Re: CGit and repository list

["Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:48 AM, 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.

I guess I could add support for something like

  scan-paths=/pub/git

in cgitrc (and optionally store the result of the scan as another
cgitrc-file in the cache directory). Would that improve things for
you?


> Unfortunately, the recommended RewriteRule is not working - it does not
> play well together with query parameters cgit is using, so e.g. browsing
> past commits does not work. What RewriteRule should I use instead?

On hjemli.net I used to specify "virtual-root=/git" in cgitrc combined
with this rule in /etc/apache/httpd.conf

  RewriteRule ^/git/(.*)$   /cgit/cgit.cgi?url=$1  [L,QSA]


But currently I'm running the tip of the wip-branch (which has support
for PATH_INFO) on hjemli.net , so I've removed the "virtual-root" from
cgitrc and the rewriterule from httpd.conf and just use this instead:

  ScriptAlias /git /var/www/htdocs/cgit/cgit.cgi

hth,
larsh