bug#25957: Acknowledgement (gitolite broken: created repositories keep references to /usr/bin for hooks)

[ng0]

On 17-03-04 16:43:09, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi ng0,
> 
> > I think there should be a reference to /gnu/store/ reddis and not
> > "/usr/sbin/redis-server". Different problem, related bug.. This can be
> > solved in a commit after this bug.
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> I would question why a normal application needs to start a redis *server* in 
> the first place. Sounds strange to me. But I agree that if it wants to do 
> that it should use a store reference.
> 
> <https://redis.io/topics/admin> says "Redis is designed to be a very long 
> running process in your server" so that definitely reads to me that a normal 
> program shouldn't just start redis-server when it feels like it (and I hope 
> it stops it again later? After reading the source code it doesn't appear that 
> way...).
> 
> <http://gitolite.com/gitolite/cache.html> says "WARNING: this has not been 
> tested in a while. YMMV". Uhhhh. Not confidence-inspiring.

It was the first time I read about reddis in gitolite context, and in
all the time I used gitolite I never really needed it when building or
running.
I disregard this as not very important and not really important at all
to fix. It should be fixed in the long run, but my main concern was
usability of gitolite, which has been addressed in one of the two
patches I've sent.