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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 7d5b30e09f gitweb: hard-depend on the Digest::MD5 5.8 module 
Since my d48b284183 ("perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8 from
5.6.[21]", 2010-09-24), we've depended on 5.8, so there's no reason to
conditionally require Digest::MD5 anymore. It was released with perl
v5.7.3[1]

The initial introduction of the dependency in
e9fdd74e53 ("gitweb: (gr)avatar support", 2009-06-30) says as much,
this also undoes part of the later 2e9c8789b7 ("gitweb: Mention
optional Perl modules in INSTALL", 2011-02-04) since gitweb will
always be run on at least 5.8, so there's no need to mention
Digest::MD5 as a required module in the documentation, let's instead
say that we require perl 5.8.

1. $ corelist Digest::MD5
   Data for 2015-02-14
   Digest::MD5 was first released with perl v5.7.3

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
 		2018-03-05 10:52:27 -08:00
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static gitweb: Avoid overflowing page body frame with large images 2014-02-20 09:50:14 -08:00
INSTALL gitweb: hard-depend on the Digest::MD5 5.8 module 2018-03-05 10:52:27 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'rj/gitweb-clean-js' 2011-10-27 12:04:21 -07:00
README gitweb/README: remove reference to git.kernel.org 2013-03-07 11:38:33 -08:00
gitweb.perl gitweb: hard-depend on the Digest::MD5 5.8 module 2018-03-05 10:52:27 -08:00

README 

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>