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cgit - CGI for Git
==================

This is an attempt to create a fast web interface for the Git SCM, using a
built-in cache to decrease server I/O pressure.

Installation
------------

Building cgit involves building a proper version of Git. How to do this
depends on how you obtained the cgit sources:

a) If you're working in a cloned cgit repository, you first need to
initialize and update the Git submodule:

    $ git submodule init     # register the Git submodule in .git/config
    $ $EDITOR .git/config    # if you want to specify a different url for git
    $ git submodule update   # clone/fetch and checkout correct git version

b) If you're building from a cgit tarball, you can download a proper git
version like this:

    $ make get-git

When either a) or b) has been performed, you can build and install cgit like
this:

    $ make
    $ sudo make install

This will install `cgit.cgi` and `cgit.css` into `/var/www/htdocs/cgit`. You
can configure this location (and a few other things) by providing a `cgit.conf`
file (see the Makefile for details).

If you'd like to compile without Lua support, you may use:

    $ make NO_LUA=1

And if you'd like to specify a Lua implementation, you may use:

    $ make LUA_PKGCONFIG=lua5.1

If this is not specified, the Lua implementation will be auto-detected,
preferring LuaJIT if many are present. Acceptable values are generally "lua",
"luajit", "lua5.1", and "lua5.2".


Dependencies
------------

* libzip
* libcrypto (OpenSSL)
* libssl (OpenSSL)
* optional: luajit or lua, most reliably used when pkg-config is available

Apache configuration
--------------------

A new `Directory` section must probably be added for cgit, possibly something
like this:

    <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/cgit/">
        AllowOverride None
        Options +ExecCGI
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>


Runtime configuration
---------------------

The file `/etc/cgitrc` is read by cgit before handling a request. In addition
to runtime parameters, this file may also contain a list of repositories
displayed by cgit (see `cgitrc.5.txt` for further details).

The cache
---------

When cgit is invoked it looks for a cache file matching the request and
returns it to the client. If no such cache file exists (or if it has expired),
the content for the request is written into the proper cache file before the
file is returned.

If the cache file has expired but cgit is unable to obtain a lock for it, the
stale cache file is returned to the client. This is done to favour page
throughput over page freshness.

The generated content contains the complete response to the client, including
the HTTP headers `Modified` and `Expires`.

Online presence
---------------

* The cgit homepage is hosted by cgit at <http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/>

* Patches, bug reports, discussions and support should go to the cgit
  mailing list: <cgit@lists.zx2c4.com>. To sign up, visit
  <http://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/cgit>
Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> 2013-04-27git: update to 1.8.2.2John Keeping No changes required, just bump the submodule and Makefile version. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> 2013-04-17scan-tree: fix regression in section-from-path=-1John Keeping Commit fb3655d (use struct strbuf instead of static buffers - 2013-04-06) introduced a regression in the "section-from-path" handling when the configured value is negative. By changing the "rel" variable so that it includes a trailing slash, counting slashes from the end of the string no longer gives the same answer as it did before. Fix this by ensuring that "rel" does not have a trailing slash. Reported-by: Julius Plenz <plenz@cis.fu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> 2013-04-15t0001: ignore ".dirty" suffix on Git versionJohn Keeping When testing modifications in Git that affect CGit, it is annoying to have t0001 failing simply because the Git version has a ".dirty" suffix when the version of Git there does indeed match that specified in the CGit makefile. Stop this by stripping the ".dirty" suffix from the GIT_VERSION variable. Note that this brings the "Git version" behaviour in line with the "submodule version" case which does not check if the working tree in git/ is modified. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> 2013-04-15tests: set TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY to the CGit test directoryJohn Keeping By default, Git's test suite puts the trash directories and test-results directory into its own directory, not that containing the tests being run. This is less convenient for inspecting test failures, so set the output directory to CGit's tests/ directory instead. Note that there is currently a bug in Git whereby it will create the trash directories in our tests/ directory regardless of the value of TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, and then fail to remove them once the tests are done. This change does currently affect the location of the test-results/ directory though. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> 2013-04-15t0109: test more URLsJohn Keeping In order to ensure that we don't access $HOME at some point after initial startup when rendering a specific view, run the strace test on a range of different pages. This ensures that we don't end up reading a configuration later for some specific view. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> 2013-04-10cgitrc.5.txt: Specify when scan-path must be defined before.Jason A. Donenfeld Several options must be specified prior to scan-path. This is consistant source of user confusion. Document these facts. Suggested-by: Lukas Fleischer <cgit@cryptocrack.de> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> 2013-04-10ui-snapshot.c: Prepend "V" when guessing ref namesLukas Fleischer In cgit_print_snapshot_links() we strip leading "v" and "V", while we currently only prepend a lower case "v" when parsing a snapshot file name. This results in broken snapshot links for tags that start with an upper case "V". Avoid this by prepending a "V" as a fallback. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <cgit@cryptocrack.de> 2013-04-10t0107: Skip ZIP tests if unzip(1) isn't availableLukas Fleischer Note that we cannot use skip_all here since some tests have already been executed when ZIP tests are reached. Use test prerequisites to skip everything using unzip(1) if the binary is not available instead. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <cgit@cryptocrack.de> 2013-04-10tests/: Do not use `sed -i`Lukas Fleischer "-i" isn't part of the POSIX standard and doesn't work on several platforms such as OpenBSD. Use a temporary file instead. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <cgit@cryptocrack.de> 2013-04-10Add branch-sort and repo.branch-sort options.Jason A. Donenfeld When set to "name", branches are sorted by name, which is the current default. When set to "age", branches are sorted by the age of the repository. This feature was requested by Konstantin Ryabitsev for use on kernel.org. Proposed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org> 2013-04-10t0109: chain operations with &&John Keeping Without '&&' between operations, we will not detect if strace or cgit exit with an error status, which would cause a false positive test status in this case. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> 2013-04-10cgit.c: Do not restore unset environment variablesLukas Fleischer getenv() returns a NULL pointer if the specified variable name cannot be found in the environment. However, some setenv() implementations crash if a NULL pointer is passed as second argument. Only restore variables that are not NULL. See commit d96d2c98ebc4c2d3765f5b35c4142e0e828a421b for a related patch. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <cgit@cryptocrack.de> 2013-04-09t0107: Use `tar -z` for gzip'ed archivesLukas Fleischer