Hello,

The included patch attempts to improve post-receive-email. It's a
trivial change, but one that helps us Gitolite users. Comments are
welcome, and this is my first attempt at contributing to the Git
project. Please keep me on CC as I'm not on the list.

>From 878a7af9088e2bcc3afc9b09b9023f1f188c844b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Hasle Amundsen <t.h.amund...@usit.uio.no>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:41:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: get description from repo.git/config

When getting the project description, we first try gitweb.description
entry in repo.git/config, but repo.git/description takes precedence if
it exists. This behaviour mimics that of Gitweb, and is what we want
when using Gitolite, which deletes repo.git/description upon repo
creation and rather maintains a gitweb.description entry in
repo.git/config if a description is configured.

Signed-off-by: Trond Hasle Amundsen <t.h.amund...@usit.uio.no>
---
 contrib/hooks/post-receive-email |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
index 0e5b72d..6ce046a 100755
--- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
@@ -714,7 +714,14 @@ if [ -z "$GIT_DIR" ]; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description" 2>/dev/null)
+# Get the repo's description. First try gitweb.description entry in
+# repo.git/config, but repo.git/description takes precedence if it
+# exists. This behaviour mimics that of Gitweb.
+projectdesc=$(git config gitweb.description)
+if [ -f "$GIT_DIR/description" ]; then
+        projectdesc=$(sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description" 2>/dev/null)
+fi
+
 # Check if the description is unchanged from it's default, and shorten it to
 # a more manageable length if it is
 if expr "$projectdesc" : "Unnamed repository.*$" >/dev/null
-- 
1.7.1

Cheers,
-- 
Trond H. Amundsen <t.h.amund...@usit.uio.no>
Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo

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