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First you have to generate gitweb.cgi from gitweb.perl using
-"make gitweb/gitweb.cgi", then copy appropriate files (gitweb.cgi,
-gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png) to their destination.
-For example if git was (or is) installed with /usr prefix, you can do
+"make gitweb", then "make install-gitweb" appropriate files
+(gitweb.cgi, gitweb.js, gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png)
+to their destination. For example if git was (or is) installed with
+/usr prefix and gitwebdir is /var/www/cgi-bin, you can do
- $ make prefix=/usr gitweb/gitweb.cgi ;# as yourself
- # cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root
+ $ make prefix=/usr gitweb ;# as yourself
+ # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin install-gitweb ;# as root
Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
set up path to git binaries (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write
$ make configure ;# as yourself
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
- $ make gitweb/gitweb.cgi ;# as yourself
- # cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root
+ $ make gitweb ;# as yourself
+ # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin \
+ install-gitweb ;# as root
The above example assumes that your web server is configured to run
[executable] files in /var/www/cgi-bin/ as server scripts (as CGI
- There are many configuration variables which affect building of
gitweb.cgi; see "default configuration for gitweb" section in main
- (top dir) Makefile, and instructions for building gitweb/gitweb.cgi
- target.
+ (top dir) Makefile, and instructions for building gitweb target.
One of the most important is where to find the git wrapper binary. Gitweb
tries to find the git wrapper at $(bindir)/git, so you have to set $bindir
a suggestion).
- You can control where gitweb tries to find its main CSS style file,
- its favicon and logo with the GITWEB_CSS, GITWEB_FAVICON and GITWEB_LOGO
- build configuration variables. By default gitweb tries to find them
- in the same directory as gitweb.cgi script.
+ its JavaScript file, its favicon and logo with the GITWEB_CSS, GITWEB_JS
+ GITWEB_FAVICON and GITWEB_LOGO build configuration variables. By default
+ gitweb tries to find them in the same directory as gitweb.cgi script.
+
+- You can optionally generate minified versions of gitweb.js and gitweb.css
+ by defining the JSMIN and CSSMIN build configuration variables. By default
+ the non-minified versions will be used. NOTE: if you enable this option,
+ substitute gitweb.min.js and gitweb.min.css for all uses of gitweb.js and
+ gitweb.css in the help files.
Build example
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-- To install gitweb to /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/ when git wrapper
- is installed at /usr/local/bin/git and the repositories (projects)
- we want to display are under /home/local/scm, you can do
+- To install gitweb to /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/, when git wrapper
+ is installed at /usr/local/bin/git, the repositories (projects)
+ we want to display are under /home/local/scm, and you do not use
+ minifiers, you can do
make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/home/local/scm" \
- GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb/gitweb.css" \
- GITWEB_LOGO="/gitweb/git-logo.png" \
- GITWEB_FAVICON="/gitweb/git-favicon.png" \
+ GITWEB_JS="gitweb/static/gitweb.js" \
+ GITWEB_CSS="gitweb/static/gitweb.css" \
+ GITWEB_LOGO="gitweb/static/git-logo.png" \
+ GITWEB_FAVICON="gitweb/static/git-favicon.png" \
bindir=/usr/local/bin \
- gitweb/gitweb.cgi
+ gitweb
- cp -fv ~/git/gitweb/gitweb.{cgi,css} \
- ~/git/gitweb/git-{favicon,logo}.png \
- /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/
+ make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb install-gitweb
Gitweb config file
$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 to run at level 6 by
+adding the following lines to your $GITWEB_CONFIG:
+
+ $known_snapshot_formats{'zip'}{'disabled'} = 1;
+ $known_snapshot_formats{'tgz'}{'compressor'} = ['gzip','-6'];
+
Gitweb repositories
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Spaces in both project path and project owner have to be encoded as either
'%20' or '+'.
+ Other characters that have to be url-encoded, i.e. replaced by '%'
+ followed by two-digit character number in octal, are: other whitespace
+ characters (because they are field separator in a record), plus sign '+'
+ (because it can be used as replacement for spaces), and percent sign '%'
+ (which is used for encoding / escaping).
+
You can generate the projects list index file using the project_index
action (the 'TXT' link on projects list page) directly from gitweb.
shows repositories only if this file exists in its object database
(if directory has the magic file named $export_ok).
+- Finally, it is possible to specify an arbitrary perl subroutine that
+ will be called for each project to determine if it can be exported.
+ The subroutine receives an absolute path to the project as its only
+ parameter.
+
+ For example, if you use mod_perl to run the script, and have dumb
+ http protocol authentication configured for your repositories, you
+ can use the following hook to allow access only if the user is
+ authorized to read the files:
+
+ $export_auth_hook = sub {
+ use Apache2::SubRequest ();
+ use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(HTTP_OK);
+ my $path = "$_[0]/HEAD";
+ my $r = Apache2::RequestUtil->request;
+ my $sub = $r->lookup_file($path);
+ return $sub->filename eq $path
+ && $sub->status == Apache2::Const::HTTP_OK;
+ };
+
+
Generating projects list using gitweb
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