` block element. You can use it for longer description of a project, to provide links (for example to project's homepage), etc. This is recognized only if XSS prevention is off (`$prevent_xss` is false, see linkgit:gitweb.conf[5]); a way to include a README safely when XSS prevention is on may be worked out in the future. description (or `gitweb.description`):: Short (shortened to `$projects_list_description_width` in the projects list page, which is 25 characters by default; see linkgit:gitweb.conf[5]) single line description of a project (of a repository). Plain text file; HTML will be escaped. By default set to + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + from the template during repository creation, usually installed in '/usr/share/git-core/templates/'. You can use the `gitweb.description` repo configuration variable, but the file takes precedence. category (or `gitweb.category`):: Singe line category of a project, used to group projects if `$projects_list_group_categories` is enabled. By default (file and configuration variable absent), uncategorized projects are put in the `$project_list_default_category` category. You can use the `gitweb.category` repo configuration variable, but the file takes precedence. + The configuration variables `$projects_list_group_categories` and `$project_list_default_category` are described in linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] cloneurl (or multiple-valued `gitweb.url`):: File with repository URL (used for clone and fetch), one per line. Displayed in the project summary page. You can use multiple-valued `gitweb.url` repository configuration variable for that, but the file takes precedence. + This is per-repository enhancement / version of global prefix-based `@git_base_url_list` gitweb configuration variable (see linkgit:gitweb.conf[5]). gitweb.owner:: You can use the `gitweb.owner` repository configuration variable to set repository's owner. It is displayed in the project list and summary page. + If it's not set, filesystem directory's owner is used (via GECOS field, i.e. real name field from *getpwuid*(3)) if `$projects_list` is unset (gitweb scans `$projectroot` for repositories); if `$projects_list` points to file with list of repositories, then project owner defaults to value from this file for given repository. various `gitweb.*` config variables (in config):: Read description of `%feature` hash for detailed list, and descriptions. See also "Configuring gitweb features" section in linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] ACTIONS, AND URLS ----------------- Gitweb can use path_info (component) based URLs, or it can pass all necessary information via query parameters. The typical gitweb URLs are broken down in to five components: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- .../gitweb.cgi///:/? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- repo:: The repository the action will be performed on. + All actions except for those that list all available projects, in whatever form, require this parameter. action:: The action that will be run. Defaults to 'projects_list' if repo is not set, and to 'summary' otherwise. revision:: Revision shown. Defaults to HEAD. path:: The path within the that the action is performed on, for those actions that require it. arguments:: Any arguments that control the behaviour of the action. Some actions require or allow to specify two revisions, and sometimes even two pathnames. In most general form such path_info (component) based gitweb URL looks like this: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- .../gitweb.cgi///:/..:/? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Each action is implemented as a subroutine, and must be present in %actions hash. Some actions are disabled by default, and must be turned on via feature mechanism. For example to enable 'blame' view add the following to gitweb configuration file: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1]; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Actions: ~~~~~~~~ The standard actions are: project_list:: Lists the available Git repositories. This is the default command if no repository is specified in the URL. summary:: Displays summary about given repository. This is the default command if no action is specified in URL, and only repository is specified. heads:: remotes:: Lists all local or all remote-tracking branches in given repository. + The latter is not available by default, unless configured. tags:: List all tags (lightweight and annotated) in given repository. blob:: tree:: Shows the files and directories in a given repository path, at given revision. This is default command if no action is specified in the URL, and path is given. blob_plain:: Returns the raw data for the file in given repository, at given path and revision. Links to this action are marked 'raw'. blobdiff:: Shows the difference between two revisions of the same file. blame:: blame_incremental:: Shows the blame (also called annotation) information for a file. On a per line basis it shows the revision in which that line was last changed and the user that committed the change. The incremental version (which if configured is used automatically when JavaScript is enabled) uses Ajax to incrementally add blame info to the contents of given file. + This action is disabled by default for performance reasons. commit:: commitdiff:: Shows information about a specific commit in a repository. The 'commit' view shows information about commit in more detail, the 'commitdiff' action shows changeset for given commit. patch:: Returns the commit in plain text mail format, suitable for applying with linkgit:git-am[1]. tag:: Display specific annotated tag (tag object). log:: shortlog:: Shows log information (commit message or just commit subject) for a given branch (starting from given revision). + The 'shortlog' view is more compact; it shows one commit per line. history:: Shows history of the file or directory in a given repository path, starting from given revision (defaults to HEAD, i.e. default branch). + This view is similar to 'shortlog' view. rss:: atom:: Generates an RSS (or Atom) feed of changes to repository. WEBSERVER CONFIGURATION ----------------------- This section explains how to configure some common webservers to run gitweb. In all cases, `/path/to/gitweb` in the examples is the directory you ran installed gitweb in, and contains `gitweb_config.perl`. If you've configured a web server that isn't listed here for gitweb, please send in the instructions so they can be included in a future release. Apache as CGI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Apache must be configured to support CGI scripts in the directory in which gitweb is installed. Let's assume that it is '/var/www/cgi-bin' directory. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all ----------------------------------------------------------------------- With that configuration the full path to browse repositories would be: http://server/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi Apache with mod_perl, via ModPerl::Registry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can use mod_perl with gitweb. You must install Apache::Registry (for mod_perl 1.x) or ModPerl::Registry (for mod_perl 2.x) to enable this support. Assuming that gitweb is installed to '/var/www/perl', the following Apache configuration (for mod_perl 2.x) is suitable. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Alias /perl "/var/www/perl" SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry PerlOptions +ParseHeaders Options Indexes FollowSymlinks +ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all ----------------------------------------------------------------------- With that configuration the full path to browse repositories would be: http://server/perl/gitweb.cgi Apache with FastCGI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gitweb works with Apache and FastCGI. First you need to rename, copy or symlink gitweb.cgi to gitweb.fcgi. Let's assume that gitweb is installed in '/usr/share/gitweb' directory. The following Apache configuration is suitable (UNTESTED!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FastCgiServer /usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi ScriptAlias /gitweb /usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi Alias /gitweb/static /usr/share/gitweb/static SetHandler default-handler ----------------------------------------------------------------------- With that configuration the full path to browse repositories would be: http://server/gitweb ADVANCED WEB SERVER SETUP ------------------------- All of those examples use request rewriting, and need `mod_rewrite` (or equivalent; examples below are written for Apache). Single URL for gitweb and for fetching ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your `http://` repositories, you can configure Apache like this: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ServerName git.example.org DocumentRoot /pub/git SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf # turning on mod rewrite RewriteEngine on # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi # make access for "dumb clients" work RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ \ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under '/pub/git' and will serve them as `http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git`, both as cloneable Git URL and as browseable gitweb interface. If you then start your linkgit:git-daemon[1] with `--base-path=/pub/git --export-all` then you can even use the `git://` URL with exactly the same path. Setting the environment variable `GITWEB_CONFIG` will tell gitweb to use the named file (i.e. in this example '/etc/gitweb.conf') as a configuration for gitweb. You don't really need it in above example; it is required only if your configuration file is in different place than built-in (during compiling gitweb) 'gitweb_config.perl' or '/etc/gitweb.conf'. See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for details, especially information about precedence rules. If you use the rewrite rules from the example you *might* also need something like the following in your gitweb configuration file ('/etc/gitweb.conf' following example): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @stylesheets = ("/some/absolute/path/gitweb.css"); $my_uri = "/"; $home_link = "/"; $per_request_config = 1; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nowadays though gitweb should create HTML base tag when needed (to set base URI for relative links), so it should work automatically. Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you want to use gitweb with several project roots you can edit your Apache virtual host and gitweb configuration files in the following way. The virtual host configuration (in Apache configuration file) should look like this: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ServerName git.example.org DocumentRoot /pub/git SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf # turning on mod rewrite RewriteEngine on # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT] # look for a public_git folder in unix users' home # http://git.example.org/~/ RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi \ [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT] # http://git.example.org/+/ #RewriteRule ^/\+([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi \ [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT] # http://git.example.org/user// #RewriteRule ^/user/([^\/]+)/(gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi \ [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT] # defined list of project roots RewriteRule ^/scm(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi \ [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/pub/scm/,L,PT] RewriteRule ^/var(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi \ [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/var/git/,L,PT] # make access for "dumb clients" work RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ \ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here actual project root is passed to gitweb via `GITWEB_PROJECT_ROOT` environment variable from a web server, so you need to put the following line in gitweb configuration file ('/etc/gitweb.conf' in above example): -------------------------------------------------------------------------- $projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/pub/git"; -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Note* that this requires to be set for each request, so either `$per_request_config` must be false, or the above must be put in code referenced by `$per_request_config`; These configurations enable two things. First, each unix user (``) of the server will be able to browse through gitweb Git repositories found in '~/public_git/' with the following url: http://git.example.org/~/ If you do not want this feature on your server just remove the second rewrite rule. If you already use `mod_userdir` in your virtual host or you don't want to use the \'~' as first character, just comment or remove the second rewrite rule, and uncomment one of the following according to what you want. Second, repositories found in '/pub/scm/' and '/var/git/' will be accessible through `http://git.example.org/scm/` and `http://git.example.org/var/`. You can add as many project roots as you want by adding rewrite rules like the third and the fourth. PATH_INFO usage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you enable PATH_INFO usage in gitweb by putting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- $feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1]; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- in your gitweb configuration file, 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 i.e. without 'gitweb.cgi' part, by using a configuration such as the following. This configuration assumes that '/var/www/gitweb' is the DocumentRoot of your webserver, contains the gitweb.cgi script and complementary static files (stylesheet, favicon, JavaScript): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ServerAlias git.example.com DocumentRoot /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/$0 [L,PT] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rewrite rule guarantees that existing static files will be properly served, whereas any other URL will be passed to gitweb as PATH_INFO parameter. *Notice* that in this case you don't need special settings for `@stylesheets`, `$my_uri` and `$home_link`, but you lose "dumb client" access to your project .git dirs (described in "Single URL for gitweb and for fetching" section). A possible workaround for the latter is the following: in your project root dir (e.g. '/pub/git') have the projects named *without* a .git extension (e.g. '/pub/git/project' instead of '/pub/git/project.git') and configure Apache as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ServerAlias git.example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)?$ /pub/git$1$3 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] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. BUGS ---- Please report any bugs or feature requests to git@vger.kernel.org, putting "gitweb" in the subject of email. SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gitweb.conf[5], linkgit:git-instaweb[1] 'gitweb/README', 'gitweb/INSTALL' GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite