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:
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)]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
55 Filename of html text to include at top of each page. Relative to
56 gitweb.cgi script. [No default]
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 $home_link
62 (usually main gitweb page, which means projects list). Used as first
63 part of gitweb view "breadcrumb trail": <home> / <project> / <view>.
66 Name of your site or organization to appear in page titles. Set it
67 to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If not set
68 (if empty) gitweb uses "$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]
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
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]
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]
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]
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]
105 Runtime gitweb configuration
106 ----------------------------
108 You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG`
109 (defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI).
110 The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
111 optional features, stored in the '%features' variable.
113 Ultimate description on how to reconfigure the default features setting
114 in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
115 as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
117 See also "Gitweb config file" (with example of gitweb config file), and
118 "Gitweb repositories" sections in INSTALL file for gitweb.
121 Gitweb config file is [fragment] of perl code. You can set variables
122 using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end
123 of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) man page for details.
125 Below there is list of vaiables which you might want to set in gitweb config.
126 See the top of 'gitweb.cgi' for the full list of variables and their
129 Gitweb config file variables
130 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
132 You can set, among others, the following variables in gitweb config files:
134 Cure git executable to use. By default set to "$GIT_BINDIR/git", which
135 in turn is by default set to "$(bindir)/git". If you use git from binary
136 package, set this to "/usr/bin/git". This can just be "git" if your
137 webserver has a sensible PATH. If you have multiple git versions
138 installed it is / can be used to choose which one to use.
140 Gitweb version, set automatically when creating gitweb.cgi from
141 gitweb.perl. You might want to modify it if you are running modified
144 URL and absolute URL of gitweb script; you might need to set those
145 variables if you are using 'pathinfo' feature: see also below.
147 Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
148 "breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page; you might
149 need to set it up to [base] gitweb URI if you use 'pathinfo' feature
150 (alternative format of the URLs, with project name embedded directly
151 in the path part of URL).
153 List of URIs of stylesheets (relative to base URI of a page). You
154 might specify more than one stylesheet, for example use gitweb.css
155 as base, with site specific modifications in separate stylesheet
156 to make it easier to upgrade gitweb. You can add 'site' stylesheet
158 push @stylesheets, "gitweb-site.css";
159 in gitweb config file.
160 * $logo_url, $logo_label
161 URI and label (title) of GIT logo link (or your site logo, if you choose
162 to use different logo image). By default they point to git homepage;
163 in the past they pointed to git documentation at www.kernel.org.
164 * $projects_list_description_width
165 The width (in characters) of the projects list "Description" column.
166 Longer descriptions will be cut (trying to cut at word boundary);
167 full description is available as 'title' attribute (usually shown on
168 mouseover). By default set to 25, which might be too small if you
169 use long project descriptions.
171 List of git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, shown
172 in project summary page. Full URL is "$git_base_url/$project".
173 You can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for git:// protocol
174 access, and one for http:// "dumb" protocol access). Note that per
175 repository configuration in 'cloneurl' file, or as values of gitweb.url
177 * $default_blob_plain_mimetype
178 Default mimetype for blob_plain (raw) view, if mimetype checking
179 doesn't result in some other type; by default 'text/plain'.
180 * $default_text_plain_charset
181 Default charset for text files. If not set, web serwer configuration
184 File to use for (filename extension based) guessing of MIME types before
185 trying /etc/mime.types. Path, if relative, is taken currently as taken
186 relative to current git repositoy.
188 Gitweb assumes this charset if line contains non-UTF-8 characters.
189 Fallback decoding is used without error checking, so it can be even
190 'utf-8'. Value mist be valid encodig; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man
191 page for a list. By default 'latin1', aka. 'iso-8859-1'.
193 Rename detection options for git-diff and git-diff-tree. By default
194 ('-M'); set it to ('-C') or ('-C', '-C') to also detect copies, or
195 set it to () if you don't want to have renames detection.
197 Per-repository gitweb configuration
198 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
200 You can also configure individual repositories shown in gitweb by creating
201 file in the GIT_DIR of git repository, or by setting some repo configuration
202 variable (in GIT_DIR/config).
204 You can use the following files in repository:
206 A .html file (HTML fragment) which is included on the gitweb project
207 summary page inside <div> block element. You can use it for longer
208 description of a project, to provide links for example to projects
210 * description (or gitweb.description)
211 Short (shortened by default to 25 characters in the projects list page)
212 single line description of a project (of a repository). Plain text file;
213 HTML will be escaped. By default set to
214 Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb.
215 from the template during creating repository. You can use
216 gitweb.description repo configuration variable, but the file takes
218 * cloneurl (or multiple-valued gitweb.url)
219 File with repository URL (used for clone and fetch), one per line.
220 Displayed in the project summary page. You can use multiple-valued
221 gitweb.url repository configuration variable for that, but the file
223 * various gitweb.* config variables (in config)
224 Read description of %feature hash for detailed list, and some
228 Webserver configuration
229 -----------------------
231 If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http://
232 repositories, you can configure apache like this:
235 ServerName git.domain.org
236 DocumentRoot /pub/git
238 RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT]
239 SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
242 The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
243 /pub/git and will serve them as http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git,
244 both as cloneable GIT URL and as browseable gitweb interface.
245 If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all
246 then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path.
248 Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use
249 the named file (i.e. in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a
250 configuration for gitweb. Perl variables defined in here will
251 override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or
252 gitweb.cgi). Look at the comments in that file for information on
253 which variables and what they mean.
256 Originally written by:
257 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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