Re: gitweb: View graphes & get tar

[Bertrand Jacquin <beber.mailing@gmail.com>]

On 2/9/06, Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 23:34, Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is gitweb maintainer planned to allow people to get from gitweb ? It
> > could be something good for ungited/remote people to get a tar for a
> > specific tree.
> > gd provide to create graphs and is often use in "web project" to
> > generate graphe. Could it here generated a graph of branches like in
> > gitk ?
> > It also could be cool to allow people to get binary files in an other
> > mimetype that text/plain.
> >
> > Here are my wish :D it's worth what it's worth.
>
> You can do some of that a different way.
>
> I have it set up so that when I push a tag into my public git repositories,
> that a post-update hook creates a tarball of the site and puts it into the
> download directory.
>
> The hook is of the following form
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # This script is used to create a tarball of the project and place it into the
> "files"
> # directory of the web site whenever a release is tagged in the repository
> #
> PROJECT=akcmoney
> # this should look at each positional parameter
> for ref ; do
> #if its a tag then create a tarball
>         if [ "${ref:0:10}" == "refs/tags/" ] ; then
>                 git-tar-tree ${ref:10} $PROJECT | gzip -9
> > /var/www/chandlerfamily/files/$PROJECT/$PROJECT-${ref:10}.tar.gz
>         fi
> done

That's ok, but with that I couldn't get a tar for _not_ the current
tree. If i want to get a tar tree for 2 months old in not master
branch, I can't with that. The idea here is the create the tar on the
fly, on the user demand.
And also, I use http push so hooks can't be used :/

>
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