Re: [RFD] Gitweb: Source configuration from file separate from the CGI script

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On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:41 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Drew Northup wrote:
> 
> > I'm obviously a moron because I didn't to bother to scroll through the
> > whole thing first. I'm just not going to fight with you.
> > I'm going to crawl back under my rock now.
> 
> I came to strong; I am very, very sorry about that.  We are really
> interested how we can make existence and use of gitweb config file
> more obvious.
> 
> The "Build time configuration" section in gitweb/INSTALL is 
> unfortunately after the one-page fold, so that's probably why
> you didn't notice that.  It was probably pushed out by changes
> in previous section.
> 
> What were your changes to gitweb.cgi script, i.e. where in gitweb
> sources we should add notification about build time and runtime
> gitweb configuration?

Jakub,
I'll have another look soon, perhaps this weekend depending on when I'm
done my other obligations. 
At the very least I'm considering making a man page for the
configuration file. I don't know off-hand how much that will be
seemingly repetitive of the README, but I suspect I'm not the only one
who often finds monolithic files tucked away in /usr/share/doc (/usr/doc
for some systems) a daunting reading prospect when I really don't care
about the project history since 1937 (which, all too often, was the
apparent perspective taken when writing the README). I don't think the
gitweb README rises quite to that level, but I do think that benefit may
be drawn from doing to it what has been proposed for the rest of
gitweb--making it into smaller digestible chunks. I don't plan on
bothering anybody here about that until I've had a chance to make a mess
in my own repo hacking it to pieces for a while.

-- 
-Drew Northup
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