gitweb: Move git_get_last_activity subroutine earlier

[Gitweb] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -26,11 +26,24 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
  * GITWEB_LOGO
    Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server.
  * GITWEB_CONFIG
-   This file will be loaded using 'require'.  If the environment
+   This file will be loaded using 'require' and can be used to override any
+   of the options above as well as some other options - see the top of
+   'gitweb.cgi' for their full list and description.  If the environment
    $GITWEB_CONFIG is set when gitweb.cgi is executed the file in the
    environment variable will be loaded instead of the file
    specified when gitweb.cgi was created.
 
+Runtime gitweb configuration
+----------------------------
+
+You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG`
+(defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI).
+See the top of 'gitweb.cgi' for the list of variables and some description.
+The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
+optional features, stored in the '%features' variable. You can find further
+description on how to reconfigure the default features setting in your
+`GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
+
 
 Webserver configuration
 -----------------------
@@ -43,6 +56,7 @@ repositories, you can configure apache like this:
     DocumentRoot /pub/git
     RewriteEngine on
     RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
+    SetEnv     GITWEB_CONFIG   /etc/gitweb.conf
 </VirtualHost>
 
 The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
@@ -51,6 +65,12 @@ both as cloneable GIT URL and as browseable gitweb interface.
 If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all
 then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path.
 
+Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use
+the named file (i.e. in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a
+configuration for gitweb.  Perl variables defined in here will
+override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or
+gitweb.cgi).  Look at the comments in that file for information on
+which variables and what they mean.
 
 
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