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

From
Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date
Mar 18, 2011, 14:07 UTC
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<1300457243.12245.13.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
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<201103171641.29021.jnareb@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:41 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Drew Northup wrote:
> 
> > I'm obviously a moron because I didn't to bother to scroll through the
> > whole thing first. I'm just not going to fight with you.
> > I'm going to crawl back under my rock now.
> 
> I came to strong; I am very, very sorry about that.  We are really
> interested how we can make existence and use of gitweb config file
> more obvious.
> 
> The "Build time configuration" section in gitweb/INSTALL is 
> unfortunately after the one-page fold, so that's probably why
> you didn't notice that.  It was probably pushed out by changes
> in previous section.
> 
> What were your changes to gitweb.cgi script, i.e. where in gitweb
> sources we should add notification about build time and runtime
> gitweb configuration?

Jakub, I'll have another look soon, perhaps this weekend depending on when I'm done my other obligations. At the very least I'm considering making a man page for the configuration file. I don't know off-hand how much that will be seemingly repetitive of the README, but I suspect I'm not the only one who often finds monolithic files tucked away in /usr/share/doc (/usr/doc for some systems) a daunting reading prospect when I really don't care about the project history since 1937 (which, all too often, was the apparent perspective taken when writing the README). I don't think the gitweb README rises quite to that level, but I do think that benefit may be drawn from doing to it what has been proposed for the rest of gitweb--making it into smaller digestible chunks. I don't plan on bothering anybody here about that until I've had a chance to make a mess in my own repo hacking it to pieces for a while.

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-Drew Northup
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  1. Drew NorthupMar 16, 2011
  2. Jonathan NiederMar 16, 2011
  3. Drew NorthupMar 16, 2011
  4. Jakub NarebskiMar 17, 2011
  5. Matt RyanMar 22, 2011
  6. Jakub NarebskiMar 22, 2011
  7. Jakub NarebskiMar 17, 2011
  8. Drew NorthupMar 18, 2011
  9. Todd ZullingerMar 18, 2011
  10. Drew NorthupMar 18, 2011
  11. Todd ZullingerMar 18, 2011
  12. Jonathan NiederMar 18, 2011

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