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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 11, 2009, 10:39 UTC
Message-ID: <200910111239.15403.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76c5b8580910101845h43a607f0sd4184da302a19963@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Eugene Sajine wrote:

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> >
> > 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.
> 
> Well my logic is simple. Gitweb is a part of git bundle. If you don't
> want to use gitweb you're free to use git clone as you want. I don't
> see  why not to provide some usability features to it. For me it is
> quite obvious that it will be more comfortable to setup gitweb if this
> would be in  place. Instead of putting info in few different places
> manually, why not to give people a possibilty to do that using one
> command?
> 
> This is usability feature, but i feel that for me as a person who will
> support big ceantral bare repo hosting server, this would save huge
> time and efforts...

And this would be best left for a custom script creating repositories
and their git hosting related configuration.  Such script of necessity
would have to be site-specific, or at least contain site-specific 
configuration, like:
 * whether to use gitweb.owner or filesystem uid + GECOS is enough
 * whether to use gitweb.description or description file
 * whether to use gitweb.url, cloneurl file, or let gitweb autogenerate
   clone / fetch URL from base URL
 * gitosis / gitlite configuration, if needed, or setup of public keys
   for SSH authentication
 * project README.html file, if used
etc.

git-clone is not a dumping ground (also, code speak louder than words).

I even think it might be mistake to have default 'description' file in templates...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland