Re: git-scm.com status report

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:54:53AM -0600, Samuel Lijin wrote:

> In theory, you could also dump the build artifacts to a GH Pages repo
> and host it from there, although I don't know if you would run up
> against any of the usage limits[0]. The immediate problem I see with
> that approach, though, is that I have no idea how any of the dynamic
> stuff (e.g. search) would be replaced.

I've talked with Pages people and they say it shouldn't be a big deal to
host. The main issue is that it's not _just_ a static site. It's a site
that's static once built, but a lot of the content is auto-generated
from other sources (git manpages, Pro Git and its translations, etc).

So there's work involved in moving that generation step to whatever the
new process is (it's fine if it's running "make" locally after a Git
release and pushing up the result).

> A question: there's a DB schema in there. Does the site still use a DB?

It does use the database to hold all of the bits that aren't checked
into Git. So renderings of the manpages, the latest release git version,
etc. AFAIK, it's all things that I would be comfortable committing into
a git repository.

-Peff