Re: Make Gitweb behave like Apache mod_userdir

From: Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>
Date: Nov 17, 2009, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7fce93be0911170751r6d51ae7bn20fd593741b3eba6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200911171458.56047.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 14:58, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr> writes:
>>
>> > I made gitweb behave a bit like UserDir module will in apache.
>> > In fact it's only configuration but I think it could be useful to others.
>>
>> Thanks.  Any comment from gitweb gangs?
>
> I would respond earlier if it was submitted with patch inline in mail
> body, and not attached.  If it needs to be attached (because of MUA/MTA
> linewrapping or encoding issues), it should use 8bit and not base64
> content transfer encoding, have 'text/plain' and not
> 'application/octet-stream' content type, and "inline" and not "attachement"
> in content disposition.

Sorry about that but I'm new in the git world and it is the first time I submit a patch.

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> It also lacks proper commit message (although email describes it quite
> well) and signoff, as per Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
>
> I like this patch.  More examples in gitweb/README are always good idea.
>
>> > Basicly it allows users of your server who use git to be able to use
>
> "Basically"

Oops

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>
>> > gitweb to browse their own root project. E.G. :
>
> "For example"
>
>> >
>> > Alice's private repos :
>> >
>> > /home/alice/git/product_a.git (cloned from /var/git/product_a.git)
>> > /home/alice/git/product_b.git (cloned from /var/git/product_b.git)
>> > /home/alice/git/product_c.git (cloned from /var/git/product_c.git)
>> >
>> > Alice's links to her repos which she wants to be able to browse with gitweb :
>
> "Alice links", or "Alice creates symbolic links"
>
>> >
>> > /home/alice/gitweb/product_a -> /home/alice/git/product_a.git/.git
>> > /home/alice/gitweb/product_c -> /home/alice/git/product_c.git/.git
>> >
>> > Bare repos :
>> >
>> > /var/git/product_a.git
>> > /var/git/product_b.git
>> > /var/git/product_c.git
>> > /var/git/product_d.git
>
> The description is a bit lacking.  Where user should put theirs git
> repositories, or symbolic links to git repositories?

As I said It's only configuration so It depends of your server architecture. If admin of the server decides he allows users to browse via gitweb their private/public repos which are linked in /home/*/.gitweb or anything else he has to modify the environmental variable in the rewrite rule according to his wish.

> How it would look like in gitweb?

What do you mean ?

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> Jakub Narebski
> Poland