$ENV{GL_REPO_BASE_ABS} is meant to point to the same directory as
$REPO_BASE, except it is meant to be passed to hooks, ADCs and other
child programs. And since you can't be sure where the child program
starts in, this became an absolute path.
Gradually, however, I started using it wherever I needed an absolute
path (mostly in code that jumps around various directories to do stuff).
Which is silly, because there's no reason $REPO_BASE cannot also be made
an absolute, even if the rc file has a relative path.
So that's what I did now: made $REPO_BASE absolute very early on, and
then systematically changed all uses of the longer form to the shorter
form when appropriate. And so the only thing we now use the longer one
for is to pass to child programs.
(Implementation note: The actual change is not very big, but while I was
about it I decided to make the test suite able to test with an absolute
REPO_BASE also, which is why the commit seems so large.)
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This all started with a complaint from Damien Regad. He had an
extremely odd setup where his bashrc changed PWD to something other than
$HOME before anything else ran. This caused those two variables to
beceom inconsistent, and he had a 1-line fix he wanted me to apply.
I generally don't like making special fixes for for non-standard setups,
and anyway all he had to do was set the full path to REPO_BASE in the rc
file to get around this. Which is what I told him and he very politely
left it at that.
However, this did get me thinking, and I soon realised I was needlessly
conflating "relative versus absolute" with "able to be passed to child
programs". Fixing that solved his problem also, as a side-effect.
So I guess this is all thanks to Damien!
Fedora's config has over 11,000 repositories and the compiled config
file is over 20 MB in size. Although negligible on a server class
machine, on my laptop just parsing this file takes a good 2.5 seconds.
Even if you use GL_ALL_READ_ALL (see a couple of commits before this
one) to remove the overhead for 'read's, that's still a pretty big
overhead for writes. And GL_ALL_READ_ALL is not really a solution for
most people anyway.
With this commit, using GL_BIG_CONFIG adds another optimisation; see
doc/big-config.mkd for details (look for the word "split config" to find
the section that talks about it).
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Implementation notes:
- the check for GL_NO_CREATE_REPOS has moved *into* the loop (which it
completely bypassed earlier) so that write_1_compiled_conf can be
called on each item
(we quietly do not document the 'able' adc, which is now the most
"official" adc in the sense that it has a new test, t64-write-able!)
other notes: fix bug in 'able' (not setting $loc)
THE COMPILED CONFIG FILE FORMAT CHANGES WITH THIS VERSION. PLEASE DO
NOT MIX VERSIONS OR DOWNGRADE. Upgrading using normal gitolite upgrade
means should be fine, though.
Originally, we only allowed "R" and "RW" as categories of users supplied
to the `setperms` command. These map respectively to "READERS" and
"WRITERS" in the access rules.
Now:
- we prefer READERS instead of R and WRITERS instead of RW
- we allow the admin to define other categories as she wishes
(example: MANAGERS, TESTERS, etc). These do not have abbreviations,
however, so they must be supplied in full.
PLEASE, *PLEASE*, read the section in doc/wildcard-repositories.mkd for
more info. This is a VERY powerful feature and if you're not careful
you could mess up the ACLs nicely.
Backward compat note: you can continue to use the "R" and "RW"
categories when running the "setperms" command, and gitolite will
internally convert them to READERS and WRITERS categories.
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implementation notes:
- new RC var called GL_WILDREPOS_PERM_CATS that is a space-sep list of
the allowed categories in a gl-perms file; defaults to "R RW" if not
specified
- wild_repo_rights no longer returns $c, $r, $wC, where $r = $user if
"R $user", $r = '@all' if "R @all", and similarly with $w and "RW".
Instead it returns $c and a new hash that effectively gives the same
info, but expanded to include any other valid categories (listed in
GL_WILDREPOS_PERM_CATS)
- consequently, the arguments that parse_acl takes also change the
same way
- (side note: R and RW are quietly converted to READERS and WRITERS;
however, new categories that you define yourself do not have
abbreviations)
- setperms validates perms to make sure only allowed categories are
used; however even if someone changed them behind the scenes,
wild_repo_rights will also check. This is necessary in case the
admin tightened up GL_WILDREPOS_PERM_CATS after someone had already
setperms-d his repos.
- as a bonus, we eliminate all the post-Dumper shenanigans, at least
for READERS and WRITERS. Those two now look, to the compile script,
just like any other usernames.
Till now I did not have an RC var whose name was a prefix of another
valid RC var, so I never noticed that editrc would set the longer one
also when you set the shorter one.
Fixed
By default, @all does not include gitweb and daemon, but if that's what
you want, you can make it happen... see GL_ALL_INCLUDES_SPECIAL
variable in conf/example.gitolite.rc
This should hopefully be the final step in making wildrepos as close to
normal repos as possible. You can now do pretty much anything with them
that you can do with normal repos [1]
Implementation notes:
- compile puts out %groups into the compiled config file regardless of
GL_BIG_CONFIG because this feature needs it
- wild_repo_rights caches %groups because the part of the %groups hash
we care about will not change between calls in the same run
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[1] **except** use the full-blown config file syntax within the gl-perms
file :-) I don't plan to do that; it's too complicated! [2]
[2] yeah yeah I know -- famous last words!
modifications:
- call setup_gitweb_access and setup_daemon_access from with
get_set_perms so when the user sets a perm explicitly it works
- in setup_gitweb_access, do not delete description file or
gitweb.owner if the repo is wild
- make the "fork" adc set gitweb.owner *and* call setperms using
GL_WILDREPOS_DEFPERMS
- add tests
bug fixes:
- gl-auth did not even *look* at GL_WILDREPOS_DEFPERMS when
auto-"C"reating a wild repo; fixed
- setup_gitweb_access did not delete the description file as
consistently as it deleted the owner
what will NOT work:
- removing gitweb permissions does not clear the name from
"projects.list". That's complicated, so just wait till the next
"compile" to make this happen
(thanks to Jefferai for driving this...)
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mildly puzzling:
for some strange reason, after a "git ls-remote ...try3" in t58,
instead of not creating a "description" file, we started seeing a
73-byte file containing this message:
Unnamed repository; edit this file 'description' to name the repository.
sometimes I want to quickly test a few lines of change within the context of
a currently-running/just-ran test, *without* doing the rollback etc.
Here's how you do that now:
- in your source tree, make the change and then run:
cp -a src hooks contrib/adc /some/tmp/place
- go to the tester userid and re-run your tests like so:
GQT=/some/tmp/place ./test-driver.sh
it'll rollback as normal then overwrite src and hooks from $GQT
Also, there's now a "dbg" sub that can be used for quick printf-style
debugging.
This is what I *should* have done back then; thanks to Jeff Mitchell for
pointing out a problem with the old method.
The old one is *definitely* a kludge. <shamefaced grin>
The log message format has changed. All log messages now have a common
prefix (timestamp, user, IP). This is followed by $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
(or, in one special case, the name of the user's login shell). Any
further text appears after this (currently this only happens in the case
of a successful push -- one for each ref pushed successfully)
