[savannah-help-public] [sr #109257] cgit sometimes serves a stale page for five minutes

[Benno Schulenberg]

Follow-up Comment #2, sr #109257 (project administration):

Yes, server-side caching is good -- I wasn't suggesting to disable caching. 
But it becomes a problem when I look at one page, upstream does a push, I look
at another page of the same repo, which has the new content, I go back to the
earlier page, but it still shows the old situation.  This is puzzling and
confusing.

What would be nice to have is: that cgit invalidates the cache for a certain
repo whenever something is pushed to that repo.  This may be too hard to make,
though, I don't know.

An alternative might be that whenever cgit receives a request for a page, it
checks whether there has been a push to the relevant repo since the page was
cached, and only if not, it serves the cached page.  This might be too hard to
make, too, though.

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