[rancid] web frontend for git based rancid

[shouldbe q931]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 11:14 PM Andreas Ott <andreas at naund.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> we have recently uplifted a server from the stoneage to a current version of
> rancid, also now using git as the version control system.
>
> In previous generations we used cvsweb (cvs backend) and WebSVN (svn
> backend) to provide at least read-only view for our operations/support
> team into the different devices. For the git backend we installed gitlist
> but find it lacking, especially when it comes to a very common need
> "display diff between version X and version Y".
>
> Has anyone solved this problem in gitlist, or what other web frontend
> are you using to display data from the git repository that can do this?
>
> Thanks, andreas
> --
> Andreas Ott   andreas at naund.org
>

My solution for this was to use a commit hook to push to an instance
of gitlab ce.

I miss the simple interface of viewvc, but progress...

Cheers

Arne