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 setup gitweb and a web server for browsing the local 18repository. 19 20OPTIONS 21------- 22 23-l|--local:: 24 Only bind the web server to the local IP (127.0.0.1). 25 26-d|--httpd:: 27 The HTTP daemon command-line that will be executed. 28 Command-line options may be specified here, and the 29 configuration file will be added at the end of the command-line. 30 Currently lighttpd, apache2 and webrick are supported. 31 (Default: lighttpd) 32 33-m|--module-path:: 34 The module path (only needed if httpd is Apache). 35 (Default: /usr/lib/apache2/modules) 36 37-p|--port:: 38 The port number to bind the httpd to. (Default: 1234) 39 40-b|--browser:: 41 42 The web browser command-line to execute to view the gitweb page. 43 If blank, the URL of the gitweb instance will be printed to 44 stdout. (Default: 'firefox') 45 46--start:: 47 Start the httpd instance and exit. This does not generate 48 any of the configuration files for spawning a new instance. 49 50--stop:: 51 Stop the httpd instance and exit. This does not generate 52 any of the configuration files for spawning a new instance, 53 nor does it close the browser. 54 55--restart:: 56 Restart the httpd instance and exit. This does not generate 57 any of the configuration files for spawning a new instance. 58 59CONFIGURATION 60------------- 61 62You may specify configuration in your .git/config 63 64----------------------------------------------------------------------- 65[instaweb] 66 local = true 67 httpd = apache2 -f 68 port = 4321 69 browser = konqueror 70 modulepath = /usr/lib/apache2/modules 71 72----------------------------------------------------------------------- 73 74If the configuration variable 'instaweb.browser' is not set, 75'web.browser' will be used instead if it is defined. 76 77Author 78------ 79Written by Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> 80 81Documentation 82-------------- 83Documentation by Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>. 84 85GIT 86--- 87Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite