Re: Some help on gitweb project.

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:11 PM, jaseem abid [off-list ref] wrote:

Dear all,

CC : Andrew Sayers, Jakub Narębski

I have been working on gitweb for a couple of days as part of a
rejected GSoC proposal. I would love to get some help on this and if
somebody can, that would be thankful.

1. How is code tested after some change? I am not talking about unit
testing but about making sure that application is doing what it is
actually intended to do. Do you have to re - install git/gitweb with
every version of code you commit and make sure that it works well and
as expected? Or, is there some other way? Sorry but I am a newbie when
it comes to FOSS contribution and as well working on a project of this
magnitude.

As far as I understand, gitweb by default is looking for files from
`/usr/share/gitweb/` (I work on Debian Sid if that helps). If I edit
the perl or some JavaScript code, how should I test it? *Install* my
version from source as mentioned in "gitweb/INSTALL" ?

Adding a bit more to the last mail. In the specific case of gitweb, I
can sym link files from `/usr/share/giweb` or any installation folder
to the working directory for testing. Then all I have to do is to
rebuild the files and forget about moving the files to right place. Is
it ok to develop this way? I am looking for some good practices here
on this.

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Jaseem Abid
http://jaseemabid.github.com