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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Use config file or file for repository owner's name.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 31, 2008, 02:48 UTC
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Bruno Cesar Ribas <ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br> writes:
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> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:16:16PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Bruno Ribas <ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br> writes:
>> 
>> <snip> 
>> I am not sure about the effect of this change on a large scale
>> site.  If you do not have the project list file, originally we
>> just needed a stat per project, but now you open an extra file
>> (either "owner" or "config") and read it, once per every
>> project.
>
> Opening the extra file has same problem as the description file. And, as
> gitweb allow us to create  "description" and "cloneurl" file there is no 
> problem having another file to open instead finding out who is the owner of
> the directory asking to the filesystem.

We heard the same argument when cloneurl was added, and a newcomer who does not know that may rightly use the same argument. But I think we should work towards _reducing_ the number of such ad-hoc one-line-per-information files, not using existing ones as an excuse to add _more_ of them.

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Message 5 of 16 in “gitweb: Use config file or file for repository owner's name.”
  1. gitweb: Use config file or file for repository owner's name.Bruno Ribas, Jan 30, 2008
  2. gitweb: Update gitweb/README to include the new per-repository configurationBruno Ribas, Jan 30, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2008
  4. Bruno Cesar RibasJan 31, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 31, 2008
  6. Bruno Cesar RibasJan 31, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 31, 2008
  8. Jakub NarebskiJan 31, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 31, 2008
  10. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2008
  11. Bruno Cesar RibasFeb 4, 2008
  12. Jakub NarebskiFeb 4, 2008
  13. Bruno Cesar RibasFeb 5, 2008
  14. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2008
  15. Bruno Cesar RibasFeb 5, 2008
  16. Bruno Cesar RibasFeb 7, 2008

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