From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:43:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: change filename/directory name of snapshots
Message-ID: <7v4pliltuv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070607092708.GA25097@moooo.ath.cx>

Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> writes:

> /.git or .git is removed from the project name and the
> basename of the remaining path is used as the beginning of
> the filename and as the directory in the archive.
>
> The regexp will actually not strip off /.git or .git if there
> wouldn't be anything left after removing it.
>
> Currently the full project name is used as directory in the
> archive and the basename is used as filename.  For example a
> repository named foo/bar/.git will have a archive named
> .git-<version>.* and extract to foo/bar/.git.  With this patch
> the file is named bar-<version>.* and extracts to bar.

Makes sense to me for "foo/bar/.git", but I am not sure if we
would want to do this to "foo/bar.git".  Opinions?