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+GIT web Interface (gitweb) Installation
+=======================================
+
+First you have to generate gitweb.cgi from gitweb.perl using
+"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 ;# 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
+instead
+
+ $ make configure ;# as yourself
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+ $ 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
+scripts).
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+ - Core git tools
+ - Perl 5.8
+ - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename.
+ - web server
+
+The following optional Perl modules are required for extra features
+ - CGI::Fast and FCGI - for running gitweb as FastCGI script
+ - HTML::TagCloud - for fancy tag cloud in project list view
+ - HTTP::Date or Time::ParseDate - to support If-Modified-Since for feeds
+
+
+Build time configuration
+------------------------
+
+See also "How to configure gitweb for your local system" section below.
+
+- 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 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
+ when building gitweb.cgi, or $prefix from which $bindir is derived. If
+ you build and install gitweb together with the rest of the git suite,
+ there should be no problems. Otherwise, if git was for example
+ installed from a binary package, you have to set $prefix (or $bindir)
+ accordingly.
+
+- Another important issue is where are git repositories you want to make
+ available to gitweb. By default gitweb searches for repositories under
+ /pub/git; if you want to have projects somewhere else, like /home/git,
+ use GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build configuration variable.
+
+ By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and
+ available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by
+ scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories. This can be
+ changed (configured) as described in "Gitweb repositories" section
+ below.
+
+ Note that gitweb deals directly with the object database, and does not
+ need a working directory; the name of the project is the name of its
+ repository object database, usually projectname.git for bare
+ repositories. If you want to provide gitweb access to non-bare (live)
+ repositories, you can make projectname.git a symbolic link under
+ projectroot linking to projectname/.git (but it is just
+ a suggestion).
+
+- You can control where gitweb tries to find its main CSS style file,
+ 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.
+
+
+How to configure gitweb for your local system
+---------------------------------------------
+
+You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
+
+ * GIT_BINDIR
+ Points where to find the git executable. You should set it up to
+ the place where the git binary was installed (usually /usr/bin) if you
+ don't install git from sources together with gitweb. [Default: $(bindir)]
+ * GITWEB_SITENAME
+ Shown in the title of all generated pages, defaults to the server name
+ (SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable) if not set. [No default]
+ * GITWEB_PROJECTROOT
+ The root directory for all projects shown by gitweb. Must be set
+ correctly for gitweb to find repositories to display. See also
+ "Gitweb repositories" in the INSTALL file for gitweb. [Default: /pub/git]
+ * GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH
+ The filesystem traversing limit for getting the project list; the number
+ is taken as depth relative to the projectroot. It is used when
+ GITWEB_LIST is a directory (or is not set; then project root is used).
+ This is meant to speed up project listing on large work trees by limiting
+ search depth. [Default: 2007]
+ * GITWEB_LIST
+ Points to a directory to scan for projects (defaults to project root
+ if not set / if empty) or to a file with explicit listing of projects
+ (together with projects' ownership). See "Generating projects list
+ using gitweb" in INSTALL file for gitweb to find out how to generate
+ such file from scan of a directory. [No default, which means use root
+ directory for projects]
+ * GITWEB_EXPORT_OK
+ Show repository only if this file exists (in repository). Only
+ effective if this variable evaluates to true. [No default / Not set]
+ * GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT
+ Only allow viewing of repositories also shown on the overview page.
+ This for example makes GITWEB_EXPORT_OK to decide if repository is
+ available and not only if it is shown. If GITWEB_LIST points to
+ file with list of project, only those repositories listed would be
+ available for gitweb. [No default]
+ * GITWEB_HOMETEXT
+ Points to an .html file which is included on the gitweb project
+ overview page ('projects_list' view), if it exists. Relative to
+ gitweb.cgi script. [Default: indextext.html]
+ * GITWEB_SITE_HTML_HEAD_STRING
+ html snippet to include in the <head> section of each page. [No default]
+ * GITWEB_SITE_HEADER
+ Filename of html text to include at top of each page. Relative to
+ gitweb.cgi script. [No default]
+ * GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER
+ Filename of html text to include at bottom of each page. Relative to
+ gitweb.cgi script. [No default]
+ * GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR
+ String of the home link on top of all pages, leading to $home_link
+ (usually main gitweb page, which means projects list). Used as first
+ part of gitweb view "breadcrumb trail": <home> / <project> / <view>.
+ [Default: projects]
+ * GITWEB_SITENAME
+ Name of your site or organization to appear in page titles. Set it
+ to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If not set
+ (if empty) gitweb uses "$SERVER_NAME Git", or "Untitled Git" if
+ SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable is not set (e.g. if running
+ gitweb as standalone script). [No default]
+ * GITWEB_BASE_URL
+ Git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, i.e. full
+ URL is "$git_base_url/$project". Shown on projects summary page.
+ Repository URL for project can be also configured per repository; this
+ takes precedence over URLs composed from base URL and a project name.
+ Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for
+ git:// protocol access, another for http:// access) from the gitweb
+ config file. [No default]
+ * GITWEB_CSS
+ Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server
+ (or to be more generic, the URI of gitweb stylesheet). Relative to the
+ base URI of gitweb. Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from
+ the gitweb config file. [Default: static/gitweb.css (or
+ static/gitweb.min.css if the CSSMIN variable is defined / CSS minifier
+ is used)]
+ * GITWEB_JS
+ Points to the location 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: static/gitweb.js (or
+ static/gitweb.min.js if JSMIN build variable is defined / JavaScript
+ minifier is used)]
+ * CSSMIN, JSMIN
+ Invocation of a CSS minifier or a JavaScript minifier, respectively,
+ working as a filter (source on standard input, minified result on
+ standard output). If set, it is used to generate a minified version of
+ 'static/gitweb.css' or 'static/gitweb.js', respectively. *Note* that
+ minified files would have *.min.css and *.min.js extension, which is
+ important if you also set GITWEB_CSS and/or GITWEB_JS. [No default]
+ * GITWEB_LOGO
+ Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server
+ (or to be more generic URI of logo, 72x27 size, displayed in top right
+ corner of each gitweb page, and used as logo for Atom feed). Relative
+ to base URI of gitweb. [Default: static/git-logo.png]
+ * GITWEB_FAVICON
+ Points to the location where you put git-favicon.png on your web server
+ (or to be more generic URI of favicon, assumed to be image/png type;
+ 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: static/git-favicon.png]
+ * 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
+ gitweb configuration" section below, and top of 'gitweb.cgi' for their
+ full list and description. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG
+ is set when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the
+ environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified
+ when gitweb.cgi was created. [Default: gitweb_config.perl]
+ * GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM
+ This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' as a fallback if GITWEB_CONFIG
+ does not exist. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is set
+ when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the environment
+ variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was
+ created. [Default: /etc/gitweb.conf]
+ * HIGHLIGHT_BIN
+ 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]
+
+Build example
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- 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_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
+
+ make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb install-gitweb
+
+
+Gitweb config file
+------------------
+
+See also "Runtime gitweb configuration" section in README file
+for gitweb (in gitweb/README), and gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
+
+- You can configure gitweb further using the per-instance gitweb configuration file;
+ by default this is a file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as
+ gitweb.cgi script. You can control the default place for the config file
+ using the GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it
+ using the GITWEB_CONFIG environment variable. If this file does not
+ exist, gitweb looks for a system-wide configuration file, normally
+ /etc/gitweb.conf. You can change the default using the
+ GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM build configuration variable, and override it
+ through the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environment variable.
+
+ Note that the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM system-wide configuration file is
+ only used for instances that lack per-instance configuration file.
+ You can use GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON common system-wide configuration
+ file (normally /etc/gitweb-common.conf) to keep common default
+ settings that apply to all instances. Settings from per-instance or
+ system-wide configuration file override those from common system-wide
+ configuration file.
+
+- The gitweb config file is a fragment of perl code. You can set variables
+ using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end
+ of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) for details.
+
+ See the top of gitweb.perl file for examples of customizable options.
+
+Config file example
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To enable blame, pickaxe search, and snapshot support, while allowing
+individual projects to turn them off, put the following in your
+GITWEB_CONFIG file:
+
+ $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1];
+ $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1;
+
+ $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1];
+ $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1;
+
+ $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
+-------------------
+
+By default gitweb shows all git repositories under single common repository
+root on a local filesystem; see description of GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build-time
+configuration variable above (and also of GITWEB_LIST).
+
+More advanced usage, like limiting access or visibility of repositories and
+managing multiple roots are described on gitweb manpage.
+
+
+Example web server configuration
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+See also "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections
+in gitweb(1) manpage.
+
+
+- Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script,
+ under /var/www/cgi-bin/
+
+ ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
+
+ <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
+ Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
+ AllowOverride None
+ Order allow,deny
+ Allow from all
+ </Directory>
+
+- Apache2, gitweb installed as mod_perl legacy script,
+ under /var/www/perl/
+
+ Alias /perl "/var/www/perl"
+
+ <Directory "/var/www/perl">
+ SetHandler perl-script
+ PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
+ PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
+ Options Indexes FollowSymlinks +ExecCGI
+ AllowOverride None
+ Order allow,deny
+ Allow from all
+ </Directory>