gitweb: Incremental blame (using JavaScript)

diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index 19ae28ef9b5de046e003c02b9258dd576d8064f7..cbcd993ecb81a84a7c5e47a8489ca93744fe3237 100644 (file)
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
    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_JS
+   Points to the localtion where you put gitweb.js on your web server
+   (or to be more generic URI of JavaScript code used by gitweb).
+   Relative to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: gitweb.js]
  * GITWEB_CONFIG
    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
@@ -162,14 +166,12 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
    $GITWEB_LIST during installation.  If empty, $projectroot is used
    to scan for repositories.
  * $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.
+   Full URL and absolute URL of gitweb script;
+   in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those
+   variables, now there should be no need to do it.
  * $home_link
    Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
-   "breadcrumbs").  By default set to absolute URI of a page; you might
-   need to set it up to [base] gitweb URI if you use 'pathinfo' feature
-   (alternative format of the URLs, with project name embedded directly
-   in the path part of URL).
+   "breadcrumbs").  By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri).
  * @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
@@ -208,7 +210,7 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
  * $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
+   'utf-8'. Value must be valid encoding; 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
@@ -329,6 +331,90 @@ something like the following in your gitweb.conf (or gitweb_config.perl) file:
   $home_link = "/";
 
 
+PATH_INFO usage
+-----------------------
+If you enable PATH_INFO usage in gitweb by putting
+
+   $feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1];
+
+in your gitweb.conf, it is possible to set up your server so that it
+consumes and produces URLs in the form
+
+http://git.example.com/project.git/shortlog/sometag
+
+by using a configuration such as the following, that assumes that
+/var/www/gitweb is the DocumentRoot of your webserver, and that it
+contains the gitweb.cgi script and complementary static files
+(stylesheet, favicon):
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+       ServerAlias git.example.com
+
+       DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
+
+       <Directory /var/www/gitweb>
+               Options ExecCGI
+               AddHandler cgi-script cgi
+
+               DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
+
+               RewriteEngine On
+               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+               RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
+       </Directory>
+</VirtualHost>
+
+The rewrite rule guarantees that existing static files will be properly
+served, whereas any other URL will be passed to gitweb as PATH_INFO
+parameter.
+
+Notice that in this case you don't need special settings for
+@stylesheets, $my_uri and $home_link, but you lose "dumb client" access
+to your project .git dirs. A possible workaround for the latter is the
+following: in your project root dir (e.g. /pub/git) have the projects
+named without a .git extension (e.g. /pub/git/project instead of
+/pub/git/project.git) and configure Apache as follows:
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+       ServerAlias git.example.com
+
+       DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
+
+       AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)?$ /pub/git$1$3
+       <Directory /var/www/gitweb>
+               Options ExecCGI
+               AddHandler cgi-script cgi
+
+               DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
+
+               RewriteEngine On
+               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+               RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
+       </Directory>
+</VirtualHost>
+
+The additional AliasMatch makes it so that
+
+http://git.example.com/project.git
+
+will give raw access to the project's git dir (so that the project can
+be cloned), while
+
+http://git.example.com/project
+
+will provide human-friendly gitweb access.
+
+This solution is not 100% bulletproof, in the sense that if some project
+has a named ref (branch, tag) starting with 'git/', then paths such as
+
+http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch
+
+will fail with a 404 error.
+
+
+
 Originally written by:
   Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>