c1656450f6173c484473f04c6f176f8d64ff9b9c
lrnassar
  Wed Oct 29 16:54:27 2025 -0700
Documenting new hg.conf settings, refs #36533

diff --git src/product/ex.hg.conf src/product/ex.hg.conf
index a4dcb9abf01..92c9e691ae7 100644
--- src/product/ex.hg.conf
+++ src/product/ex.hg.conf
@@ -713,15 +713,17 @@
 #
 # bigBedMaxItems=100000 # Affects data pre-filtered. Default is 10k, currently set to 100k in 
 # UCSC live sites. Maximum number of items fetched from bigBed file. If the number of the items in the 
 # displayed region is greater than allowed (which is 100k in RR now), the track goes into coverage 
 # mode drawn by the summary/zoom levels in the bigBed. If a filter is set, the track will display the 
 # message "Too many items in window to filter.Zoom in or remove filters to view track.".
 #
 # vcfMaxItems=10000 # Default is 10k, no other RR value. Maximum number of items fetched from file. 
 # If the number of the items in the displayed region is greater than allowed (which is 10k in RR now), 
 # the track area will have the message "Too many items in region. Zoom in to view track.".
 #
 # The setting below is used to set a default cart for mirrors that will load the settings
 # in the pointed-to session whenever a cart reset happens. See the help page for more info
 # https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/docker.html#defaults
 # defaultCartName=defaultCart
+#
+# logCgiVarMaxLen=100 # Dumps short POST arguments to apache log, see #36533 (UCSC internal reference)