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| author |  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2013-04-16 15:26:00 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-17 15:18:12 -0700 |
| commit | 1a39b7278712dbdaa27de303c670134e750c345d (patch) | |
| tree | f73d4406b41ee77cf06753d93356de20fe890873 | |
| parent | gitweb/INSTALL: Simplify description of GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM (diff) | |
| download | tgif-1a39b7278712dbdaa27de303c670134e750c345d.tar.xz | |
gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility
Highlight that CONFIG_SYSTEM and /etc/gitweb.conf are meant to be
the fallback configuration file in BUGS section of gitweb.conf
documentation. This will hopefully help people who expect them to
be a common default, which unfortunately came later in the history.
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index eb636317be..ea0526ecc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -857,6 +857,13 @@ adding the following lines to your gitweb configuration file: $known_snapshot_formats{'zip'}{'disabled'} = 1; $known_snapshot_formats{'tgz'}{'compressor'} = ['gzip','-6']; +BUGS +---- +Debugging would be easier if the fallback configuration file +(`/etc/gitweb.conf`) and environment variable to override its location +('GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM') had names reflecting their "fallback" role. +The current names are kept to avoid breaking working setups. + ENVIRONMENT ----------- The location of per-instance and system-wide configuration files can be |