Re: [viewvc-users] multiple repositories and checkout view for 1 repo

On 11/23/2010 11:18 AM, Phil Jeary wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I’m new to Viewvc and also don’t know python.  Someone else installed it
> and it is set up to show 2 repositories.  In a file called standalone.py
> there is a section that gives the first repository it finds the alias
> “Available Builds” and a subsequent one “Environments”, thus clearly
> catering for 2 repositories;
> 
>       elif opt in ('-r', '--repository'):
>         if options.repositories: # option may be used more than once:
>           num = len(options.repositories.keys())+1
>           """symbolic_name = "Builds"+str(num)"""
>           symbolic_name = "Available builds"
>           options.repositories[symbolic_name] = val
>         else:
>           options.repositories["Environments"] = val
> 
> Is it possible to show more repositories in single instance of Viewvc,
> or do I need to set up multiple instances of it?

The code you're looking at has been changed from what ViewVC offers by
default.  The original code looks like this:

      if opt in ('-r', '--repository'):
        if options.repositories: # option may be used more than once:
          num = len(options.repositories.keys())+1
          symbolic_name = "Repository"+str(num)
          options.repositories[symbolic_name] = val
        else:
          options.repositories["Development"] = val

So, you can use -r as much as you want, resulting in repositories with such
exciting names as "Repository1" and "Repository2" and "Repository423".  :-)

That said, if you can do so, I'd strongly suggest that you just use a static
viewvc.conf with your repositories ("roots") defined therein, and dispense
with all the -r command-line stuff.

> While searching for the answer to that I came across the fact that a
> Checkout view existed.  Ours must be new enough that it is turned off by
> default.  I found the allowed_views configuration to turn it on,
> however, I was wondering if it’s possible to set it so it’s only active
> for a specific repository?  In short, we have a repo that non-IT people
> use for version information, it would be helpful if they could download
> the change log from it – but I wouldn’t want them downloading content
> from the code repositories, which they view to see details of the latest
> bug fixes.

I believe you can do this by amending your viewvc.conf file to add a
root-specific configuration section for that one repository and, in that
section, define the allowed_views= option they way you want it:

   [root-ROOTNAME/options]
   allowed_views = ...

(assuming you are using a new enough ViewVC release.)

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