From owner-freebsd-cvsweb@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 04:04:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E81616A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:04:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from smtp104.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.52.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B7A043D5D for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:04:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: (qmail 82325 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2006 04:04:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noackjr@supercrime.org@24.99.22.177 with login) by smtp104.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2006 04:04:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC7F6256; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:04:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 47290-11; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:04:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (unknown [192.168.1.101]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37EAC6251; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:04:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43DEE1C7.60809@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:04:23 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manuel Lemos References: <43C9913E.1050005@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <43C9913E.1050005@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org Cc: freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File descriptions X-BeenThere: freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: CVS Web maintenance mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:04:23 -0000 Manuel Lemos wrote: > Maybe I am missing something obvious, but I could not find an option to > make the descriptions of each file appear at least in the page to browse > the file. > > I see the use_descriptions option in the cvsweb.conf but that seems for > module descriptions. > > Is there a way to make cvsweb display the file descriptions? At least it > should appear in the file page, but I think it would be nice if it could > appear somehow in the respective file listing too. Right now it appears that use_descriptions only works for directories. Adding a Description column to files would make them very wide, although there's nothing preventing us from doing it. Displaying the descriptions on the file page is a decent idea. The descriptions file would have to be loaded for each page, so making it large would have an adverse effect on interactivity. If you are having problems getting use_descriptions to work with directories, be sure you add the descriptions file to CVSROOT/checkoutlist as documented in section 9 of the INSTALL file. -Jonathan