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GITWEB.CONF(5)                   Git Manual                   GITWEB.CONF(5)

NAME         top

       gitweb.conf - Gitweb (Git web interface) configuration file

SYNOPSIS         top

       /etc/gitweb.conf, /etc/gitweb-common.conf,
       $GITWEBDIR/gitweb_config.perl

DESCRIPTION         top

       The gitweb CGI script for viewing Git repositories over the web uses
       a perl script fragment as its configuration file. You can set
       variables using "our $variable = value"; text from a "#" character
       until the end of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) for details.
       An example:
           # gitweb configuration file for http://git.example.org
           #
           our $projectroot = "/srv/git"; # FHS recommendation
           our $site_name = 'Example.org >> Repos';
       The configuration file is used to override the default settings that
       were built into gitweb at the time the gitweb.cgi script was
       generated.
       While one could just alter the configuration settings in the gitweb
       CGI itself, those changes would be lost upon upgrade. Configuration
       settings might also be placed into a file in the same directory as
       the CGI script with the default name gitweb_config.perl — allowing
       one to have multiple gitweb instances with different configurations
       by the use of symlinks.
       Note that some configuration can be controlled on per-repository
       rather than gitweb-wide basis: see "Per-repository gitweb
       configuration" subsection on gitweb(1) manpage.

DISCUSSION         top

       Gitweb reads configuration data from the following sources in the
       following order:
       ·   built-in values (some set during build stage),
       ·   common system-wide configuration file (defaults to
           /etc/gitweb-common.conf),
       ·   either per-instance configuration file (defaults to
           gitweb_config.perl in the same directory as the installed
           gitweb), or if it does not exists then fallback system-wide
           configuration file (defaults to /etc/gitweb.conf).
       Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained
       earlier in the above sequence.
       Locations of the common system-wide configuration file, the fallback
       system-wide configuration file and the per-instance configuration
       file are defined at compile time using build-time Makefile
       configuration variables, respectively GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON,
       GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM and GITWEB_CONFIG.
       You can also override locations of gitweb configuration files during
       runtime by setting the following environment variables:
       GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON, GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM and GITWEB_CONFIG to a
       non-empty value.
       The syntax of the configuration files is that of Perl, since these
       files are handled by sourcing them as fragments of Perl code (the
       language that gitweb itself is written in). Variables are typically
       set using the our qualifier (as in "our $variable = <value>;") to
       avoid syntax errors if a new version of gitweb no longer uses a
       variable and therefore stops declaring it.
       You can include other configuration file using read_config_file()
       subroutine. For example, one might want to put gitweb configuration
       related to access control for viewing repositories via Gitolite (one
       of Git repository management tools) in a separate file, e.g. in
       /etc/gitweb-gitolite.conf. To include it, put
           read_config_file("/etc/gitweb-gitolite.conf");
       somewhere in gitweb configuration file used, e.g. in per-installation
       gitweb configuration file. Note that read_config_file() checks itself
       that the file it reads exists, and does nothing if it is not found.
       It also handles errors in included file.
       The default configuration with no configuration file at all may work
       perfectly well for some installations. Still, a configuration file is
       useful for customizing or tweaking the behavior of gitweb in many
       ways, and some optional features will not be present unless
       explicitly enabled using the configurable %features variable (see
       also "Configuring gitweb features" section below).

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES         top

       Some configuration variables have their default values (embedded in
       the CGI script) set during building gitweb — if that is the case,
       this fact is put in their description. See gitweb’s INSTALL file for
       instructions on building and installing gitweb.
   Location of repositories
       The configuration variables described below control how gitweb finds
       Git repositories, and how repositories are displayed and accessed.
       See also "Repositories" and later subsections in gitweb(1) manpage.
       $projectroot
           Absolute filesystem path which will be prepended to project path;
           the path to repository is $projectroot/$project. Set to
           $GITWEB_PROJECTROOT during installation. This variable has to be
           set correctly for gitweb to find repositories.
           For example, if $projectroot is set to "/srv/git" by putting the
           following in gitweb config file:
               our $projectroot = "/srv/git";
           then
               http://git.example.com/gitweb.cgi?p=foo/bar.git
           and its path_info based equivalent
               http://git.example.com/gitweb.cgi/foo/bar.git
           will map to the path /srv/git/foo/bar.git on the filesystem.
       $projects_list
           Name of a plain text file listing projects, or a name of
           directory to be scanned for projects.
           Project list files should list one project per line, with each
           line having the following format
               <URI-encoded filesystem path to repository> SP <URI-encoded repository owner>
           The default value of this variable is determined by the
           GITWEB_LIST makefile variable at installation time. If this
           variable is empty, gitweb will fall back to scanning the
           $projectroot directory for repositories.
       $project_maxdepth
           If $projects_list variable is unset, gitweb will recursively scan
           filesystem for Git repositories. The $project_maxdepth is used to
           limit traversing depth, relative to $projectroot (starting
           point); it means that directories which are further from
           $projectroot than $project_maxdepth will be skipped.
           It is purely performance optimization, originally intended for
           MacOS X, where recursive directory traversal is slow. Gitweb
           follows symbolic links, but it detects cycles, ignoring any
           duplicate files and directories.
           The default value of this variable is determined by the
           build-time configuration variable GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH, which
           defaults to 2007.
       $export_ok
           Show repository only if this file exists (in repository). Only
           effective if this variable evaluates to true. Can be set when
           building gitweb by setting GITWEB_EXPORT_OK. This path is
           relative to GIT_DIR. git-daemon[1] uses git-daemon-export-ok,
           unless started with --export-all. By default this variable is not
           set, which means that this feature is turned off.
       $export_auth_hook
           Function used to determine which repositories should be shown.
           This subroutine should take one parameter, the full path to a
           project, and if it returns true, that project will be included in
           the projects list and can be accessed through gitweb as long as
           it fulfills the other requirements described by $export_ok,
           $projects_list, and $projects_maxdepth. Example:
               our $export_auth_hook = sub { return -e "$_[0]/git-daemon-export-ok"; };
           though the above might be done by using $export_ok instead
               our $export_ok = "git-daemon-export-ok";
           If not set (default), it means that this feature is disabled.
           See also more involved example in "Controlling access to Git
           repositories" subsection on gitweb(1) manpage.
       $strict_export
           Only allow viewing of repositories also shown on the overview
           page. This for example makes $gitweb_export_ok file 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. Can be set
           during building gitweb via GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT. By default this
           variable is not set, which means that you can directly access
           those repositories that are hidden from projects list page (e.g.
           the are not listed in the $projects_list file).
   Finding files
       The following configuration variables tell gitweb where to find
       files. The values of these variables are paths on the filesystem.
       $GIT
           Core git executable to use. By default set to $GIT_BINDIR/git,
           which in turn is by default set to $(bindir)/git. If you use Git
           installed from a binary package, you should usually set this to
           "/usr/bin/git". This can just be "git" if your web server has a
           sensible PATH; from security point of view it is better to use
           absolute path to git binary. If you have multiple Git versions
           installed it can be used to choose which one to use. Must be
           (correctly) set for gitweb to be able to work.
       $mimetypes_file
           File to use for (filename extension based) guessing of MIME types
           before trying /etc/mime.types.  NOTE that this path, if relative,
           is taken as relative to the current Git repository, not to CGI
           script. If unset, only /etc/mime.types is used (if present on
           filesystem). If no mimetypes file is found, mimetype guessing
           based on extension of file is disabled. Unset by default.
       $highlight_bin
           Path to the highlight executable to use (it must be the one from
           http://www.andre-simon.de due to assumptions about parameters and
           output). By default set to highlight; set it to full path to
           highlight executable if it is not installed on your web server’s
           PATH. Note that highlight feature must be set for gitweb to
           actually use syntax highlighting.
           NOTE: for a file to be highlighted, its syntax type must be
           detected and that syntax must be supported by "highlight". The
           default syntax detection is minimal, and there are many supported
           syntax types with no detection by default. There are three
           options for adding syntax detection. The first and second
           priority are %highlight_basename and %highlight_ext, which detect
           based on basename (the full filename, for example "Makefile") and
           extension (for example "sh"). The keys of these hashes are the
           basename and extension, respectively, and the value for a given
           key is the name of the syntax to be passed via --syntax <syntax>
           to "highlight". The last priority is the "highlight"
           configuration of Shebang regular expressions to detect the
           language based on the first line in the file, (for example,
           matching the line "#!/bin/bash"). See the highlight documentation
           and the default config at /etc/highlight/filetypes.conf for more
           details.
           For example if repositories you are hosting use "phtml" extension
           for PHP files, and you want to have correct syntax-highlighting
           for those files, you can add the following to gitweb
           configuration:
               our %highlight_ext;
               $highlight_ext{'phtml'} = 'php';
   Links and their targets
       The configuration variables described below configure some of gitweb
       links: their target and their look (text or image), and where to find
       page prerequisites (stylesheet, favicon, images, scripts). Usually
       they are left at their default values, with the possible exception of
       @stylesheets variable.
       @stylesheets
           List of URIs of stylesheets (relative to the base URI of a page).
           You might specify more than one stylesheet, for example to use
           "gitweb.css" as base with site specific modifications in a
           separate stylesheet to make it easier to upgrade gitweb. For
           example, you can add a site stylesheet by putting
               push @stylesheets, "gitweb-site.css";
           in the gitweb config file. Those values that are relative paths
           are relative to base URI of gitweb.
           This list should contain the URI of gitweb’s standard stylesheet.
           The default URI of gitweb stylesheet can be set at build time
           using the GITWEB_CSS makefile variable. Its default value is
           static/gitweb.css (or static/gitweb.min.css if the CSSMIN
           variable is defined, i.e. if CSS minifier is used during build).
           Note: there is also a legacy $stylesheet configuration variable,
           which was used by older gitweb. If $stylesheet variable is
           defined, only CSS stylesheet given by this variable is used by
           gitweb.
       $logo
           Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web
           server, or to be more the generic URI of logo, 72x27 size). This
           image is displayed in the top right corner of each gitweb page
           and used as a logo for the Atom feed. Relative to the base URI of
           gitweb (as a path). Can be adjusted when building gitweb using
           GITWEB_LOGO variable By default set to static/git-logo.png.
       $favicon
           Points to the location where you put git-favicon.png on your web
           server, or to be more the generic URI of favicon, which will be
           served as "image/png" type. Web browsers that support favicons
           (website icons) may display them in the browser’s URL bar and
           next to the site name in bookmarks. Relative to the base URI of
           gitweb. Can be adjusted at build time using GITWEB_FAVICON
           variable. By default set to static/git-favicon.png.
       $javascript
           Points to the location where you put gitweb.js on your web
           server, or to be more generic the URI of JavaScript code used by
           gitweb. Relative to the base URI of gitweb. Can be set at build
           time using the GITWEB_JS build-time configuration variable.
           The default value is either static/gitweb.js, or
           static/gitweb.min.js if the JSMIN build variable was defined,
           i.e. if JavaScript minifier was used at build time.  Note that
           this single file is generated from multiple individual JavaScript
           "modules".
       $home_link
           Target of the home link on the top of all pages (the first part
           of view "breadcrumbs"). By default it is set to the absolute URI
           of a current page (to the value of $my_uri variable, or to "/" if
           $my_uri is undefined or is an empty string).
       $home_link_str
           Label for the "home link" at the top of all pages, leading to
           $home_link (usually the main gitweb page, which contains the
           projects list). It is used as the first component of gitweb’s
           "breadcrumb trail": <home link> / <project> / <action>. Can be
           set at build time using the GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR variable. By
           default it is set to "projects", as this link leads to the list
           of projects. Another popular choice is to set it to the name of
           site. Note that it is treated as raw HTML so it should not be set
           from untrusted sources.
       @extra_breadcrumbs
           Additional links to be added to the start of the breadcrumb trail
           before the home link, to pages that are logically "above" the
           gitweb projects list, such as the organization and department
           which host the gitweb server. Each element of the list is a
           reference to an array, in which element 0 is the link text
           (equivalent to $home_link_str) and element 1 is the target URL
           (equivalent to $home_link).
           For example, the following setting produces a breadcrumb trail
           like "home / dev / projects / ..." where "projects" is the home
           link.
               our @extra_breadcrumbs = (
                 [ 'home' => 'https://www.example.org/' ],
                 [ 'dev'  => 'https://dev.example.org/' ],
               );
       $logo_url, $logo_label
           URI and label (title) for the Git logo link (or your site logo,
           if you chose to use different logo image). By default, these both
           refer to Git homepage, https://git-scm.com ; in the past, they
           pointed to Git documentation at https://www.kernel.org .
   Changing gitweb’s look
       You can adjust how pages generated by gitweb look using the variables
       described below. You can change the site name, add common headers and
       footers for all pages, and add a description of this gitweb
       installation on its main page (which is the projects list page), etc.
       $site_name
           Name of your site or organization, to appear in page titles. Set
           it to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If this
           variable is not set or is, then gitweb uses the value of the
           SERVER_NAMECGI environment variable, setting site name to
           "$SERVER_NAME Git", or "Untitled Git" if this variable is not set
           (e.g. if running gitweb as standalone script).
           Can be set using the GITWEB_SITENAME at build time. Unset by
           default.
       $site_html_head_string
           HTML snippet to be included in the <head> section of each page.
           Can be set using GITWEB_SITE_HTML_HEAD_STRING at build time. No
           default value.
       $site_header
           Name of a file with HTML to be included at the top of each page.
           Relative to the directory containing the gitweb.cgi script. Can
           be set using GITWEB_SITE_HEADER at build time. No default value.
       $site_footer
           Name of a file with HTML to be included at the bottom of each
           page. Relative to the directory containing the gitweb.cgi script.
           Can be set using GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER at build time. No default
           value.
       $home_text
           Name of a HTML file which, if it exists, is included on the
           gitweb projects overview page ("projects_list" view). Relative to
           the directory containing the gitweb.cgi script. Default value can
           be adjusted during build time using GITWEB_HOMETEXT variable. By
           default set to indextext.html.
       $projects_list_description_width
           The width (in characters) of the "Description" column of the
           projects list. Longer descriptions will be truncated (trying to
           cut at word boundary); the full description is available in the
           title attribute (usually shown on mouseover). The default is 25,
           which might be too small if you use long project descriptions.
       $default_projects_order
           Default value of ordering of projects on projects list page,
           which means the ordering used if you don’t explicitly sort
           projects list (if there is no "o" CGI query parameter in the
           URL). Valid values are "none" (unsorted), "project" (projects are
           by project name, i.e. path to repository relative to
           $projectroot), "descr" (project description), "owner", and "age"
           (by date of most current commit).
           Default value is "project". Unknown value means unsorted.
   Changing gitweb’s behavior
       These configuration variables control internal gitweb behavior.
       $default_blob_plain_mimetype
           Default mimetype for the blob_plain (raw) view, if mimetype
           checking doesn’t result in some other type; by default
           "text/plain". Gitweb guesses mimetype of a file to display based
           on extension of its filename, using $mimetypes_file (if set and
           file exists) and /etc/mime.types files (see mime.types(5)
           manpage; only filename extension rules are supported by gitweb).
       $default_text_plain_charset
           Default charset for text files. If this is not set, the web
           server configuration will be used. Unset by default.
       $fallback_encoding
           Gitweb assumes this charset when a line contains non-UTF-8
           characters. The fallback decoding is used without error checking,
           so it can be even "utf-8". The value must be a valid encoding;
           see the Encoding::Supported(3pm) man page for a list. The default
           is "latin1", aka. "iso-8859-1".
       @diff_opts
           Rename detection options for git-diff and git-diff-tree. The
           default is ('-M'); set it to ('-C') or ('-C', '-C') to also
           detect copies, or set it to () i.e. empty list if you don’t want
           to have renames detection.
           Note that rename and especially copy detection can be quite
           CPU-intensive. Note also that non Git tools can have problems
           with patches generated with options mentioned above, especially
           when they involve file copies ('-C') or criss-cross renames
           ('-B').
   Some optional features and policies
       Most of features are configured via %feature hash; however some of
       extra gitweb features can be turned on and configured using variables
       described below. This list beside configuration variables that
       control how gitweb looks does contain variables configuring
       administrative side of gitweb (e.g. cross-site scripting prevention;
       admittedly this as side effect affects how "summary" pages look like,
       or load limiting).
       @git_base_url_list
           List of Git base URLs. These URLs are used to generate URLs
           describing from where to fetch a project, which are shown on
           project summary page. The full fetch URL is
           "$git_base_url/$project", for each element of this list. You can
           set up multiple base URLs (for example one for git:// protocol,
           and one for http:// protocol).
           Note that per repository configuration can be set in
           $GIT_DIR/cloneurl file, or as values of multi-value gitweb.url
           configuration variable in project config. Per-repository
           configuration takes precedence over value composed from
           @git_base_url_list elements and project name.
           You can setup one single value (single entry/item in this list)
           at build time by setting the GITWEB_BASE_URL build-time
           configuration variable. By default it is set to (), i.e. an empty
           list. This means that gitweb would not try to create project URL
           (to fetch) from project name.
       $projects_list_group_categories
           Whether to enable the grouping of projects by category on the
           project list page. The category of a project is determined by the
           $GIT_DIR/category file or the gitweb.category variable in each
           repository’s configuration. Disabled by default (set to 0).
       $project_list_default_category
           Default category for projects for which none is specified. If
           this is set to the empty string, such projects will remain
           uncategorized and listed at the top, above categorized projects.
           Used only if project categories are enabled, which means if
           $projects_list_group_categories is true. By default set to ""
           (empty string).
       $prevent_xss
           If true, some gitweb features are disabled to prevent content in
           repositories from launching cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
           Set this to true if you don’t trust the content of your
           repositories. False by default (set to 0).
       $maxload
           Used to set the maximum load that we will still respond to gitweb
           queries. If the server load exceeds this value then gitweb will
           return "503 Service Unavailable" error. The server load is taken
           to be 0 if gitweb cannot determine its value. Currently it works
           only on Linux, where it uses /proc/loadavg; the load there is the
           number of active tasks on the system — processes that are
           actually running — averaged over the last minute.
           Set $maxload to undefined value (undef) to turn this feature off.
           The default value is 300.
       $omit_age_column
           If true, omit the column with date of the most current commit on
           the projects list page. It can save a bit of I/O and a fork per
           repository.
       $omit_owner
           If true prevents displaying information about repository owner.
       $per_request_config
           If this is set to code reference, it will be run once for each
           request. You can set parts of configuration that change per
           session this way. For example, one might use the following code
           in a gitweb configuration file
               our $per_request_config = sub {
                       $ENV{GL_USER} = $cgi->remote_user || "gitweb";
               };
           If $per_request_config is not a code reference, it is interpreted
           as boolean value. If it is true gitweb will process config files
           once per request, and if it is false gitweb will process config
           files only once, each time it is executed. True by default (set
           to 1).
           NOTE: $my_url, $my_uri, and $base_url are overwritten with their
           default values before every request, so if you want to change
           them, be sure to set this variable to true or a code reference
           effecting the desired changes.
           This variable matters only when using persistent web environments
           that serve multiple requests using single gitweb instance, like
           mod_perl, FastCGI or Plackup.
   Other variables
       Usually you should not need to change (adjust) any of configuration
       variables described below; they should be automatically set by gitweb
       to correct value.
       $version
           Gitweb version, set automatically when creating gitweb.cgi from
           gitweb.perl. You might want to modify it if you are running
           modified gitweb, for example
               our $version .= " with caching";
           if you run modified version of gitweb with caching support. This
           variable is purely informational, used e.g. in the "generator"
           meta header in HTML header.
       $my_url, $my_uri
           Full URL and absolute URL of the gitweb script; in earlier
           versions of gitweb you might have need to set those variables,
           but now there should be no need to do it. See $per_request_config
           if you need to set them still.
       $base_url
           Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb, (e.g.
           $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs), needed
           and used <base href="$base_url"> only for URLs with nonempty
           PATH_INFO. Usually gitweb sets its value correctly, and there is
           no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/". See
           $per_request_config if you need to override it anyway.

CONFIGURING GITWEB FEATURES         top

       Many gitweb features can be enabled (or disabled) and configured
       using the %feature hash. Names of gitweb features are keys of this
       hash.
       Each %feature hash element is a hash reference and has the following
       structure:
           "<feature_name>" => {
                   "sub" => <feature-sub (subroutine)>,
                   "override" => <allow-override (boolean)>,
                   "default" => [ <options>... ]
           },
       Some features cannot be overridden per project. For those features
       the structure of appropriate %feature hash element has a simpler
       form:
           "<feature_name>" => {
                   "override" => 0,
                   "default" => [ <options>... ]
           },
       As one can see it lacks the 'sub' element.
       The meaning of each part of feature configuration is described below:
       default
           List (array reference) of feature parameters (if there are any),
           used also to toggle (enable or disable) given feature.
           Note that it is currently always an array reference, even if
           feature doesn’t accept any configuration parameters, and
           'default' is used only to turn it on or off. In such case you
           turn feature on by setting this element to [1], and torn it off
           by setting it to [0]. See also the passage about the "blame"
           feature in the "Examples" section.
           To disable features that accept parameters (are configurable),
           you need to set this element to empty list i.e.  [].
       override
           If this field has a true value then the given feature is
           overridable, which means that it can be configured (or
           enabled/disabled) on a per-repository basis.
           Usually given "<feature>" is configurable via the
           gitweb.<feature> config variable in the per-repository Git
           configuration file.
           Note that no feature is overridable by default.
       sub
           Internal detail of implementation. What is important is that if
           this field is not present then per-repository override for given
           feature is not supported.
           You wouldn’t need to ever change it in gitweb config file.
   Features in %feature
       The gitweb features that are configurable via %feature hash are
       listed below. This should be a complete list, but ultimately the
       authoritative and complete list is in gitweb.cgi source code, with
       features described in the comments.
       blame
           Enable the "blame" and "blame_incremental" blob views, showing
           for each line the last commit that modified it; see git-blame(1).
           This can be very CPU-intensive and is therefore disabled by
           default.
           This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
           repository’s gitweb.blame configuration variable (boolean).
       snapshot
           Enable and configure the "snapshot" action, which allows user to
           download a compressed archive of any tree or commit, as produced
           by git-archive(1) and possibly additionally compressed. This can
           potentially generate high traffic if you have large project.
           The value of 'default' is a list of names of snapshot formats,
           defined in %known_snapshot_formats hash, that you wish to offer.
           Supported formats include "tgz", "tbz2", "txz" (gzip/bzip2/xz
           compressed tar archive) and "zip"; please consult gitweb sources
           for a definitive list. By default only "tgz" is offered.
           This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
           repository’s gitweb.blame configuration variable, which contains
           a comma separated list of formats or "none" to disable snapshots.
           Unknown values are ignored.
       grep
           Enable grep search, which lists the files in currently selected
           tree (directory) containing the given string; see git-grep(1).
           This can be potentially CPU-intensive, of course. Enabled by
           default.
           This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
           repository’s gitweb.grep configuration variable (boolean).
       pickaxe
           Enable the so called pickaxe search, which will list the commits
           that introduced or removed a given string in a file. This can be
           practical and quite faster alternative to "blame" action, but it
           is still potentially CPU-intensive. Enabled by default.
           The pickaxe search is described in git-log(1) (the description of
           -S<string> option, which refers to pickaxe entry in
           gitdiffcore(7) for more details).
           This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis by
           setting repository’s gitweb.pickaxe configuration variable
           (boolean).
       show-sizes
           Enable showing size of blobs (ordinary files) in a "tree" view,
           in a separate column, similar to what ls -l does; see description
           of -l option in git-ls-tree(1) manpage. This costs a bit of I/O.
           Enabled by default.
           This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
           repository’s gitweb.showSizes configuration variable (boolean).
       patches
           Enable and configure "patches" view, which displays list of
           commits in email (plain text) output format; see also
           git-format-patch(1). The value is the maximum number of patches
           in a patchset generated in "patches" view. Set the default field
           to a list containing single item of or to an empty list to
           disable patch view, or to a list containing a single negative
           number to remove any limit. Default value is 16.
           This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
           repository’s gitweb.patches configuration variable (integer).
       avatar
           Avatar support. When this feature is enabled, views such as
           "shortlog" or "commit" will display an avatar associated with the
           email of each committer and author.
           Currently available providers are "gravatar" and "picon". Only
           one provider at a time can be selected (default is one element
           list). If an unknown provider is specified, the feature is
           disabled.  Note that some providers might require extra Perl
           packages to be installed; see gitweb/INSTALL for more details.
           This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
           repository’s gitweb.avatar configuration variable.
           See also %avatar_size with pixel sizes for icons and avatars
           ("default" is used for one-line like "log" and "shortlog",
           "double" is used for two-line like "commit", "commitdiff" or
           "tag"). If the default font sizes or lineheights are changed
           (e.g. via adding extra CSS stylesheet in @stylesheets), it may be
           appropriate to change these values.
       highlight
           Server-side syntax highlight support in "blob" view. It requires
           $highlight_bin program to be available (see the description of
           this variable in the "Configuration variables" section above),
           and therefore is disabled by default.
           This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
           repository’s gitweb.highlight configuration variable (boolean).
       remote_heads
           Enable displaying remote heads (remote-tracking branches) in the
           "heads" list. In most cases the list of remote-tracking branches
           is an unnecessary internal private detail, and this feature is
           therefore disabled by default.  git-instaweb(1), which is usually
           used to browse local repositories, enables and uses this feature.
           This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
           repository’s gitweb.remote_heads configuration variable
           (boolean).
       The remaining features cannot be overridden on a per project basis.
       search
           Enable text search, which will list the commits which match
           author, committer or commit text to a given string; see the
           description of --author, --committer and --grep options in
           git-log(1) manpage. Enabled by default.
           Project specific override is not supported.
       forks
           If this feature is enabled, gitweb considers projects in
           subdirectories of project root (basename) to be forks of existing
           projects. For each project $projname.git, projects in the
           $projname/ directory and its subdirectories will not be shown in
           the main projects list. Instead, a '+' mark is shown next to
           $projname, which links to a "forks" view that lists all the forks
           (all projects in $projname/ subdirectory). Additionally a "forks"
           view for a project is linked from project summary page.
           If the project list is taken from a file ($projects_list points
           to a file), forks are only recognized if they are listed after
           the main project in that file.
           Project specific override is not supported.
       actions
           Insert custom links to the action bar of all project pages. This
           allows you to link to third-party scripts integrating into
           gitweb.
           The "default" value consists of a list of triplets in the form
           ‘("<label>", "<link>", "<position>")` where "position" is the
           label after which to insert the link, "link" is a format string
           where %n expands to the project name, %f to the project path
           within the filesystem (i.e. "$projectroot/$project"), %h to the
           current hash ('h’ gitweb parameter) and ‘%b` to the current hash
           base ('hb’ gitweb parameter); ‘%%` expands to '%’.
           For example, at the time this page was written, the
           http://repo.or.cz Git hosting site set it to the following to
           enable graphical log (using the third party tool git-browser):
               $feature{'actions'}{'default'} =
                       [ ('graphiclog', '/git-browser/by-commit.html?r=%n', 'summary')];
           This adds a link titled "graphiclog" after the "summary" link,
           leading to git-browser script, passing r=<project> as a query
           parameter.
           Project specific override is not supported.
       timed
           Enable displaying how much time and how many Git commands it took
           to generate and display each page in the page footer (at the
           bottom of page). For example the footer might contain: "This page
           took 6.53325 seconds and 13 Git commands to generate." Disabled
           by default.
           Project specific override is not supported.
       javascript-timezone
           Enable and configure the ability to change a common time zone for
           dates in gitweb output via JavaScript. Dates in gitweb output
           include authordate and committerdate in "commit", "commitdiff"
           and "log" views, and taggerdate in "tag" view. Enabled by
           default.
           The value is a list of three values: a default time zone (for if
           the client hasn’t selected some other time zone and saved it in a
           cookie), a name of cookie where to store selected time zone, and
           a CSS class used to mark up dates for manipulation. If you want
           to turn this feature off, set "default" to empty list: [].
           Typical gitweb config files will only change starting (default)
           time zone, and leave other elements at their default values:
               $feature{'javascript-timezone'}{'default'}[0] = "utc";
           The example configuration presented here is guaranteed to be
           backwards and forward compatible.
           Time zone values can be "local" (for local time zone that browser
           uses), "utc" (what gitweb uses when JavaScript or this feature is
           disabled), or numerical time zones in the form of "+/-HHMM", such
           as "+0200".
           Project specific override is not supported.
       extra-branch-refs
           List of additional directories under "refs" which are going to be
           used as branch refs. For example if you have a gerrit setup where
           all branches under refs/heads/ are official, push-after-review
           ones and branches under refs/sandbox/, refs/wip and refs/other
           are user ones where permissions are much wider, then you might
           want to set this variable as follows:
               $feature{'extra-branch-refs'}{'default'} =
                       ['sandbox', 'wip', 'other'];
           This feature can be configured on per-repository basis after
           setting $feature{extra-branch-refs}{override} to true, via
           repository’s gitweb.extraBranchRefs configuration variable, which
           contains a space separated list of refs. An example:
               [gitweb]
                       extraBranchRefs = sandbox wip other
           The gitweb.extraBranchRefs is actually a multi-valued
           configuration variable, so following example is also correct and
           the result is the same as of the snippet above:
               [gitweb]
                       extraBranchRefs = sandbox
                       extraBranchRefs = wip other
           It is an error to specify a ref that does not pass "git
           check-ref-format" scrutiny. Duplicated values are filtered.

EXAMPLES         top

       To enable blame, pickaxe search, and snapshot support (allowing
       "tar.gz" and "zip" snapshots), 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(1) to run at level 6 by adding the following lines to your
       gitweb configuration file:
           $known_snapshot_formats{'zip'}{'disabled'} = 1;
           $known_snapshot_formats{'tgz'}{'compressor'} = ['gzip','-6'];

BUGS         top

       Debugging would be easier if the fallback configuration file
       (/etc/gitweb.conf) and environment variable to override its location
       (GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM) had names reflecting their "fallback" role.
       The current names are kept to avoid breaking working setups.

ENVIRONMENT         top

       The location of per-instance and system-wide configuration files can
       be overridden using the following environment variables:
       GITWEB_CONFIG
           Sets location of per-instance configuration file.
       GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM
           Sets location of fallback system-wide configuration file. This
           file is read only if per-instance one does not exist.
       GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON
           Sets location of common system-wide configuration file.

FILES         top

       gitweb_config.perl
           This is default name of per-instance configuration file. The
           format of this file is described above.
       /etc/gitweb.conf
           This is default name of fallback system-wide configuration file.
           This file is used only if per-instance configuration variable is
           not found.
       /etc/gitweb-common.conf
           This is default name of common system-wide configuration file.

SEE ALSO         top

       gitweb(1), git-instaweb(1)
       gitweb/README, gitweb/INSTALL

GIT         top

       Part of the git(1) suite

COLOPHON         top

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       project.  Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://git-scm.com/⟩.  If you have a bug report for this manual page,
       see ⟨http://git-scm.com/community⟩.  This page was obtained from the
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