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Re: why are gitweb 'description' and 'owner' stored in different ways?

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KSKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date
Dec 19, 2005, 01:13 UTC
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<20051219011319.GA29492@vrfy.org>
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<C095FE37-2673-449D-AAB9-ADF042CE8F32@hawaga.org.uk>
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:27:41PM +0930, Ben Clifford wrote:
> Just wondering, is there a reason that gitweb stores the  
> 'description' in one way (inside .git) and 'owner' in a different way  
> (in index.aux) ?

No special reason besides that the owner is generated automatically from the file permissions on the master server along with searching for repositories and creating the list. We currently have more than one "Linus' kernel tree" descriptions, so if we would rely on in-repo data for the owner, the owner would be wrong on that repos too.

Kay
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  1. Ben CliffordDec 18, 2005
  2. Kay SieversDec 19, 2005

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