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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD] gitweb configuration
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:12:21 +0200
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Timo Hirvonen wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> - use ~/.gitconfig, /etc/gitconfig or some other global git configuration 
>>   file, reading values using '$gitexecdir/git-repo-config'.
>>   Problem: bootstraping, namely value of $gitexecdir ($gitbin now)
>>   needs to be set in gitweb.cgi, perhaps during the build process.
> 
> Just use "git command" and you don't have to know $gitexecdir.

First, 'git' might be not in PATH for the webserver user which runs
gitweb.cgi.

Second, I guess that '$gitexecdir/git-repo-config' is/can be faster than
'git repo-config', but if 'git' is in the PATH we can set $gitexecdir from
'git --exec-path'.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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