Re: [RFC] Splitting gitweb and build-time configuration variables

Jakub Narebski wrote:

1. Description of build-time configuration variable is in the module
   that defines it, and each block of variables coming from the same
   module would have notice where one can find description of those
   variables

[...]

2. Description of build-time configuration variables is in gitweb.perl,
   and in each module there is comment that full description of those
   variables can be found there, e.g. (proposal):

     # Values of those variables are set during build time in 
     # gitweb/gitweb.perl (main script).  You can find their description
     # there.

[...]

3. Duplicate description of those variables

With #2, a person reading the Makefile can grep for some particular
substitution (++GITWEB_PROJECTROOT++) and quickly find the name and
description of the variable it is used for.  If there were a 1:1
correspondence between the variables in gitweb.perl and the Makefile,
I would even suggest moving the description to the Makefile.

In practice, I suspect the run-time configuration is more important to
people.  That is already fairly well documented in gitweb/README.

Just my two cents,
Jonathan