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[PATCH] Modify description file to say what this file is

From
John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2009, 08:58 UTC
Message-ID
<43d8ce650902170058l7163b060x4ab89cf327395357@mail.gmail.com>

A lot of people see this message for the first time on the gitweb interface, where there is no clue as to what 'this file' means.

Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
---
 templates/hooks--update.sample |    5 +++--
 templates/this--description    |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/templates/hooks--update.sample b/templates/hooks--update.sample
index 93c6055..f753d28 100755
--- a/templates/hooks--update.sample
+++ b/templates/hooks--update.sample
@@ -43,10 +43,11 @@ allowdeletetag=$(git config --bool hooks.allowdeletetag)

 # check for no description
 projectdesc=$(sed -e '1q' "$GIT_DIR/description")
-if [ -z "$projectdesc" -o "$projectdesc" = "Unnamed repository; edit
this file to name it for gitweb." ]; then
+case $projectdesc in "Unnamed repository;"*|'')
 	echo "*** Project description file hasn't been set" >&2
 	exit 1
-fi
+	;;
+esac

 # --- Check types
 # if $newrev is 0000...0000, it's a commit to delete a ref.
diff --git a/templates/this--description b/templates/this--description
index c6f25e8..914a64e 100644
--- a/templates/this--description
+++ b/templates/this--description
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb.
+Unnamed repository; edit the .git/description file to name it for gitweb.
-- 
1.6.2.rc1
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  1. Modify description file to say what this file isJohn Tapsell, Feb 17, 2009

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