http-backend: add example for gitweb on same URL

diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
index 99dbbfb966b763c4d65de1f46c25b31398891232..2989c9f226b250561ef0a2f93a5193f8457a9e7a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 A simple CGI program to serve the contents of a Git repository to Git
 clients accessing the repository over http:// and https:// protocols.
+The program supports clients fetching using both the smart HTTP protcol
+and the backwards-compatible dumb HTTP protocol, as well as clients
+pushing using the smart HTTP protocol.
 
 By default, only the `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
 'git-fetch-pack' and 'git-ls-remote' clients, which are invoked from
-'git-fetch', 'git-pull', and 'git-clone'.
-
-This is ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e., pulling from
-git repositories.
+'git-fetch', 'git-pull', and 'git-clone'.  If the client is authenticated,
+the `receive-pack` service is enabled, which serves 'git-send-pack'
+clients, which is invoked from 'git-push'.
 
 SERVICES
 --------
@@ -50,6 +52,8 @@ automatically by the web server.
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
+All of the following examples map 'http://$hostname/git/foo/bar.git'
+to '/var/www/git/foo/bar.git'.
 
 Apache 2.x::
        Ensure mod_cgi, mod_alias, and mod_env are enabled, set
@@ -84,6 +88,23 @@ directive around the repository, or one of its parent directories:
        ...
 </Location>
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
++
+To serve gitweb at the same url, use a ScriptAliasMatch to only
+those URLs that 'git-http-backend' can handle, and forward the
+rest to gitweb:
++
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+ScriptAliasMatch \
+       "(?x)^/git/(.*/(HEAD | \
+                       info/refs | \
+                       objects/(info/[^/]+ | \
+                                [0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38} | \
+                                pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}\.(pack|idx)) | \
+                       git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \
+       /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1
+
+ScriptAlias /git/ /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/
+----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Accelerated static Apache 2.x::
        Similar to the above, but Apache can be used to return static
@@ -94,13 +115,25 @@ Accelerated static Apache 2.x::
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git
 
-ScriptAlias /git/        /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
-Alias       /git_static/ /var/www/git/
+AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38})$          /var/www/git/$1
+AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.(pack|idx))$ /var/www/git/$1
+ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
+----------------------------------------------------------------
++
+This can be combined with the gitweb configuration:
++
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git
 
-RewriteEngine on
-RewriteRule ^/git/(.*/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38})$    /git_static/$1 [PT]
-RewriteRule ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.pack)$ /git_static/$1 [PT]
-RewriteRule ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.idx)$  /git_static/$1 [PT]
+AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38})$          /var/www/git/$1
+AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.(pack|idx))$ /var/www/git/$1
+ScriptAliasMatch \
+       "(?x)^/git/(.*/(HEAD | \
+                       info/refs | \
+                       objects/info/[^/]+ | \
+                       git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \
+       /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1
+ScriptAlias /git/ /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/
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