Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 GSoC] git-instaweb: Configure it to work with new gitweb structure

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 20:59:54 +0200

On Sat, 22 May 2010, Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote:
> 2010/5/22 Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>:
>> On Sat, 22 May 2010, Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote:

>> Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
>>
>> _If_ there is no problem with $(gitwebdir) and not $(gitwebdir_SQ),
>> see below for details.
[...]
>>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>>> index caf2f64..91cd726 100644
>>> --- a/Makefile
>>> +++ b/Makefile
>>> @@ -1592,15 +1592,8 @@ git-instaweb: git-instaweb.sh gitweb/gitweb.cgi gitweb/static/gitweb.css gitweb/
>>>       sed -e '1s|#!.*/sh|#!$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)|' \
>> [...]
>>> +         -e 's|@@GITWEBDIR@@|$(gitwebdir)|g' \
>>>           -e 's|@@PERL@@|$(PERL_PATH_SQ)|g' \
>>> -            -e 's|@@GITWEB_CSS_NAME@@|$(GITWEB_CSS)|' \
>>> -            -e 's|@@GITWEB_JS_NAME@@|$(GITWEB_JS)|' \
>>>           $@.sh> $@+ && \
>>>       chmod +x $@+ && \
>>>       mv $@+ $@
>>> @@ -1972,6 +1965,7 @@ install: all
>>>       $(MAKE) -C templates DESTDIR='$(DESTDIR_SQ)' install
>>>  ifndef NO_PERL
>>>       $(MAKE) -C perl prefix='$(prefix_SQ)' DESTDIR='$(DESTDIR_SQ)' install
>>> +     $(MAKE) -C gitweb gitwebdir=$(gitwebdir) install
>>>  endif
>>
>> Have you checked that you can use $(gitwebdir) and don't need
>> $(gitwebdir_SQ) here?  Does git-instaweb installs and works correctly
>> if 'gitwebdir' contains spaces and single or double quote characters?
>> But perhaps that doesn't matter in practice, and this is good enough.
> 
> Nope. I didn't check it. But you are right.

Does it mean that after your patch git-instaweb works correctly if
'gitwebdir' is set to something like (for example):

  gitwebdir="/home/local/some strange \"path'"

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland