The road to v0.10.1 or v0.11

[John Keeping]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 02:29:19PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On 17/01/14 01:22 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> >> But scan for repos is caught by the cache most of the time, and
> >> > presumably even if we run persistently we still need to do that
> >> > periodically (or use inotify); or do we just rely on the process being
> >> > replaced when the set of repositories changes?
> > Generally the idea is you restart the fcgi process when things change,
> > or at least send it a SIGUSR1. But we could be fancy and support
> > inotify/kqueue...
> 
> The process that updates the repositories may not have permissions to
> send SIGUSR1 to the fcgid process -- either because they are running as
> different users or because there are SELinux policies preventing it.
> 
> It's really best if cgit recognizes when things like projects.list have
> changed.

Presumably you are OK with this having the same latency as the existing
cache mechanism.  The simplest implementation will probably be to keep
the existing "cache valid?" check and re-scan repositories as we
currently do.