Re: [viewvc-users] How to configure single repository (root)?

On 08/09/2010 06:37 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
> I have only one Subversion repository (ViewVC "root"), but when I visit
> http://campcoop.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi, instead of listing the contents
> of that repository, ViewVC displays a list of repositories (of which
> there's only one)
> 
> If I click on the repository, then ViewVC lists it's contents, but this
> shouldn't be necessary (it should be necessary to choose the repository
> from among only one repository)
> 
> I tried to configure ViewVC to skip the list or repositories by adding,
> 
> default_root = svn
> 
> - to my viewvc.conf, but no success : ( ViewVC still displays a list of
> only one repository
> 
> Is there a way to configure ViewVC to skip the list of only one
> repository, and list its contents instead?

I'll note two approaches to this issue, one of which I'd go so far as to
recommend.

1.  If you set 'root_as_url_component = 0' in your viewvc.conf, this will
have the desired effect.  Your main ViewVC URL ".../viewvc.cgi" will point
to the top-most directory of your default repository.  A top-level directory
in your repository named "bloopty" would have the URL
".../viewvc.cgi/bloopty", and so on.  One downside is that if you later add
more repositories (I know, I know, "I'll never do that..."), their URLs will
need to carry their rootname as a CGI parameter.  So
".../viewvc.cgi/bloopty" would still point to the "bloopty" directory of
your first repository, while ".../viewvc.cgi/bloopty?root=project2" would
point to the "bloopty" directory in another repository named "project2".
Ugliness ensues.

2.  Remove 'roots' from the list of 'allowed_views' in viewvc.conf.  Then,
just don't point folks to the ".../viewvc.cgi" URL -- instead, always link
to the URL that represents the root directory of your sole repository.  This
forward-thinking approach is the one that I recommend.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand

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