Re: Working on gitweb (was: [PATCHv5] Add Gitweb support for XZ compressed snapshots)

Dnia sobota 1. sierpnia 2009 13:13, demerphq napisał:

One thing i notice is that most/all of the existing repos are forks of git.

And the changes are to gitweb.perl, persumably on the assumption that
people upgrade using the install process.

That doesn't make it easy to track changes that are made to the
production version ("installed" version), unless im missing something.

How does one set up gitweb so that one can hack its sources and track
them in a sane way when you are not using make install-gitweb
(whatever) all the time?

There are at least two possible options. First (that is the one I use)
is to create script to update gitweb, which would run "make gitweb/gitweb.cgi",
with appropriate option, then copy files, like gitweb-update.sh script below.

Second option is to do like t/t9500* gitweb test, which means providing
config file by using GITWEB_CONFIG environment variable, and set all 
required options/variables like $GIT via config file instead of via 
build time configuration.  See also gitweb-run.sh script below.

-- [gitweb-update.sh] --
#!/bin/bash

#BINDIR="/usr/bin"
BINDIR="/home/local/git"

function make_gitweb()
{
	pushd "/home/jnareb/git/"

	make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/home/local/scm" \
	     GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb/gitweb.css" \
	     GITWEB_LOGO="/gitweb/git-logo.png" \
	     GITWEB_FAVICON="/gitweb/git-favicon.png" \
	     GITWEB_BLAMEJS="/gitweb/blame.js" \
	     GITWEB_HOMETEXT="/home/local/scm/indextext.html" \
	     bindir=$BINDIR \
	     gitweb/gitweb.cgi

	popd
}

function copy_gitweb()
{
	cp -fv ~/git/gitweb/gitweb.{cgi,css} /home/local/gitweb/
}

make_gitweb
copy_gitweb

# end of gitweb-update.sh

-- [gitweb-run.sh] --
#!/bin/bash

export GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"
export HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*"
export REQUEST_METHOD="GET"
export QUERY_STRING=""$1""
export PATH_INFO=""$2""

export GITWEB_CONFIG="~/git/gitweb/gitweb_config.perl"

perl -- ~/git/gitweb/gitweb.perl

-- [gitweb_config.perl] --
#!/usr/bin/perl

# gitweb configuration

our $version = "current";
#our $GIT = "/usr/bin/git";
our $GIT = "/home/local/git/git";
our $projectroot = "/home/local/scm";
our $home_link_str = "projects";
our $site_name = "[localhost]";
our $site_header = "";
our $site_footer = "";
our $home_text = "indextext.html";
our @stylesheets = ("file:///home/user/git/gitweb/gitweb.css");
our $logo = "file:///home/user/git/gitweb/git-logo.png";
our $favicon = "file:///home/user/git/gitweb/git-favicon.png";
our $blamejs = "file:///home/user/git/gitweb/blame.js";
our $projects_list = "";
our $export_ok = "";
our $strict_export = "";
our $project_maxdepth = 2007;
our @git_base_url_list = ("/home/user/git");

$feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1];
$feature{'grep'}{'default'} = [1];
$feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1];

# end of gitweb_config.perl
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland