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Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list

From
RARyan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date
Jun 21, 2006, 16:45 UTC
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<20060621164503.GA1285@h4x0r5.com>
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<20060621130535.G2b34d382@leonov.stosberg.net>
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
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> (2) Setting %ENV has no effect on spawned processes under mod_perl,
>     so the git commands would never find the project directories.
>     My first thought was to set $GIT_DIR on the commands' command
>     lines like in open($fh, '$GIT_DIR=blah git-rev-list ...') but it
>     would lead to an extra shell being spawned on every invocation
>     of a git command.

I haven't looked at gitweb much, but why can't you solve this by doing manual pipe,fork,exec combinations? That should give you complete control over the environment, right?

(IIRC, the last time I played with mod_perl and spawning processes, I recall it doing something very confusing with the pipes I had open.)

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Message 21 of 35 in “[RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list”
  1. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  2. Carl WorthJun 20, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  4. Petr BaudisJun 20, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  6. Petr BaudisJun 20, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  8. Martin LanghoffJun 20, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  10. Martin LanghoffJun 20, 2006
  11. Paul MackerrasJul 1, 2006
  12. Dennis StosbergJun 21, 2006
  13. 1/3 gitweb: Declare global variables with "our"Dennis Stosberg, Jun 21, 2006
  14. 2/3 Add a parameter to specify the repository pathDennis Stosberg, Jun 21, 2006
  15. 3/3 gitweb: Use --git-dir parameter instead of setting $ENV{'GIT_DIR'}Dennis Stosberg, Jun 21, 2006
  16. Timo HirvonenJun 21, 2006
  17. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  18. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  19. Dennis StosbergJun 22, 2006
  20. Ryan AndersonJun 22, 2006
  21. Ryan AndersonJun 21, 2006
  22. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2006
  24. Petr BaudisJun 20, 2006
  25. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2006
  26. Petr BaudisJun 20, 2006
  27. Thomas GlanzmannJun 20, 2006
  28. Josef WeidendorferJun 21, 2006
  29. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  30. Josef WeidendorferJun 21, 2006
  31. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  32. Jakub NarebskiJun 22, 2006
  33. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2006
  34. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2006
  35. Josef WeidendorferJun 21, 2006

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