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why are gitweb 'description' and 'owner' stored in different ways?

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Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk>
Date
Dec 18, 2005, 10:57 UTC
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Just wondering, is there a reason that gitweb stores the 'description' in one way (inside .git) and 'owner' in a different way (in index.aux) ?

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