Re: gitweb - bare repos integration - owner info in description file

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2009, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID: <200910102045.13374.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76c5b8580910091532yd6c6fc4ib942a29c827f3a6c@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Eugene Sajine wrote:

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> >
> > RTFM (in this case gitweb/README).  gitweb.owner and gitweb.description
> > configuration variables in per-repository config.
> 
> Ok, my bad, didn't get there;) It is good to know there are places
> where to keep the info. But it is not the point. The point is to
> integrate gitweb with bare repo creation more than it is right now by
> providing keys which will help filling out this info at the bare repo
> creation stage.
> 
> shortly i'm talking about command like this (the key names are for sample only):
> 
> $ git clone --bare repo repo.git -desc "description" -gwowner
> "gitwebowner@server.com" -cloneurl "git://host/repo.git"
> 
> seems to me quite comfy, and no headache...

The project description, project owner and (clone) url are used by gitweb only, so I don't see why git-clone has to feature-creep to set them.

[cut off part about using XML for all of gitweb config: description,
 owner, cloneurl]

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> > %
> > "To be fair, there are uses for XML. On Halloween, for example."
> >
> >     - Johannes Schindelin, on git@vger.kernel.org
> > %
> 
> yeah, to show kids xml print outs as an answer to "trick or treat!".
> Can save on candies;)

Err, I think Dscho meant here that XML is so *scary*... Isn't it?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland