cgitrc.5.txt (view raw)
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2:man manual: cgit
3
4CGITRC(5)
5========
6
7
8NAME
9----
10cgitrc - runtime configuration for cgit
11
12
13SYNOPSIS
14--------
15Cgitrc contains all runtime settings for cgit, including the list of git
16repositories, formatted as a line-separated list of NAME=VALUE pairs. Blank
17lines, and lines starting with '#', are ignored.
18
19
20LOCATION
21--------
22The default location of cgitrc, defined at compile time, is /etc/cgitrc. At
23runtime, cgit will consult the environment variable CGIT_CONFIG and, if
24defined, use its value instead.
25
26
27GLOBAL SETTINGS
28---------------
29about-filter::
30 Specifies a command which will be invoked to format the content of
31 about pages (both top-level and for each repository). The command will
32 get the content of the about-file on its STDIN, and the STDOUT from the
33 command will be included verbatim on the about page. Default value:
34 none. See also: "FILTER API".
35
36agefile::
37 Specifies a path, relative to each repository path, which can be used
38 to specify the date and time of the youngest commit in the repository.
39 The first line in the file is used as input to the "parse_date"
40 function in libgit. Recommended timestamp-format is "yyyy-mm-dd
41 hh:mm:ss". Default value: "info/web/last-modified".
42
43cache-root::
44 Path used to store the cgit cache entries. Default value:
45 "/var/cache/cgit". See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
46
47cache-dynamic-ttl::
48 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
49 version of repository pages accessed without a fixed SHA1. Default
50 value: "5".
51
52cache-repo-ttl::
53 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
54 version of the repository summary page. Default value: "5".
55
56cache-root-ttl::
57 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
58 version of the repository index page. Default value: "5".
59
60cache-scanrc-ttl::
61 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the result
62 of scanning a path for git repositories. Default value: "15".
63
64cache-size::
65 The maximum number of entries in the cgit cache. Default value: "0"
66 (i.e. caching is disabled).
67
68cache-static-ttl::
69 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
70 version of repository pages accessed with a fixed SHA1. Default value:
71 "5".
72
73clone-prefix::
74 Space-separated list of common prefixes which, when combined with a
75 repository url, generates valid clone urls for the repository. This
76 setting is only used if `repo.clone-url` is unspecified. Default value:
77 none.
78
79clone-url::
80 Space-separated list of clone-url templates. This setting is only
81 used if `repo.clone-url` is unspecified. Default value: none. See
82 also: "MACRO EXPANSION", "FILTER API".
83
84commit-filter::
85 Specifies a command which will be invoked to format commit messages.
86 The command will get the message on its STDIN, and the STDOUT from the
87 command will be included verbatim as the commit message, i.e. this can
88 be used to implement bugtracker integration. Default value: none.
89 See also: "FILTER API".
90
91css::
92 Url which specifies the css document to include in all cgit pages.
93 Default value: "/cgit.css".
94
95embedded::
96 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit generate a html fragment
97 suitable for embedding in other html pages. Default value: none. See
98 also: "noheader".
99
100enable-commit-graph::
101 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit print an ASCII-art commit
102 history graph to the left of the commit messages in the repository
103 log page. Default value: "0".
104
105enable-filter-overrides::
106 Flag which, when set to "1", allows all filter settings to be
107 overridden in repository-specific cgitrc files. Default value: none.
108
109enable-gitweb-owner::
110 If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, we first check each repository
111 for the git config value "gitweb.owner" to determine the owner.
112 Default value: "1". See also: scan-path.
113
114enable-http-clone::
115 If set to "1", cgit will act as an dumb HTTP endpoint for git clones.
116 If you use an alternate way of serving git repositories, you may wish
117 to disable this. Default value: "1".
118
119enable-index-links::
120 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit generate extra links for
121 each repo in the repository index (specifically, to the "summary",
122 "commit" and "tree" pages). Default value: "0".
123
124enable-log-filecount::
125 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit print the number of
126 modified files for each commit on the repository log page. Default
127 value: "0".
128
129enable-log-linecount::
130 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit print the number of added
131 and removed lines for each commit on the repository log page. Default
132 value: "0".
133
134enable-remote-branches::
135 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display remote branches
136 in the summary and refs views. Default value: "0". See also:
137 "repo.enable-remote-branches".
138
139enable-subject-links::
140 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit use the subject of the
141 parent commit as link text when generating links to parent commits
142 in commit view. Default value: "0". See also:
143 "repo.enable-subject-links".
144
145enable-tree-linenumbers::
146 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit generate linenumber links
147 for plaintext blobs printed in the tree view. Default value: "1".
148
149favicon::
150 Url used as link to a shortcut icon for cgit. If specified, it is
151 suggested to use the value "/favicon.ico" since certain browsers will
152 ignore other values. Default value: none.
153
154footer::
155 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
156 verbatim at the bottom of all pages (i.e. it replaces the standard
157 "generated by..." message. Default value: none.
158
159head-include::
160 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
161 verbatim in the html HEAD section on all pages. Default value: none.
162
163header::
164 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
165 verbatim at the top of all pages. Default value: none.
166
167include::
168 Name of a configfile to include before the rest of the current config-
169 file is parsed. Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
170
171index-header::
172 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
173 verbatim above the repository index. This setting is deprecated, and
174 will not be supported by cgit-1.0 (use root-readme instead). Default
175 value: none.
176
177index-info::
178 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
179 verbatim below the heading on the repository index page. This setting
180 is deprecated, and will not be supported by cgit-1.0 (use root-desc
181 instead). Default value: none.
182
183local-time::
184 Flag which, if set to "1", makes cgit print commit and tag times in the
185 servers timezone. Default value: "0".
186
187logo::
188 Url which specifies the source of an image which will be used as a logo
189 on all cgit pages. Default value: "/cgit.png".
190
191logo-link::
192 Url loaded when clicking on the cgit logo image. If unspecified the
193 calculated url of the repository index page will be used. Default
194 value: none.
195
196max-atom-items::
197 Specifies the number of items to display in atom feeds view. Default
198 value: "10".
199
200max-commit-count::
201 Specifies the number of entries to list per page in "log" view. Default
202 value: "50".
203
204max-message-length::
205 Specifies the maximum number of commit message characters to display in
206 "log" view. Default value: "80".
207
208max-repo-count::
209 Specifies the number of entries to list per page on the repository
210 index page. Default value: "50".
211
212max-repodesc-length::
213 Specifies the maximum number of repo description characters to display
214 on the repository index page. Default value: "80".
215
216max-blob-size::
217 Specifies the maximum size of a blob to display HTML for in KBytes.
218 Default value: "0" (limit disabled).
219
220max-stats::
221 Set the default maximum statistics period. Valid values are "week",
222 "month", "quarter" and "year". If unspecified, statistics are
223 disabled. Default value: none. See also: "repo.max-stats".
224
225mimetype.<ext>::
226 Set the mimetype for the specified filename extension. This is used
227 by the `plain` command when returning blob content.
228
229module-link::
230 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
231 submodule is printed in a directory listing. The arguments for the
232 formatstring are the path and SHA1 of the submodule commit. Default
233 value: "./?repo=%s&page=commit&id=%s"
234
235nocache::
236 If set to the value "1" caching will be disabled. This settings is
237 deprecated, and will not be honored starting with cgit-1.0. Default
238 value: "0".
239
240noplainemail::
241 If set to "1" showing full author email adresses will be disabled.
242 Default value: "0".
243
244noheader::
245 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit omit the standard header
246 on all pages. Default value: none. See also: "embedded".
247
248project-list::
249 A list of subdirectories inside of scan-path, relative to it, that
250 should loaded as git repositories. This must be defined prior to
251 scan-path. Default value: none. See also: scan-path, "MACRO
252 EXPANSION".
253
254readme::
255 Text which will be used as default value for "repo.readme". Default
256 value: none.
257
258remove-suffix::
259 If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, if any repositories are found
260 with a suffix of ".git", this suffix will be removed for the url and
261 name. Default value: "0". See also: scan-path.
262
263renamelimit::
264 Maximum number of files to consider when detecting renames. The value
265 "-1" uses the compiletime value in git (for further info, look at
266 `man git-diff`). Default value: "-1".
267
268repo.group::
269 Legacy alias for "section". This option is deprecated and will not be
270 supported in cgit-1.0.
271
272robots::
273 Text used as content for the "robots" meta-tag. Default value:
274 "index, nofollow".
275
276root-desc::
277 Text printed below the heading on the repository index page. Default
278 value: "a fast webinterface for the git dscm".
279
280root-readme::
281 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
282 verbatim below the "about" link on the repository index page. Default
283 value: none.
284
285root-title::
286 Text printed as heading on the repository index page. Default value:
287 "Git Repository Browser".
288
289scan-hidden-path::
290 If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, scan-path will recurse into
291 directories whose name starts with a period ('.'). Otherwise,
292 scan-path will stay away from such directories (considered as
293 "hidden"). Note that this does not apply to the ".git" directory in
294 non-bare repos. This must be defined prior to scan-path.
295 Default value: 0. See also: scan-path.
296
297scan-path::
298 A path which will be scanned for repositories. If caching is enabled,
299 the result will be cached as a cgitrc include-file in the cache
300 directory. If project-list has been defined prior to scan-path,
301 scan-path loads only the directories listed in the file pointed to by
302 project-list. Be advised that only the global settings taken
303 before the scan-path directive will be applied to each repository.
304 Default value: none. See also: cache-scanrc-ttl, project-list,
305 "MACRO EXPANSION".
306
307section::
308 The name of the current repository section - all repositories defined
309 after this option will inherit the current section name. Default value:
310 none.
311
312section-from-path::
313 A number which, if specified before scan-path, specifies how many
314 path elements from each repo path to use as a default section name.
315 If negative, cgit will discard the specified number of path elements
316 above the repo directory. Default value: 0.
317
318side-by-side-diffs::
319 If set to "1" shows side-by-side diffs instead of unidiffs per
320 default. Default value: "0".
321
322snapshots::
323 Text which specifies the default set of snapshot formats generated by
324 cgit. The value is a space-separated list of zero or more of the
325 values "tar", "tar.gz", "tar.bz2", "tar.xz" and "zip". Default value:
326 none.
327
328source-filter::
329 Specifies a command which will be invoked to format plaintext blobs
330 in the tree view. The command will get the blob content on its STDIN
331 and the name of the blob as its only command line argument. The STDOUT
332 from the command will be included verbatim as the blob contents, i.e.
333 this can be used to implement e.g. syntax highlighting. Default value:
334 none. See also: "FILTER API".
335
336summary-branches::
337 Specifies the number of branches to display in the repository "summary"
338 view. Default value: "10".
339
340summary-log::
341 Specifies the number of log entries to display in the repository
342 "summary" view. Default value: "10".
343
344summary-tags::
345 Specifies the number of tags to display in the repository "summary"
346 view. Default value: "10".
347
348strict-export::
349 Filename which, if specified, needs to be present within the repository
350 for cgit to allow access to that repository. This can be used to emulate
351 gitweb's EXPORT_OK and STRICT_EXPORT functionality and limit cgit's
352 repositories to match those exported by git-daemon. This option MUST come
353 before 'scan-path'.
354
355virtual-root::
356 Url which, if specified, will be used as root for all cgit links. It
357 will also cause cgit to generate 'virtual urls', i.e. urls like
358 '/cgit/tree/README' as opposed to '?r=cgit&p=tree&path=README'. Default
359 value: none.
360 NOTE: cgit has recently learned how to use PATH_INFO to achieve the
361 same kind of virtual urls, so this option will probably be deprecated.
362
363REPOSITORY SETTINGS
364-------------------
365repo.about-filter::
366 Override the default about-filter. Default value: none. See also:
367 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
368
369repo.clone-url::
370 A list of space-separated urls which can be used to clone this repo.
371 Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
372
373repo.commit-filter::
374 Override the default commit-filter. Default value: none. See also:
375 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
376
377repo.defbranch::
378 The name of the default branch for this repository. If no such branch
379 exists in the repository, the first branch name (when sorted) is used
380 as default instead. Default value: "master".
381
382repo.desc::
383 The value to show as repository description. Default value: none.
384
385repo.enable-commit-graph::
386 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
387 `enable-commit-graph'. Default value: none.
388
389repo.enable-log-filecount::
390 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
391 `enable-log-filecount'. Default value: none.
392
393repo.enable-log-linecount::
394 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
395 `enable-log-linecount'. Default value: none.
396
397repo.enable-remote-branches::
398 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display remote branches
399 in the summary and refs views. Default value: <enable-remote-branches>.
400
401repo.enable-subject-links::
402 A flag which can be used to override the global setting
403 `enable-subject-links'. Default value: none.
404
405repo.logo::
406 Url which specifies the source of an image which will be used as a logo
407 on this repo's pages. Default value: global logo.
408
409repo.logo-link::
410 Url loaded when clicking on the cgit logo image. If unspecified the
411 calculated url of the repository index page will be used. Default
412 value: global logo-link.
413
414repo.module-link::
415 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
416 submodule is printed in a directory listing. The arguments for the
417 formatstring are the path and SHA1 of the submodule commit. Default
418 value: <module-link>
419
420repo.max-stats::
421 Override the default maximum statistics period. Valid values are equal
422 to the values specified for the global "max-stats" setting. Default
423 value: none.
424
425repo.name::
426 The value to show as repository name. Default value: <repo.url>.
427
428repo.owner::
429 A value used to identify the owner of the repository. Default value:
430 none.
431
432repo.path::
433 An absolute path to the repository directory. For non-bare repositories
434 this is the .git-directory. Default value: none.
435
436repo.readme::
437 A path (relative to <repo.path>) which specifies a file to include
438 verbatim as the "About" page for this repo. You may also specify a
439 git refspec by head or by hash by prepending the refspec followed by
440 a colon. For example, "master:docs/readme.mkd" Default value: <readme>.
441
442repo.snapshots::
443 A mask of allowed snapshot-formats for this repo, restricted by the
444 "snapshots" global setting. Default value: <snapshots>.
445
446repo.section::
447 Override the current section name for this repository. Default value:
448 none.
449
450repo.source-filter::
451 Override the default source-filter. Default value: none. See also:
452 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
453
454repo.url::
455 The relative url used to access the repository. This must be the first
456 setting specified for each repo. Default value: none.
457
458
459REPOSITORY-SPECIFIC CGITRC FILE
460-------------------------------
461When the option "scan-path" is used to auto-discover git repositories, cgit
462will try to parse the file "cgitrc" within any found repository. Such a
463repo-specific config file may contain any of the repo-specific options
464described above, except "repo.url" and "repo.path". Additionally, the "filter"
465options are only acknowledged in repo-specific config files when
466"enable-filter-overrides" is set to "1".
467
468Note: the "repo." prefix is dropped from the option names in repo-specific
469config files, e.g. "repo.desc" becomes "desc".
470
471
472FILTER API
473----------
474about filter::
475 This filter is given no arguments. The about text that is to be
476 filtered is available on standard input and the filtered text is
477 expected on standard output.
478
479commit filter::
480 This filter is given no arguments. The commit message text that is to
481 be filtered is available on standard input and the filtered text is
482 expected on standard output.
483
484source filter::
485 This filter is given a single parameter: the filename of the source
486 file to filter. The filter can use the filename to determine (for
487 example) the syntax highlighting mode. The contents of the source
488 file that is to be filtered is available on standard input and the
489 filtered contents is expected on standard output.
490
491Also, all filters are handed the following environment variables:
492
493- CGIT_REPO_URL (from repo.url)
494- CGIT_REPO_NAME (from repo.name)
495- CGIT_REPO_PATH (from repo.path)
496- CGIT_REPO_OWNER (from repo.owner)
497- CGIT_REPO_DEFBRANCH (from repo.defbranch)
498- CGIT_REPO_SECTION (from repo.section)
499- CGIT_REPO_CLONE_URL (from repo.clone-url)
500
501If a setting is not defined for a repository and the corresponding global
502setting is also not defined (if applicable), then the corresponding
503environment variable will be unset.
504
505
506MACRO EXPANSION
507---------------
508The following cgitrc options supports a simple macro expansion feature,
509where tokens prefixed with "$" are replaced with the value of a similary
510named environment variable:
511
512- cache-root
513- include
514- project-list
515- scan-path
516
517Macro expansion will also happen on the content of $CGIT_CONFIG, if
518defined.
519
520One usage of this feature is virtual hosting, which in its simplest form
521can be accomplished by adding the following line to /etc/cgitrc:
522
523 include=/etc/cgitrc.d/$HTTP_HOST
524
525The following options are expanded during request processing, and support
526the environment variables defined in "FILTER API":
527
528- clone-url
529- repo.clone-url
530
531
532EXAMPLE CGITRC FILE
533-------------------
534
535....
536# Enable caching of up to 1000 output entriess
537cache-size=1000
538
539
540# Specify some default clone urls using macro expansion
541clone-url=git://foo.org/$CGIT_REPO_URL git@foo.org:$CGIT_REPO_URL
542
543# Specify the css url
544css=/css/cgit.css
545
546
547# Show extra links for each repository on the index page
548enable-index-links=1
549
550
551# Enable ASCII art commit history graph on the log pages
552enable-commit-graph=1
553
554
555# Show number of affected files per commit on the log pages
556enable-log-filecount=1
557
558
559# Show number of added/removed lines per commit on the log pages
560enable-log-linecount=1
561
562
563# Add a cgit favicon
564favicon=/favicon.ico
565
566
567# Use a custom logo
568logo=/img/mylogo.png
569
570
571# Enable statistics per week, month and quarter
572max-stats=quarter
573
574
575# Set the title and heading of the repository index page
576root-title=example.com git repositories
577
578
579# Set a subheading for the repository index page
580root-desc=tracking the foobar development
581
582
583# Include some more info about example.com on the index page
584root-readme=/var/www/htdocs/about.html
585
586
587# Allow download of tar.gz, tar.bz2 and zip-files
588snapshots=tar.gz tar.bz2 zip
589
590
591##
592## List of common mimetypes
593##
594
595mimetype.gif=image/gif
596mimetype.html=text/html
597mimetype.jpg=image/jpeg
598mimetype.jpeg=image/jpeg
599mimetype.pdf=application/pdf
600mimetype.png=image/png
601mimetype.svg=image/svg+xml
602
603
604##
605## List of repositories.
606## PS: Any repositories listed when section is unset will not be
607## displayed under a section heading
608## PPS: This list could be kept in a different file (e.g. '/etc/cgitrepos')
609## and included like this:
610## include=/etc/cgitrepos
611##
612
613
614repo.url=foo
615repo.path=/pub/git/foo.git
616repo.desc=the master foo repository
617repo.owner=fooman@example.com
618repo.readme=info/web/about.html
619
620
621repo.url=bar
622repo.path=/pub/git/bar.git
623repo.desc=the bars for your foo
624repo.owner=barman@example.com
625repo.readme=info/web/about.html
626
627
628# The next repositories will be displayed under the 'extras' heading
629section=extras
630
631
632repo.url=baz
633repo.path=/pub/git/baz.git
634repo.desc=a set of extensions for bar users
635
636repo.url=wiz
637repo.path=/pub/git/wiz.git
638repo.desc=the wizard of foo
639
640
641# Add some mirrored repositories
642section=mirrors
643
644
645repo.url=git
646repo.path=/pub/git/git.git
647repo.desc=the dscm
648
649
650repo.url=linux
651repo.path=/pub/git/linux.git
652repo.desc=the kernel
653
654# Disable adhoc downloads of this repo
655repo.snapshots=0
656
657# Disable line-counts for this repo
658repo.enable-log-linecount=0
659
660# Restrict the max statistics period for this repo
661repo.max-stats=month
662....
663
664
665BUGS
666----
667Comments currently cannot appear on the same line as a setting; the comment
668will be included as part of the value. E.g. this line:
669
670 robots=index # allow indexing
671
672will generate the following html element:
673
674 <meta name='robots' content='index # allow indexing'/>
675
676
677
678AUTHOR
679------
680Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
681Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>