From: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:26:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] gitweb: Support filtering projects by .htaccess files.
Message-ID: <bb6f213e0811030926n32c1befcj5d9add6378f7dce4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200811031754.00545.fg@one2team.net>

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net> wrote:
> It just seems to me that this is emulating functionality that multiple Web servers already provide...
>
> What's more, knowledge about these Web servers are _much_ more widespread than knowledge about gitweb.
>
> Why reinvent the wheel?

If you are speaking of web servers as in 'GitHub', then it is
irrelevant, because its server software is nonfree.

If you are speaking of web servers as in 'Apache', then how would it
know which files are going to be accessed when it executes
cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=very/private/project.git to check permissions?

Alexander