Wed Nov  9 00:17:31 UTC 2005  Alberto Bertogli <albertogli@telpin.com.ar>
  * Implement "multidir" configuration entries.
  This patch implements a special configuration entry called "multidir" that can
  be useful when you have a lot of repositories in the same directory and don't
  want to create an entry for each one.
diff -rN -u old-darcsweb/config.py.sample new-darcsweb/config.py.sample
--- old-darcsweb/config.py.sample	2015-04-18 08:11:29.000000000 +0000
+++ new-darcsweb/config.py.sample	2015-04-18 08:11:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -75,3 +75,18 @@
 	repoencoding = 'latin1'
 
 
+#
+# If you have several repositories in a single directory and don't want to
+# create a configuration entry for each one, you can use a "multidir" entry,
+# which serves as a "template" for all the repositories in that directory.
+# The name is taken from the directory, and inside the variables the string
+# "%(name)s" gets expanded to the it.
+#
+
+class multi1:
+	multidir = '/usr/local/src'
+	repodesc = 'Repository for %(name)s'
+	repourl = 'http://auriga.wearlab.de/~alb/repos/%(name)s'
+	repoencoding = 'latin1'
+
+
diff -rN -u old-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi new-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi
--- old-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi	2015-04-18 08:11:29.000000000 +0000
+++ new-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi	2015-04-18 08:11:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -1734,6 +1734,7 @@
 
 	# some python magic
 	alt = False
+	expand_multi_config(all_configs)
 	for conf in dir(all_configs):
 		if conf.startswith('__'):
 			continue
@@ -1764,8 +1765,37 @@
 	print "</table>"
 	print_footer(put_rss = 0)
 
+def expand_multi_config(config):
+	"""Expand configuration entries that serve as "template" to others;
+	this make it easier to have a single directory with all the repos,
+	because they don't need specific entries in the configuration anymore.
+	"""
+
+	for conf in dir(config):
+		if conf.startswith('__'):
+			continue
+		c = config.__getattribute__(conf)
+		if 'multidir' not in dir(c):
+			continue
+
+		entries = os.listdir(c.multidir)
+		for name in entries:
+			rdir = c.multidir + '/' + name
+			desc = c.repodesc % { 'name': name }
+			url = c.repourl % { 'name': name }
+			class tmp_config:
+				reponame = name
+				repodir = rdir
+				repodesc = desc
+				repourl = url
+				repoencoding = c.repoencoding
+				if 'footer' in dir(c):
+					footer = c.footer
+			config.__setattr__(name, tmp_config)
+
 def fill_config(name = None):
 	import config as all_configs
+	expand_multi_config(all_configs)
 
 	if name:
 		# we only care about setting some configurations if a repo was