gitweb/README: fix AliasMatch in example

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diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index 8433dd1d45780b3947cc4a0b31ee2059ea6e65bf..9056d1e090b314cfa617ccd8aa03047b3aea23b4 100644 (file)
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
  * $fallback_encoding
    Gitweb assumes this charset if line contains non-UTF-8 characters.
    Fallback decoding is used without error checking, so it can be even
-   'utf-8'. Value mist be valid encodig; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man
+   'utf-8'. Value must be valid encoding; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man
    page for a list.   By default 'latin1', aka. 'iso-8859-1'.
  * @diff_opts
    Rename detection options for git-diff and git-diff-tree. By default
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ 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 +402,14 @@ 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>