tree 484096472dc15243d460f785d3c981fc48a44587
parent 538edd84ebc005ae335fe1f26a8202e4d023eaff
author Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> 1614264434 -0500
committer Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> 1622035877 +0000

all: remove Path metadata-based redirects

Back when the entire site had to live in $GOROOT/doc, we needed
some way to specify content that was served from URLs outside of golang.org/doc,
so we added the ability for a doc to declare its own URL (the Path metadata).
That meant the file system layout did not match the URL layout.
That meant the content for any particular URL could be anywhere in the file system.
That meant the entire file system had to be scanned to serve a URL.
That meant an index of the file system had to be built and updated.

Now that we have a file tree (_content) for the whole of golang.org,
we can move files to make the file system layout match the URL space.
Then each URL can be served by just reading the right file.
Then the index and its updater can be deleted.

And now if you want to edit /doc/gdb it's obvious which file to open.

Change-Id: I3357f275e61a31c8de3091af580cac80753e71a4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/website/+/296383
Trust: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@golang.org>