diff --git a/files/pagure.cfg.sample b/files/pagure.cfg.sample
index 1025205..5d22998 100644
--- a/files/pagure.cfg.sample
+++ b/files/pagure.cfg.sample
@@ -197,3 +197,9 @@ CHECK_SESSION_IP = True
 
 # Used by SESSION_COOKIE_PATH
 APPLICATION_ROOT = '/'
+
+# Allow the backward compatiblity endpoints for the old URLs schema to
+# see the commits of a repo. This is only interesting if you pagure instance
+# was running since before version 1.3 and if you can about backward
+# compatibility in your URLs.
+OLD_VIEW_COMMIT_ENABLED = False