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                       cgit - cgi for git


This is an attempt to create a fast web interface for the git scm, using a
builtin cache to decrease server io-pressure.


Installation

  $ make
  $ su
  $ make install

This will install cgit.cgi and cgit.css into "/var/www/htdocs/cgit".

Note: The initial "make" will create a submodule 'git' and clone the git
repository at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git in it. If you
already have a local git git repository that you want to use as origin
for the submodule, run

  $ git clone -s <path-to-git-repo> git
  $ ./submodules.sh -u

before running "make".


Dependencies

  -git (1.5.2-rc0 or newer, due to git submodule) installed
  -zip lib
  -crypto lib
  -openssl lib


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 also contains a list of the repositories
displayed by cgit.

A template cgitrc is shipped with the sources, and all parameters and default
values are documented in this file.


The cache

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

If the cachefile has expired but cgit is unable to obtain a lock for it, the
stale cachefile 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".


The mis(sing) features

Submodule links in the directory listing page have a fixed format per
repository. This should probably be extended to a generic map between
submodule path and url.


The end.
n title='2007-02-08 14:47:56 +0100'>2007-02-08Make snapshot feature configurableLars Hjemli Snapshots can now be enabled/disabled by default for all repositories in cgitrc with param "snapshots". Additionally, any repo can override the default setting with param "repo.snapshots". By default, no snapshotting is enabled. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> 2007-02-08Add support for snapshotsLars Hjemli Make a link from the commit viewer to a snapshot of the corresponding tree. Currently only zip-format is supported. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> 2007-02-05cgit v0.2Lars Hjemli Main changes since v0.1: -list tags in repo summary -allow search in log-view -read repository paths from cgitrc Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> 2007-02-05Add support for prefix and gitsrc arguments to 'make'Lars Hjemli This should improve the installation a little, especially since the new options are mentioned in the README. Also, add a make-rule to build the git binaries if necessary + a dependency between cgit and libgit.a. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> 2007-02-04Update cgitrc templateLars Hjemli Make the descriptions more helpfull. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> 2007-02-04Add support for lightweight tagsLars Hjemli There is nothing bad about a tag that has no tag-object, but the old code didn't handle such tags correctly. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> 2007-02-04Read repo-info from /etc/cgitrcLars Hjemli This makes cgit read all repo-info from the configfile, instead of scanning for possible git-dirs below a common root path. This is primarily done to get better security (separate physical path from logical repo-name). In /etc/cgitrc each repo is registered with the following keys: repo.url repo.name repo.path repo.desc repo.owner Note: *Required keys are repo.url and repo.path, all others are optional *Each occurrence of repo.url starts a new repository registration *Default value for repo.name is taken from repo.url *The value of repo.url cannot contain characters with special meaning for urls (i.e. one of /?%&), while repo.name can contain anything. Example: repo.url=cgit-pub repo.name=cgit/public repo.path=/pub/git/cgit repo.desc=My public cgit repo repo.owner=Lars Hjemli repo.url=cgit-priv repo.name=cgit/private repo.path=/home/larsh/src/cgit/.git repo.desc=My private cgit repo repo.owner=Lars Hjemli Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> 2007-02-04Do not die if tag has no messageLars Hjemli Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> 2007-02-03Fix search for non-virtual urlsLars Hjemli When cgit don't use virtual urls, the current repo and page url parameters must be included in the search form as hidden input fields. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> 2007-01-28Update README with install/config informationLars Hjemli