From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pasky@suse.cz Subject: [PATCH 0/5] git-gui: Support for "Locators" - address templates Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:12:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20080924221249.037449176@suse.cz> Cc: spearce@spearce.org To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 25 00:19:12 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KichR-0008KG-4q for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:19:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752941AbYIXWRo (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:17:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752953AbYIXWRo (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:17:44 -0400 Received: from 132-201.104-92.cust.bluewin.ch ([92.104.201.132]:49856 "EHLO pixie.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752347AbYIXWRn (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:17:43 -0400 Received: by pixie.suse.cz (Postfix, from userid 2001) id 33A772AC8FA; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:17:30 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: quilt/0.46_cvs20080326-19.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This patch allows "locators" to be configured and used in the GUI, basically as URL templates the input string is subsituted into. The default operation of git-gui is not much affected (only some labels change to be less confusing). This is aimed mainly at corporate Git deployments - the integrator might want to configure the central corporate repository store as the default locator so that people do not need to type the same URL over and over but can instead just type the repository name on the server. Or avid repo.or.cz users might set up a 'repo' locator pointing at 'git://repo.or.cz/%s'. In practice, this seems to be a more significant usability improvement than it might seem. Less technical users appear to be less daunted to type in just the project name instead of dealing with long URLs.