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diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index d481198796..4a673933ac 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT: when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was created. [Default: /etc/gitweb.conf] + * HIGHLIGHT_BIN + Path to the highlight executable to use (must be the one from + http://www.andre-simon.de due to assumptions about parameters and output). + Useful if highlight is not installed on your webserver's PATH. + [Default: highlight] Runtime gitweb configuration @@ -172,13 +177,15 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build): * $my_url, $my_uri Full URL and absolute URL of gitweb script; in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those - variables, now there should be no need to do it. + variables, now there should be no need to do it. See + $per_request_config if you need to set them still. * $base_url Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb, (e.g. $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs), needed and used only for URLs with nonempty PATH_INFO via <base href="$base_url">. Usually gitweb sets its value correctly, and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/". + See $per_request_config if you need to set it anyway. * $home_link Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view "breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri). @@ -236,7 +243,21 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build): If server load exceed this value then return "503 Service Unavailable" error. Server load is taken to be 0 if gitweb cannot determine its value. Set it to undefined value to turn it off. The default is 300. - + * $highlight_bin + Path to the highlight executable to use (must be the one from + http://www.andre-simon.de due to assumptions about parameters and output). + Useful if highlight is not installed on your webserver's PATH. + [Default: highlight] + * $per_request_config + If set to code reference, it would be run once per each request. You can + set parts of configuration that change per session, e.g. by setting it to + sub { $ENV{GL_USER} = $cgi->remote_user || "gitweb"; } + Otherwise it is treated as boolean value: if true gitweb would process + config file once per request, if false it would process config file only + once. Note: $my_url, $my_uri, and $base_url are overwritten with + their default values before every request, so if you want to change + them, be sure to set this variable to true or a code reference effecting + the desired changes. The default is true. Projects list file format ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |