From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:03:43 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/index
Message-ID: <9e4733910903251103m7c78b2e7lee21a25a140bbeca@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903251749270.11062@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Julian Phillips
<julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>> I pushed a repo up to my server. I want to view this repo with gitweb
>> but it is not visible in my project list like my other projects. I
>> suspect this is because the newly pushed repo is missing .git/index. I
>> ran update-server-info on the repo and that didn't create .git/index.
>> What command builds this index?
>
> .git/index is the default name used for what is commonly referred to as the
> staging area these days.  It's only needed when you have a work tree, and is
> expected to be absent from a bare repository.
>
> A more likely cause for a repository to not be picked up by gitweb is file
> permissions.

It needed to be added to the gitweb projects file.

>
> --
> Julian
>
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Jon Smirl
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