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Re: [PATCH] Introduce a filter-path argument to git-daemon, for doing custom path transformations

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Johan Sørensen <johan@johansorensen.com>
Date
Mar 19, 2009, 13:02 UTC
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2009/3/19 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
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>> I actually was hoping (especially we have Dscho on Cc: list) that somebody
>> like you would start suggesting a "plug in" approach to load .so files,
>> which would lead to a easy-to-port dso support with the help from msysgit
>> folks we can use later in other parts of the system (e.g. customizable
>> filters used for diff textconv, clean/smudge, etc.)
>
> I do not like that at all.  Dynamic libraries -- especially on Windows --
> are a major hassle.
>
> However, I cannot think of anything Johan might want to do that would not
> be possible using a bunch of regular expressions together with
> substitions.

Let me reiterate my use-case then: I need to dynamically substitute one path with another. Perhaps "map" paints a better picture than "substitute" here. Please refer to my second mail in this thread for more details.

The only way I can see regexps work, is that if they're read, on a per-request basis (reloading git-daemon every time they change is just silly), from somewhere outside the git-daemon. Then, you might as well take the full-on approach this patch provides.

Cheers, JS

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>
> FWIW I have experimental code in my personal tree that sports
> strbuf_regsub(), a function to replace matches of a regular expression
> (possibly with groups) by a given string (which may contain \0 .. \9,
> being replaced with the respective group's contents).
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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  1. Introduce a filter-path argument to git-daemon, for doing custom path transformationsJohan Sørensen, Mar 11, 2009
  2. Johannes SixtMar 11, 2009
  3. Introduce a filter-path argument to git-daemon, for doing custom path transformationsJohan Sørensen, Mar 12, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 12, 2009
  5. Introduce a filter-path argument to git-daemon, for doing custom path transformationsJohan Sørensen, Mar 12, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinMar 12, 2009
  7. Johan SørensenMar 12, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2009
  9. Johan SørensenMar 14, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2009
  11. Johannes SchindelinMar 19, 2009
  12. Johan SørensenMar 19, 2009
  13. Johannes SchindelinMar 20, 2009
  14. Johan SørensenMar 12, 2009

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