Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list

[Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> (2) Setting %ENV has no effect on spawned processes under mod_perl,
>     so the git commands would never find the project directories.
>     My first thought was to set $GIT_DIR on the commands' command
>     lines like in open($fh, '$GIT_DIR=blah git-rev-list ...') but it
>     would lead to an extra shell being spawned on every invocation
>     of a git command.


I haven't looked at gitweb much, but why can't you solve this by doing
manual pipe,fork,exec combinations?  That should give you complete
control over the environment, right?

(IIRC, the last time I played with mod_perl and spawning processes, I
recall it doing something very confusing with the pipes I had open.)


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