Re: [Savannah-help-public] Git support in Savannah and Savane

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:03:40PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:56:10PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> >> Was git support in Savannah ported back to Savane? From what I can see 
> >> Savannah and Gna! both use Savane, but only Savannah has git support 
> >> (but it does not accept new projects due to lack of project reviewers).
> > 
> > You can find Savannah's current version at:
> > https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/savane-cleanup
> > 
> > Note that whatever version people are using, they need to install Git
> > and provide support for it, Savane only takes care of creating
> > repositories.
> 
> Thanks a lot for an URL. I was searching for git support in "main" Savane,
> i.e. at https://gna.org/projects/savane
> 
> I don't suppose Git support is documented in the same way as Subversion,
> CVS and GNU Arch (who uses GNU Arch now, instead for example Bazaar-NG)?

It works pretty much the same way.

> P.S. Because Savane is written mainly in PHP, with only bits of Perl
> from what I've checked (correct me if I'm wrong), I wonder if it wouldn't
> be better instead of using [standalone] gitweb for web interface one of
> the git-php interfaces:
>   http://code.google.com/p/git-php/
>   http://people.proekspert.ee/peeter/git/git.php
> (see http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools), and try to
> embed it more in Savane. Just a thought...

That may be interesting. What kind of benefit would we get?

-- 
Sylvain