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diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt index 88450589af..c7436098c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ browsed using gitweb itself. CONFIGURATION ------------- Various aspects of gitweb's behavior can be controlled through the configuration -file 'gitweb_config.perl' or '/etc/gitweb.conf'. See the linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] +file `gitweb_config.perl` or `/etc/gitweb.conf`. See the linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for details. Repositories @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ projects' root" subsection). our $projectroot = '/path/to/parent/directory'; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -The default value for `$projectroot` is '/pub/git'. You can change it during +The default value for `$projectroot` is `/pub/git`. You can change it during building gitweb via `GITWEB_PROJECTROOT` build configuration variable. By default all Git repositories under `$projectroot` are visible and available @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + from the template during repository creation, usually installed in -'/usr/share/git-core/templates/'. You can use the `gitweb.description` repo +`/usr/share/git-core/templates/`. You can use the `gitweb.description` repo configuration variable, but the file takes precedence. category (or `gitweb.category`):: @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ in the instructions so they can be included in a future release. Apache as CGI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Apache must be configured to support CGI scripts in the directory in -which gitweb is installed. Let's assume that it is '/var/www/cgi-bin' +which gitweb is installed. Let's assume that it is `/var/www/cgi-bin` directory. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ You can use mod_perl with gitweb. You must install Apache::Registry (for mod_perl 1.x) or ModPerl::Registry (for mod_perl 2.x) to enable this support. -Assuming that gitweb is installed to '/var/www/perl', the following +Assuming that gitweb is installed to `/var/www/perl`, the following Apache configuration (for mod_perl 2.x) is suitable. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ Apache with FastCGI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gitweb works with Apache and FastCGI. First you need to rename, copy or symlink gitweb.cgi to gitweb.fcgi. Let's assume that gitweb is -installed in '/usr/share/gitweb' directory. The following Apache +installed in `/usr/share/gitweb` directory. The following Apache configuration is suitable (UNTESTED!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -503,22 +503,22 @@ repositories, you can configure Apache like this: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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`, +`/pub/git` and will serve them as `http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git`, both as clonable Git URL and as browseable gitweb interface. If you then start your linkgit:git-daemon[1] 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 +named file (i.e. in this example `/etc/gitweb.conf`) as a configuration for gitweb. You don't really need it in above example; it is required only if your configuration file is in different place than built-in (during -compiling gitweb) 'gitweb_config.perl' or '/etc/gitweb.conf'. See +compiling gitweb) 'gitweb_config.perl' or `/etc/gitweb.conf`. See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for details, especially information about precedence rules. If you use the rewrite rules from the example you *might* also need something like the following in your gitweb configuration file -('/etc/gitweb.conf' following example): +(`/etc/gitweb.conf` following example): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @stylesheets = ("/some/absolute/path/gitweb.css"); $my_uri = "/"; @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ like this: Here actual project root is passed to gitweb via `GITWEB_PROJECT_ROOT` environment variable from a web server, so you need to put the following -line in gitweb configuration file ('/etc/gitweb.conf' in above example): +line in gitweb configuration file (`/etc/gitweb.conf` in above example): -------------------------------------------------------------------------- $projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/pub/git"; -------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ referenced by `$per_request_config`; 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: +`~/public_git/` with the following url: http://git.example.org/~<user>/ @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ 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 accessible +Second, repositories found in `/pub/scm/` and `/var/git/` will be accessible 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. @@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ that it consumes and produces URLs in the form http://git.example.com/project.git/shortlog/sometag i.e. without 'gitweb.cgi' part, by using a configuration such as the -following. This configuration assumes that '/var/www/gitweb' is the +following. This configuration assumes that `/var/www/gitweb` is the DocumentRoot of your webserver, contains the gitweb.cgi script and complementary static files (stylesheet, favicon, JavaScript): @@ -645,9 +645,9 @@ parameter. `@stylesheets`, `$my_uri` and `$home_link`, but you lose "dumb client" access to your project .git dirs (described in "Single URL for gitweb and for fetching" section). 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: +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 @@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ cloned), while 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 +a named ref (branch, tag) starting with `git/`, then paths such as http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gitweb.conf[5], linkgit:git-instaweb[1] -'gitweb/README', 'gitweb/INSTALL' +`gitweb/README`, `gitweb/INSTALL` GIT --- |