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How to configure gitweb for your local system
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How to configure gitweb for your local system
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+See also "Build time configuration" section in INSTALL
+file for gitweb (in gitweb/INSTALL).
+
You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
+ * GIT_BINDIR
+ Points out where to find git executable. You should set up it to
+ the place where git binary was installed (usually /usr/bin) if you
+ don't install git from sources together with gitweb. [Default: $(bindir)]
* GITWEB_SITENAME
* GITWEB_SITENAME
- Shown in the title of all generated pages, defaults to the servers name.
+ 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
* GITWEB_PROJECTROOT
- The root directory for all projects shown by gitweb.
+ 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 INSTALL file for gitweb. [Default: /pub/git]
+ * GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH
+ The filesystem traversing limit for getting projects 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
+ find depth. [Default: 2007]
* GITWEB_LIST
* GITWEB_LIST
- points to a directory to scan for projects (defaults to project root)
- or to a file for explicit listing of projects.
+ 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
* GITWEB_HOMETEXT
- points to an .html file which is included on the gitweb project
- overview page.
+ 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 precendence over URL composed from base URL and project name.
+ Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for
+ git:// protocol access, one for http:// access) from gitweb config
+ file. [No default]
* GITWEB_CSS
* GITWEB_CSS
- Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server.
+ Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server
+ (or to be more generic URI of gitweb stylesheet). Relative to base
+ URI of gitweb. Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from
+ gitweb config file. [Default: gitweb.css]
* GITWEB_LOGO
* GITWEB_LOGO
- Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server.
+ 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
* GITWEB_CONFIG
- This file will be loaded using 'require' and can be used to override any
- of the options above as well as some other options - see the top of
- 'gitweb.cgi' for their full list and description. If the environment
- $GITWEB_CONFIG is set when gitweb.cgi is executed the file in the
- environment variable will be loaded instead of the file
- specified when gitweb.cgi was created.
+ 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]
Runtime gitweb configuration
Runtime gitweb configuration
You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG`
(defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI).
You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG`
(defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI).
-See the top of 'gitweb.cgi' for the list of variables and some description.
The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
-optional features, stored in the '%features' variable. You can find further
-description on how to reconfigure the default features setting in your
-`GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
+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 "Gitweb config file" (with example of gitweb config file), and
+"Gitweb repositories" sections in INSTALL file for gitweb.
+
+
+Gitweb config file is [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 there is list of vaiables 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:
+ * $GIT
+ Cure git executable to use. By default set to "$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 is / 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.
+ * $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 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 serwer 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 taken
+ relative to current git repositoy.
+ * $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.
+
+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 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 creating repository. You can use
+ gitweb.description repo configuration variable, but the file takes
+ precendence.
+ * 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 precendence.
+ * various gitweb.* config variables (in config)
+ Read description of %feature hash for detailed list, and some
+ descriptions.
Webserver configuration
Webserver configuration