From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:25:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHv3 4/5] gitweb: Starting work on a man page for /etc/gitweb.conf (WIP)
Message-ID: <20110606222500.GE30588@elie>
In-Reply-To: <20110606221236.GD30588@elie>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Jakub Narebski wrote:

>> +$GIT::
>> +	Core git executable to use.  By default set to `$GIT_BINDIR/git`, which
[...]
> I think a better default would be "git", so if a newer git gets
> installed in /usr/local/bin then gitweb would notice automatically.

Wait, that's quite wrong.  What I was forgetting about is the case
where the webmaster does not control the web hosting but just has a
place to drop CGI scripts under ~/public_html/cgi-bin.  In such a case
it would be very convenient that "make install-gitweb" just does the
right thing (including using a private copy of git).

Sorry for the nonsense.