Drew Northup <drew.northup@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 09:34 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Drew Northup wrote:
> >
> > > I just upgraded my Gitweb package (I'm testing the EPEL RHEL5 latest;
> > > I'm not too happy with them tweaking the paths) and as I should have
> > > expected all of my Gitweb configuration is now gone.
We discourage configuring gitweb by editing generated gitweb.cgi file
for a long, long time, at least since v1.4.2-rc2-102-gc8d138a (gitweb:
optionally read config from GITWEB_CONFIG, 2006-08-02). It is
described in gitweb/README since v1.4.3-rc1-7-g45a3b12 (gitweb:
Document features better, 2006-10-07).
> >
> > In gitweb/README, I see:
Not only gitweb/README; in gitweb.cgi that you are, I suppose,
editing, you have $GITWEB_CONFIG mentioned 25 times as a place
to override default configuration.
> >
> > | You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG`
> > | (defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI), and
> > | as a fallback `GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM` (defaults to /etc/gitweb.conf).
>
> I apparently missed that. Alas, I didn't see it in the code when I was
> setting my values so I assumed that it wasn't available.
$GITWEB_CONFIG is mentioned 25 times in gitweb source; is it not enough?
> Perhaps we can make this a little more obvious?
How can we make it more obvious? gitweb/INSTALL has "Build time
configuration" just below instruction on how to build it, and it
mentions "How to configure gitweb for your local system" section in
gitweb/README in very first line of this section.
> I'll go try that out and see if I can make it break--putting it in
> the same directory definitely wouldn't have helped this time.
First, as Jonathan cited, you can by default beside
'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI use '
/etc/gitweb.conf' file.
Second, you can configure where GITWEB_CONFIG and GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM
are to be found dusing build time, e.g.
$ make GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM=/etc/gitweb/gitweb_config.perl \
install-gitweb
Third, you can override where gitweb searches for its config files
using GITWEB_CONFIG and/or GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM configuration
variables; quite useful for debugging gitweb, and for gitweb tests in
git.git repository.
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Jakub Narebski
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