[PATCH] Support .git/category files

Jan-Marek Glogowski glogow at fbihome.de
Thu Mar 5 18:50:47 CET 2015


Am 05.03.2015 um 18:38 schrieb John Keeping:
> What's the advantage of this over using "enable-git-config=1" and
> "cgit.section" (we even support "gitweb.section" as an alias)?

Well - I have 100+ repositories, which already have the "category" file.
There is no "advantage" over any other method.

Am 05.03.2015 um 18:41 schrieb Lukas Fleischer:>
> There already are at least two ways to achieve the same thing (using
> the Git configuration variables gitweb.category or cgit.section and
> repository-specific cgitrc files). Do we really need another
> alternative? Is this just for GitWeb compatibility or does this have
> any advantages over the existing options?

Yes - it's "just" GitWeb compatibility, like - I guess - the
"description" file support just the few lines before my path.

JMG


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