On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Francis Galiegue <fg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It just seems to me that this is emulating functionality that multiple Web servers already provide... > > What's more, knowledge about these Web servers are _much_ more widespread than knowledge about gitweb. > > Why reinvent the wheel? If you are speaking of web servers as in 'GitHub', then it is irrelevant, because its server software is nonfree. If you are speaking of web servers as in 'Apache', then how would it know which files are going to be accessed when it executes cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=very/private/project.git to check permissions? Alexander -- 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
