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authorGerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>2008-03-26 18:11:19 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-03-27 20:55:10 (GMT)
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gitweb: fallback to system-wide config file if default config does not exist
From a distribution point of view, configuration files for applications should reside in /etc/. On the other hand it's convenient for multiple instances of gitweb (e.g. virtual web servers on a single machine) to have a per-instance configuration file, just as gitweb currently supports through the file gitweb_config.perl next to the cgi. To support both at runtime, this commit introduces GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM as a system-wide configuration file which will be used as a fallback if the config file sprecified throug GITWEB_CONFIG does not exist. See also http://bugs.debian.org/450592 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL
index 9cd5b0a..743f2d4 100644
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+++ b/gitweb/INSTALL
@@ -95,7 +95,11 @@ for gitweb (in gitweb/README).
by default it is file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as
gitweb.cgi script. You can control default place for config file
using GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it
- using GITWEB_CONFIG environmental variable.
+ using GITWEB_CONFIG environmental variable. If this file does not
+ exist, gitweb looks for a system-wide configuration file, normally
+ /etc/gitweb.conf. You can change the default using the
+ GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM build configuration variable, and override it
+ through GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environmental variable.
- Gitweb config file is [fragment] of perl code. You can set variables
using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end