Modify description file to say what this file is

A lot of people see this message for the first time on the gitweb
interface, where there is no clue as to what 'this file' means.

Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/templates/hooks--update.sample b/templates/hooks--update.sample
index 93c6055..a3f68ae 100755 (executable)
--- a/templates/hooks--update.sample
+++ b/templates/hooks--update.sample
@@ -43,10 +43,12 @@ allowdeletetag=$(git config --bool hooks.allowdeletetag)
 
 # check for no description
 projectdesc=$(sed -e '1q' "$GIT_DIR/description")
-if [ -z "$projectdesc" -o "$projectdesc" = "Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb." ]; then
+case "$projectdesc" in
+"Unnamed repository"* | "")
        echo "*** Project description file hasn't been set" >&2
        exit 1
-fi
+       ;;
+esac
 
 # --- Check types
 # if $newrev is 0000...0000, it's a commit to delete a ref.

diff --git a/templates/this--description b/templates/this--description
index c6f25e8..498b267 100644 (file)
--- a/templates/this--description
+++ b/templates/this--description
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb.
+Unnamed repository; edit this file 'description' to name the repository.