On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:01:03PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > This is yet another series of planned gitweb features. It expands more > > on new user-visible features than on improving gitweb code (therefore > > for example using Git.pm/Git::Repo, gitweb caching, and list form of > > open for pipelines are not mentioned here). > > Below there are a few more features which were missing from the list: > > * Support for invoking gitweb.cgi (the compiled version) from command > line to easy generate projects list in format used by gitweb, > perhaps also to generate web feeds (RSS, Atom, OPML). It would > probably require adding support for CLI parameters. Or, for starters, just document the existing one. ;-) REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING=a=opml gitweb/gitweb.cgi > * gitweb-admin or gitwebmin; I guess best as separate script. > > Allow to set gitweb configuration, gitweb-related per-repository > configuration (visibility, access, description, README, URLs,...). > Perhaps also allow to set access permissions, delete/create > branches, change denyFastForward, rename project, set alternates, > etc. I don't see this very useful for gitweb administrator, but more for owners of particular projects shown by gitweb. That would be very useful, yes! > * Make gitweb use less dependent on understanding git terminology, like > 'tree' -> 'browse' etc. (proposed by Pieter de Bie (Pieter) on #git, > as "simplified interface", 2008-09-27T14:56+0200). > > 'tree' -> 'browse', 'blob' -> 'file' or 'show', > 'snapshot' -> 'archive' or 'download', 'heads' -> 'branches' > 'commit | commitdiff | tree | snapshot' -> 'show | browse' for heads > > Unfortunately there is no consensus on how such simpler terminology > should look like... Yes, I would be very careful here. I personally agree with 'snapshot' -> 'archive' and 'heads' -> 'branches', but I'm not comfortable with the others at all. > * Possibly: fallback to "user.name <user.email>" for repository owner That would be good. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths. -- 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
