From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: john at keeping.me.uk (John Keeping)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:39:45 +0100
Subject: Displaying latest commit message instead of description on
 repository list
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References: <877g2tfvfj.fsf@columbia.edu>
Message-ID: <20140731143945.GM26927@serenity.lan>

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:35:12AM -0400, Nik Nyby wrote:
> I have cgit set up with my list of a bunch of different projects, and
> none of those repos have a very descriptive "description" file. I
> thought it would be nice to display each repository's latest commit line
> instead of "Unnamed repository; edit this file 'description' to name the
> repository." in the Description column of this table.
> 
> Does cgit have a mechanism to easily configure what I'm talking about,
> or would this require new functionality?

There is no functionality to do this in CGit, but there is nothing to
stop you adding a Git post-update hook to write the latest commit into
the description file whenever anyone pushes to the repository.