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Re: [RFC/PATCHv3 4/5] gitweb: Starting work on a man page for /etc/gitweb.conf (WIP)

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 8, 2011, 16:40 UTC
Message-ID
<201106081840.17253.jnareb@gmail.com>
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<20110606222500.GE30588@elie>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> 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).

Right, "git" might not be in PATH of a web server (which can have reduced PATH for security reasons anyway).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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Message 12 of 23 in “[RFC/PATCHv3 0/5] Improving gitweb documentation, creating manpages”
  1. Jakub NarebskiJun 6, 2011
  2. 1/5 gitweb: Move information about installation from README to INSTALLJakub Narebski, Jun 6, 2011
  3. Jonathan NiederJun 6, 2011
  4. 2/5 gitweb: Describe CSSMIN and JSMIN in gitweb/INSTALLJakub Narebski, Jun 6, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederJun 6, 2011
  6. Jakub NarebskiJun 8, 2011
  7. 3/5 gitweb: Move "Requirements" up in gitweb/INSTALLJakub Narebski, Jun 6, 2011
  8. Jonathan NiederJun 6, 2011
  9. 4/5 gitweb: Starting work on a man page for /etc/gitweb.conf (WIP)Jakub Narebski, Jun 6, 2011
  10. Jonathan NiederJun 6, 2011
  11. Jonathan NiederJun 6, 2011
  12. Jakub NarebskiJun 8, 2011
  13. Drew NorthupJun 7, 2011
  14. Jonathan NiederJun 7, 2011
  15. Drew NorthupJun 7, 2011
  16. Jakub NarebskiJun 7, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 7, 2011
  18. Drew NorthupJun 7, 2011
  19. Jakub NarebskiJun 7, 2011
  20. Drew NorthupJun 7, 2011
  21. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2011
  22. Jakub NarebskiJun 8, 2011
  23. 5/5 gitweb: Starting work on a man page for gitweb (WIP)Jakub Narebski, Jun 6, 2011

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