From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:40:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Adding a `blame' interface.
Message-ID: <20060612084056.GA29220@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90606120134n21c269bbj3e8c7e31d4d93a23@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> >- If `GIT_DIR/description' is only used by gitweb it may be more
> >  consistent to use the git-repo-config option `gitweb.description' in
> >  the future.
> 
> Not sure how git-repo configurations deal with long entries. Right now
> the description may contain html for instance.

It has to be escaped, which could be ugly with HTML.  For example:

  [gitweb]
    description=<div class=\"description\">\n\
This is a chunk of text which describes this repository.  Some\n\
of this text might be rather long, and might need many lines to\n\
really be able to describe the repository in a nice editor such as\n\
vi running in an 80 character wide xterm.\n\
</div>

Forget a \ in front of a double quote (") or an LF and the entry is
corrupt.  So as nice as it sounds it might not be the best way to
obtain a description for gitweb.

-- 
Shawn.