gitweb: require $ENV{'GITWEB_CONFIG'}

With this patch it is possible to use gitweb.perl for developing by
loading the configuration from $GITWEB_CONFIG.  This might also be
useful for normal usage of gitweb.

Example:

    % cat cfg
    $GIT = '/usr/bin/git';
    $projectroot = '/home/matled/src/git';
    $projects_list = '/home/matled/src/git/git/gitweb/list';
    % cat run
    #!/bin/sh
    export GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"
    export HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*"
    export REQUEST_METHOD="GET"
    export GITWEB_CONFIG='./cfg'
    export QUERY_STRING=""$1""
    exec ./gitweb.perl
    % time ./run p=git/.git > /dev/null

This makes it easy to check for warnings and do performance tests
after changes, you can also pipe this to lynx -dump -force-html
/dev/stdin to get more than just html.

This also documents the original patch adding require $GITWEB_CONFIG.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index b91d42a909..27c6dac143 100644
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
    Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server.
  * GITWEB_LOGO
    Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server.
+ * GITWEB_CONFIG
+   This file will be loaded using 'require'.  If the environment
+   $GITWEB_CONFIG is set when gitweb.cgi is executed the file in the
+   environment variable will be loaded instead of the file
+   specified when gitweb.cgi was created.
 
 Originally written by:
   Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>