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Jason Yundt 0e1a85ca75 gitweb: switch to an XHTML5 DOCTYPE
According to the HTML Standard FAQ:

	“What is the DOCTYPE for modern HTML documents?

	In text/html documents:

		<!DOCTYPE html>

	In documents delivered with an XML media type: no DOCTYPE is required
	and its use is generally unnecessary. However, you may use one if you
	want (see the following question). Note that the above is well-formed
	XML.”

	Source: [1]

Gitweb uses an XHTML 1.0 DOCTYPE:

	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
	"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

While that DOCTYPE is still valid [2], it has several disadvantages:

1. It’s misleading. If an XML parser uses the DTD at the given link,
   then the entities &nbsp; and &sdot; won’t get declared. Instead, the
   parser has to use a DTD from the HTML Standard that has nothing to do
   with XHTML 1.0 [2].
2. It’s obsolete. XHTML 1.0 was last revised in 2002 and was superseded in
   2018 [3].
3. It’s unreliable. Gitweb uses &nbsp; and &sdot; but lets an external file
   define them. “[…U]using entity references for characters in XML documents
   is unsafe if they are defined in an external file (except for &lt;, &gt;,
   &amp;, &quot;, and &apos;).” [4]

[1]: <https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/main/FAQ.md#what-is-the-doctype-for-modern-html-documents>
[2]: <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html#parsing-xhtml-documents>
[3]: <https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#xhtml>
[4]: <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html#writing-xhtml-documents>

Signed-off-by: Jason Yundt <jason@jasonyundt.email>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-02 11:51:15 -07:00
..
static gitweb: correctly store previous rev in javascript-actions mode 2019-10-28 11:06:57 +09:00
INSTALL gitweb: hard-depend on the Digest::MD5 5.8 module 2018-03-05 10:52:27 -08:00
Makefile gitweb/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE 2020-12-08 16:56:56 -08:00
README gitweb/README: remove reference to git.kernel.org 2013-03-07 11:38:33 -08:00
gitweb.perl gitweb: switch to an XHTML5 DOCTYPE 2022-06-02 11:51:15 -07:00

GIT web Interface
=================

From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.


Build time gitweb configuration
-------------------------------
There are many configuration variables which affect building gitweb (among
others creating gitweb.cgi out of gitweb.perl by replacing placeholders such
as `++GIT_BINDIR++` by their build-time values).

Building and installing gitweb is described in gitweb's INSTALL file
(in 'gitweb/INSTALL').


Runtime gitweb configuration
----------------------------
Gitweb obtains configuration data from the following sources in the
following order:

1. built-in values (some set during build stage),
2. common system-wide configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`,
   defaults to '/etc/gitweb-common.conf'),
3. either per-instance configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG`, defaults to
   'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the installed gitweb),
   or if it does not exists then system-wide configuration file
   (`GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM`, defaults to '/etc/gitweb.conf').

Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
in above sequence.

You can read defaults in system-wide GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM from GITWEB_CONFIG
by adding

  read_config_file($GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM);

at very beginning of per-instance GITWEB_CONFIG file.  In this case
settings in said per-instance file will override settings from
system-wide configuration file.  Note that read_config_file checks
itself that the $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM file exists.

The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
optional features, stored in the '%features' variable.

Ultimate description on how to reconfigure the default features setting
in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.

See also gitweb.conf(5) manpage.


Web server configuration
------------------------
Gitweb can be run as CGI script, as legacy mod_perl application (using
ModPerl::Registry), and as FastCGI script.  You can find some simple examples
in "Example web server configuration" section in INSTALL file for gitweb (in
gitweb/INSTALL).

See "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections in
gitweb(1) manpage.


AUTHORS
-------
Originally written by:
  Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

Any comment/question/concern to:
  Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>