filter: introduce "filter type" prefix

[ps-cgit] / cgitrc.5.txt

diff --git a/cgitrc.5.txt b/cgitrc.5.txt
index 52caed0dfbc178e690c262d490d4b746af0c23f0..60159f6d0c446eb64a8033baee9569de2d8b9966 100644 (file)
--- a/cgitrc.5.txt
+++ b/cgitrc.5.txt
@@ -557,6 +557,15 @@ config files, e.g. "repo.desc" becomes "desc".
 
 FILTER API
 ----------
+By default, filters are separate processes that are executed each time they
+are needed.  Alternative technologies may be used by prefixing the filter
+specification with the relevant string; available values are:
+
+'exec:'::
+       The default "one process per filter" mode.
+
+Parameters are provided to filters as follows.
+
 about filter::
        This filter is given a single parameter: the filename of the source
        file to filter. The filter can use the filename to determine (for