gitweb: Incremental blame (using JavaScript)

diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index ccda890c0ef1b2d1fb1c451d3f9a10d97817c8f6..cbcd993ecb81a84a7c5e47a8489ca93744fe3237 100644 (file)
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
    web browsers that support favicons (website icons) may display them
    in the browser's URL bar and next to site name in bookmarks).  Relative
    to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: git-favicon.png]
+ * GITWEB_JS
+   Points to the localtion where you put gitweb.js on your web server
+   (or to be more generic URI of JavaScript code used by gitweb).
+   Relative to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: gitweb.js]
  * GITWEB_CONFIG
    This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' and can be used to override any
    of the options above as well as some other options -- see the "Runtime
@@ -377,7 +381,7 @@ named without a .git extension (e.g. /pub/git/project instead of
 
        DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
 
-       AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)? /pub/git$1$3
+       AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)?$ /pub/git$1$3
        <Directory /var/www/gitweb>
                Options ExecCGI
                AddHandler cgi-script cgi
@@ -402,6 +406,14 @@ http://git.example.com/project
 
 will provide human-friendly gitweb access.
 
+This solution is not 100% bulletproof, in the sense that if some project
+has a named ref (branch, tag) starting with 'git/', then paths such as
+
+http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch
+
+will fail with a 404 error.
+
+
 
 Originally written by:
   Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>