Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Multiple git repos for one group

[Jing Luo]

On 2024-01-19 17:24, Ineiev wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 12:57:50PM +0900, Jing Luo via Discussions 
> among Savannah Hackers, open subscription wrote:
> > The frontend php code and site-specific code don't tell me much except 
> > it
> > can display multiple git repos on "Use Git", and the backend sv_groups 
> > seems
> > to be able to take $dir_git. So, did groups like "dragora" request the
> > Savannah hackers to manually create multiple git repos? Did Savannah 
> > hackers
> > manually created multiple git repos?
>
> Creating repositories is a one-way process because our general
> policy is to keep any code indefinitely. we could automatically
> check if the repository is empty and allow the users to remove it,
> but in most cases they'll have at least a few testing commits,
> anyway. if the users can easily create repositories themselves,
> Savannah sysadmins may face a high-volume flow of requests
> to remove unneeded repositories.

That's fine, I wasn't suggesting a new feature, I was trying to 
understand the internals of Savane code.

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