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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2010-11-28 18:19:08 -0600 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-11-29 17:14:52 -0800 |
| commit | b3f52a9c3a5d02a6d1a3d05fe35deb90b70de510 (patch) | |
| tree | bb344df4e7ac8d67186f83db2b9b577c60783b8b /gitweb/README | |
| parent | da4b2432cc6fe514dd72431de7be3ff2b4c86d7e (diff) | |
| download | git-b3f52a9c3a5d02a6d1a3d05fe35deb90b70de510.tar.gz | |
gitweb: document $per_request_config better
Global variables $my_url, $my_uri and $base_url have subtle interactions
that need to be desribed, and can be influenced most cleanly by
$per_request_config.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'gitweb/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | gitweb/README | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index 6646fdaed0..4a673933ac 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -177,13 +177,15 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build): * $my_url, $my_uri Full URL and absolute URL of gitweb script; in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those - variables, now there should be no need to do it. + variables, now there should be no need to do it. See + $per_request_config if you need to set them still. * $base_url Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb, (e.g. $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs), needed and used only for URLs with nonempty PATH_INFO via <base href="$base_url">. Usually gitweb sets its value correctly, and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/". + See $per_request_config if you need to set it anyway. * $home_link Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view "breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri). @@ -252,7 +254,10 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build): sub { $ENV{GL_USER} = $cgi->remote_user || "gitweb"; } Otherwise it is treated as boolean value: if true gitweb would process config file once per request, if false it would process config file only - once. The default is true. + once. Note: $my_url, $my_uri, and $base_url are overwritten with + their default values before every request, so if you want to change + them, be sure to set this variable to true or a code reference effecting + the desired changes. The default is true. Projects list file format ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |