From: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Subject: Re: [gotwebd] Set default displayed file
To: "sylvain@saboua.me" <sylvain@saboua.me>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:02:54 +0100

Hello,

sylvain@saboua.me <sylvain@saboua.me> wrote:
> I gladly managed to set up my own got server (got.saboua.xyz).
> It currently has one embryo of a fork project in it.

that's great! :)

> The file that gets displayed by default is not ideal,
> the README.md shows up with all the mandoc macros.

let me say thought that I'd expect a .md file to be markdown (although
i've just realized that it could also stand for ManDoc :D)

> Hence I am wondering if I may change/set the default displayed
> file, either by filename or configuration ?

at the moment the pattern is hardcoded, please see
gotwebd/got_operations.c:754-759.

Looking around there doesn't seem to be a cross-tool way to configure
the readme to use: cgit has its own way to customize it per-repo
(cgitrc), stagit has an hardcoded list (README and README.md), and
gitweb I'm not sure.

We could either add our own specific key under the gotweb section in the
git config, or maybe we can just make the static list customizable
per-instance instead of per-repository.


Cheers,
Omar Polo