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authorJakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>2011-07-25 00:29:18 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-24 16:22:21 -0700
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parentf696543dad6c7ba27b0c4fab167a5687263a9ba0 (diff)
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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>
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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' \