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. > > 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 > > 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. :) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis http://pasky.or.cz/ | "Ars longa, vita brevis." -- Hippocrates -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html