Merge branch 'jn/gitweb-manpages'

* jn/gitweb-manpages:
  gitweb: Add gitweb manpages to 'gitweb' package in git.spec
  Documentation: Add gitweb config variables to git-config(1)
  Documentation: Link to gitweb(1) and gitweb.conf(5) in other manpages
  gitweb: Add gitweb(1) manpage for gitweb itself
  gitweb: Add gitweb.conf(5) manpage for gitweb configuration files

2 files changed, 30 insertions, 477 deletions

diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL
index f5efe7454c..d134ffe4c7 100644
--- a/gitweb/INSTALL
+++ b/gitweb/INSTALL
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ Gitweb config file
 ------------------
 
 See also "Runtime gitweb configuration" section in README file
-for gitweb (in gitweb/README).
+for gitweb (in gitweb/README), and gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
 
 - You can configure gitweb further using the per-instance gitweb configuration file;
   by default this is a file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as
@@ -287,97 +287,19 @@ adding the following lines to your $GITWEB_CONFIG:
 Gitweb repositories
 -------------------
 
-- By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and
-  available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by
-  scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories (for object
-  databases to be more exact).
-
-  You can provide a pre-generated list of [visible] repositories,
-  together with information about their owners (the project ownership
-  defaults to the owner of the repository directory otherwise), by setting
-  the GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or the $projects_list
-  variable in the gitweb config file) to point to a plain file.
-
-  Each line of the projects list file should consist of the url-encoded path
-  to the project repository database (relative to projectroot), followed
-  by the url-encoded project owner on the same line (separated by a space).
-  Spaces in both project path and project owner have to be encoded as either
-  '%20' or '+'.
-
-  Other characters that have to be url-encoded, i.e. replaced by '%'
-  followed by two-digit character number in octal, are: other whitespace
-  characters (because they are field separator in a record), plus sign '+'
-  (because it can be used as replacement for spaces), and percent sign '%'
-  (which is used for encoding / escaping).
-
-  You can generate the projects list index file using the project_index
-  action (the 'TXT' link on projects list page) directly from gitweb.
-
-- By default, even if a project is not visible on projects list page, you
-  can view it nevertheless by hand-crafting a gitweb URL. You can set the
-  GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT build configuration variable (or the $strict_export
-  variable in the gitweb config file) to only allow viewing of
-  repositories also shown on the overview page.
-
-- Alternatively, you can configure gitweb to only list and allow
-  viewing of the explicitly exported repositories, via the
-  GITWEB_EXPORT_OK build configuration variable (or the $export_ok
-  variable in gitweb config file). If it evaluates to true, gitweb
-  shows repositories only if this file exists in its object database
-  (if directory has the magic file named $export_ok).
-
-- Finally, it is possible to specify an arbitrary perl subroutine that
-  will be called for each project to determine if it can be exported.
-  The subroutine receives an absolute path to the project as its only
-  parameter.
-
-  For example, if you use mod_perl to run the script, and have dumb
-  http protocol authentication configured for your repositories, you
-  can use the following hook to allow access only if the user is
-  authorized to read the files:
-
-    $export_auth_hook = sub {
-        use Apache2::SubRequest ();
-        use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(HTTP_OK);
-        my $path = "$_[0]/HEAD";
-        my $r    = Apache2::RequestUtil->request;
-        my $sub  = $r->lookup_file($path);
-        return $sub->filename eq $path
-            && $sub->status == Apache2::Const::HTTP_OK;
-    };
-
-
-Generating projects list using gitweb
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-We assume that GITWEB_CONFIG has its default Makefile value, namely
-gitweb_config.perl. Put the following in gitweb_make_index.perl file:
-
-	$GITWEB_CONFIG = "gitweb_config.perl";
-	do $GITWEB_CONFIG if -e $GITWEB_CONFIG;
-
-	$projects_list = $projectroot;
-
-Then create the following script to get list of project in the format
-suitable for GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or
-$projects_list variable in gitweb config):
-
-	#!/bin/sh
-
-	export GITWEB_CONFIG="gitweb_make_index.perl"
-	export GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"
-	export HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*"
-	export REQUEST_METHOD="GET"
-	export QUERY_STRING="a=project_index"
-
-	perl -- /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
+By default gitweb shows all git repositories under single common repository
+root on a local filesystem; see description of GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build-time
+configuration variable above (and also of GITWEB_LIST).
+
+More advanced usage, like limiting access or visibility of repositories and
+managing multiple roots are described on gitweb manpage.
 
 
 Example web server configuration
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-See also "Webserver configuration" section in README file for gitweb
-(in gitweb/README).
+See also "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections
+in gitweb(1) manpage.
 
 
 - Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script,
diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index a9988200d6..6da4778b73 100644
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -7,9 +7,18 @@ The one working on:
 From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
 
 
+Build time gitweb configuration
+-------------------------------
+There are many configuration variables which affect building gitweb (among
+others creating gitweb.cgi out of gitweb.perl by replacing placeholders such
+as `++GIT_BINDIR++` by their build-time values).
+
+Building and installing gitweb is described in gitweb's INSTALL file
+(in 'gitweb/INSTALL').
+
+
 Runtime gitweb configuration
 ----------------------------
-
 Gitweb obtains configuration data from the following sources in the
 following order:
 
@@ -41,400 +50,22 @@ Ultimate description on how to reconfigure the default features setting
 in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
 as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
 
-See also the "Gitweb config file" (with an example of config file), and
-the "Gitweb repositories" sections in INSTALL file for gitweb.
-
-
-The gitweb config file is a fragment of perl code. You can set variables
-using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end
-of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) man page for details.
-
-Below is the list of variables which you might want to set in gitweb config.
-See the top of 'gitweb.cgi' for the full list of variables and their
-descriptions.
-
-Gitweb config file variables
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-You can set, among others, the following variables in gitweb config files
-(with the exception of $projectroot and $projects_list this list does
-not include variables usually directly set during build):
- * $GIT
-   Core git executable to use.  By default set to "$GIT_BINDIR/git", which
-   in turn is by default set to "$(bindir)/git".  If you use git from binary
-   package, set this to "/usr/bin/git".  This can just be "git" if your
-   webserver has a sensible PATH.  If you have multiple git versions
-   installed it can be used to choose which one to use.
- * $version
-   Gitweb version, set automatically when creating gitweb.cgi from
-   gitweb.perl. You might want to modify it if you are running modified
-   gitweb.
- * $projectroot
-   Absolute filesystem path which will be prepended to project path;
-   the path to repository is $projectroot/$project.  Set to
-   $GITWEB_PROJECTROOT during installation.  This variable have to be
-   set correctly for gitweb to find repositories.
- * $projects_list
-   Source of projects list, either directory to scan, or text file
-   with list of repositories (in the "<URI-encoded repository path> SP
-   <URI-encoded repository owner>" line format; actually there can be
-   any sequence of whitespace in place of space (SP)).  Set to
-   $GITWEB_LIST during installation.  If empty, $projectroot is used
-   to scan for repositories.
- * $my_url, $my_uri
-   Full URL and absolute URL of gitweb script;
-   in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those
-   variables, now there should be no need to do it.  See
-   $per_request_config if you need to set them still.
- * $base_url
-   Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb,
-   (e.g. $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs),
-   needed and used only for URLs with nonempty PATH_INFO via
-   <base href="$base_url">.  Usually gitweb sets its value correctly,
-   and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/".
-   See $per_request_config if you need to set it anyway.
- * $home_link
-   Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
-   "breadcrumbs").  By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri).
- * @stylesheets
-   List of URIs of stylesheets (relative to base URI of a page). You
-   might specify more than one stylesheet, for example use gitweb.css
-   as base, with site specific modifications in separate stylesheet
-   to make it easier to upgrade gitweb. You can add 'site' stylesheet
-   for example by using
-      push @stylesheets, "gitweb-site.css";
-   in the gitweb config file.
- * $logo_url, $logo_label
-   URI and label (title) of GIT logo link (or your site logo, if you choose
-   to use different logo image). By default they point to git homepage;
-   in the past they pointed to git documentation at www.kernel.org.
- * $projects_list_description_width
-   The width (in characters) of the projects list "Description" column.
-   Longer descriptions will be cut (trying to cut at word boundary);
-   full description is available as 'title' attribute (usually shown on
-   mouseover).  By default set to 25, which might be too small if you
-   use long project descriptions.
- * $projects_list_group_categories
-   Enables the grouping of projects by category on the project list page.
-   The category of a project is determined by the $GIT_DIR/category
-   file or the 'gitweb.category' variable in its repository configuration.
-   Disabled by default.
- * $project_list_default_category
-   Default category for projects for which none is specified.  If set
-   to the empty string, such projects will remain uncategorized and
-   listed at the top, above categorized projects.
- * @git_base_url_list
-   List of git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, shown
-   in project summary page.  Full URL is "$git_base_url/$project".
-   You can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for  git:// protocol
-   access, and one for http:// "dumb" protocol access).  Note that per
-   repository configuration in 'cloneurl' file, or as values of gitweb.url
-   project config.
- * $default_blob_plain_mimetype
-   Default mimetype for blob_plain (raw) view, if mimetype checking
-   doesn't result in some other type; by default 'text/plain'.
- * $default_text_plain_charset
-   Default charset for text files. If not set, web server configuration
-   would be used.
- * $mimetypes_file
-   File to use for (filename extension based) guessing of MIME types before
-   trying /etc/mime.types. Path, if relative, is taken currently as
-   relative to the current git repository.
- * $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 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
-   ('-M'); set it to ('-C') or ('-C', '-C') to also detect copies, or
-   set it to () if you don't want to have renames detection.
- * $prevent_xss
-   If true, some gitweb features are disabled to prevent content in
-   repositories from launching cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.  Set this
-   to true if you don't trust the content of your repositories. The default
-   is false.
- * $maxload
-   Used to set the maximum load that we will still respond to gitweb queries.
-   If server load exceed this value then return "503 Service Unavailable" error.
-   Server load is taken to be 0 if gitweb cannot determine its value.  Set it to
-   undefined value to turn it off.  The default is 300.
- * $highlight_bin
-   Path to the highlight executable to use (must be the one from
-   http://www.andre-simon.de due to assumptions about parameters and output).
-   Useful if highlight is not installed on your webserver's PATH.
-   [Default: highlight]
- * $per_request_config
-   If set to code reference, it would be run once per each request.  You can
-   set parts of configuration that change per session, e.g. by setting it to
-     sub { $ENV{GL_USER} = $cgi->remote_user || "gitweb"; }
-   Otherwise it is treated as boolean value: if true gitweb would process
-   config file once per request, if false it would process config file only
-   once.  Note: $my_url, $my_uri, and $base_url are overwritten with
-   their default values before every request, so if you want to change
-   them, be sure to set this variable to true or a code reference effecting
-   the desired changes.  The default is true.
-
-Projects list file format
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Instead of having gitweb find repositories by scanning filesystem starting
-from $projectroot (or $projects_list, if it points to directory), you can
-provide list of projects by setting $projects_list to a text file with list
-of projects (and some additional info).  This file uses the following
-format:
-
-One record (for project / repository) per line, whitespace separated fields;
-does not support (at least for now) lines continuation (newline escaping).
-Leading and trailing whitespace are ignored, any run of whitespace can be
-used as field separator (rules for Perl's "split(' ', $line)").  Keyed by
-the first field, which is project name, i.e. path to repository GIT_DIR
-relative to $projectroot.  Fields use modified URI encoding, defined in
-RFC 3986, section 2.1 (Percent-Encoding), or rather "Query string encoding"
-(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#URL_encoding), the difference
-being that SP (' ') can be encoded as '+' (and therefore '+' has to be also
-percent-encoded).  Reserved characters are: '%' (used for encoding), '+'
-(can be used to encode SPACE), all whitespace characters as defined in Perl,
-including SP, TAB and LF, (used to separate fields in a record).
-
-Currently list of fields is
- * <repository path>  - path to repository GIT_DIR, relative to $projectroot
- * <repository owner> - displayed as repository owner, preferably full name,
-                        or email, or both
-
-You can additionally use $projects_list file to limit which repositories
-are visible, and together with $strict_export to limit access to
-repositories (see "Gitweb repositories" section in gitweb/INSTALL).
-
-
-Per-repository gitweb configuration
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-You can also configure individual repositories shown in gitweb by creating
-file in the GIT_DIR of git repository, or by setting some repo configuration
-variable (in GIT_DIR/config).
-
-You can use the following files in repository:
- * README.html
-   A .html file (HTML fragment) which is included on the gitweb project
-   summary page inside <div> block element. You can use it for longer
-   description of a project, to provide links (for example to project's
-   homepage), etc. This is recognized only if XSS prevention is off
-   ($prevent_xss is false); a way to include a readme safely when XSS
-   prevention is on may be worked out in the future.
- * description (or gitweb.description)
-   Short (shortened by default to 25 characters in the projects list page)
-   single line description of a project (of a repository). Plain text file;
-   HTML will be escaped. By default set to
-     Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb.
-   from the template during repository creation. You can use the
-   gitweb.description repo configuration variable, but the file takes
-   precedence.
- * category (or gitweb.category)
-   Singe line category of a project, used to group projects if
-   $projects_list_group_categories is enabled. By default (file and
-   configuration variable absent), uncategorized projects are put in
-   the $project_list_default_category category. You can use the
-   gitweb.category repo configuration variable, but the file takes
-   precedence.
- * cloneurl (or multiple-valued gitweb.url)
-   File with repository URL (used for clone and fetch), one per line.
-   Displayed in the project summary page. You can use multiple-valued
-   gitweb.url repository configuration variable for that, but the file
-   takes precedence.
- * gitweb.owner
-   You can use the gitweb.owner repository configuration variable to set
-   repository's owner. It is displayed in the project list and summary
-   page. If it's not set, filesystem directory's owner is used
-   (via GECOS field / real name field from getpwiud(3)).
- * various gitweb.* config variables (in config)
-   Read description of %feature hash for detailed list, and some
-   descriptions.
-
-
-Webserver configuration
------------------------
-
-If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http://
-repositories, you can configure apache like this:
-
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-    ServerName		git.example.org
-    DocumentRoot	/pub/git
-    SetEnv			GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
-
-    # turning on mod rewrite
-    RewriteEngine on
-
-    # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
-    RewriteRule ^/$  /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
-
-    # make access for "dumb clients" work
-    RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
-</VirtualHost>
-
-The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
-/pub/git and will serve them as http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git,
-both as cloneable GIT URL and as browseable gitweb interface.
-If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all
-then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path.
-
-Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use
-the named file (i.e. in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a
-configuration for gitweb.  Perl variables defined in here will
-override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or
-gitweb.cgi).  Look at the comments in that file for information on
-which variables and what they mean.
-
-If you use the rewrite rules from the example you'll likely also need
-something like the following in your gitweb.conf (or gitweb_config.perl) file:
-
-  @stylesheets = ("/some/absolute/path/gitweb.css");
-  $my_uri = "/";
-  $home_link = "/";
-
-
-Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root
-----------------------------------------------------
-
-If you want to use gitweb with several project roots you can edit your apache
-virtual host and gitweb.conf configuration files like this :
-
-virtual host configuration :
-
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-    ServerName			git.example.org
-    DocumentRoot		/pub/git
-    SetEnv				GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
-
-    # turning on mod rewrite
-    RewriteEngine on
-
-    # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
-    RewriteRule ^/$ 		/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT]
-
-    # look for a public_git folder in unix users' home
-    # http://git.example.org/~<user>/
-    RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
-
-    # http://git.example.org/+<user>/
-    #RewriteRule ^/\+([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
-
-    # http://git.example.org/user/<user>/
-    #RewriteRule ^/user/([^\/]+)/(gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
-
-    # defined list of project roots
-    RewriteRule ^/scm(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$		/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/pub/scm/,L,PT]
-    RewriteRule ^/var(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$		/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/var/git/,L,PT]
-
-    # make access for "dumb clients" work
-    RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
-</VirtualHost>
-
-gitweb.conf configuration :
-
-$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/pub/git";
-
-These configurations enable two things. First, each unix user (<user>) of the
-server will be able to browse through gitweb git repositories found in
-~/public_git/ with the following url : http://git.example.org/~<user>/
-
-If you do not want this feature on your server just remove the second rewrite rule.
-
-If you already use mod_userdir in your virtual host or you don't want to use
-the '~' as first character just comment or remove the second rewrite rule and
-uncomment one of the following according to what you want.
-
-Second, repositories found in /pub/scm/ and /var/git/ will be accesible
-through http://git.example.org/scm/ and http://git.example.org/var/.
-You can add as many project roots as you want by adding rewrite rules like the
-third and the fourth.
-
-
-PATH_INFO usage
------------------------
-If you enable PATH_INFO usage in gitweb by putting
-
-   $feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1];
-
-in your gitweb.conf, it is possible to set up your server so that it
-consumes and produces URLs in the form
-
-http://git.example.com/project.git/shortlog/sometag
-
-by using a configuration such as the following, that assumes that
-/var/www/gitweb is the DocumentRoot of your webserver, and that it
-contains the gitweb.cgi script and complementary static files
-(stylesheet, favicon):
-
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-	ServerAlias git.example.com
-
-	DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
-
-	<Directory /var/www/gitweb>
-		Options ExecCGI
-		AddHandler cgi-script cgi
-
-		DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
-
-		RewriteEngine On
-		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
-		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
-		RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
-	</Directory>
-</VirtualHost>
-
-The rewrite rule guarantees that existing static files will be properly
-served, whereas any other URL will be passed to gitweb as PATH_INFO
-parameter.
-
-Notice that in this case you don't need special settings for
-@stylesheets, $my_uri and $home_link, but you lose "dumb client" access
-to your project .git dirs. A possible workaround for the latter is the
-following: in your project root dir (e.g. /pub/git) have the projects
-named without a .git extension (e.g. /pub/git/project instead of
-/pub/git/project.git) and configure Apache as follows:
-
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-	ServerAlias git.example.com
-
-	DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
-
-	AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)?$ /pub/git$1$3
-	<Directory /var/www/gitweb>
-		Options ExecCGI
-		AddHandler cgi-script cgi
-
-		DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
-
-		RewriteEngine On
-		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
-		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
-		RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
-	</Directory>
-</VirtualHost>
-
-The additional AliasMatch makes it so that
-
-http://git.example.com/project.git
-
-will give raw access to the project's git dir (so that the project can
-be cloned), while
-
-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
+See also gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
 
-http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch
 
-will fail with a 404 error.
+Web server configuration
+------------------------
+Gitweb can be run as CGI script, as legacy mod_perl application (using
+ModPerl::Registry), and as FastCGI script.  You can find some simple examples
+in "Example web server configuration" section in INSTALL file for gitweb (in
+gitweb/INSTALL).
 
+See "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections in
+gitweb(1) manpage.
 
 
+AUTHORS
+-------
 Originally written by:
   Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>