Re: GSoC 2010: "Integrated Web Client for git" proposal

[Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:43:22PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 21:56 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>> > If the project is a success, I wanted to use it for mob branch editing
>> > on repo.or.cz. It could also be used as open-source Gist alternative.
>>
>> For that you would need editing file / editing contents action, but
>> this is explicitely excluded in current version of Pavan's proposal :-(
>
> Is it? I see it only being omitted.

Yes, you can see it in "future functionalities" section of the proposal.

Implementing a proper and perfect file editor will be a tough job. So,
I removed it from GSoC and listed in that section.
But we can always have a simple textarea to implement it and I think I
will have time to do this simple textarea during my GSoC.

>
>> > But it needs to be coded so that it does not require an actual checked
>> > out copy (which shouldn't be too much hassle).
>>
>> It would require using 'git hash-object -t blob -w --stdin' (from body
>> submitted via POST from textarea) plus 'git update-index --cacheinfo'.
>
> Yes. Not a whole lot of effort, seems to me. A downside is that you
> cannot use the working tree - index dichotomy, but life isn't perfect.
>
>> There is however complication that you would need to do open2/open3
>> because git-hash-object would require bidirectional communication unless
>> you would use temporary file (command_bidi_pipe in Git.pm, untested).
>
> I think even just going through a temporary file is fine for initial
> implementation.
>
>> So additional step would be
>>
>>         cp -fvR gitweb/lib /var/www/cgi-bin/    ;# as root
>
> Yes!
>
>> I hope that we could make installing gitweb as easy as
>>
>>         make webscriptdir=/var/www/cgi-bin/ \
>>              gitweb-install
>>

We can try it. :-)

>> or in more complicated case (gitweb modules not installed in cgi-bin)
>>
>>         make webscriptdir=/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb \
>>              GITWEB_BASE="/gitweb/" \
>>              GITWEBPERLLIB=/usr/local/lib/perl5 \
>>              gitweb-install
>>
>> or something like that (I do not know any standard for the name of build
>> configuration variable which tells where to install web aplication;
>> do you?)
>
> Ideally, yes, but that's not directly tied to the splitting effort.
> (No clue about the configuration variable.)
>
>> Well, I would perhaps start simply with
>>
>>   gitweb.perl
>>   lib/Gitweb.pm
>>
>> We can modify file organization later; what's important is the build
>> infrastructure (even if it is instruction in gitweb/INSTALL).
>
> That sounds like the best way. :)
>
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