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| author | Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> | 2011-06-13 21:58:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> | 2011-06-13 21:59:50 +0000 |
| commit | ef13e5eafe16474bb5b3c3b8156bbb24a9249b2e (patch) | |
| tree | 9ab02e11a594490e19788cfe25443d84223d096a /cgitrc.5.txt | |
| parent | 2a0c9dcbe81db150bd778ce1ea1aff550d198c4d (diff) | |
cgitrc.5.txt: describe macro expansion of cgitrc options
This is a new feature in cgit-0.9 which was formerly undocumented.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'cgitrc.5.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | cgitrc.5.txt | 30 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/cgitrc.5.txt b/cgitrc.5.txt index 65b210f..10b86f3 100644 --- a/cgitrc.5.txt +++ b/cgitrc.5.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ agefile:: cache-root:: Path used to store the cgit cache entries. Default value: - "/var/cache/cgit". + "/var/cache/cgit". See also: "MACRO EXPANSION". cache-dynamic-ttl:: Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ header:: include:: Name of a configfile to include before the rest of the current config- - file is parsed. Default value: none. + file is parsed. Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION". index-header:: The content of the file specified with this option will be included @@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ noheader:: project-list:: A list of subdirectories inside of scan-path, relative to it, that should loaded as git repositories. This must be defined prior to - scan-path. Default value: none. See also: scan-path. + scan-path. Default value: none. See also: scan-path, "MACRO + EXPANSION". readme:: Text which will be used as default value for "repo.readme". Default @@ -289,7 +290,8 @@ scan-path:: scan-path loads only the directories listed in the file pointed to by project-list. Be advised that only the global settings taken before the scan-path directive will be applied to each repository. - Default value: none. See also: cache-scanrc-ttl, project-list. + Default value: none. See also: cache-scanrc-ttl, project-list, + "MACRO EXPANSION". section:: The name of the current repository section - all repositories defined @@ -450,6 +452,26 @@ Note: the "repo." prefix is dropped from the option names in repo-specific config files, e.g. "repo.desc" becomes "desc". +MACRO EXPANSION +--------------- +The following cgitrc options supports a simple macro expansion feature, +where tokens prefixed with "$" are replaced with the value of a similary +named environment variable: + +- cache-root +- include +- project-list +- scan-path + +Macro expansion will also happen on the content of $CGIT_CONFIG, if +defined. + +One usage of this feature is virtual hosting, which in its simplest form +can be accomplished by adding the following line to /etc/cgitrc: + + include=/etc/cgitrc.d/$HTTP_HOST + + EXAMPLE CGITRC FILE ------------------- |