configuring appearance from within repository

[John Keeping]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 06:42:19PM +0100, Spam Receiver wrote:
> Hey there, I recently found cgit and I'm very happy about it's
> performance, ease of use and overall simplicity. There is only one
> thing that I did not manage to set up yet:
> 
> I want to configure repo-specific settings from within the repo itself.
> For this I tried to enable the git config parsing from within cgit, and
> tried to add the following to .git/config

To confirm, you have "enable-git-config = 1" in the global cgitrc
*before* the scan-path directory?

>    [gitweb]
>       owner = test name = test

There should be a line break between "test" and "name" here, right?

> But nothing changed in the web interface. My next attempt involved the
> cgitrc in the repo folder, where I added
> 
>    name = test

There must not be any spaces around "=" in cgitrc files, so this should
be:

	name=test


Regards,
John