From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Document that gitweb deals with bare repositories Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:24:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4A0DDD94.1010901@freescale.com> References: <20090515211611.27697.82605.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 15 23:24:59 2009 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 1M54tm-0007uj-LR for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 23:24:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755476AbZEOVYk (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 17:24:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755541AbZEOVYk (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 17:24:40 -0400 Received: from az33egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.158.103]:64454 "EHLO az33egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754277AbZEOVYj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 17:24:39 -0400 Received: from az33smr01.freescale.net (az33smr01.freescale.net [10.64.34.199]) by az33egw02.freescale.net (8.14.3/az33egw02) with ESMTP id n4FLObaV019067; Fri, 15 May 2009 14:24:37 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.82.123.3] (efes.am.freescale.net [10.82.123.3]) by az33smr01.freescale.net (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id n4FLOaqD013065; Fri, 15 May 2009 16:24:36 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090504 SeaMonkey/2.0a3 In-Reply-To: <20090515211611.27697.82605.stgit@localhost.localdomain> X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAWE= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > Does this explanation help? Yes, it does, but I wish it weren't true. I don't see why gitweb can't be enhanced to support non-bare repositories without using symlinks or other hackery. To avoid the overhead of gitweb scanning all of my repositories for other respitories, I use a packages_list, which is automatically recreated whenever I add a new repo. However, I think having to create a shadow bare repository with a cron job to keep it more-or-less update is wrong. Just my two cents. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale