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diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index 356ab7b327..6da4778b73 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -7,286 +7,65 @@ The one working on: From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git. -How to configure gitweb for your local system ---------------------------------------------- +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). -See also the "Build time configuration" section in the INSTALL -file for gitweb (in gitweb/INSTALL). - -You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT: - * GIT_BINDIR - Points where to find the git executable. You should set it up to - the place where the git binary was installed (usually /usr/bin) if you - don't install git from sources together with gitweb. [Default: $(bindir)] - * GITWEB_SITENAME - Shown in the title of all generated pages, defaults to the server name - (SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable) if not set. [No default] - * GITWEB_PROJECTROOT - The root directory for all projects shown by gitweb. Must be set - correctly for gitweb to find repositories to display. See also - "Gitweb repositories" in the INSTALL file for gitweb. [Default: /pub/git] - * GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH - The filesystem traversing limit for getting the project list; the number - is taken as depth relative to the projectroot. It is used when - GITWEB_LIST is a directory (or is not set; then project root is used). - Is is meant to speed up project listing on large work trees by limiting - search depth. [Default: 2007] - * GITWEB_LIST - Points to a directory to scan for projects (defaults to project root - if not set / if empty) or to a file with explicit listing of projects - (together with projects' ownership). See "Generating projects list - using gitweb" in INSTALL file for gitweb to find out how to generate - such file from scan of a directory. [No default, which means use root - directory for projects] - * GITWEB_EXPORT_OK - Show repository only if this file exists (in repository). Only - effective if this variable evaluates to true. [No default / Not set] - * GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT - Only allow viewing of repositories also shown on the overview page. - This for example makes GITWEB_EXPORT_OK to decide if repository is - available and not only if it is shown. If GITWEB_LIST points to - file with list of project, only those repositories listed would be - available for gitweb. [No default] - * GITWEB_HOMETEXT - Points to an .html file which is included on the gitweb project - overview page ('projects_list' view), if it exists. Relative to - gitweb.cgi script. [Default: indextext.html] - * GITWEB_SITE_HEADER - Filename of html text to include at top of each page. Relative to - gitweb.cgi script. [No default] - * GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER - Filename of html text to include at bottom of each page. Relative to - gitweb.cgi script. [No default] - * GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR - String of the home link on top of all pages, leading to $home_link - (usually main gitweb page, which means projects list). Used as first - part of gitweb view "breadcrumb trail": <home> / <project> / <view>. - [Default: projects] - * GITWEB_SITENAME - Name of your site or organization to appear in page titles. Set it - to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If not set - (if empty) gitweb uses "$SERVER_NAME Git", or "Untitled Git" if - SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable is not set (e.g. if running - gitweb as standalone script). [No default] - * GITWEB_BASE_URL - Git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, i.e. full - URL is "$git_base_url/$project". Shown on projects summary page. - Repository URL for project can be also configured per repository; this - takes precedence over URLs composed from base URL and a project name. - Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for - git:// protocol access, another for http:// access) from the gitweb - config file. [No default] - * GITWEB_CSS - Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server - (or to be more generic, the URI of gitweb stylesheet). Relative to the - base URI of gitweb. Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from - the gitweb config file. [Default: gitweb.css] - * GITWEB_LOGO - Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server - (or to be more generic URI of logo, 72x27 size, displayed in top right - corner of each gitweb page, and used as logo for Atom feed). Relative - to base URI of gitweb. [Default: git-logo.png] - * GITWEB_FAVICON - Points to the location where you put git-favicon.png on your web server - (or to be more generic URI of favicon, assumed to be image/png type; - web browsers that support favicons (website icons) may display them - in the browser's URL bar and next to site name in bookmarks). Relative - to base URI of gitweb. [Default: git-favicon.png] - * GITWEB_CONFIG - This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' and can be used to override any - of the options above as well as some other options -- see the "Runtime - gitweb configuration" section below, and top of 'gitweb.cgi' for their - full list and description. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG - is set when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the - environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified - when gitweb.cgi was created. [Default: gitweb_config.perl] - * GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM - This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' as a fallback if GITWEB_CONFIG - does not exist. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is set - when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the environment - variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was - created. [Default: /etc/gitweb.conf] +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: -You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG` -(defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI), and -as a fallback `GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM` (defaults to /etc/gitweb.conf). -The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the -optional features, stored in the '%features' variable. - -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. +1. built-in values (some set during build stage), +2. common system-wide configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`, + defaults to '/etc/gitweb-common.conf'), +3. either per-instance configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG`, defaults to + 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the installed gitweb), + or if it does not exists then system-wide configuration file + (`GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM`, defaults to '/etc/gitweb.conf'). -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. +Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier +in above sequence. -Gitweb config file variables -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +You can read defaults in system-wide GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM from GITWEB_CONFIG +by adding -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> SPC - <URI-encoded repository owner>" format). Set to $GITWEB_LIST - during installation. If empty, $projectroot is used to scan for - repositories. - * $my_url, $my_uri - URL and absolute URL of gitweb script; you might need to set those - variables if you are using 'pathinfo' feature: see also below. - * $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; you might - need to set it up to [base] gitweb URI if you use 'pathinfo' feature - (alternative format of the URLs, with project name embedded directly - in the path part of URL). - * @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. - * $projects_list_description_width - The width (in characters) of the projects list "Description" column. - Longer descriptions will be cut (trying to cut at word boundary); - full description is available as 'title' attribute (usually shown on - mouseover). By default set to 25, which might be too small if you - use long project descriptions. - * @git_base_url_list - List of git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, shown - in project summary page. Full URL is "$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. - * $fallback_encoding - Gitweb assumes this charset if line contains non-UTF-8 characters. - Fallback decoding is used without error checking, so it can be even - 'utf-8'. Value mist be valid encodig; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man - page for a list. By default 'latin1', aka. 'iso-8859-1'. - * @diff_opts - Rename detection options for git-diff and git-diff-tree. By default - ('-M'); set it to ('-C') or ('-C', '-C') to also detect copies, or - set it to () if you don't want to have renames detection. + read_config_file($GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM); -Per-repository gitweb configuration -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +at very beginning of per-instance GITWEB_CONFIG file. In this case +settings in said per-instance file will override settings from +system-wide configuration file. Note that read_config_file checks +itself that the $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM file exists. -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 projects - homepage, etc. - * 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. - * 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. - * 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: +The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the +optional features, stored in the '%features' variable. -<VirtualHost *:80> - ServerName git.example.org - DocumentRoot /pub/git - SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf - 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> +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'. -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. +See also gitweb.conf(5) manpage. -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: +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). - @stylesheets = ("/some/absolute/path/gitweb.css"); - $my_uri = "/"; - $home_link = "/"; +See "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections in +gitweb(1) manpage. +AUTHORS +------- Originally written by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |