From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Drew Northup Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85f4e2b8e40efb234a7fc0d0ce0d40562690d001.1365719690.git.stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> <7v4nfch90r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130412064837.GA5710@elie.Belkin> <20130412064953.GB5710@elie.Belkin> <7vy5cnd0m4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <516888C0.90501@gmail.com> <7vobdfnlc7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <516D4359.2070501@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , Eric Sunshine , git@vger.kernel.org, Stefano Lattarini , Jonathan Nieder To: =?UTF-8?Q?Jakub_Nar=C4=99bski?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 16 14:47:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1US5I3-0005Zn-EZ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:47:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754133Ab3DPMrL convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:11 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f181.google.com ([209.85.223.181]:36238 "EHLO mail-ie0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753414Ab3DPMrK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:10 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f181.google.com with SMTP id as1so423440iec.12 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:47:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kmkXp+ToWFCNO9O6W+6qRb5NdZ9cHYaf5LjhVtUp2gk=; b=glIaMBw61sopr5IKN9V4IzZmRilLhjb3ax8i8Un6iSyEeJ/IMn+KcVZCQhj0PDxHq2 fDhP8z4HVAn6/tfdQuOGr4qvRhg9adUqT9uU6chiBvHZsEkJsDBSkhbzrTGQcsiOeZ0o Km7jrS59F5c3tRncxi664Q1h0q9HGdQl7G25hR7vc3yYkfIClXfeIt2lyuWYP1nrh4eQ MlT+j0uNojOqQOxZ84fdhfgc6JVOJgRdaV6kOnMVI3cQ3ubOH8KlV+JmhSqrSn51+N96 JuELymsm5ve3qSKjxWZDD2kBbvF+AJH0i2iJlOVXAlD6WK2VY/e9eMxjSYuvWirDw0k9 pRtg== X-Received: by 10.43.8.200 with SMTP id ot8mr1008930icb.11.1366116429415; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.173.70 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:47:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <516D4359.2070501@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Jakub Nar=C4=99bski = 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 softwar= e +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 -- 1.8.0 -- -Drew Northup -------------------------------------------------------------- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59