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Re: gitweb on shared hosting

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 3, 2007, 18:36 UTC
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Mircea Bardac wrote:
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> It is also very strange to have README/"How to configure gitweb for your local 
> system" saying "You can specify the following configuration variables when 
> buiding GIT". That means I have to rebuild GIT (actually, only 
> gitweb/gitweb.cgi) to configure gitweb => I need to download the sources by 
> hand instead of using the already installed gitweb on my system (the one 
> which came with the git package).

First, it is when building gitweb/gitweb.cgi from gitweb/gitweb.perl, but in practice that is just filling configuration in a few places. See the places in the source, and later you can edit gitweb.cgi by hand.

> Is there any strong reason to have configuration at build-time at all? It 
> would be a lot easier IMO to have it *just* by config files. I'm saying this 
> because most of the install process is manual anyway (copying/moving files).

You can override configuration using config file (with exception of name of config file), and put [almost] all configuration in config file.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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