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Add new build instructions, extend the "Missing features" section and add a note about patches/email address of the author. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
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cgit - cgi for git
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This is an attempt to create a fast web interface for the git scm, using a
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builtin cache to decrease server io-pressure.
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Installation
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Building cgit involves building a proper version of git. How to do this
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depends on how you obtained the cgit sources:
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a) If you're working in a cloned cgit repository, you first need to
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initialize and update the git submodule:
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$ git submodule init # register the git submodule in .git/config
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$ $EDITOR .git/config # if you want to specify a different url for git
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$ git submodule update # clone/fetch and checkout correct git version
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b) If you're building from a cgit tarball, you can download a proper git
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version like this:
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$ make get-git
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When either a) or b) has been performed, you can build and install cgit like
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this:
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$ make
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$ sudo make install
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This will install cgit.cgi and cgit.css into "/var/www/htdocs/cgit". You can
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configure this location (and a few other things) by providing a "cgit.conf"
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file (see the Makefile for details).
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Dependencies:
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-git 1.5.3
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-zip lib
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-crypto lib
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-openssl lib
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Apache configuration
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A new Directory-section must probably be added for cgit, possibly something
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like this:
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<Directory "/var/www/htdocs/cgit/">
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AllowOverride None
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Options ExecCGI
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Order allow,deny
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Allow from all
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</Directory>
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Runtime configuration
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The file /etc/cgitrc is read by cgit before handling a request. In addition
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to runtime parameters, this file also contains a list of the repositories
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displayed by cgit.
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A template cgitrc is shipped with the sources, and all parameters and default
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values are documented in this file.
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The cache
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When cgit is invoked it looks for a cachefile matching the request and
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returns it to the client. If no such cachefile exist (or if it has expired),
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the content for the request is written into the proper cachefile before the
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file is returned.
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If the cachefile has expired but cgit is unable to obtain a lock for it, the
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stale cachefile is returned to the client. This is done to favour page
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throughput over page freshness.
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The generated content contains the complete response to the client, including
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the http-headers "Modified" and "Expires".
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The missing features
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* Submodule links in the directory listing page have a fixed format per
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repository. This should probably be extended to a generic map between
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submodule path and url.
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* Branch- and tag-lists in the summary page can get very long, they should
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probably only show something like the ten "latest modified" branches and
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a similar number of "most recent" tags.
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* There should be a new page for browsing refs/heads and refs/tags, with links
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from the summary page whenever the branch/tag lists overflow.
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* The log-page should have more/better search options (author, committer,
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pickaxe, paths) and possibly support arbitrary revision specifiers.
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* A set of test-scripts is required before cgit-1.0 can be released.
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Patches/bugreports/suggestions/comments are always welcome, please feel free
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to contact the author: hjemli@gmail.com
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