Document how to prevent repo auto-hiding Repositories that haven't seen any updates in over 3 years will be automatically hidden from git.kernel.org as a way to combat aggressive bots. Document how to prevent this from happening. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/source/cgit-meta-data.rst b/source/cgit-meta-data.rst index 76024de..daef85a 100644 --- a/source/cgit-meta-data.rst +++ b/source/cgit-meta-data.rst
@@ -66,6 +66,16 @@ be cloned via ``git:`` or ``https:`` endpoints if someone knows the full path to it. +Preventing auto-hiding of repositories +-------------------------------------- + +Repositories that haven't seen any updates in over 3 years will be +automatically hidden from the main index on git.kernel.org in order to +make that page more navigable and avoid aggressive over-crawling by +bots. If you would like to prevent this from happening, create a +``refs/meta/cgit:cgitrc`` file following instructions above and set +``hide=0``. + Repo-specific about tab -----------------------