Re: [RFD] Gitweb: Source configuration from file separate from the CGI script

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Mar 16, 2011, 14:44 UTC
Message-ID: <1300286650.28805.29.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20110316143420.GA15371@elie>

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 09:34 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> Drew Northup wrote:
> 
> > I just upgraded my Gitweb package (I'm testing the EPEL RHEL5 latest;
> > I'm not too happy with them tweaking the paths) and as I should have
> > expected all of my Gitweb configuration is now gone.
> 
> In gitweb/README, I see:
> 
> | You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG`
> | (defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI), and
> | as a fallback `GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM` (defaults to /etc/gitweb.conf).
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan

I apparently missed that. Alas, I didn't see it in the code when I was setting my values so I assumed that it wasn't available. Perhaps we can make this a little more obvious? I'll go try that out and see if I can make it break--putting it in the same directory definitely wouldn't have helped this time.

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-Drew Northup
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