From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:09:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Support for custom per-project owner string
Message-ID: <20060919230925.GG8259@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <eept0r$5d0$1@sea.gmane.org>

Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 01:04:50AM CEST, I got a letter
where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
> Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > This adds very simple support for per-project setting of the owner string
> > (in an environment where the actual owners won't have access to the
> > repositories accessed by gitweb, so faking identity is not an issue).
> 
> Is it really needed? If $projects_list is a _file_, you can set correct
> ownership information there.
> 
> Now $projects_list being a directory (usually $projectroot) support
> hierarchy of repositories; generating appropriate projects' index file
> is as easy as unsetting $projects_list (so it is by default set to
> $projectroot), going to summary view, clicking [TXT] link on the left of
> [OPML] link at the bottom, copy the result to projects' index file, correct
> ownership information (and perhaps remove some projects), and set
> $projects_list to this file.

Which is not really easy at all. I would have to do some ugly script to
autogenerate the text file while this way I can just throw the data to
the hierarchy and having everything still working magically.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam