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 Flag which, when set to "age", enables date ordering in the branch ref
45 list, and when set to "name" enables ordering by branch name. Default
49 Path used to store the cgit cache entries. Default value:
50 "/var/cache/cgit". See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
53 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
54 version of repository pages accessed without a fixed SHA1. Default
58 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
59 version of the repository summary page. Default value: "5".
62 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
63 version of the repository index page. Default value: "5".
66 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the result
67 of scanning a path for git repositories. Default value: "15".
70 The maximum number of entries in the cgit cache. Default value: "0"
71 (i.e. caching is disabled).
74 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
75 version of repository pages accessed with a fixed SHA1. Default value:
79 Sort items in the repo list case sensitively. Default value: "1".
80 See also: repository-sort, section-sort.
83 Space-separated list of common prefixes which, when combined with a
84 repository url, generates valid clone urls for the repository. This
85 setting is only used if `repo.clone-url` is unspecified. Default value:
89 Space-separated list of clone-url templates. This setting is only
90 used if `repo.clone-url` is unspecified. Default value: none. See
91 also: "MACRO EXPANSION", "FILTER API".
94 Specifies a command which will be invoked to format commit messages.
95 The command will get the message on its STDIN, and the STDOUT from the
96 command will be included verbatim as the commit message, i.e. this can
97 be used to implement bugtracker integration. Default value: none.
98 See also: "FILTER API".
101 Flag which, when set to "date", enables strict date ordering in the
102 commit log, and when set to "topo" enables strict topological
103 ordering. If unset, the default ordering of "git log" is used. Default
107 Url which specifies the css document to include in all cgit pages.
108 Default value: "/cgit.css".
111 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit generate a html fragment
112 suitable for embedding in other html pages. Default value: none. See
115 enable-commit-graph::
116 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit print an ASCII-art commit
117 history graph to the left of the commit messages in the repository
118 log page. Default value: "0".
120 enable-filter-overrides::
121 Flag which, when set to "1", allows all filter settings to be
122 overridden in repository-specific cgitrc files. Default value: none.
125 If set to "1", cgit will act as an dumb HTTP endpoint for git clones.
126 If you use an alternate way of serving git repositories, you may wish
127 to disable this. Default value: "1".
130 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit generate extra links for
131 each repo in the repository index (specifically, to the "summary",
132 "commit" and "tree" pages). Default value: "0".
135 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display the owner of
136 each repo in the repository index. Default value: "1".
138 enable-log-filecount::
139 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit print the number of
140 modified files for each commit on the repository log page. Default
143 enable-log-linecount::
144 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit print the number of added
145 and removed lines for each commit on the repository log page. Default
148 enable-remote-branches::
149 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display remote branches
150 in the summary and refs views. Default value: "0". See also:
151 "repo.enable-remote-branches".
153 enable-subject-links::
154 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit use the subject of the
155 parent commit as link text when generating links to parent commits
156 in commit view. Default value: "0". See also:
157 "repo.enable-subject-links".
159 enable-tree-linenumbers::
160 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit generate linenumber links
161 for plaintext blobs printed in the tree view. Default value: "1".
164 Flag which, when set to "1", will allow cgit to use git config to set
165 any repo specific settings. This option is used in conjunction with
166 "scan-path" to augment repo-specific settings. The keys gitweb.owner,
167 gitweb.category, and gitweb.description will map to the cgit keys
168 repo.owner, repo.section, and repo.desc, respectivly. All git config
169 keys that begin with "cgit." will be mapped to the corresponding "repo."
170 key in cgit. Default value: "0". See also: scan-path, section-from-path.
173 Url used as link to a shortcut icon for cgit. If specified, it is
174 suggested to use the value "/favicon.ico" since certain browsers will
175 ignore other values. Default value: none.
178 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
179 verbatim at the bottom of all pages (i.e. it replaces the standard
180 "generated by..." message. Default value: none.
183 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
184 verbatim in the html HEAD section on all pages. Default value: none.
187 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
188 verbatim at the top of all pages. Default value: none.
191 Name of a configfile to include before the rest of the current config-
192 file is parsed. Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
195 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
196 verbatim above the repository index. This setting is deprecated, and
197 will not be supported by cgit-1.0 (use root-readme instead). Default
201 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
202 verbatim below the heading on the repository index page. This setting
203 is deprecated, and will not be supported by cgit-1.0 (use root-desc
204 instead). Default value: none.
207 Flag which, if set to "1", makes cgit print commit and tag times in the
208 servers timezone. Default value: "0".
211 Url which specifies the source of an image which will be used as a logo
212 on all cgit pages. Default value: "/cgit.png".
215 Url loaded when clicking on the cgit logo image. If unspecified the
216 calculated url of the repository index page will be used. Default
220 Specifies the number of items to display in atom feeds view. Default
224 Specifies the number of entries to list per page in "log" view. Default
228 Specifies the maximum number of commit message characters to display in
229 "log" view. Default value: "80".
232 Specifies the number of entries to list per page on the repository
233 index page. Default value: "50".
235 max-repodesc-length::
236 Specifies the maximum number of repo description characters to display
237 on the repository index page. Default value: "80".
240 Specifies the maximum size of a blob to display HTML for in KBytes.
241 Default value: "0" (limit disabled).
244 Set the default maximum statistics period. Valid values are "week",
245 "month", "quarter" and "year". If unspecified, statistics are
246 disabled. Default value: none. See also: "repo.max-stats".
249 Set the mimetype for the specified filename extension. This is used
250 by the `plain` command when returning blob content.
253 Specifies the file to use for automatic mimetype lookup. If specified
254 then this field is used as a fallback when no "mimetype.<ext>" match is
255 found. If unspecified then no such lookup is performed. The typical file
256 to use on a Linux system is /etc/mime.types. The format of the file must
258 - a comment line is an empty line or a line starting with a hash (#),
259 optionally preceded by whitespace
260 - a non-comment line starts with the mimetype (like image/png), followed
261 by one or more file extensions (like jpg), all separated by whitespace
262 Default value: none. See also: "mimetype.<ext>".
265 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
266 submodule is printed in a directory listing. The arguments for the
267 formatstring are the path and SHA1 of the submodule commit. Default
271 If set to the value "1" caching will be disabled. This settings is
272 deprecated, and will not be honored starting with cgit-1.0. Default
276 If set to "1" showing full author email adresses will be disabled.
280 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit omit the standard header
281 on all pages. Default value: none. See also: "embedded".
284 A list of subdirectories inside of scan-path, relative to it, that
285 should loaded as git repositories. This must be defined prior to
286 scan-path. Default value: none. See also: scan-path, "MACRO
290 Text which will be used as default value for "repo.readme". Default
294 If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, if any repositories are found
295 with a suffix of ".git", this suffix will be removed for the url and
296 name. Default value: "0". See also: scan-path.
299 Maximum number of files to consider when detecting renames. The value
300 "-1" uses the compiletime value in git (for further info, look at
301 `man git-diff`). Default value: "-1".
304 Legacy alias for "section". This option is deprecated and will not be
305 supported in cgit-1.0.
308 The way in which repositories in each section are sorted. Valid values
309 are "name" for sorting by the repo name or "age" for sorting by the
310 most recently updated repository. Default value: "name". See also:
311 section, case-sensitive-sort, section-sort.
314 Text used as content for the "robots" meta-tag. Default value:
318 Text printed below the heading on the repository index page. Default
319 value: "a fast webinterface for the git dscm".
322 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
323 verbatim below the "about" link on the repository index page. Default
327 Text printed as heading on the repository index page. Default value:
328 "Git Repository Browser".
331 If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, scan-path will recurse into
332 directories whose name starts with a period ('.'). Otherwise,
333 scan-path will stay away from such directories (considered as
334 "hidden"). Note that this does not apply to the ".git" directory in
335 non-bare repos. This must be defined prior to scan-path.
336 Default value: 0. See also: scan-path.
339 A path which will be scanned for repositories. If caching is enabled,
340 the result will be cached as a cgitrc include-file in the cache
341 directory. If project-list has been defined prior to scan-path,
342 scan-path loads only the directories listed in the file pointed to by
343 project-list. Be advised that only the global settings taken
344 before the scan-path directive will be applied to each repository.
345 Default value: none. See also: cache-scanrc-ttl, project-list,
349 The name of the current repository section - all repositories defined
350 after this option will inherit the current section name. Default value:
354 Flag which, when set to "1", will sort the sections on the repository
355 listing by name. Set this flag to "0" if the order in the cgitrc file should
356 be preserved. Default value: "1". See also: section,
357 case-sensitive-sort, repository-sort.
360 A number which, if specified before scan-path, specifies how many
361 path elements from each repo path to use as a default section name.
362 If negative, cgit will discard the specified number of path elements
363 above the repo directory. Default value: "0".
366 If set to "1" shows side-by-side diffs instead of unidiffs per
367 default. Default value: "0".
370 Text which specifies the default set of snapshot formats generated by
371 cgit. The value is a space-separated list of zero or more of the
372 values "tar", "tar.gz", "tar.bz2", "tar.xz" and "zip". Default value:
376 Specifies a command which will be invoked to format plaintext blobs
377 in the tree view. The command will get the blob content on its STDIN
378 and the name of the blob as its only command line argument. The STDOUT
379 from the command will be included verbatim as the blob contents, i.e.
380 this can be used to implement e.g. syntax highlighting. Default value:
381 none. See also: "FILTER API".
384 Specifies the number of branches to display in the repository "summary"
385 view. Default value: "10".
388 Specifies the number of log entries to display in the repository
389 "summary" view. Default value: "10".
392 Specifies the number of tags to display in the repository "summary"
393 view. Default value: "10".
396 Filename which, if specified, needs to be present within the repository
397 for cgit to allow access to that repository. This can be used to emulate
398 gitweb's EXPORT_OK and STRICT_EXPORT functionality and limit cgit's
399 repositories to match those exported by git-daemon. This option MUST come
403 Url which, if specified, will be used as root for all cgit links. It
404 will also cause cgit to generate 'virtual urls', i.e. urls like
405 '/cgit/tree/README' as opposed to '?r=cgit&p=tree&path=README'. Default
407 NOTE: cgit has recently learned how to use PATH_INFO to achieve the
408 same kind of virtual urls, so this option will probably be deprecated.
414 Override the default about-filter. Default value: none. See also:
415 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
418 Flag which, when set to "age", enables date ordering in the branch ref
419 list, and when set to "name" enables ordering by branch name. Default
423 A list of space-separated urls which can be used to clone this repo.
424 Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
427 Override the default commit-filter. Default value: none. See also:
428 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
431 Flag which, when set to "date", enables strict date ordering in the
432 commit log, and when set to "topo" enables strict topological
433 ordering. If unset, the default ordering of "git log" is used. Default
437 The name of the default branch for this repository. If no such branch
438 exists in the repository, the first branch name (when sorted) is used
439 as default instead. Default value: branch pointed to by HEAD, or
440 "master" if there is no suitable HEAD.
443 The value to show as repository description. Default value: none.
445 repo.enable-commit-graph::
446 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
447 `enable-commit-graph'. Default value: none.
449 repo.enable-log-filecount::
450 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
451 `enable-log-filecount'. Default value: none.
453 repo.enable-log-linecount::
454 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
455 `enable-log-linecount'. Default value: none.
457 repo.enable-remote-branches::
458 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display remote branches
459 in the summary and refs views. Default value: <enable-remote-branches>.
461 repo.enable-subject-links::
462 A flag which can be used to override the global setting
463 `enable-subject-links'. Default value: none.
466 Url which specifies the source of an image which will be used as a logo
467 on this repo's pages. Default value: global logo.
470 Url loaded when clicking on the cgit logo image. If unspecified the
471 calculated url of the repository index page will be used. Default
472 value: global logo-link.
475 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
476 submodule is printed in a directory listing. The arguments for the
477 formatstring are the path and SHA1 of the submodule commit. Default
480 repo.module-link.<path>::
481 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
482 submodule with the specified subdirectory path is printed in a
483 directory listing. The only argument for the formatstring is the SHA1
484 of the submodule commit. Default value: none.
487 Override the default maximum statistics period. Valid values are equal
488 to the values specified for the global "max-stats" setting. Default
492 The value to show as repository name. Default value: <repo.url>.
495 A value used to identify the owner of the repository. Default value:
499 An absolute path to the repository directory. For non-bare repositories
500 this is the .git-directory. Default value: none.
503 A path (relative to <repo.path>) which specifies a file to include
504 verbatim as the "About" page for this repo. You may also specify a
505 git refspec by head or by hash by prepending the refspec followed by
506 a colon. For example, "master:docs/readme.mkd" Default value: <readme>.
509 A mask of allowed snapshot-formats for this repo, restricted by the
510 "snapshots" global setting. Default value: <snapshots>.
513 Override the current section name for this repository. Default value:
517 Override the default source-filter. Default value: none. See also:
518 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
521 The relative url used to access the repository. This must be the first
522 setting specified for each repo. Default value: none.
525 REPOSITORY-SPECIFIC CGITRC FILE
526 -------------------------------
527 When the option "scan-path" is used to auto-discover git repositories, cgit
528 will try to parse the file "cgitrc" within any found repository. Such a
529 repo-specific config file may contain any of the repo-specific options
530 described above, except "repo.url" and "repo.path". Additionally, the "filter"
531 options are only acknowledged in repo-specific config files when
532 "enable-filter-overrides" is set to "1".
534 Note: the "repo." prefix is dropped from the option names in repo-specific
535 config files, e.g. "repo.desc" becomes "desc".
541 This filter is given no arguments. The about text that is to be
542 filtered is available on standard input and the filtered text is
543 expected on standard output.
546 This filter is given no arguments. The commit message text that is to
547 be filtered is available on standard input and the filtered text is
548 expected on standard output.
551 This filter is given a single parameter: the filename of the source
552 file to filter. The filter can use the filename to determine (for
553 example) the syntax highlighting mode. The contents of the source
554 file that is to be filtered is available on standard input and the
555 filtered contents is expected on standard output.
557 Also, all filters are handed the following environment variables:
559 - CGIT_REPO_URL (from repo.url)
560 - CGIT_REPO_NAME (from repo.name)
561 - CGIT_REPO_PATH (from repo.path)
562 - CGIT_REPO_OWNER (from repo.owner)
563 - CGIT_REPO_DEFBRANCH (from repo.defbranch)
564 - CGIT_REPO_SECTION (from repo.section)
565 - CGIT_REPO_CLONE_URL (from repo.clone-url)
567 If a setting is not defined for a repository and the corresponding global
568 setting is also not defined (if applicable), then the corresponding
569 environment variable will be unset.
574 The following cgitrc options supports a simple macro expansion feature,
575 where tokens prefixed with "$" are replaced with the value of a similary
576 named environment variable:
583 Macro expansion will also happen on the content of $CGIT_CONFIG, if
586 One usage of this feature is virtual hosting, which in its simplest form
587 can be accomplished by adding the following line to /etc/cgitrc:
589 include=/etc/cgitrc.d/$HTTP_HOST
591 The following options are expanded during request processing, and support
592 the environment variables defined in "FILTER API":
602 # Enable caching of up to 1000 output entriess
606 # Specify some default clone urls using macro expansion
607 clone-url=git://foo.org/$CGIT_REPO_URL git@foo.org:$CGIT_REPO_URL
609 # Specify the css url
613 # Show extra links for each repository on the index page
617 # Enable ASCII art commit history graph on the log pages
618 enable-commit-graph=1
621 # Show number of affected files per commit on the log pages
622 enable-log-filecount=1
625 # Show number of added/removed lines per commit on the log pages
626 enable-log-linecount=1
637 # Enable statistics per week, month and quarter
641 # Set the title and heading of the repository index page
642 root-title=example.com git repositories
645 # Set a subheading for the repository index page
646 root-desc=tracking the foobar development
649 # Include some more info about example.com on the index page
650 root-readme=/var/www/htdocs/about.html
653 # Allow download of tar.gz, tar.bz2 and zip-files
654 snapshots=tar.gz tar.bz2 zip
658 ## List of common mimetypes
661 mimetype.gif=image/gif
662 mimetype.html=text/html
663 mimetype.jpg=image/jpeg
664 mimetype.jpeg=image/jpeg
665 mimetype.pdf=application/pdf
666 mimetype.png=image/png
667 mimetype.svg=image/svg+xml
671 ## List of repositories.
672 ## PS: Any repositories listed when section is unset will not be
673 ## displayed under a section heading
674 ## PPS: This list could be kept in a different file (e.g. '/etc/cgitrepos')
675 ## and included like this:
676 ## include=/etc/cgitrepos
681 repo.path=/pub/git/foo.git
682 repo.desc=the master foo repository
683 repo.owner=fooman@example.com
684 repo.readme=info/web/about.html
688 repo.path=/pub/git/bar.git
689 repo.desc=the bars for your foo
690 repo.owner=barman@example.com
691 repo.readme=info/web/about.html
694 # The next repositories will be displayed under the 'extras' heading
699 repo.path=/pub/git/baz.git
700 repo.desc=a set of extensions for bar users
703 repo.path=/pub/git/wiz.git
704 repo.desc=the wizard of foo
707 # Add some mirrored repositories
712 repo.path=/pub/git/git.git
717 repo.path=/pub/git/linux.git
720 # Disable adhoc downloads of this repo
723 # Disable line-counts for this repo
724 repo.enable-log-linecount=0
726 # Restrict the max statistics period for this repo
733 Comments currently cannot appear on the same line as a setting; the comment
734 will be included as part of the value. E.g. this line:
736 robots=index # allow indexing
738 will generate the following html element:
740 <meta name='robots' content='index # allow indexing'/>
746 Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
747 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>