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Re: [PATCH] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: checks for gitweb.description

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BRBRUNO CESAR RIBAS <ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br>
Date
Feb 11, 2008, 21:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20080211214957.GA20469@c3sl.ufpr.br>
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:20:21PM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Bruno Ribas <ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br> writes:
> 
> Here it would be nice to have longer description, like:
> 
>   Check repository configuration gitweb.description for project
>   description, if $GIT_DIR/description does not exist
Okay, I'll resend =)
> 
> Note that 'description' file is created by default when creating
> repository by git-init by default repo template.

Yep, but when we use the gitweb.description we have do rm description file, As seen on gitweb.perl it falls back to gitweb.description only when we can't open description file.

hmm... With this patch i am not assuming someone set description file to mode 000, i think is better not to imaginade someone would do this, or not?

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> 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruno Ribas <ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br>
> > ---
> >  contrib/hooks/post-receive-email |    6 +++++-
> >  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> > index 77c88eb..bdd21fa 100644
> > --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> > +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> > @@ -614,7 +614,11 @@ if [ -z "$GIT_DIR" ]; then
> >  	exit 1
> >  fi
> >  
> > -projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description")
> > +if [ -f "$GIT_DIR/description" ]; then
> > +	projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description")
> > +else
> > +	projectdesc=$(git-config gitweb.description)
> 
> The rest of this hook use "git cmd". Preferred way to call git
> commands is "git cmd". So I would use
> 
>   "git config gitweb.description"
> 
> > +fi
> >  # Check if the description is unchanged from it's default, and shorten it to
> >  # a more manageable length if it is
> >  if expr "$projectdesc" : "Unnamed repository.*$" >/dev/null
> > -- 
> > 1.5.4.24.gce08d
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Jakub Narebski
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  1. contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: checks for gitweb.descriptionBruno Ribas, Feb 11, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 11, 2008
  3. BRUNO CESAR RIBASFeb 11, 2008

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