Re: Gitweb and submodules

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2007, 14:31 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580707270731l1fa5bd1dw94c9955d314b4ce6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200707271322.50114.jnareb@gmail.com>

On 7/27/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to add submodule support to gitweb, among others marking
> submodules as such in the 'tree' view and adding 'log' view link to
> them.

A bit of advertising:
  http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/tree

The implementation can be found here:
  http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/tree/ui-tree.c#81

> But for that I need a question answered: how to find GIT_DIR of
> repository which contains submodule objects?

Generally, you can't. But if you just want to show the log of the submodule path, you probably don't need to do anything at all (except the special handling in 'tree' view). If you do want to show the log of the referenced repository, I guess a new entry in .gitmodules could be helpful.

-- larsh