Yeah, unfortunately, Git provides no way to access individual files from a remote repository without a full local clone, which is why the only two options are having that clone or accessing over gitweb or a similar service.
We should definitely do better validation to make sure you can never enter a remote URL without the raw file mask. Christian -- Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org VMware, Inc. - http://www.vmware.com On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Stephen Gallagher < step...@gallagherhome.com> wrote: > On 02/02/2011 08:12 AM, Christopher Orr wrote: > > I just reproduced this while trying to use RB 1.5.2 with a custom > > remote repository (git+ssh://). > > By trial-and-error, it seems the 'None' error occurs if the "Raw file > > URL mask" field is empty. > > > > Is it correct to say there's no way to set up a git repository in > > Review Board, if the git server is remote and you have no web-based > > access to it? > > In that situation, I think what you would want to do is clone the git > repository locally and use a cron job to keep it up to date with the > remote repository. That's probably the only way around this. > > Or, if you have control of the remote repository, add a post-commit hook > that notifies your clone to update itself (this would be less wasteful > of network resources). > > -- > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<reviewboard%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en
