Re: gitweb testing with non-apache web server

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Aug 3, 2006, 20:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20060803201434.GB5476@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <7virl9ppy7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

hoi :)

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:41:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 	http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=gitk/gitk.git;a=summary
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> (that's two insertions of 'k').
> 
> Now with PATH_INFO, how exactly is this easier?

well, editing is not easier, but you can do other nice things.

On git.admingilde.org I have set up apache to serve the contents of my git repositories for all the well-known git repository URLs (*.git/objects/*, *.git/refs/*, ...) and to call gitweb for all other URLs. That way I get the exact same URLs for both gitweb and http:// clone (and even for git://, just change the protocol name).

I really think that it is very handy that you can give out a repository URL and any user can just click on it and get the summary page of this project.

I'm sure that it is possible to transfer the PATH_INFO into a p= parameter through URL rewrite rules, but it is much easier to set up if gitweb can directly grok appended paths.

I even changed the old gitweb to hand out links which used PATH_INFO rather than the p= parameter so that the URLs looked nicer. If there is interest in such a feature then I can do these changes again.

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Martin Waitz