gitweb obtains configuration from the following sources: 1. per-instance configuration file (default: gitweb_conf.perl) 2. system-wide configuration file (default: /etc/gitweb.conf) If per-instance configuration file exists, then system-wide configuration was _not used at all_. This is quite untypical and suprising behavior. This commit changes gitweb behavior so that configuration in per-instance configuration file can _override_ settings from system-wide configuration file. Suggested-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> --- This is the response to discussion in the [PATCH/WIP] Starting work on a man page for /etc/gitweb.conf http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/173422 The patch to gitweb.perl itself (without the commit message) was send as part of http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/173422/focus=173489 (embedded in body of email). Note that changes to gitweb/README and gitweb/INSTALL were minimalized, so the final result might not be the best... but I think it is good enough. gitweb/INSTALL | 8 +++++--- gitweb/README | 2 +- gitweb/gitweb.perl | 7 ++++--- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL index 4964a67..0584919 100644 --- a/gitweb/INSTALL +++ b/gitweb/INSTALL @@ -98,15 +98,17 @@ Gitweb config file See also "Runtime gitweb configuration" section in README file for gitweb (in gitweb/README). -- You can configure gitweb further using the gitweb configuration file; +- You can configure gitweb further using the per-instance gitweb configuration file; by default this is a file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as gitweb.cgi script. You can control the default place for the config file using the GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it - using the GITWEB_CONFIG environment variable. If this file does not - exist, gitweb looks for a system-wide configuration file, normally + using the GITWEB_CONFIG environment variable. + gitweb also 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 the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environment variable. + Settings from per-instance configuration file override those from + system-wide configuration file. - The gitweb config file is a fragment of perl code. You can set variables using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index a92bde7..334f13e 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Runtime gitweb 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). +`GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM` (defaults to /etc/gitweb.conf), in that order. The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the optional features, stored in the '%features' variable. diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl index acdc5b8..9527cd2 100755 --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl @@ -637,12 +637,13 @@ sub evaluate_gitweb_config { our $GITWEB_CONFIG = $ENV{'GITWEB_CONFIG'} || "++GITWEB_CONFIG++"; our $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM = $ENV{'GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM'} || "++GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM++"; # die if there are errors parsing config file + if (-e $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM) { + do $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM; + die $@ if $@; + } if (-e $GITWEB_CONFIG) { do $GITWEB_CONFIG; die $@ if $@; - } elsif (-e $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM) { - do $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM; - die $@ if $@; } } -- 1.7.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html