Re: [RFD] gitweb configuration

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 18, 2006, 08:02 UTC
Message-ID: <e731ai$su1$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90606180042w7b4d11dbvbea28b750ddbc6e2@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> On 6/18/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So GIT_CONFIG would be ~/.gitconfig, and GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL would be
>> $GIT_DIR/config or what?
> 
> I don't quite follow why gitweb needs a GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL defined.
> Given that it works in a CGI environment, it should read
> $GIT_DIR/config by default, and $GIT_CONFIG if set (from httpd.conf).

When talking about gitweb [installation] configuration, including where to find GIT projects to display, one needs to remember that gitweb might (and probably is) installed from binary package and not git.git, and git/.git/config might not exist.

So we have the following options to separate gitweb-wide options:

- use ~/.gitconfig, /etc/gitconfig or some other global git configuration 
  file, reading values using '$gitexecdir/git-repo-config'.
  Problem: bootstraping, namely value of $gitexecdir ($gitbin now)
  needs to be set in gitweb.cgi, perhaps during the build process.

- use gitweb.conf for configuration, reading values via equivalent of
  'GIT_CONFIG=gitweb.conf $gitexecdir/git-repo-config'. 
  Problem: bootstraping, namely value of $gitexecdir ($gitbin now)
  needs to be set in gitweb.cgi, perhaps during the build process.

- use gitweb.conf for configuration, following the .git/config format,
  writing parsing of ini file (reading only) in Perl from scratch 
  (or use one of many CPAN modules).

- use Perl for configuration file, a la Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> patch:
   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=114308224922372&w=2

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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