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Re: [PATCH] gitweb.cgi: Customization

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MLMatthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date
Aug 2, 2006, 07:09 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> In any case, I think tweaking gitweb.cgi from Makefile like
> Martin Waitz did is as easy and clean for people who want to
> customize; it should just be the matter of defining the
> necessary params in config.mak.
Ack.
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> I do not think there is much difference between any of the
> customization proposed so far (yours, Martin's and the one from
> Matthias Lederhofer) from functionality and ease-of-use point of
> view.  They all try to make customization can be done in one
> place, and the difference is mostly of taste, so I'd just pick
> one from Martin.

Functionality is a bit different. If you have a configuration where perl is used this cannot be done using the make variables. I would like to have the option to include a perl file (this does not conflict with using the Makefile to fill in some values), I've explained this in my other patch. The ways I see to specify the file to include are an environment variable (I don't know if all webservers make it easy to set one), files after __DATA__ or just $include_file = @@GITWEB_INCLUDE_FILE@@ which is replaced by the filename or undef if the user did not set this variable. For the .pm thing I don't know if it is not too complicated to change the path I can put the file and just allowing the user to specify the full path is probably the best. (I think the $include_file way is probably the one to use, using __DATA__ is a bit obscur, and not everyone can set environment variables for the webserver.)

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Message 12 of 22 in “gitweb.cgi: Customization”
  1. gitweb.cgi: CustomizationLuben Tuikov, Aug 1, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2006
  3. Luben TuikovAug 1, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2006
  5. Luben TuikovAug 2, 2006
  6. Martin LanghoffAug 2, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2006
  8. Martin LanghoffAug 2, 2006
  9. Matthias LederhoferAug 2, 2006
  10. Martin WaitzAug 3, 2006
  11. Jeff KingAug 3, 2006
  12. Matthias LederhoferAug 2, 2006
  13. Matthias LederhoferAug 2, 2006
  14. Martin LanghoffAug 2, 2006
  15. Matthias LederhoferAug 2, 2006
  16. Jon LoeligerAug 2, 2006
  17. Jeff KingAug 2, 2006
  18. Matthias LederhoferAug 2, 2006
  19. Jakub NarebskiAug 2, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2006
  21. Luben TuikovAug 2, 2006
  22. Matthias LederhoferAug 2, 2006

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