Mircea Bardac wrote: > It is also very strange to have README/"How to configure gitweb for your local > system" saying "You can specify the following configuration variables when > buiding GIT". That means I have to rebuild GIT (actually, only > gitweb/gitweb.cgi) to configure gitweb => I need to download the sources by > hand instead of using the already installed gitweb on my system (the one > which came with the git package). First, it is when building gitweb/gitweb.cgi from gitweb/gitweb.perl, but in practice that is just filling configuration in a few places. See the places in the source, and later you can edit gitweb.cgi by hand. > Is there any strong reason to have configuration at build-time at all? It > would be a lot easier IMO to have it *just* by config files. I'm saying this > because most of the install process is manual anyway (copying/moving files). You can override configuration using config file (with exception of name of config file), and put [almost] all configuration in config file. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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
