[PATCH] Update the gitweb/README file to include setting the GITWEB_CONFIG environment
From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
---
gitweb/README | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index 61c7ab5..099cfae 100644
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ repositories, you can configure apache l
DocumentRoot /pub/git
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT]
+ SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
</VirtualHost>
The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
@@ -51,6 +52,12 @@ both as cloneable GIT URL and as browsea
If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all
then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path.
+Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use
+the named file (ie in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a
+configuration for gitweb. Perl variables defined in here will
+override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or
+gitweb.cgi). Look at the comments in that file for information on
+which variables and what they mean.
Originally written by:
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1.4.2.1
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>