From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:26:00 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility
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gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility

Highlight that CONFIG_SYSTEM and /etc/gitweb.conf are meant to be
the fallback configuration file in BUGS section of gitweb.conf
documentation.  This will hopefully help people who expect them to
be a common default, which unfortunately came later in the history.
---

diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
index eb636317be..ea0526ecc4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
@@ -857,6 +857,13 @@ adding the following lines to your gitweb configuration file:
 	$known_snapshot_formats{'zip'}{'disabled'} = 1;
 	$known_snapshot_formats{'tgz'}{'compressor'} = ['gzip','-6'];
 
+BUGS
+----
+Debugging would be easier if the fallback configuration file
+(`/etc/gitweb.conf`) and environment variable to override its location
+('GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM') had names reflecting their "fallback" role.
+The current names are kept to avoid breaking working setups.
+
 ENVIRONMENT
 -----------
 The location of per-instance and system-wide configuration files can be