Categorize git repositories

Question

I would like to organize my git repositories into categories. My main reason to do this is to get a better overview of my code repositories in the web interface I use (GitList - http://www.gitlist.org).

Now I get a long list of all the repositories, it would be nice to see only a few categories (as "repositories" or something else with description). And when you select one category you see all the repositories within that category. I have my own git server with Gitolite (https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/) and Gitolite has some settings to categorize repositories for GitWeb, but I can't see that information in either GitWeb nor GitList, the later is not that surprising, when the setting is for GitWeb.

It would be really great to be able to categorize the repositories from Gitolite and that it showed up in GitList. But since this may not be possible (I can't see that it even works for GitWeb, where it is supposed to work) is there an other way I can manage this?

I have read some about nested git repositories, but that is not really what I am after, it does not have to affect the repositories at all, just the way that they are presented in the web interface.

Someone with helpful tips on the subject?

Answer 1

GitWeb will categorize the repositories it lists, if—and only if—you enable the categorized output in the configuration section. You will need to change the value of $projects_list_group_categories to make this happen:

our $projects_list_group_categories = 1;

Afterwards, GitWeb will pick up the category from the gitweb.category configuration in each repository. You can set this in Gitolite by setting the category for a repo to some value.

repo something
    RW+ = @members
    category = My category name