From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, John 'Warthog9' Hawley <warthog9@kernel.org>,
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>, Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHv3 4/5] gitweb: Starting work on a man page for /etc/gitweb.conf (WIP)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:40:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106081840.17253.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110606222500.GE30588@elie>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>>> +$GIT::
>>> + Core git executable to use. By default set to `$GIT_BINDIR/git`, which
> [...]
>> I think a better default would be "git", so if a newer git gets
>> installed in /usr/local/bin then gitweb would notice automatically.
>
> Wait, that's quite wrong. What I was forgetting about is the case
> where the webmaster does not control the web hosting but just has a
> place to drop CGI scripts under ~/public_html/cgi-bin. In such a case
> it would be very convenient that "make install-gitweb" just does the
> right thing (including using a private copy of git).
Right, "git" might not be in PATH of a web server (which can have
reduced PATH for security reasons anyway).
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-08 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-06 17:44 [RFC/PATCHv3 0/5] Improving gitweb documentation, creating manpages Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [PATCHv3 1/5] gitweb: Move information about installation from README to INSTALL Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 19:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [PATCHv3 2/5] gitweb: Describe CSSMIN and JSMIN in gitweb/INSTALL Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 20:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-08 11:32 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [PATCHv3 3/5] gitweb: Move "Requirements" up " Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 20:05 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [RFC/PATCHv3 4/5] gitweb: Starting work on a man page for /etc/gitweb.conf (WIP) Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 22:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-06 22:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-08 16:40 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-06-07 13:00 ` Drew Northup
2011-06-07 13:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-07 16:27 ` Drew Northup
2011-06-07 16:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-07 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-07 17:43 ` Drew Northup
2011-06-07 19:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-07 19:50 ` Drew Northup
2011-06-10 17:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-08 16:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [RFC/PATCHv3 5/5] gitweb: Starting work on a man page for gitweb (WIP) Jakub Narebski
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=201106081840.17253.jnareb@gmail.com \
--to=jnareb@gmail.com \
--cc=drew.northup@maine.edu \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=jrnieder@gmail.com \
--cc=pasky@ucw.cz \
--cc=warthog9@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.