Re: CGit and repository list

["Kristian Høgsberg" <krh@bitplanet.net>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:12:40PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
>> On Friday 12 September 2008, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
>> > > it seems that cgit
>> > > requires all the repositories explicitly listed in the config file.
>> > > Do you plan to remove this limitation in the future?
>> >
>> > Not really, I'd rather add another command (or a commandline option)
>> > to generate an include-file for cgitrc by scanning directory-trees
>> > for git repos. I've CC'd Kristian since I believe he's got such a
>> > script running for freedesktop.org; if so, maybe it could be
>> > included/used as basis for something similar in cgit?
>>
>> Here's a script I wrote for locating repos and generating repo
>> lists/configs for cgit, gitweb and hgwebdir (yes, this handles hg repos
>> as well). It works either as a CGI script (producing a list of detected
>> repos in HTML format), or from the command-line. It's only been tested
>> on an experimental DVCS server at $dayjob, so you might have to change
>> things to make it work in your scenario.
>>
>> If there is interest in this, I can create a public repo and we can keep
>> improving on it.
>
> Thanks. The script was a bit more scary than I thought, but in the end I
> managed to generate something. There are trailing dots in project names,
> but I'm not going to waste time on that anymore - this has long gone
> over the 20 minutes I originally alotted the project anyway; I hope cgit
> will gain a builtin capability for this in the future, since this is
> still quite a pain. Attached is a random patch for your script I had to
> use, FWIW.

The script we're using on freedesktop.org is something like this:

  http://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/find-repos.sh

which isn't too scary.  We run it from a cron script, every ten
minutes or so.  It's much better than  rescanning all the dirs every
time somebody requests the repo listing (we have a lot of repos, check
cgit.freedesktop.org).  We have no need for cgit to to this
automatically on every request, and I don't see us using that feature
if it gets implemented.

cheers,
Kristian