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gitweb.conf(5)
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NAME
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gitweb.conf - Gitweb (Git web interface) configuration file
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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/etc/gitweb.conf, /etc/gitweb-common.conf, $GITWEBDIR/gitweb_config.perl
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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The gitweb CGI script for viewing Git repositories over the web uses a
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perl script fragment as its configuration file. You can set variables
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using "`our $variable = value`"; text from a "#" character until the
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end of a line is ignored. See *perlsyn*(1) for details.
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An example:
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# gitweb configuration file for http://git.example.org
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#
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our $projectroot = "/srv/git"; # FHS recommendation
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our $site_name = 'Example.org >> Repos';
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------------------------------------------------
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The configuration file is used to override the default settings that
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were built into gitweb at the time the 'gitweb.cgi' script was generated.
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While one could just alter the configuration settings in the gitweb
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CGI itself, those changes would be lost upon upgrade. Configuration
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settings might also be placed into a file in the same directory as the
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CGI script with the default name 'gitweb_config.perl' -- allowing
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one to have multiple gitweb instances with different configurations by
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the use of symlinks.
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Note that some configuration can be controlled on per-repository rather than
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gitweb-wide basis: see "Per-repository gitweb configuration" subsection on
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linkgit:gitweb[1] manpage.
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DISCUSSION
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Gitweb reads configuration data from the following sources in the
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following order:
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* built-in values (some set during build stage),
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* common system-wide configuration file (defaults to
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`/etc/gitweb-common.conf`),
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* either per-instance configuration file (defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl'
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in the same directory as the installed gitweb), or if it does not exists
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then fallback system-wide configuration file (defaults to `/etc/gitweb.conf`).
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Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
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in the above sequence.
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Locations of the common system-wide configuration file, the fallback
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system-wide configuration file and the per-instance configuration file
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are defined at compile time using build-time Makefile configuration
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variables, respectively `GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`, `GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM`
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and `GITWEB_CONFIG`.
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You can also override locations of gitweb configuration files during
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runtime by setting the following environment variables:
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`GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`, `GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM` and `GITWEB_CONFIG`
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to a non-empty value.
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The syntax of the configuration files is that of Perl, since these files are
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handled by sourcing them as fragments of Perl code (the language that
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gitweb itself is written in). Variables are typically set using the
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`our` qualifier (as in "`our $variable = <value>;`") to avoid syntax
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errors if a new version of gitweb no longer uses a variable and therefore
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stops declaring it.
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You can include other configuration file using read_config_file()
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subroutine. For example, one might want to put gitweb configuration
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related to access control for viewing repositories via Gitolite (one
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of Git repository management tools) in a separate file, e.g. in
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`/etc/gitweb-gitolite.conf`. To include it, put
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read_config_file("/etc/gitweb-gitolite.conf");
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--------------------------------------------------
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somewhere in gitweb configuration file used, e.g. in per-installation
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gitweb configuration file. Note that read_config_file() checks itself
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that the file it reads exists, and does nothing if it is not found.
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It also handles errors in included file.
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The default configuration with no configuration file at all may work
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perfectly well for some installations. Still, a configuration file is
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useful for customizing or tweaking the behavior of gitweb in many ways, and
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some optional features will not be present unless explicitly enabled using
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the configurable `%features` variable (see also "Configuring gitweb
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features" section below).
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CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
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-----------------------
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Some configuration variables have their default values (embedded in the CGI
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script) set during building gitweb -- if that is the case, this fact is put
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in their description. See gitweb's 'INSTALL' file for instructions on building
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and installing gitweb.
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Location of repositories
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The configuration variables described below control how gitweb finds
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Git repositories, and how repositories are displayed and accessed.
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See also "Repositories" and later subsections in linkgit:gitweb[1] manpage.
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$projectroot::
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Absolute filesystem path which will be prepended to project path;
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the path to repository is `$projectroot/$project`. Set to
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`$GITWEB_PROJECTROOT` during installation. This variable has to be
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set correctly for gitweb to find repositories.
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For example, if `$projectroot` is set to "/srv/git" by putting the following
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in gitweb config file:
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our $projectroot = "/srv/git";
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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then
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http://git.example.com/gitweb.cgi?p=foo/bar.git
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and its path_info based equivalent
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http://git.example.com/gitweb.cgi/foo/bar.git
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will map to the path `/srv/git/foo/bar.git` on the filesystem.
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$projects_list::
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Name of a plain text file listing projects, or a name of directory
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to be scanned for projects.
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Project list files should list one project per line, with each line
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having the following format
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<URI-encoded filesystem path to repository> SP <URI-encoded repository owner>
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The default value of this variable is determined by the `GITWEB_LIST`
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makefile variable at installation time. If this variable is empty, gitweb
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will fall back to scanning the `$projectroot` directory for repositories.
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$project_maxdepth::
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If `$projects_list` variable is unset, gitweb will recursively
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scan filesystem for Git repositories. The `$project_maxdepth`
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is used to limit traversing depth, relative to `$projectroot`
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(starting point); it means that directories which are further
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from `$projectroot` than `$project_maxdepth` will be skipped.
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It is purely performance optimization, originally intended for MacOS X,
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where recursive directory traversal is slow. Gitweb follows symbolic
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links, but it detects cycles, ignoring any duplicate files and directories.
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The default value of this variable is determined by the build-time
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configuration variable `GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH`, which defaults to
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2007.
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$export_ok::
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Show repository only if this file exists (in repository). Only
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effective if this variable evaluates to true. Can be set when
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building gitweb by setting `GITWEB_EXPORT_OK`. This path is
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relative to `GIT_DIR`. git-daemon[1] uses 'git-daemon-export-ok',
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unless started with `--export-all`. By default this variable is
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not set, which means that this feature is turned off.
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$export_auth_hook::
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Function used to determine which repositories should be shown.
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This subroutine should take one parameter, the full path to
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a project, and if it returns true, that project will be included
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in the projects list and can be accessed through gitweb as long
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as it fulfills the other requirements described by $export_ok,
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$projects_list, and $projects_maxdepth. Example:
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our $export_auth_hook = sub { return -e "$_[0]/git-daemon-export-ok"; };
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though the above might be done by using `$export_ok` instead
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our $export_ok = "git-daemon-export-ok";
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If not set (default), it means that this feature is disabled.
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See also more involved example in "Controlling access to Git repositories"
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subsection on linkgit:gitweb[1] manpage.
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$strict_export::
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Only allow viewing of repositories also shown on the overview page.
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This for example makes `$export_ok` file decide if repository is
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available and not only if it is shown. If `$projects_list` points to
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file with list of project, only those repositories listed would be
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available for gitweb. Can be set during building gitweb via
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`GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT`. By default this variable is not set, which
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means that you can directly access those repositories that are hidden
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from projects list page (e.g. the are not listed in the $projects_list
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file).
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Finding files
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The following configuration variables tell gitweb where to find files.
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The values of these variables are paths on the filesystem.
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$GIT::
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Core git executable to use. By default set to `$GIT_BINDIR/git`, which
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in turn is by default set to `$(bindir)/git`. If you use Git installed
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from a binary package, you should usually set this to "/usr/bin/git".
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This can just be "git" if your web server has a sensible PATH; from
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security point of view it is better to use absolute path to git binary.
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If you have multiple Git versions installed it can be used to choose
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which one to use. Must be (correctly) set for gitweb to be able to
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work.
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$mimetypes_file::
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File to use for (filename extension based) guessing of MIME types before
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trying `/etc/mime.types`. *NOTE* that this path, if relative, is taken
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as relative to the current Git repository, not to CGI script. If unset,
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only `/etc/mime.types` is used (if present on filesystem). If no mimetypes
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file is found, mimetype guessing based on extension of file is disabled.
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Unset by default.
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$highlight_bin::
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Path to the highlight executable to use (it must be the one from
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http://www.andre-simon.de[] due to assumptions about parameters and output).
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By default set to 'highlight'; set it to full path to highlight
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executable if it is not installed on your web server's PATH.
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Note that 'highlight' feature must be set for gitweb to actually
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use syntax highlighting.
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*NOTE*: for a file to be highlighted, its syntax type must be detected
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and that syntax must be supported by "highlight". The default syntax
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detection is minimal, and there are many supported syntax types with no
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detection by default. There are three options for adding syntax
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detection. The first and second priority are `%highlight_basename` and
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`%highlight_ext`, which detect based on basename (the full filename, for
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example "Makefile") and extension (for example "sh"). The keys of these
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hashes are the basename and extension, respectively, and the value for a
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given key is the name of the syntax to be passed via `--syntax <syntax>`
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to "highlight". The last priority is the "highlight" configuration of
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`Shebang` regular expressions to detect the language based on the first
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line in the file, (for example, matching the line "#!/bin/bash"). See
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the highlight documentation and the default config at
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/etc/highlight/filetypes.conf for more details.
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For example if repositories you are hosting use "phtml" extension for
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PHP files, and you want to have correct syntax-highlighting for those
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files, you can add the following to gitweb configuration:
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our %highlight_ext;
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$highlight_ext{'phtml'} = 'php';
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Links and their targets
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The configuration variables described below configure some of gitweb links:
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their target and their look (text or image), and where to find page
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prerequisites (stylesheet, favicon, images, scripts). Usually they are left
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at their default values, with the possible exception of `@stylesheets`
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variable.
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@stylesheets::
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List of URIs of stylesheets (relative to the base URI of a page). You
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might specify more than one stylesheet, for example to use "gitweb.css"
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as base with site specific modifications in a separate stylesheet
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to make it easier to upgrade gitweb. For example, you can add
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a `site` stylesheet by putting
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push @stylesheets, "gitweb-site.css";
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in the gitweb config file. Those values that are relative paths are
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relative to base URI of gitweb.
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This list should contain the URI of gitweb's standard stylesheet. The default
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URI of gitweb stylesheet can be set at build time using the `GITWEB_CSS`
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makefile variable. Its default value is `static/gitweb.css`
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(or `static/gitweb.min.css` if the `CSSMIN` variable is defined,
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i.e. if CSS minifier is used during build).
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*Note*: there is also a legacy `$stylesheet` configuration variable, which was
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used by older gitweb. If `$stylesheet` variable is defined, only CSS stylesheet
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given by this variable is used by gitweb.
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$logo::
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Points to the location where you put 'git-logo.png' on your web
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server, or to be more the generic URI of logo, 72x27 size). This image
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is displayed in the top right corner of each gitweb page and used as
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a logo for the Atom feed. Relative to the base URI of gitweb (as a path).
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Can be adjusted when building gitweb using `GITWEB_LOGO` variable
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By default set to `static/git-logo.png`.
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$favicon::
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Points to the location where you put 'git-favicon.png' on your web
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server, or to be more the generic URI of favicon, which will be served
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as "image/png" type. Web browsers that support favicons (website icons)
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may display them in the browser's URL bar and next to the site name in
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bookmarks. Relative to the base URI of gitweb. Can be adjusted at
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build time using `GITWEB_FAVICON` variable.
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By default set to `static/git-favicon.png`.
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$javascript::
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Points to the location where you put 'gitweb.js' on your web server,
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or to be more generic the URI of JavaScript code used by gitweb.
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Relative to the base URI of gitweb. Can be set at build time using
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the `GITWEB_JS` build-time configuration variable.
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The default value is either `static/gitweb.js`, or `static/gitweb.min.js` if
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the `JSMIN` build variable was defined, i.e. if JavaScript minifier was used
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at build time. *Note* that this single file is generated from multiple
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individual JavaScript "modules".
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$home_link::
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Target of the home link on the top of all pages (the first part of view
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"breadcrumbs"). By default it is set to the absolute URI of a current page
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(to the value of `$my_uri` variable, or to "/" if `$my_uri` is undefined
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or is an empty string).
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$home_link_str::
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Label for the "home link" at the top of all pages, leading to `$home_link`
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(usually the main gitweb page, which contains the projects list). It is
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used as the first component of gitweb's "breadcrumb trail":
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`<home link> / <project> / <action>`. Can be set at build time using
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the `GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR` variable. By default it is set to "projects",
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as this link leads to the list of projects. Another popular choice is to
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set it to the name of site. Note that it is treated as raw HTML so it
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should not be set from untrusted sources.
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@extra_breadcrumbs::
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Additional links to be added to the start of the breadcrumb trail before
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the home link, to pages that are logically "above" the gitweb projects
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list, such as the organization and department which host the gitweb
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server. Each element of the list is a reference to an array, in which
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element 0 is the link text (equivalent to `$home_link_str`) and element
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1 is the target URL (equivalent to `$home_link`).
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For example, the following setting produces a breadcrumb trail like
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"home / dev / projects / ..." where "projects" is the home link.
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our @extra_breadcrumbs = (
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[ 'home' => 'https://www.example.org/' ],
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[ 'dev' => 'https://dev.example.org/' ],
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);
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$logo_url::
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$logo_label::
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URI and label (title) for the Git logo link (or your site logo,
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if you chose to use different logo image). By default, these both
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refer to Git homepage, https://git-scm.com[]; in the past, they pointed
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to Git documentation at https://www.kernel.org[].
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Changing gitweb's look
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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You can adjust how pages generated by gitweb look using the variables described
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below. You can change the site name, add common headers and footers for all
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pages, and add a description of this gitweb installation on its main page
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(which is the projects list page), etc.
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$site_name::
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Name of your site or organization, to appear in page titles. Set it
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to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If this variable
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is not set or is, then gitweb uses the value of the `SERVER_NAME`
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`CGI` environment variable, setting site name to "$SERVER_NAME Git",
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or "Untitled Git" if this variable is not set (e.g. if running gitweb
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as standalone script).
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Can be set using the `GITWEB_SITENAME` at build time. Unset by default.
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$site_html_head_string::
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HTML snippet to be included in the <head> section of each page.
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Can be set using `GITWEB_SITE_HTML_HEAD_STRING` at build time.
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No default value.
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$site_header::
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Name of a file with HTML to be included at the top of each page.
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Relative to the directory containing the 'gitweb.cgi' script.
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Can be set using `GITWEB_SITE_HEADER` at build time. No default
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value.
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$site_footer::
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Name of a file with HTML to be included at the bottom of each page.
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Relative to the directory containing the 'gitweb.cgi' script.
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Can be set using `GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER` at build time. No default
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value.
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$home_text::
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Name of a HTML file which, if it exists, is included on the
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gitweb projects overview page ("projects_list" view). Relative to
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the directory containing the gitweb.cgi script. Default value
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can be adjusted during build time using `GITWEB_HOMETEXT` variable.
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By default set to 'indextext.html'.
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$projects_list_description_width::
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The width (in characters) of the "Description" column of the projects list.
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Longer descriptions will be truncated (trying to cut at word boundary);
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the full description is available in the 'title' attribute (usually shown on
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mouseover). The default is 25, which might be too small if you
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use long project descriptions.
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$default_projects_order::
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Default value of ordering of projects on projects list page, which
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means the ordering used if you don't explicitly sort projects list
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(if there is no "o" CGI query parameter in the URL). Valid values
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are "none" (unsorted), "project" (projects are by project name,
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i.e. path to repository relative to `$projectroot`), "descr"
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(project description), "owner", and "age" (by date of most current
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commit).
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Default value is "project". Unknown value means unsorted.
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Changing gitweb's behavior
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These configuration variables control _internal_ gitweb behavior.
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$default_blob_plain_mimetype::
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Default mimetype for the blob_plain (raw) view, if mimetype checking
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doesn't result in some other type; by default "text/plain".
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Gitweb guesses mimetype of a file to display based on extension
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of its filename, using `$mimetypes_file` (if set and file exists)
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and `/etc/mime.types` files (see *mime.types*(5) manpage; only
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filename extension rules are supported by gitweb).
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$default_text_plain_charset::
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Default charset for text files. If this is not set, the web server
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configuration will be used. Unset by default.
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$fallback_encoding::
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Gitweb assumes this charset when a line contains non-UTF-8 characters.
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The fallback decoding is used without error checking, so it can be even
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"utf-8". The value must be a valid encoding; see the *Encoding::Supported*(3pm)
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man page for a list. The default is "latin1", aka. "iso-8859-1".
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@diff_opts::
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Rename detection options for git-diff and git-diff-tree. The default is
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(\'-M'); set it to (\'-C') or (\'-C', \'-C') to also detect copies,
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or set it to () i.e. empty list if you don't want to have renames
|
|
detection.
|
|
+
|
|
*Note* that rename and especially copy detection can be quite
|
|
CPU-intensive. Note also that non Git tools can have problems with
|
|
patches generated with options mentioned above, especially when they
|
|
involve file copies (\'-C') or criss-cross renames (\'-B').
|
|
|
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|
Some optional features and policies
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
Most of features are configured via `%feature` hash; however some of extra
|
|
gitweb features can be turned on and configured using variables described
|
|
below. This list beside configuration variables that control how gitweb
|
|
looks does contain variables configuring administrative side of gitweb
|
|
(e.g. cross-site scripting prevention; admittedly this as side effect
|
|
affects how "summary" pages look like, or load limiting).
|
|
|
|
@git_base_url_list::
|
|
List of Git base URLs. These URLs are used to generate URLs
|
|
describing from where to fetch a project, which are shown on
|
|
project summary page. The full fetch URL is "`$git_base_url/$project`",
|
|
for each element of this list. You can set up multiple base URLs
|
|
(for example one for `git://` protocol, and one for `http://`
|
|
protocol).
|
|
+
|
|
Note that per repository configuration can be set in `$GIT_DIR/cloneurl`
|
|
file, or as values of multi-value `gitweb.url` configuration variable in
|
|
project config. Per-repository configuration takes precedence over value
|
|
composed from `@git_base_url_list` elements and project name.
|
|
+
|
|
You can setup one single value (single entry/item in this list) at build
|
|
time by setting the `GITWEB_BASE_URL` build-time configuration variable.
|
|
By default it is set to (), i.e. an empty list. This means that gitweb
|
|
would not try to create project URL (to fetch) from project name.
|
|
|
|
$projects_list_group_categories::
|
|
Whether to enable the grouping of projects by category on the project
|
|
list page. The category of a project is determined by the
|
|
`$GIT_DIR/category` file or the `gitweb.category` variable in each
|
|
repository's configuration. Disabled by default (set to 0).
|
|
|
|
$project_list_default_category::
|
|
Default category for projects for which none is specified. If this is
|
|
set to the empty string, such projects will remain uncategorized and
|
|
listed at the top, above categorized projects. Used only if project
|
|
categories are enabled, which means if `$projects_list_group_categories`
|
|
is true. By default set to "" (empty string).
|
|
|
|
$prevent_xss::
|
|
If true, some gitweb features are disabled to prevent content in
|
|
repositories from launching cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Set this
|
|
to true if you don't trust the content of your repositories.
|
|
False by default (set to 0).
|
|
|
|
$maxload::
|
|
Used to set the maximum load that we will still respond to gitweb queries.
|
|
If the server load exceeds this value then gitweb will return
|
|
"503 Service Unavailable" error. The server load is taken to be 0
|
|
if gitweb cannot determine its value. Currently it works only on Linux,
|
|
where it uses `/proc/loadavg`; the load there is the number of active
|
|
tasks on the system -- processes that are actually running -- averaged
|
|
over the last minute.
|
|
+
|
|
Set `$maxload` to undefined value (`undef`) to turn this feature off.
|
|
The default value is 300.
|
|
|
|
$omit_age_column::
|
|
If true, omit the column with date of the most current commit on the
|
|
projects list page. It can save a bit of I/O and a fork per repository.
|
|
|
|
$omit_owner::
|
|
If true prevents displaying information about repository owner.
|
|
|
|
$per_request_config::
|
|
If this is set to code reference, it will be run once for each request.
|
|
You can set parts of configuration that change per session this way.
|
|
For example, one might use the following code in a gitweb configuration
|
|
file
|
|
+
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
our $per_request_config = sub {
|
|
$ENV{GL_USER} = $cgi->remote_user || "gitweb";
|
|
};
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
+
|
|
If `$per_request_config` is not a code reference, it is interpreted as boolean
|
|
value. If it is true gitweb will process config files once per request,
|
|
and if it is false gitweb will process config files only once, each time it
|
|
is executed. True by default (set to 1).
|
|
+
|
|
*NOTE*: `$my_url`, `$my_uri`, and `$base_url` are overwritten with their default
|
|
values before every request, so if you want to change them, be sure to set
|
|
this variable to true or a code reference effecting the desired changes.
|
|
+
|
|
This variable matters only when using persistent web environments that
|
|
serve multiple requests using single gitweb instance, like mod_perl,
|
|
FastCGI or Plackup.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other variables
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
Usually you should not need to change (adjust) any of configuration
|
|
variables described below; they should be automatically set by gitweb to
|
|
correct value.
|
|
|
|
|
|
$version::
|
|
Gitweb version, set automatically when creating gitweb.cgi from
|
|
gitweb.perl. You might want to modify it if you are running modified
|
|
gitweb, for example
|
|
+
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
our $version .= " with caching";
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
+
|
|
if you run modified version of gitweb with caching support. This variable
|
|
is purely informational, used e.g. in the "generator" meta header in HTML
|
|
header.
|
|
|
|
$my_url::
|
|
$my_uri::
|
|
Full URL and absolute URL of the gitweb script;
|
|
in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those
|
|
variables, but now there should be no need to do it. See
|
|
`$per_request_config` if you need to set them still.
|
|
|
|
$base_url::
|
|
Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb,
|
|
(e.g. `$logo`, `$favicon`, `@stylesheets` if they are relative URLs),
|
|
needed and used '<base href="$base_url">' only for URLs with nonempty
|
|
PATH_INFO. Usually gitweb sets its value correctly,
|
|
and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/".
|
|
See `$per_request_config` if you need to override it anyway.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CONFIGURING GITWEB FEATURES
|
|
---------------------------
|
|
Many gitweb features can be enabled (or disabled) and configured using the
|
|
`%feature` hash. Names of gitweb features are keys of this hash.
|
|
|
|
Each `%feature` hash element is a hash reference and has the following
|
|
structure:
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
"<feature_name>" => {
|
|
"sub" => <feature-sub (subroutine)>,
|
|
"override" => <allow-override (boolean)>,
|
|
"default" => [ <options>... ]
|
|
},
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Some features cannot be overridden per project. For those
|
|
features the structure of appropriate `%feature` hash element has a simpler
|
|
form:
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
"<feature_name>" => {
|
|
"override" => 0,
|
|
"default" => [ <options>... ]
|
|
},
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
As one can see it lacks the \'sub' element.
|
|
|
|
The meaning of each part of feature configuration is described
|
|
below:
|
|
|
|
default::
|
|
List (array reference) of feature parameters (if there are any),
|
|
used also to toggle (enable or disable) given feature.
|
|
+
|
|
Note that it is currently *always* an array reference, even if
|
|
feature doesn't accept any configuration parameters, and \'default'
|
|
is used only to turn it on or off. In such case you turn feature on
|
|
by setting this element to `[1]`, and torn it off by setting it to
|
|
`[0]`. See also the passage about the "blame" feature in the "Examples"
|
|
section.
|
|
+
|
|
To disable features that accept parameters (are configurable), you
|
|
need to set this element to empty list i.e. `[]`.
|
|
|
|
override::
|
|
If this field has a true value then the given feature is
|
|
overridable, which means that it can be configured
|
|
(or enabled/disabled) on a per-repository basis.
|
|
+
|
|
Usually given "<feature>" is configurable via the `gitweb.<feature>`
|
|
config variable in the per-repository Git configuration file.
|
|
+
|
|
*Note* that no feature is overridable by default.
|
|
|
|
sub::
|
|
Internal detail of implementation. What is important is that
|
|
if this field is not present then per-repository override for
|
|
given feature is not supported.
|
|
+
|
|
You wouldn't need to ever change it in gitweb config file.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Features in `%feature`
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
The gitweb features that are configurable via `%feature` hash are listed
|
|
below. This should be a complete list, but ultimately the authoritative
|
|
and complete list is in gitweb.cgi source code, with features described
|
|
in the comments.
|
|
|
|
blame::
|
|
Enable the "blame" and "blame_incremental" blob views, showing for
|
|
each line the last commit that modified it; see linkgit:git-blame[1].
|
|
This can be very CPU-intensive and is therefore disabled by default.
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
|
|
repository's `gitweb.blame` configuration variable (boolean).
|
|
|
|
snapshot::
|
|
Enable and configure the "snapshot" action, which allows user to
|
|
download a compressed archive of any tree or commit, as produced
|
|
by linkgit:git-archive[1] and possibly additionally compressed.
|
|
This can potentially generate high traffic if you have large project.
|
|
+
|
|
The value of \'default' is a list of names of snapshot formats,
|
|
defined in `%known_snapshot_formats` hash, that you wish to offer.
|
|
Supported formats include "tgz", "tbz2", "txz" (gzip/bzip2/xz
|
|
compressed tar archive) and "zip"; please consult gitweb sources for
|
|
a definitive list. By default only "tgz" is offered.
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
|
|
repository's `gitweb.snapshot` configuration variable, which contains
|
|
a comma separated list of formats or "none" to disable snapshots.
|
|
Unknown values are ignored.
|
|
|
|
grep::
|
|
Enable grep search, which lists the files in currently selected
|
|
tree (directory) containing the given string; see linkgit:git-grep[1].
|
|
This can be potentially CPU-intensive, of course. Enabled by default.
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
|
|
repository's `gitweb.grep` configuration variable (boolean).
|
|
|
|
pickaxe::
|
|
Enable the so called pickaxe search, which will list the commits
|
|
that introduced or removed a given string in a file. This can be
|
|
practical and quite faster alternative to "blame" action, but it is
|
|
still potentially CPU-intensive. Enabled by default.
|
|
+
|
|
The pickaxe search is described in linkgit:git-log[1] (the
|
|
description of `-S<string>` option, which refers to pickaxe entry in
|
|
linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details).
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis by setting
|
|
repository's `gitweb.pickaxe` configuration variable (boolean).
|
|
|
|
show-sizes::
|
|
Enable showing size of blobs (ordinary files) in a "tree" view, in a
|
|
separate column, similar to what `ls -l` does; see description of
|
|
`-l` option in linkgit:git-ls-tree[1] manpage. This costs a bit of
|
|
I/O. Enabled by default.
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
|
|
repository's `gitweb.showSizes` configuration variable (boolean).
|
|
|
|
patches::
|
|
Enable and configure "patches" view, which displays list of commits in email
|
|
(plain text) output format; see also linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
|
|
The value is the maximum number of patches in a patchset generated
|
|
in "patches" view. Set the 'default' field to a list containing single
|
|
item of or to an empty list to disable patch view, or to a list
|
|
containing a single negative number to remove any limit.
|
|
Default value is 16.
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
|
|
repository's `gitweb.patches` configuration variable (integer).
|
|
|
|
avatar::
|
|
Avatar support. When this feature is enabled, views such as
|
|
"shortlog" or "commit" will display an avatar associated with
|
|
the email of each committer and author.
|
|
+
|
|
Currently available providers are *"gravatar"* and *"picon"*.
|
|
Only one provider at a time can be selected ('default' is one element list).
|
|
If an unknown provider is specified, the feature is disabled.
|
|
*Note* that some providers might require extra Perl packages to be
|
|
installed; see `gitweb/INSTALL` for more details.
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
|
|
repository's `gitweb.avatar` configuration variable.
|
|
+
|
|
See also `%avatar_size` with pixel sizes for icons and avatars
|
|
("default" is used for one-line like "log" and "shortlog", "double"
|
|
is used for two-line like "commit", "commitdiff" or "tag"). If the
|
|
default font sizes or lineheights are changed (e.g. via adding extra
|
|
CSS stylesheet in `@stylesheets`), it may be appropriate to change
|
|
these values.
|
|
|
|
highlight::
|
|
Server-side syntax highlight support in "blob" view. It requires
|
|
`$highlight_bin` program to be available (see the description of
|
|
this variable in the "Configuration variables" section above),
|
|
and therefore is disabled by default.
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
|
|
repository's `gitweb.highlight` configuration variable (boolean).
|
|
|
|
remote_heads::
|
|
Enable displaying remote heads (remote-tracking branches) in the "heads"
|
|
list. In most cases the list of remote-tracking branches is an
|
|
unnecessary internal private detail, and this feature is therefore
|
|
disabled by default. linkgit:git-instaweb[1], which is usually used
|
|
to browse local repositories, enables and uses this feature.
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
|
|
repository's `gitweb.remote_heads` configuration variable (boolean).
|
|
|
|
|
|
The remaining features cannot be overridden on a per project basis.
|
|
|
|
search::
|
|
Enable text search, which will list the commits which match author,
|
|
committer or commit text to a given string; see the description of
|
|
`--author`, `--committer` and `--grep` options in linkgit:git-log[1]
|
|
manpage. Enabled by default.
|
|
+
|
|
Project specific override is not supported.
|
|
|
|
forks::
|
|
If this feature is enabled, gitweb considers projects in
|
|
subdirectories of project root (basename) to be forks of existing
|
|
projects. For each project +$projname.git+, projects in the
|
|
+$projname/+ directory and its subdirectories will not be
|
|
shown in the main projects list. Instead, a \'\+' mark is shown
|
|
next to +$projname+, which links to a "forks" view that lists all
|
|
the forks (all projects in +$projname/+ subdirectory). Additionally
|
|
a "forks" view for a project is linked from project summary page.
|
|
+
|
|
If the project list is taken from a file (+$projects_list+ points to a
|
|
file), forks are only recognized if they are listed after the main project
|
|
in that file.
|
|
+
|
|
Project specific override is not supported.
|
|
|
|
actions::
|
|
Insert custom links to the action bar of all project pages. This
|
|
allows you to link to third-party scripts integrating into gitweb.
|
|
+
|
|
The "default" value consists of a list of triplets in the form
|
|
`("<label>", "<link>", "<position>")` where "position" is the label
|
|
after which to insert the link, "link" is a format string where `%n`
|
|
expands to the project name, `%f` to the project path within the
|
|
filesystem (i.e. "$projectroot/$project"), `%h` to the current hash
|
|
(\'h' gitweb parameter) and `%b` to the current hash base
|
|
(\'hb' gitweb parameter); `%%` expands to \'%'.
|
|
+
|
|
For example, at the time this page was written, the http://repo.or.cz[]
|
|
Git hosting site set it to the following to enable graphical log
|
|
(using the third party tool *git-browser*):
|
|
+
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
$feature{'actions'}{'default'} =
|
|
[ ('graphiclog', '/git-browser/by-commit.html?r=%n', 'summary')];
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
+
|
|
This adds a link titled "graphiclog" after the "summary" link, leading to
|
|
`git-browser` script, passing `r=<project>` as a query parameter.
|
|
+
|
|
Project specific override is not supported.
|
|
|
|
timed::
|
|
Enable displaying how much time and how many Git commands it took to
|
|
generate and display each page in the page footer (at the bottom of
|
|
page). For example the footer might contain: "This page took 6.53325
|
|
seconds and 13 Git commands to generate." Disabled by default.
|
|
+
|
|
Project specific override is not supported.
|
|
|
|
javascript-timezone::
|
|
Enable and configure the ability to change a common time zone for dates
|
|
in gitweb output via JavaScript. Dates in gitweb output include
|
|
authordate and committerdate in "commit", "commitdiff" and "log"
|
|
views, and taggerdate in "tag" view. Enabled by default.
|
|
+
|
|
The value is a list of three values: a default time zone (for if the client
|
|
hasn't selected some other time zone and saved it in a cookie), a name of cookie
|
|
where to store selected time zone, and a CSS class used to mark up
|
|
dates for manipulation. If you want to turn this feature off, set "default"
|
|
to empty list: `[]`.
|
|
+
|
|
Typical gitweb config files will only change starting (default) time zone,
|
|
and leave other elements at their default values:
|
|
+
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
$feature{'javascript-timezone'}{'default'}[0] = "utc";
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
+
|
|
The example configuration presented here is guaranteed to be backwards
|
|
and forward compatible.
|
|
+
|
|
Time zone values can be "local" (for local time zone that browser uses), "utc"
|
|
(what gitweb uses when JavaScript or this feature is disabled), or numerical
|
|
time zones in the form of "+/-HHMM", such as "+0200".
|
|
+
|
|
Project specific override is not supported.
|
|
|
|
extra-branch-refs::
|
|
List of additional directories under "refs" which are going to
|
|
be used as branch refs. For example if you have a gerrit setup
|
|
where all branches under refs/heads/ are official,
|
|
push-after-review ones and branches under refs/sandbox/,
|
|
refs/wip and refs/other are user ones where permissions are
|
|
much wider, then you might want to set this variable as
|
|
follows:
|
|
+
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
$feature{'extra-branch-refs'}{'default'} =
|
|
['sandbox', 'wip', 'other'];
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
+
|
|
This feature can be configured on per-repository basis after setting
|
|
$feature{'extra-branch-refs'}{'override'} to true, via repository's
|
|
`gitweb.extraBranchRefs` configuration variable, which contains a
|
|
space separated list of refs. An example:
|
|
+
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
[gitweb]
|
|
extraBranchRefs = sandbox wip other
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
+
|
|
The gitweb.extraBranchRefs is actually a multi-valued configuration
|
|
variable, so following example is also correct and the result is the
|
|
same as of the snippet above:
|
|
+
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
[gitweb]
|
|
extraBranchRefs = sandbox
|
|
extraBranchRefs = wip other
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
+
|
|
It is an error to specify a ref that does not pass "git check-ref-format"
|
|
scrutiny. Duplicated values are filtered.
|
|
|
|
|
|
EXAMPLES
|
|
--------
|
|
|
|
To enable blame, pickaxe search, and snapshot support (allowing "tar.gz" and
|
|
"zip" snapshots), while allowing individual projects to turn them off, put
|
|
the following in your GITWEB_CONFIG file:
|
|
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
$feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1];
|
|
$feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1;
|
|
|
|
$feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1];
|
|
$feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1;
|
|
|
|
$feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz'];
|
|
$feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1;
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
If you allow overriding for the snapshot feature, you can specify which
|
|
snapshot formats are globally disabled. You can also add any command-line
|
|
options you want (such as setting the compression level). For instance, you
|
|
can disable Zip compressed snapshots and set *gzip*(1) to run at level 6 by
|
|
adding the following lines to your gitweb configuration file:
|
|
|
|
$known_snapshot_formats{'zip'}{'disabled'} = 1;
|
|
$known_snapshot_formats{'tgz'}{'compressor'} = ['gzip','-6'];
|
|
|
|
BUGS
|
|
----
|
|
Debugging would be easier if the fallback configuration file
|
|
(`/etc/gitweb.conf`) and environment variable to override its location
|
|
('GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM') had names reflecting their "fallback" role.
|
|
The current names are kept to avoid breaking working setups.
|
|
|
|
ENVIRONMENT
|
|
-----------
|
|
The location of per-instance and system-wide configuration files can be
|
|
overridden using the following environment variables:
|
|
|
|
GITWEB_CONFIG::
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Sets location of per-instance configuration file.
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GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM::
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Sets location of fallback system-wide configuration file.
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This file is read only if per-instance one does not exist.
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GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON::
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Sets location of common system-wide configuration file.
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FILES
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gitweb_config.perl::
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This is default name of per-instance configuration file. The
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format of this file is described above.
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/etc/gitweb.conf::
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This is default name of fallback system-wide configuration
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file. This file is used only if per-instance configuration
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variable is not found.
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/etc/gitweb-common.conf::
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This is default name of common system-wide configuration
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file.
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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linkgit:gitweb[1], linkgit:git-instaweb[1]
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'gitweb/README', 'gitweb/INSTALL'
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GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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