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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

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).


Dependencies:
  -git 1.7.4
  -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 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 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".


Online presence

* The cgit homepage is hosted by cgit at http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/about

* Patches, bugreports, discussions and support should go to the cgit
  mailing list: cgit@hjemli.net
file path in the links from the log to point to the old name; this means that links to commits always limit by the path known to that commit. If we didn't do this we would need to walk down the log diff'ing every commit whenever we want to show a commit. The drawback is that the "Log" link in the top bar of such a page links to the log limited by the old name, so it will only show pre-rename commits. I consider this a reasonable trade-off since the "Back" button still works and the log matches the path displayed in the top bar. Since following renames requires running diff on every commit we consider, I've added a knob to the configuration file to globally enable/disable this feature. Note that we may consider a large number of commits the revision walking machinery no longer performs any path limitation so we have to examine every commit until we find a page full of commits that affect the target path or something related to it. Suggested-by: René Neumann <necoro@necoro.eu> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> 2015-08-12shared: make cgit_diff_tree_cb publicJohn Keeping This will allow us to use this nice wrapper function elsewhere, avoiding dealing with the diff queue when we only need to inspect a filepair. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> 2015-08-12t0110: Chain together using &&Jason A. Donenfeld 2015-08-12about: always ensure page has a trailing slashJason A. Donenfeld Otherwise we can't easily embed links to other /about/ pages. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> 2015-08-12filters: apply HTML escapingLazaros Koromilas http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes#use 2015-08-12git: update to v2.5.0Christian Hesse Update to git version v2.5.0. * Upstream commit 5455ee0573a22bb793a7083d593ae1ace909cd4c (Merge branch 'bc/object-id') changed API: for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id". * Upstream commit dcf692625ac569fefbe52269061230f4fde10e47 (path.c: make get_pathname() call sites return const char *) Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> 2015-08-12Fix processing of repo.hide and repo.ignoreDaniel Reichelt