Re: [PATCH] gitweb.cgi: Customization
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- Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
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- Aug 2, 2006, 15:53 UTC
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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/2/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote: > >"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> I'm a bit lost as to gitweb config. Are we not relying on %ENV for > >> this stuff? > > > >It is Ok to use %ENV as an alternative way, but I'd rather not > >make it the _only_ way for basic configuration. Not everybody > >runs Apache. > > Ho-hum. And are those other webservers limited in their ENV-setting-fu? ;-) > > I always thought that any webserver implementing CGI had reasonable > means of ENV manipulation, as that's the main mechanism for the > webserver to "configure" the CGI program. > > But I'm definitely old-style and out-of-fashion in this.
At least if you cannot change the webserver configuration it might be more complicated to set environment variables.