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| author | Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> | 2011-07-25 00:29:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-07-24 16:22:21 -0700 |
| commit | 131d6afcba657f9348031ee2e20f62d25d69ce7a (patch) | |
| tree | 48bd48791ef6b84dcad4b293712ea0ec59282203 /gitweb/Makefile | |
| parent | f696543dad6c7ba27b0c4fab167a5687263a9ba0 (diff) | |
| download | git-131d6afcba657f9348031ee2e20f62d25d69ce7a.tar.gz git-131d6afcba657f9348031ee2e20f62d25d69ce7a.tar.xz | |
gitweb: Introduce common system-wide settings for convenience
Because of backward compatibility we cannot change gitweb to always
use /etc/gitweb.conf (i.e. even if gitweb_config.perl exists). For
common system-wide settings we therefore need separate configuration
file: /etc/gitweb-common.conf.
Long description:
gitweb currently obtains configuration from the following sources:
1. per-instance configuration file (default: gitweb_conf.perl)
2. system-wide configuration file (default: /etc/gitweb.conf)
If per-instance configuration file exists, then system-wide
configuration is _not used at all_. This is quite untypical and
suprising behavior.
Moreover it is different from way git itself treats /etc/git.conf. It
reads in stuff from /etc/git.conf and then local repos can change or
override things as needed. In fact this is quite beneficial, because
it gives site admins a simple and easy way to give an automatic hint
to a repo about things the admin would like.
On the other hand changing current behavior may lead to the situation,
where something in /etc/gitweb.conf may interfere with unintended
interaction in the local repository. One solution would be to
_require_ to do explicit include; with read_config_file() it is now
easy, as described in gitweb/README (description introduced in this
commit).
But as J.H. noticed we cannot ask people to modify their per-instance
gitweb config file to include system-wide settings, nor we can require
them to do this.
Therefore, as proposed by Junio, for gitweb to have centralized config
elements while retaining backwards compatibility, introduce separate
common system-wide configuration file, by default /etc/gitweb-common.conf
Noticed-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Helped-by: John 'Warthog9' Hawley <warthog9@kernel.org>
Inspired-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'gitweb/Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | gitweb/Makefile | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gitweb/Makefile b/gitweb/Makefile index 5d20515fb..1c85b5fda 100644 --- a/gitweb/Makefile +++ b/gitweb/Makefile @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ INSTALL ?= install # default configuration for gitweb GITWEB_CONFIG = gitweb_config.perl GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM = /etc/gitweb.conf +GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON = /etc/gitweb-common.conf GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR = projects GITWEB_SITENAME = GITWEB_PROJECTROOT = /pub/git @@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ GITWEB_REPLACE = \ -e 's|++GIT_BINDIR++|$(bindir)|g' \ -e 's|++GITWEB_CONFIG++|$(GITWEB_CONFIG)|g' \ -e 's|++GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM++|$(GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM)|g' \ + -e 's|++GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON++|$(GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON)|g' \ -e 's|++GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR++|$(GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR)|g' \ -e 's|++GITWEB_SITENAME++|$(GITWEB_SITENAME)|g' \ -e 's|++GITWEB_PROJECTROOT++|$(GITWEB_PROJECTROOT)|g' \ |