From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:50:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHv3 4/5] gitweb: Starting work on a man page for /etc/gitweb.conf (WIP)
Message-ID: <1307476229.12888.86.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <201106072136.03964.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 21:36 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Anyway, because of backward compatibility (bug-compatible) we have to
> name new system-wide config file /etc/gitweb-common.conf, fallback config
> be at /etc/gitweb.conf, and per-instance config file gitweb_config.perl
> Note that these are only defaults; they can be overridden at build time
> (though you cannot change names of respective environmental variables).
> 
> Perhaps at some flag day (1.8.0 is probably to close) we can change it so
> that system-wide config file is /etc/gitweb.conf, per-instance config file
> (overriding system-wide settings) is gitweb_config.perl, and fallback
> system-installed config file used if per-instance config file does not
> exists is /etc/gitweb_config.perl

I would not have asked that such a large change happen any sooner than
that.

-- 
-Drew Northup
________________________________________________
"As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?"
-John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59