Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Show project README if available

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Oct 10, 2006, 10:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20061010105521.GQ20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iz894ct.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 06:33:54AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> >
> >> If the project includes a README file, show it in the summary page.
> >...
> > I wonder how this should relate to .git/description file,
> > though.  In other words, it _might_ make sense to change where
> > we show the contents of description right now to show the first
> > line and take README from the same location.

In principle I like this idea. One problem is that description is not supposed to contain HTML and my README is (perhaps it should read README.html instead), and I really want README to. And if it's not plaintext, division of the first line and the rest does not work so well:

If you show first line of description as the "short" one and whole description as the "full" one in summary page, it will look awkward. If you look at http://repo.or.cz/gitweb.cgi/hed.git, the first line in the full description starts with boldened Hed, and is of course a separate paragraph etc.

> Also we might want to consider using this file (or description)
> for git-daemon "motd" action if we were to enhance it.  I
> remember that early days of git-daemon some people wanted to
> have motd.

I'd rather keep those separate...

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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