From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:54:32 GMT
Subject: [PATCH] gitweb/README: Document $base_url
Message-ID: <20090804155309.30788.77292.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
 > Or you can set up $base_url in your gitweb configuration file (which
 > is not mentioned in the gitweb/README, unfortunately).

So now it is documented.

 gitweb/README |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index 9056d1e..baacddd 100644
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
    Full URL and absolute URL of gitweb script;
    in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those
    variables, now there should be no need to do it.
+ * $base_url
+   Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb, 
+   (e.g. $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs),
+   needed and used only for URLs with nonempty PATH_INFO via
+   <base href="$base_url>.  Usually gitweb sets its value correctly,
+   and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/".
  * $home_link
    Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
    "breadcrumbs").  By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri).