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Re: [RFD] gitweb configuration

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 18, 2006, 09:12 UTC
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Timo Hirvonen wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> - 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.
> 
> Just use "git command" and you don't have to know $gitexecdir.

First, 'git' might be not in PATH for the webserver user which runs gitweb.cgi.

Second, I guess that '$gitexecdir/git-repo-config' is/can be faster than 'git repo-config', but if 'git' is in the PATH we can set $gitexecdir from 'git --exec-path'.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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  1. Jakub NarebskiJun 17, 2006
  2. Petr BaudisJun 17, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiJun 18, 2006
  4. Martin LanghoffJun 18, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiJun 18, 2006
  6. Timo HirvonenJun 18, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiJun 18, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 18, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiJun 18, 2006
  10. Martin LanghoffJun 18, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 18, 2006
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