major changes
- (src) one error message got more detail
- long overdue fixup to developer notes doc
plus many minor changes that have been piling up
PS: to dig into the "alliterative animal" comment, check the channel
logs around aug 23rd ;-)
comments from contributor via email:
* Translates all repos from gitosis to gitolite, even if their are not
associated with any groups
* Transfers gitweb settings (gitweb, description and owner)
* Transfers git-dameon settings
* Maintains comments for groups and repos
As far as I can tell, the results from this filter are working fine
for our transfer from gitosis to gitolite.
requested by someone who told me it's high time I catered to the experts
too, and saved them some time on the install!
I took the opportunity to streamline the README (especially the "what"
section), and to prioritise the non-root method over the root method in
the install doc.
wrap_print() was written to create a new file and rename the old one to
avoid a partially written file being read by other processes. This has
only been reported for the 'projects.list' file, but I just did it for
all files as a matter of course.
list of files currently written via this function:
gl-creater, gl-perms, description, git-daemon-export-ok, projects.list
However, some people want to do the following:
- set REPO_UMASK tight (0077, default)
- manually change the perms to something looser (typically g+rX) for
specific repos
- set core.sharedRepository to 0750 (git is documented to honor that
config if available and to override umask)
Except that core.sharedRepository does not apply to files written by
gitolite and not git itself. So they would open up their description
files and the next compile would close them again!
This patch prevents this from happening. If the file already exists, it
maintains the same permissions after the rename.
previously, these two would produce different results
config aa.bb = 'true' # config file line includes single quotes
config aa.bb = "true" # config file line does not include any quotes
Now the former will also behave like the latter.
Without this, complex mirroring scenarios will be unpredictable. For
example (abbreviating "gitolite.mirror." to "gimo.") something as simple
as this will not give "foo" his different mirror setup
repo @all
config gimo.master = "frodo"
config gimo.slaves = "sam"
repo foo
config gimo.master = "sam"
config gimo.slaves = "frodo gollum"
repo foo bar
RW = u1
Even worse things happen when you have wild cards.
Now, however, they all come in the right sequence and the most recent
one takes effect (unlike ACL rules, where the first match wins, because
there you're trying to just find a match and get out, while here you're
just mindlessly applying config lines in the right order).
- caution about wild repos needing to be manually created on the
receiving side (because nothing gets auto-created now)
- caution about the right and wrong way to "delete" a config variable
- a few other minor fixes
We previously said all mirroring features are disabled if GL_HOSTNAME is
not set.
But what if, after mirroring has been setup, and master/slaves defined
for a repo, a slave admin fat-fingers the RC file and accidentally
comments out GL_HOSTNAME? We might end up violating RULE NUMBER ONE!
- post-receive now just calls mirror-push
- mirror-push is a medium complex shell script (all that backgrounding
etc., can't be done so easily in God's first language!)
- mirror-shell is now a perl program that does a few different things
(receive mirror-pushes, command line re-sync, re-sync requests from a
slave, etc)
- auth-command changes to reject/redirect non-native pushes
to my eternal shame (considering how proud I am of my documentation)
this was not mentioned anywhere! I'm getting old...
thanks to Pierre Habouzit for catching this
(also slipped in a few other minor doc changes. I wouldn't mix
unrelated stuff in a commit when doing code changes but it seems ok to
do this for docfixes, for some reason).
"gitolite-without-ssh" doc name was misleading; rename to
"authentication-vs-authorisation"
also restructure the whole thing to answer the main question better, and
fix up links from other places
Supporting git on DOS may be a fact of life, but it felt good to make
them use the "right" editor (hint: starts with v, ends with m, has three
letters), or at least something equivalent, to produce their setperms
input files.
I'd say "yes Fred I know. However, Unix doesn't work like that, and
when talking to a big, important, OS like Unix from your little
single-user workstation, you do have to go the extra mile. It's not
that different from going into a meeting with the CEO you know -- you
dress up a little for that meeting don't you?". And Fred would nod, a
little awed by the analogy. Maybe the awe was tinged with a wee bit of
anger but not much; he knows there's a hierarchy among OSs, just like
among people, and he knows where his OS stands in that hierarchy...
----
For the humour impaired, that was a joke. To start with, I don't know
anyone called Fred.
It *is* true that I tend to ignore DOS if at all possible, especially in
my *code*. But since I don't really use wildrepos at work, this issue
would never have come up for me, even in the DOS projects I manage.
In this case someone who's contributed a heck of a lot to the evolution
of gitolite asked, so here it is.
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oh and in case you were wondering, DOS stands for "dominant operating
system" ;-)
otherwise repo names containing "@" in them were causing the @foo part
to be interpolated (as empty of course) instead of being taken literally
reported by silvio dot fricke at googlemail
(and in one other place it needs to be defined earlier)
I never caught this because in my testing those error conditions --
caused by lack of afc3a06 -- never came up.
