1 GIT web Interface
2 =================
4 The one working on:
5 http://www.kernel.org/git/
7 From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
10 How to configure gitweb for your local system
11 ---------------------------------------------
13 See also "Build time configuration" section in INSTALL
14 file for gitweb (in gitweb/INSTALL).
16 You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
17 * GIT_BINDIR
18 Points out where to find git executable. You should set up it to
19 the place where git binary was installed (usually /usr/bin) if you
20 don't install git from sources together with gitweb. [Default: $(bindir)]
21 * GITWEB_SITENAME
22 Shown in the title of all generated pages, defaults to the server name
23 (SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable) if not set. [No default]
24 * GITWEB_PROJECTROOT
25 The root directory for all projects shown by gitweb. Must be set
26 correctly for gitweb to find repositories to display. See also
27 "Gitweb repositories" in INSTALL file for gitweb. [Default: /pub/git]
28 * GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH
29 The filesystem traversing limit for getting projects list; the number
30 is taken as depth relative to the projectroot. It is used when
31 GITWEB_LIST is a directory (or is not set; then project root is used).
32 Is is meant to speed up project listing on large work trees by limiting
33 find depth. [Default: 2007]
34 * GITWEB_LIST
35 Points to a directory to scan for projects (defaults to project root
36 if not set / if empty) or to a file with explicit listing of projects
37 (together with projects' ownership). See "Generating projects list
38 using gitweb" in INSTALL file for gitweb to find out how to generate
39 such file from scan of a directory. [No default, which means use root
40 directory for projects]
41 * GITWEB_EXPORT_OK
42 Show repository only if this file exists (in repository). Only
43 effective if this variable evaluates to true. [No default / Not set]
44 * GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT
45 Only allow viewing of repositories also shown on the overview page.
46 This for example makes GITWEB_EXPORT_OK to decide if repository is
47 available and not only if it is shown. If GITWEB_LIST points to
48 file with list of project, only those repositories listed would be
49 available for gitweb. [No default]
50 * GITWEB_HOMETEXT
51 Points to an .html file which is included on the gitweb project
52 overview page ('projects_list' view), if it exists. Relative to
53 gitweb.cgi script. [Default: indextext.html]
54 * GITWEB_SITE_HEADER
55 Filename of html text to include at top of each page. Relative to
56 gitweb.cgi script. [No default]
57 * GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER
58 Filename of html text to include at bottom of each page. Relative to
59 gitweb.cgi script. [No default]
60 * GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR
61 String of the home link on top of all pages, leading to $home_link
62 (usually main gitweb page, which means projects list). Used as first
63 part of gitweb view "breadcrumb trail": <home> / <project> / <view>.
64 [Default: projects]
65 * GITWEB_SITENAME
66 Name of your site or organization to appear in page titles. Set it
67 to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If not set
68 (if empty) gitweb uses "$SERVER_NAME Git", or "Untitled Git" if
69 SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable is not set (e.g. if running
70 gitweb as standalone script). [No default]
71 * GITWEB_BASE_URL
72 Git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, i.e. full
73 URL is "$git_base_url/$project". Shown on projects summary page.
74 Repository URL for project can be also configured per repository; this
75 takes precendence over URL composed from base URL and project name.
76 Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for
77 git:// protocol access, one for http:// access) from gitweb config
78 file. [No default]
79 * GITWEB_CSS
80 Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server
81 (or to be more generic URI of gitweb stylesheet). Relative to base
82 URI of gitweb. Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from
83 gitweb config file. [Default: gitweb.css]
84 * GITWEB_LOGO
85 Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server
86 (or to be more generic URI of logo, 72x27 size, displayed in top right
87 corner of each gitweb page, and used as logo for Atom feed). Relative
88 to base URI of gitweb. [Default: git-logo.png]
89 * GITWEB_FAVICON
90 Points to the location where you put git-favicon.png on your web server
91 (or to be more generic URI of favicon, assumed to be image/png type;
92 web browsers that support favicons (website icons) may display them
93 in the browser's URL bar and next to site name in bookmarks). Relative
94 to base URI of gitweb. [Default: git-favicon.png]
95 * GITWEB_CONFIG
96 This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' and can be used to override any
97 of the options above as well as some other options -- see the "Runtime
98 gitweb configuration" section below, and top of 'gitweb.cgi' for their
99 full list and description. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG
100 is set when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the
101 environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified
102 when gitweb.cgi was created. [Default: gitweb_config.perl]
103 * GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM
104 This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' as a fallback if GITWEB_CONFIG
105 does not exist. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is set
106 when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the environment
107 variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was
108 created. [Default: /etc/gitweb.conf]
111 Runtime gitweb configuration
112 ----------------------------
114 You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG`
115 (defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI), and
116 as a fallback `GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM` (defaults to /etc/gitweb.conf).
117 The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
118 optional features, stored in the '%features' variable.
120 Ultimate description on how to reconfigure the default features setting
121 in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
122 as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
124 See also "Gitweb config file" (with example of gitweb config file), and
125 "Gitweb repositories" sections in INSTALL file for gitweb.
128 Gitweb config file is [fragment] of perl code. You can set variables
129 using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end
130 of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) man page for details.
132 Below there is list of vaiables which you might want to set in gitweb config.
133 See the top of 'gitweb.cgi' for the full list of variables and their
134 descriptions.
136 Gitweb config file variables
137 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
139 You can set, among others, the following variables in gitweb config files
140 (with the exception of $projectroot and $projects_list this list does
141 not include variables usually directly set during build):
142 * $GIT
143 Cure git executable to use. By default set to "$GIT_BINDIR/git", which
144 in turn is by default set to "$(bindir)/git". If you use git from binary
145 package, set this to "/usr/bin/git". This can just be "git" if your
146 webserver has a sensible PATH. If you have multiple git versions
147 installed it can be used to choose which one to use.
148 * $version
149 Gitweb version, set automatically when creating gitweb.cgi from
150 gitweb.perl. You might want to modify it if you are running modified
151 gitweb.
152 * $projectroot
153 Absolute filesystem path which will be prepended to project path;
154 the path to repository is $projectroot/$project. Set to
155 $GITWEB_PROJECTROOT during installation. This variable have to be
156 set correctly for gitweb to find repositories.
157 * $projects_list
158 Source of projects list, either directory to scan, or text file
159 with list of repositories (in the "<URI-encoded repository path> SPC
160 <URI-encoded repository owner>" format). Set to $GITWEB_LIST
161 during installation. If empty, $projectroot is used to scan for
162 repositories.
163 * $my_url, $my_uri
164 URL and absolute URL of gitweb script; you might need to set those
165 variables if you are using 'pathinfo' feature: see also below.
166 * $home_link
167 Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
168 "breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page; you might
169 need to set it up to [base] gitweb URI if you use 'pathinfo' feature
170 (alternative format of the URLs, with project name embedded directly
171 in the path part of URL).
172 * @stylesheets
173 List of URIs of stylesheets (relative to base URI of a page). You
174 might specify more than one stylesheet, for example use gitweb.css
175 as base, with site specific modifications in separate stylesheet
176 to make it easier to upgrade gitweb. You can add 'site' stylesheet
177 for example by using
178 push @stylesheets, "gitweb-site.css";
179 in gitweb config file.
180 * $logo_url, $logo_label
181 URI and label (title) of GIT logo link (or your site logo, if you choose
182 to use different logo image). By default they point to git homepage;
183 in the past they pointed to git documentation at www.kernel.org.
184 * $projects_list_description_width
185 The width (in characters) of the projects list "Description" column.
186 Longer descriptions will be cut (trying to cut at word boundary);
187 full description is available as 'title' attribute (usually shown on
188 mouseover). By default set to 25, which might be too small if you
189 use long project descriptions.
190 * @git_base_url_list
191 List of git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, shown
192 in project summary page. Full URL is "$git_base_url/$project".
193 You can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for git:// protocol
194 access, and one for http:// "dumb" protocol access). Note that per
195 repository configuration in 'cloneurl' file, or as values of gitweb.url
196 project config.
197 * $default_blob_plain_mimetype
198 Default mimetype for blob_plain (raw) view, if mimetype checking
199 doesn't result in some other type; by default 'text/plain'.
200 * $default_text_plain_charset
201 Default charset for text files. If not set, web serwer configuration
202 would be used.
203 * $mimetypes_file
204 File to use for (filename extension based) guessing of MIME types before
205 trying /etc/mime.types. Path, if relative, is taken currently as taken
206 relative to current git repositoy.
207 * $fallback_encoding
208 Gitweb assumes this charset if line contains non-UTF-8 characters.
209 Fallback decoding is used without error checking, so it can be even
210 'utf-8'. Value mist be valid encodig; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man
211 page for a list. By default 'latin1', aka. 'iso-8859-1'.
212 * @diff_opts
213 Rename detection options for git-diff and git-diff-tree. By default
214 ('-M'); set it to ('-C') or ('-C', '-C') to also detect copies, or
215 set it to () if you don't want to have renames detection.
217 Per-repository gitweb configuration
218 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
220 You can also configure individual repositories shown in gitweb by creating
221 file in the GIT_DIR of git repository, or by setting some repo configuration
222 variable (in GIT_DIR/config).
224 You can use the following files in repository:
225 * README.html
226 A .html file (HTML fragment) which is included on the gitweb project
227 summary page inside <div> block element. You can use it for longer
228 description of a project, to provide links for example to projects
229 homepage, etc.
230 * description (or gitweb.description)
231 Short (shortened by default to 25 characters in the projects list page)
232 single line description of a project (of a repository). Plain text file;
233 HTML will be escaped. By default set to
234 Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb.
235 from the template during creating repository. You can use
236 gitweb.description repo configuration variable, but the file takes
237 precendence.
238 * cloneurl (or multiple-valued gitweb.url)
239 File with repository URL (used for clone and fetch), one per line.
240 Displayed in the project summary page. You can use multiple-valued
241 gitweb.url repository configuration variable for that, but the file
242 takes precendence.
243 * gitweb.owner
244 You can use the gitweb.owner repository configuration variable to set
245 repository's owner. It is displayed in the project list and summary
246 page. If it's not set, filesystem directory's owner is used.
247 * various gitweb.* config variables (in config)
248 Read description of %feature hash for detailed list, and some
249 descriptions.
252 Webserver configuration
253 -----------------------
255 If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http://
256 repositories, you can configure apache like this:
258 <VirtualHost www:80>
259 ServerName git.domain.org
260 DocumentRoot /pub/git
261 RewriteEngine on
262 RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT]
263 SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
264 </VirtualHost>
266 The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
267 /pub/git and will serve them as http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git,
268 both as cloneable GIT URL and as browseable gitweb interface.
269 If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all
270 then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path.
272 Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use
273 the named file (i.e. in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a
274 configuration for gitweb. Perl variables defined in here will
275 override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or
276 gitweb.cgi). Look at the comments in that file for information on
277 which variables and what they mean.
280 Originally written by:
281 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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