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Primordial Ooze : del.icio.us links for Today — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:05:18 +0000

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By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:31:26 +0000

I believe the implementation of gitweb changed a bit after I made this post. I really need to update this post for the latest 1.6.x version of git.

Either way, you now need to generate the gitweb.cgi file yourself from the gitweb.perl file. The gitweb.cgi file is no longer included by default.

View the INSTALL file in your gitweb/ directory to see how this is done.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:58:04 +0000

Hi great tutorial!!!

I don’t seem to have this file gitweb.cgi in git src/gitweb folder, where can I find it? Version 1.5.6.5

Thanks,

Peter.

By: Jules C.

Jules C. — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:59:44 +0000

As a note, I have been able to get this working without rebuilding git. I did download the source to get gitweb though. It would appear that the git version currently installed is newer than the one mentioned.

By: Majesta

Majesta — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:00:18 +0000

commenting usually isnt my thing, but ive spent an hour on the site, so thanks for the info

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*blog » Blog Archive » merb, dreamhost, capistrano and git — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:08:46 +0000

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By: David Rivers

David Rivers — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:14:14 +0000

Just wanted to warn that, in case you go the route I did, make sure you setgid of the repo directory (chmod g+s /path/to/repodir) so that newly created files will be owned by the repo dir’s group, instead of whichever primary group (pg*******) that DreamHost assigned to each of your users. Otherwise, you might run into this problem when other users create new objects, as I have!:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/11/26/4243324/threadt

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:31:33 +0000

Yeah, that would work nicely as well.

By: David Rivers

David Rivers — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:26:37 +0000

Craig:

Couldn’t figure out CURL, but I was luckily wrong about needing it! I think my earlier issue with cloning a remote git repository was that I was trying to clone a GitHub repo without already providing GitHub with my public key, via their website (their documentation was lacking until my friend added this to their wiki just the other day!). Seems I can do it just fine now.

Nik, Craig:

Why not do what I did and simply restrict access via your system’s access control model? I’ve configured a user group for each project and assigned it to the applicable repository directory.