# the gitweb domain.
our $prevent_xss = 0;
+# Path to the highlight executable to use (must be the one from
+# http://www.andre-simon.de due to assumptions about parameters and output).
+# Useful if highlight is not installed on your webserver's PATH.
+# [Default: highlight]
+our $highlight_bin = "++HIGHLIGHT_BIN++";
+
# information about snapshot formats that gitweb is capable of serving
our %known_snapshot_formats = (
# name => {
'history',
);
- # we want to catch
+ # we want to catch, among others
# [$hash_parent_base[:$file_parent]..]$hash_parent[:$file_name]
my ($parentrefname, $parentpathname, $refname, $pathname) =
- ($path_info =~ /^(?:(.+?)(?::(.+))?\.\.)?(.+?)(?::(.+))?$/);
+ ($path_info =~ /^(?:(.+?)(?::(.+))?\.\.)?([^:]+?)?(?::(.+))?$/);
# first, analyze the 'current' part
if (defined $pathname) {
# hash_base instead. It should also be noted that hand-crafted
# links having 'history' as an action and no pathname or hash
# set will fail, but that happens regardless of PATH_INFO.
- $input_params{'action'} ||= "shortlog";
- if (grep { $_ eq $input_params{'action'} } @wants_base) {
+ if (defined $parentrefname) {
+ # if there is parent let the default be 'shortlog' action
+ # (for http://git.example.com/repo.git/A..B links); if there
+ # is no parent, dispatch will detect type of object and set
+ # action appropriately if required (if action is not set)
+ $input_params{'action'} ||= "shortlog";
+ }
+ if ($input_params{'action'} &&
+ grep { $_ eq $input_params{'action'} } @wants_base) {
$input_params{'hash_base'} ||= $refname;
} else {
$input_params{'hash'} ||= $refname;
evaluate_uri();
evaluate_gitweb_config();
+ evaluate_git_version();
check_loadavg();
# $projectroot and $projects_list might be set in gitweb config file
sub run {
evaluate_argv();
- evaluate_git_version();
$pre_listen_hook->()
if $pre_listen_hook;
close $fd
or die_error(404, "Reading blob failed");
open $fd, quote_command(git_cmd(), "cat-file", "blob", $hash)." | ".
- "highlight --xhtml --fragment --syntax $syntax |"
+ quote_command($highlight_bin).
+ " --xhtml --fragment --syntax $syntax |"
or die_error(500, "Couldn't open file or run syntax highlighter");
return $fd;
}