Additional gitolite command to show or set gitweb.* configuration for user-created ("wild") repo.

gitolite-gitweb-command-web.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# Installation:
#   To use this script, place it in the commands directory of your
#   gitolite installation. (Hint: ~/gitolite/src/commands/)
#   You will also have to add the command to the allowed commands in
#   your .gitolite.rc configuration file.
#
# Permissions:
#   The script requires the same permissions as the desc command.
#
# Configuration:
#   You can set WEB_HANDLE_DESC with one of the following values:
#     0:  Don't touch the description file. 
#         Note that in gitweb, the description file is consulted first.
#     1:  Remove the description file if one exists.
#     2:  Update the description file with the same content.
#         This is one way, the desc command does not integrate with web.
#
#   Example:
#         WEB_HANDLE_DESC           =>  1,


# Usage:    ssh git@host gitweb <repo> -l
#           ssh git@host gitweb <repo> <key>
#           ssh git@host gitweb <repo> <key> <description string>
#           ssh git@host gitweb <repo> <key> -d
#
# <key> can be 'desc', 'owner' or 'category'
#
# This command can be used to mange gitweb related configuration in
# your repository. You can NOT manage permissions to gitweb with it.


die() { echo "$@" >&2; exit 1; }
usage() { perl -lne 'print substr($_, 2) if /^# Usage/../^$/' < $0; exit 1; }
[ -z "$1" ] && usage
[ "$1" = "-h" ] && usage
[ -z "$GL_USER" ] && die GL_USER not set

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
repo=${1%.git}; shift

# this shell script takes arguments that are completely under the user's
# control, so make sure you quote those suckers!

# kernel.org needs 'desc' to be available to people who have "RW" or above,
# not just the "creator".  In fact they need it for non-wild repos so there
# *is* no creator.
if gitolite query-rc -q WRITER_CAN_UPDATE_DESC
then
    gitolite access -q "$repo" $GL_USER W any || die You are not authorised
else
    gitolite creator "$repo" $GL_USER || die You are not authorised
fi

update_desc=`gitolite query-rc WEB_HANDLE_DESC || echo '0'`

# if it passes, $repo is a valid repo name so it is known to contain only sane
# characters.  This is because 'gitolite creator' return true only if there
# *is* a repo of that name and it has a gl-creator file that contains the same
# text as $GL_USER.

repo_path=`gitolite query-rc GL_REPO_BASE`/"$repo".git/

gitweb_config() {
  local key="$1";
  shift;
  local text="$*";
  case "$text" in
    ("")  git --git-dir "$repo_path" config --local --get gitweb."$key"
          return $?
          ;;

    (-d)  echo "Removing $key";
          git --git-dir "$repo_path" config --local --unset gitweb."$key"
          return $?
          ;;

     (*)  echo "Setting $key";
          git --git-dir "$repo_path" config --local gitweb."$key" "$text"
          return $?
          ;;
  esac
}

case $1 in
  (-l)                  git --git-dir "$repo_path" config --local --get-regexp ^gitweb\\. | \
                           sed 's@^\([^ ]\+\)@\1 =|@' | column -t -s'|';
                        exit 0;;
  (desc|description)    shift;
                        case "$update_desc" in
                          1) [ -w "$repo_path/description" ] && rm "$repo_path/description";;
                          2) echo "$*" > "$repo_path/description";;
                          *) ;;
                        esac
                        gitweb_config description "$*";
                        exit $?;
                        ;;
  (owner)               shift; gitweb_config owner "$*"; exit $?;;
  (category)            shift; gitweb_config category "$*"; exit $?;;
  ("")                  usage; exit 1;;
  (*)                   echo "You can only set desc(ription), owner or category"; exit 1;;

esac

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