[PATCH] Update the gitweb/README file to include setting the GITWEB_CONFIG environment
From: Alan Chandler <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:42
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Alan Chandler <redacted> Signed-off-by: Alan Chandler <redacted> --- gitweb/README | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index 61c7ab5..099cfae 100644
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ repositories, you can configure apache l DocumentRoot /pub/git RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT] + SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf </VirtualHost> The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
@@ -51,6 +52,12 @@ both as cloneable GIT URL and as browsea If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path. +Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use +the named file (ie in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a +configuration for gitweb. Perl variables defined in here will +override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or +gitweb.cgi). Look at the comments in that file for information on +which variables and what they mean. Originally written by:
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