Junio C Hamano wrote: > In order to just pick and use the more appropriate one (or a useful > combination of the two), a clean description of what each of them do > without historical cruft is more readable and useful, isn't it? I > would expect that most of them who are newly configuring a system > would pick COMMON one and override per instance as needed, without > touching the SYSTEM one (fallback default) after reading the above, > and that is what we want to happen. > > Do you think sysadmins need a history lesson to understand why there > are two different possibilities? [...] > I think the new text conveys the necessary information to the > intended audience with more clarity without the history lesson or > the record of your past frustration. Am I mistaken? Note also that this is about *gitweb/INSTALL*, which is meant to be *short* and succint description on how to install gitweb, and not about the reference documentation: gitweb(1) or gitweb.conf(5). Description of historical behavior (and backward compatibility) has place (if any) in manpages, not gitweb/INSTALL. -- Jakub Narębski -- 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