Re: Some help on gitweb project.

From: jaseem abid <jaseemabid@gmail.com>
Date: May 13, 2012, 18:11 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH-tXsB06e9BfzxjFhbwMSx3Xb9TAy=qekSstqWcqkWt_PGWbg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:11 PM, jaseem abid <jaseemabid@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Dear all,
>
> CC : Andrew Sayers, Jakub Narębski
>
> I have been working on gitweb for a couple of days as part of a
> rejected GSoC proposal. I would love to get some help on this and if
> somebody can, that would be thankful.
>
> 1. How is code tested after some change? I am not talking about unit
> testing but about making sure that application is doing what it is
> actually intended to do. Do you have to re - install git/gitweb with
> every version of code you commit and make sure that it works well and
> as expected? Or, is there some other way? Sorry but I am a newbie when
> it comes to FOSS contribution and as well working on a project of this
> magnitude.
>
> As far as I understand, gitweb by default is looking for files from
> `/usr/share/gitweb/` (I work on Debian Sid if that helps). If I edit
> the perl or some JavaScript code, how should I test it? *Install* my
> version from source as mentioned in "gitweb/INSTALL" ?

Adding a bit more to the last mail. In the specific case of gitweb, I can sym link files from `/usr/share/giweb` or any installation folder to the working directory for testing. Then all I have to do is to rebuild the files and forget about moving the files to right place. Is it ok to develop this way? I am looking for some good practices here on this.

-- Jaseem Abid http://jaseemabid.github.com