From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:28:01 GMT
Subject: Re: git and gitweb inconsistencies
Message-ID: <20051023182800.GH8383MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051023173055.GA3019@pe.Belkin>

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:30:55PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> I foolishly assumed that the second time I ran git-cvsimport, with -C
> /pub/scm/project/ it would be able to detect that I was using the
> stand-alone GIT-DIR.  But, it obviously didn't.  I guess the solution
> is use specify GIT_DIR everytime I run git-cvstimport.

Since many of the core git tools try to detect the actual git dir,
it might not be a bad idea for cvsimport to do this as well.
It probably also shouldn't create a new git repository if the -i
option has been specified.

> So, it seems that git-web.cgi detects and prefers the stand-alone
> directory structure, because I specify it in the projects_list file,
> while git-cat-file, and git-update-ref default to using .git.

gitweb just sets GIT_DIR and then the core git tools won't guess.

skimo