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Re: gitweb $export_ok question

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TAThomas Amsler <tpamsler@ucdavis.edu>
Date
Dec 31, 2008, 18:56 UTC
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One more question. Now, on the gitweb home page, the project name hyper link shows up as:

authz.git/.git
where it used to be just:
authz.git/
is there a way to configure this so that it doesn't show the trailing .git?

Best, -- Thomas

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Thomas Amsler <tpamsler@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
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> That did the trick. It wasn't quite clear from the documentation that the
> file defined by $export_ok has to be located in repository/.git/
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Best,
> -- Thomas
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thomas Amsler wrote:
>>
>> > Thank you for your information.
>> >
>> > I have just tried that but the repository doesn't show up in gitweb
>> >
>> > - added to /etc/gitweb.conf
>> > -- $export_ok = "gitweb-export-ok"
>> > - touched the "gitweb-export-ok" file in the repository
>> > -- touch /path-to-repo/repository/authz.git/gitweb-export-ok
>> >
>> > Then gitweb reports:
>> >
>> > 404 - No projects found
>> >
>> > Does the gitweb-export-ok file need to be part of  the repo so that it
>> > is
>> > tracked?
>>
>> No, gitweb-export-ok file has to be in $GIT_DIR (like description file),
>> not part of repo.
>>
>> As to "No projects found" error: what is your $projectroot? Is it
>> either "/path-to-repo/repository" or "/path-to-repo"? Is repository
>> readable and searchable for the web server user (does it have correct
>> permissions)?
>> --
>> Jakub Narebski
>> Poland
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