1git-instaweb(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-instaweb - Instantly browse your working repository in gitweb 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git instaweb' [--local] [--httpd=<httpd>] [--port=<port>] 12 [--browser=<browser>] 13'git instaweb' [--start] [--stop] [--restart] 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17A simple script to set up `gitweb` and a web server for browsing the local 18repository. 19 20OPTIONS 21------- 22 23-l:: 24--local:: 25 Only bind the web server to the local IP (127.0.0.1). 26 27-d:: 28--httpd:: 29 The HTTP daemon command-line that will be executed. 30 Command-line options may be specified here, and the 31 configuration file will be added at the end of the command-line. 32 Currently apache2, lighttpd, mongoose, plackup and webrick are supported. 33 (Default: lighttpd) 34 35-m:: 36--module-path:: 37 The module path (only needed if httpd is Apache). 38 (Default: /usr/lib/apache2/modules) 39 40-p:: 41--port:: 42 The port number to bind the httpd to. (Default: 1234) 43 44-b:: 45--browser:: 46 The web browser that should be used to view the gitweb 47 page. This will be passed to the 'git web{litdd}browse' helper 48 script along with the URL of the gitweb instance. See 49 linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this. If 50 the script fails, the URL will be printed to stdout. 51 52start:: 53--start:: 54 Start the httpd instance and exit. Regenerate configuration files 55 as necessary for spawning a new instance. 56 57stop:: 58--stop:: 59 Stop the httpd instance and exit. This does not generate 60 any of the configuration files for spawning a new instance, 61 nor does it close the browser. 62 63restart:: 64--restart:: 65 Restart the httpd instance and exit. Regenerate configuration files 66 as necessary for spawning a new instance. 67 68CONFIGURATION 69------------- 70 71You may specify configuration in your .git/config 72 73----------------------------------------------------------------------- 74[instaweb] 75 local = true 76 httpd = apache2 -f 77 port = 4321 78 browser = konqueror 79 modulepath = /usr/lib/apache2/modules 80 81----------------------------------------------------------------------- 82 83If the configuration variable 'instaweb.browser' is not set, 84'web.browser' will be used instead if it is defined. See 85linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this. 86 87SEE ALSO 88-------- 89linkgit:gitweb[1] 90 91GIT 92--- 93Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite