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diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index 27c6dac14..abbaf6b8b 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -24,11 +24,25 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT: * 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 + This file will be loaded using 'require' and can be used to override any + of the options above as well as some other options - see the top of + 'gitweb.cgi' for their full list and description. 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. +Runtime gitweb configuration +---------------------------- + +You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG` +(defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI). +See the top of 'gitweb.cgi' for the list of variables and some description. +The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the +optional features, stored in the '%features' variable. You can find further +description on how to reconfigure the default features setting in your +`GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` inside 'gitweb.cgi'. + + Originally written by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |