Re: Unprivileged User

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 30, 2006, 09:07 UTC
Message-ID: <ekm6si$psp$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <2b9545a0611292154r4334d1afn1f49bbd3be2c3374@mail.gmail.com>

Ed wrote:

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> Hi, I'm new to git.  Just got everything setup and imported a new project.
> 
> From gitweb it says that my git project's owner is: Unprivileged User
> 
> Should I be worried about this when I begin using this git project with others?
> 
> How would I resolve this, to make the owner as the name I set in my
> ~/.gitconfig, or is there something I didn't read in the docs?
> 
> Thanks, beside this small glitch, git has been great.

Actually gitweb uses uid/user the repository (the $GIT_DIR), unless you
provide it with an index file. The simplest way is to click on "TXT" link
in projects list page, save it somewhere, edit it, and recompile gitweb
with this file as GITWEB_LIST (see README): 
   make ... GITWEB_LIST=<index> gitweb/gitweb.cgi
(or just edit gitweb.cgi or gitweb_conf.perl setting $projects_list
to this file).

Perhaps gitweb should use user.name from the repository instead...

P.S. Please reply also to git mailing list

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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