Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Adding a `blame' interface.

[Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> 
> >   [gitweb]
> >     description=<div class=\"description\">\n\
> > This is a chunk of text which describes this repository.  Some\n\
> > of this text might be rather long, and might need many lines to\n\
> > really be able to describe the repository in a nice editor such as\n\
> > vi running in an 80 character wide xterm.\n\
> > </div>
> 
> AFAIK the trailing "\" will not work.

Actually it does.  I figured out that it works (and why it works)
when I implemented the GIT repository parser in Java for my pure
Java version of GIT...

For example:

  [spearce@spearce-pb15 bob]$ cat .git/config 
  [core]
          repositoryformatversion = 0
          filemode = true
  [gitweb]
          description = This is a very\nlong line to put into GIT\n\
  repo config.\n\
  I hope it works.
          on = true
  [spearce@spearce-pb15 bob]$ git repo-config gitweb.description
  This is a very
  long line to put into GIT
  repo config.
  I hope it works.
  [spearce@spearce-pb15 bob]$ git repo-config gitweb.on
  true

The use of a trailing \ makes sense; the collapsing of multiple
spaces into one space unless quoted inside of "" doesn't.
But whatever...

-- 
Shawn.