10 cgitrc - runtime configuration for cgit
15 Cgitrc contains all runtime settings for cgit, including the list of git
16 repositories, formatted as a line-separated list of NAME=VALUE pairs. Blank
17 lines, and lines starting with '#', are ignored.
22 The default location of cgitrc, defined at compile time, is /etc/cgitrc. At
23 runtime, cgit will consult the environment variable CGIT_CONFIG and, if
24 defined, use its value instead.
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".
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".
44 Path used to store the cgit cache entries. Default value:
45 "/var/cache/cgit". See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
48 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
49 version of repository pages accessed without a fixed SHA1. Default
53 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
54 version of the repository summary page. Default value: "5".
57 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
58 version of the repository index page. Default value: "5".
61 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the result
62 of scanning a path for git repositories. Default value: "15".
65 The maximum number of entries in the cgit cache. Default value: "0"
66 (i.e. caching is disabled).
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:
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:
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".
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".
92 Url which specifies the css document to include in all cgit pages.
93 Default value: "/cgit.css".
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
100 enable-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".
105 enable-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.
109 enable-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.
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".
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".
124 enable-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
129 enable-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
134 enable-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".
139 enable-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".
145 enable-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".
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.
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.
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.
164 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
165 verbatim at the top of all pages. Default value: none.
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".
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
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.
184 Flag which, if set to "1", makes cgit print commit and tag times in the
185 servers timezone. Default value: "0".
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".
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
197 Specifies the number of items to display in atom feeds view. Default
201 Specifies the number of entries to list per page in "log" view. Default
205 Specifies the maximum number of commit message characters to display in
206 "log" view. Default value: "80".
209 Specifies the number of entries to list per page on the repository
210 index page. Default value: "50".
212 max-repodesc-length::
213 Specifies the maximum number of repo description characters to display
214 on the repository index page. Default value: "80".
217 Specifies the maximum size of a blob to display HTML for in KBytes.
218 Default value: "0" (limit disabled).
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".
226 Set the mimetype for the specified filename extension. This is used
227 by the `plain` command when returning blob content.
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
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
241 If set to "1" showing full author email adresses will be disabled.
245 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit omit the standard header
246 on all pages. Default value: none. See also: "embedded".
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
255 Text which will be used as default value for "repo.readme". Default
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.
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".
269 Legacy alias for "section". This option is deprecated and will not be
270 supported in cgit-1.0.
273 Text used as content for the "robots" meta-tag. Default value:
277 Text printed below the heading on the repository index page. Default
278 value: "a fast webinterface for the git dscm".
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
286 Text printed as heading on the repository index page. Default value:
287 "Git Repository Browser".
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.
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,
308 The name of the current repository section - all repositories defined
309 after this option will inherit the current section name. Default value:
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.
319 If set to "1" shows side-by-side diffs instead of unidiffs per
320 default. Default value: "0".
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:
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".
337 Specifies the number of branches to display in the repository "summary"
338 view. Default value: "10".
341 Specifies the number of log entries to display in the repository
342 "summary" view. Default value: "10".
345 Specifies the number of tags to display in the repository "summary"
346 view. Default value: "10".
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
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
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.
366 Override the default about-filter. Default value: none. See also:
367 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
370 A list of space-separated urls which can be used to clone this repo.
371 Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
374 Override the default commit-filter. Default value: none. See also:
375 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
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: branch pointed to by HEAD, or
381 "master" if there is no suitable HEAD.
384 The value to show as repository description. Default value: none.
386 repo.enable-commit-graph::
387 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
388 `enable-commit-graph'. Default value: none.
390 repo.enable-log-filecount::
391 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
392 `enable-log-filecount'. Default value: none.
394 repo.enable-log-linecount::
395 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
396 `enable-log-linecount'. Default value: none.
398 repo.enable-remote-branches::
399 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display remote branches
400 in the summary and refs views. Default value: <enable-remote-branches>.
402 repo.enable-subject-links::
403 A flag which can be used to override the global setting
404 `enable-subject-links'. Default value: none.
407 Url which specifies the source of an image which will be used as a logo
408 on this repo's pages. Default value: global logo.
411 Url loaded when clicking on the cgit logo image. If unspecified the
412 calculated url of the repository index page will be used. Default
413 value: global logo-link.
416 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
417 submodule is printed in a directory listing. The arguments for the
418 formatstring are the path and SHA1 of the submodule commit. Default
421 repo.module-link.<path>::
422 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
423 submodule with the specified subdirectory path is printed in a
424 directory listing. The only argument for the formatstring is the SHA1
425 of the submodule commit. Default value: none.
428 Override the default maximum statistics period. Valid values are equal
429 to the values specified for the global "max-stats" setting. Default
433 The value to show as repository name. Default value: <repo.url>.
436 A value used to identify the owner of the repository. Default value:
440 An absolute path to the repository directory. For non-bare repositories
441 this is the .git-directory. Default value: none.
444 A path (relative to <repo.path>) which specifies a file to include
445 verbatim as the "About" page for this repo. You may also specify a
446 git refspec by head or by hash by prepending the refspec followed by
447 a colon. For example, "master:docs/readme.mkd" Default value: <readme>.
450 A mask of allowed snapshot-formats for this repo, restricted by the
451 "snapshots" global setting. Default value: <snapshots>.
454 Override the current section name for this repository. Default value:
458 Override the default source-filter. Default value: none. See also:
459 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
462 The relative url used to access the repository. This must be the first
463 setting specified for each repo. Default value: none.
466 REPOSITORY-SPECIFIC CGITRC FILE
467 -------------------------------
468 When the option "scan-path" is used to auto-discover git repositories, cgit
469 will try to parse the file "cgitrc" within any found repository. Such a
470 repo-specific config file may contain any of the repo-specific options
471 described above, except "repo.url" and "repo.path". Additionally, the "filter"
472 options are only acknowledged in repo-specific config files when
473 "enable-filter-overrides" is set to "1".
475 Note: the "repo." prefix is dropped from the option names in repo-specific
476 config files, e.g. "repo.desc" becomes "desc".
482 This filter is given no arguments. The about text that is to be
483 filtered is available on standard input and the filtered text is
484 expected on standard output.
487 This filter is given no arguments. The commit message text that is to
488 be filtered is available on standard input and the filtered text is
489 expected on standard output.
492 This filter is given a single parameter: the filename of the source
493 file to filter. The filter can use the filename to determine (for
494 example) the syntax highlighting mode. The contents of the source
495 file that is to be filtered is available on standard input and the
496 filtered contents is expected on standard output.
498 Also, all filters are handed the following environment variables:
500 - CGIT_REPO_URL (from repo.url)
501 - CGIT_REPO_NAME (from repo.name)
502 - CGIT_REPO_PATH (from repo.path)
503 - CGIT_REPO_OWNER (from repo.owner)
504 - CGIT_REPO_DEFBRANCH (from repo.defbranch)
505 - CGIT_REPO_SECTION (from repo.section)
506 - CGIT_REPO_CLONE_URL (from repo.clone-url)
508 If a setting is not defined for a repository and the corresponding global
509 setting is also not defined (if applicable), then the corresponding
510 environment variable will be unset.
515 The following cgitrc options supports a simple macro expansion feature,
516 where tokens prefixed with "$" are replaced with the value of a similary
517 named environment variable:
524 Macro expansion will also happen on the content of $CGIT_CONFIG, if
527 One usage of this feature is virtual hosting, which in its simplest form
528 can be accomplished by adding the following line to /etc/cgitrc:
530 include=/etc/cgitrc.d/$HTTP_HOST
532 The following options are expanded during request processing, and support
533 the environment variables defined in "FILTER API":
543 # Enable caching of up to 1000 output entriess
547 # Specify some default clone urls using macro expansion
548 clone-url=git://foo.org/$CGIT_REPO_URL git@foo.org:$CGIT_REPO_URL
550 # Specify the css url
554 # Show extra links for each repository on the index page
558 # Enable ASCII art commit history graph on the log pages
559 enable-commit-graph=1
562 # Show number of affected files per commit on the log pages
563 enable-log-filecount=1
566 # Show number of added/removed lines per commit on the log pages
567 enable-log-linecount=1
578 # Enable statistics per week, month and quarter
582 # Set the title and heading of the repository index page
583 root-title=example.com git repositories
586 # Set a subheading for the repository index page
587 root-desc=tracking the foobar development
590 # Include some more info about example.com on the index page
591 root-readme=/var/www/htdocs/about.html
594 # Allow download of tar.gz, tar.bz2 and zip-files
595 snapshots=tar.gz tar.bz2 zip
599 ## List of common mimetypes
602 mimetype.gif=image/gif
603 mimetype.html=text/html
604 mimetype.jpg=image/jpeg
605 mimetype.jpeg=image/jpeg
606 mimetype.pdf=application/pdf
607 mimetype.png=image/png
608 mimetype.svg=image/svg+xml
612 ## List of repositories.
613 ## PS: Any repositories listed when section is unset will not be
614 ## displayed under a section heading
615 ## PPS: This list could be kept in a different file (e.g. '/etc/cgitrepos')
616 ## and included like this:
617 ## include=/etc/cgitrepos
622 repo.path=/pub/git/foo.git
623 repo.desc=the master foo repository
624 repo.owner=fooman@example.com
625 repo.readme=info/web/about.html
629 repo.path=/pub/git/bar.git
630 repo.desc=the bars for your foo
631 repo.owner=barman@example.com
632 repo.readme=info/web/about.html
635 # The next repositories will be displayed under the 'extras' heading
640 repo.path=/pub/git/baz.git
641 repo.desc=a set of extensions for bar users
644 repo.path=/pub/git/wiz.git
645 repo.desc=the wizard of foo
648 # Add some mirrored repositories
653 repo.path=/pub/git/git.git
658 repo.path=/pub/git/linux.git
661 # Disable adhoc downloads of this repo
664 # Disable line-counts for this repo
665 repo.enable-log-linecount=0
667 # Restrict the max statistics period for this repo
674 Comments currently cannot appear on the same line as a setting; the comment
675 will be included as part of the value. E.g. this line:
677 robots=index # allow indexing
679 will generate the following html element:
681 <meta name='robots' content='index # allow indexing'/>
687 Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
688 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>