Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility

[Drew Northup <n1xim.email@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Drew: gitweb(1) or gitweb.conf(5) solution is more involved, so
> perhaps something like that?


That or: (or both I suppose....hopefully not too mangled by Google's
mail gadget)

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt: Move note about config
order precedence

To go along with Jakub Narebski's cleanup of gitweb/INSTALL; making
it clear that gitweb's config files work differently than a lot of
other system-wide software. This is unobtrusive yet to the point.
---
 Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
index eb63631..05c81e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ following order:
    then fallback system-wide configuration file (defaults to
'/etc/gitweb.conf').

 Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
-in the above sequence.
+in the above sequence. This is different from many system-wide software
+installations and will stay this way for historical reasons.

 Locations of the common system-wide configuration file, the fallback
 system-wide configuration file and the per-instance configuration file
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1.8.0


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