From: Petr Baudis Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:17:47 +0000 (+0200) Subject: gitweb: Document features better X-Git-Tag: v1.4.4-rc1~83^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=45a3b12cfd3eaa05bbb0954790d5be5b8240a7b5;p=git.git gitweb: Document features better This expands gitweb/README to talk some more about GITWEB_CONFIG, moves feature-specific documentation in gitweb.cgi to the inside of the %features array, and adds some short description of all the features. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index 27c6dac14..abbaf6b8b 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -24,11 +24,25 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT: * GITWEB_LOGO Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server. * GITWEB_CONFIG - This file will be loaded using 'require'. If the environment + This file will be loaded using 'require' and can be used to override any + of the options above as well as some other options - see the top of + 'gitweb.cgi' for their full list and description. If the environment $GITWEB_CONFIG is set when gitweb.cgi is executed the file in the environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was created. +Runtime gitweb configuration +---------------------------- + +You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG` +(defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI). +See the top of 'gitweb.cgi' for the list of variables and some description. +The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the +optional features, stored in the '%features' variable. You can find further +description on how to reconfigure the default features setting in your +`GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` inside 'gitweb.cgi'. + + Originally written by: Kay Sievers diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl index 0ff6f7c1e..1d5217e33 100755 --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl @@ -87,22 +87,63 @@ our %feature = ( # # use gitweb_check_feature() to check if is enabled + # Enable the 'blame' blob view, showing the last commit that modified + # each line in the file. This can be very CPU-intensive. + + # To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG + # $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1]; + # To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG + # $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1; + # and in project config gitweb.blame = 0|1; 'blame' => { 'sub' => \&feature_blame, 'override' => 0, 'default' => [0]}, + # Enable the 'snapshot' link, providing a compressed tarball of any + # tree. This can potentially generate high traffic if you have large + # project. + + # To disable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG + # $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = [undef]; + # To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG + # $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1; + # and in project config gitweb.snapshot = none|gzip|bzip2; 'snapshot' => { 'sub' => \&feature_snapshot, 'override' => 0, # => [content-encoding, suffix, program] 'default' => ['x-gzip', 'gz', 'gzip']}, + # Enable the pickaxe search, which will list the commits that modified + # a given string in a file. This can be practical and quite faster + # alternative to 'blame', but still potentially CPU-intensive. + + # To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG + # $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1]; + # To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG + # $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1; + # and in project config gitweb.pickaxe = 0|1; 'pickaxe' => { 'sub' => \&feature_pickaxe, 'override' => 0, 'default' => [1]}, + # Make gitweb use an alternative format of the URLs which can be + # more readable and natural-looking: project name is embedded + # directly in the path and the query string contains other + # auxiliary information. All gitweb installations recognize + # URL in either format; this configures in which formats gitweb + # generates links. + + # To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG + # $feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1]; + # Project specific override is not supported. + + # Note that you will need to change the default location of CSS, + # favicon, logo and possibly other files to an absolute URL. Also, + # if gitweb.cgi serves as your indexfile, you will need to force + # $my_uri to contain the script name in your $GITWEB_CONFIG. 'pathinfo' => { 'override' => 0, 'default' => [0]}, @@ -123,12 +164,6 @@ sub gitweb_check_feature { return $sub->(@defaults); } -# To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG -# $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1]; -# To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG -# $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1; -# and in project config gitweb.blame = 0|1; - sub feature_blame { my ($val) = git_get_project_config('blame', '--bool'); @@ -141,12 +176,6 @@ sub feature_blame { return $_[0]; } -# To disable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG -# $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = [undef]; -# To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG -# $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1; -# and in project config gitweb.snapshot = none|gzip|bzip2 - sub feature_snapshot { my ($ctype, $suffix, $command) = @_; @@ -170,12 +199,6 @@ sub gitweb_have_snapshot { return $have_snapshot; } -# To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG -# $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1]; -# To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG -# $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1; -# and in project config gitweb.pickaxe = 0|1; - sub feature_pickaxe { my ($val) = git_get_project_config('pickaxe', '--bool');