of the repo.

Still, either is light years ahead of github's presentation of repos.

> What makes our git own git repo unusable?

I know; WTF? From grandparent's comment I got the impression that Postgresql must be using CVS, or just tarballs in a FTP directory or something (and that someone kindly made a git repo and put it into GH).

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