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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Document that gitweb deals with bare repositories
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:21:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed82fe3e0905151521m64df542eifca87073c4360fbf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905152336.49319.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gitweb can deal with non-bare repositories. It is only that because
> gitweb is not interested in working area, it shows $GIT_DIR (path to
> repository itself) as name/path to repository. Therefore repo/.git
> for non-bare repositories, because it is repository itself that matters.

I understand that, but why does gitweb have to punish me because I
give it more than it cares about?

> If you provide access for others, i.e. if those repositories shown in
> gitweb are public repositories, it is much better to use bare
> repositories for that.

Why?  What difference does it make if they clone directly from my
working tree, instead of some shadow repository?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-15 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-15 20:49 Removing the trailing "/.git" from gitweb display? Timur Tabi
2009-05-15 21:14 ` J.H.
2009-05-15 21:17 ` [PATCH] gitweb: Document that gitweb deals with bare repositories Jakub Narebski
2009-05-15 21:24   ` Timur Tabi
2009-05-15 21:36     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-15 22:21       ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2009-05-16  2:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-16  8:14         ` Jakub Narebski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-29 20:26 gitweb $export_ok question Thomas Amsler
     [not found] ` <6db6bed70812311027g3be1cfbei35c014243237fd59@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-01 22:51   ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-03 13:23     ` [PATCH] gitweb: Document that gitweb deals with bare repositories Jakub Narebski

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