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 08:52:01 -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 14:52:11 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 1US5Mo-0003hP-7s for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:52:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755354Ab3DPMwF convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:52:05 -0400 Received: from mail-ia0-f178.google.com ([209.85.210.178]:56949 "EHLO mail-ia0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754633Ab3DPMwE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:52:04 -0400 Received: by mail-ia0-f178.google.com with SMTP id w21so363014iac.23 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:52:03 -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=ewgU730h6rhpGM49PTQKO4mKJHeLdbch6BNgNP4RdFU=; b=oDYrgJCBl4XdnpZNKWBeLZO4C3eMc/9yBvyhHrGtKGqi4JKlqi4Y+7UOIzT0NLpPlu ENWZCk/cBx62bLh5DujMbBwoWeApXy0f7oo+oX+ZbfwlheGBnGB5FiZUECMYYKFZG+Yo KMZry4e6oVfEPdvlgRHayFruSiZjJZHQT7kSLhcXUPJDbbAE1+SsE/u7OeHdaJP+DoY6 gfd5hk9Ud7zFngARtBwt8LyHi9QS7/XiLAbMYdyMCysPXM7GyvEVuIky3D3ppj7GoYrv dwNew7IVM3KJnwFmmT/N17cQPef52hkY5JDOMQCBanSAKBwpNAUMr35GCv/yPgI34nr2 vwxw== X-Received: by 10.50.66.133 with SMTP id f5mr7815502igt.38.1366116722326; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:52:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.173.70 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:52:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =46orgot the S-O-B... On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Drew Northup w= rote: > 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) > Subject: [PATCH] [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. Signed-off-by: Drew Northup --- 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