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

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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       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

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 exist 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

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 $export_ok
file decide if repository is available and not only if it is shown. If $projects_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://andre-simon.de/zip/download.php 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.

$site_name
Name of your site or organization, to appear in page titles. Set it to something descriptive for
clearer bookmarks etc. If this variable is not set or is, then gitweb uses the value of the
SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable, setting site name to "$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

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.snapshot
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.

email-privacy
Redact e-mail addresses from the generated HTML, etc. content. This obscures e-mail addresses
retrieved from the author/committer and comment sections of the Git log. It is meant to hinder web
crawlers that harvest and abuse addresses. Such crawlers may not respect robots.txt. Note that users
and user tools also see the addresses as redacted. If Gitweb is not the final step in a workflow then
subsequent steps may misbehave because of the redacted information they receive. Disabled by default.

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 https://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

       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

       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

       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

       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.

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

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