Thanks for the confirmation.

Is there any chance of an option that just allows the full local clone
to be done over git (if the user says that's fine)?
Or would that be too strenuous on Review Board, as it would
(presumably) have to call "git clone" any time someone hits "Upload
diff"?

Chris


On Feb 2, 10:18 pm, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote:
> 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
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> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Stephen Gallagher <
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> 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).
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