Re: Multiple projects with gitweb

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 13, 2011, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID: <m34o2qb1ao.fsf_-_@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1310566351.5205.9.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> writes:

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> The /etc/gitweb.conf file is not meant to provide for that
> customization. The way that gitweb is currently constructed, if you use
> a local configuration file for an instance it will completely ignore the
> system-wide configuration file (I didn't make that decision, as it
> doesn't make much sense to me either), so you will have to make sure
> that ALL settings required are set in each instance-local configuration.

There were some patches sent to alleviate it (with read_config_file that one can use in per-instance config file) and fix it (with introduction of common configuration file /etc/gitweb-common.conf), but I don't know what happened to it.

> I plan on re-submitting my touch-ups to that documentation now that a
> have a minor window of sanity here at work (not that I expect that to
> last).

That would be very nice.

-- 
Jakub Narębski