backward compat breakage coming up

[Sitaram Chamarty]

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Hi all,

I am planning to drop this very old way to set gitweb description and owner for gitolite-managed repos:

repo-name = "some long description"
repo-name "owner name" = "some long description"

I am planning to stop supporting this. I have a note in my TODO list that this caused problems for someone (although what precisely that was I can't seem to remember). In any case the syntax is unintuitive, compared to the 2 methods (for each variable) that V3 supports:

owner = "owner name"
config gitweb.owner = owner name

desc = "some long description"
config gitweb.description = some long description

category = "whatever..."
config gitweb.category = whatever...

QUESTION: how many of you would be seriously inconvenienced -- beyond making a few simple changes -- if I dropped the older syntax?

[Sitaram Chamarty]

I found the mail that led to this, see [1].

Apart from the typo aspect, it's just unintuitive syntax I think, so if
you really need it please respond otherwise it'll go in the next week or
two.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/gitolite/typo/gitolite/eV96FGrQZZo/N-XeruYG-30J

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Sitaram Chamarty