From: Jakub Narebski <redacted>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:54:32 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: gitweb/README: Document $base_url
X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Gitweb/commitdiff_plain/8832ebdc29c3d5ae8676aa305a335213d2662fdd4977954daf10eb42e71a3a6d

gitweb/README: Document $base_url

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 32e1b4c..200f043 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
    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.
+ * $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 "/".
  * $home_link
    Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
    "breadcrumbs").  By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri).