From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:36:01 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb on shared hosting
Message-ID: <f3v1cg$ft4$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200706021953.09942.dev.list@mircea.bardac.net>

Mircea Bardac wrote:

> 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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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