From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jamie.couture at gmail.com (Jamie Couture)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:58:44 -0400
Subject: Displaying latest commit message instead of description on
 repository list
In-Reply-To: <877g2tfvfj.fsf@columbia.edu>
References: <877g2tfvfj.fsf@columbia.edu>
Message-ID: <20140731165844.GB23653@neptune>

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.
> 

What is your setup like?  How are you listing the projects?


I normally use gitolite, which is great for managing stuff like
that:

repo project-a
    config gitweb.owner         = "A U Thor author at example.com"
    config gitweb.description   = "My project"


However, assuming you're using gitolite and you allow user created
repositories, or wild repositories [1], you would need to have some
external script.  Perhaps something that will map known repo names
to a list of descriptions.  It could conceivably be run with some
POST_CREATE trigger [2].


[1] http://gitolite.com/gitolite/wild.html
[2] http://gitolite.com/gitolite/triggers.html