Installation
-$ $EDITOR Makefile
-$ make
-$ sudo make install
+Building cgit involves building a proper version of git. How to do this
+depends on how you obtained the cgit sources:
-Note: cgit requires the git and xdiff libraries. Currently, the makefile
-expects these files to be found in '../git/libgit.a' and '../git/xdiff/lib.a',
-where they will be if you have built git from source in a parallell directory.
+a) If you're working in a cloned cgit repository, you first need to
+initialize and update the git submodule:
+
+ $ git submodule init # register the git submodule in .git/config
+ $ $EDITOR .git/config # if you want to specify a different url for git
+ $ git submodule update # clone/fetch and checkout correct git version
+
+b) If you're building from a cgit tarball, you can download a proper git
+version like this:
+
+ $ make get-git
+
+
+When either a) or b) has been performed, you can build and install cgit like
+this:
+
+ $ make
+ $ sudo make install
+
+This will install cgit.cgi and cgit.css into "/var/www/htdocs/cgit". You can
+configure this location (and a few other things) by providing a "cgit.conf"
+file (see the Makefile for details).
+
+
+Dependencies:
+ -git 1.7.4
+ -zip lib
+ -crypto lib
+ -openssl lib
+
+
+Apache configuration
+
+A new Directory-section must probably be added for cgit, possibly something
+like this:
+
+ <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/cgit/">
+ AllowOverride None
+ Options +ExecCGI
+ Order allow,deny
+ Allow from all
+ </Directory>
Runtime configuration
-The file /etc/cgitrc is read by cgit before handling a request. A template
-cgitrc is shipped with the sources, and all parameters and default values
-can be found in this file.
+The file /etc/cgitrc is read by cgit before handling a request. In addition
+to runtime parameters, this file may also contain a list of repositories
+displayed by cgit (see cgitrc.5.txt for further details).
The cache
-When cgit is invoked it looks for a cachefile matching the request and
-returns it to the client. If no such cachefile exist (or if it has expired),
+When cgit is invoked it looks for a cachefile matching the request and
+returns it to the client. If no such cachefile exist (or if it has expired),
the content for the request is written into the proper cachefile before the
file is returned.
-If the cachefile has expired but cgit is unable to obtain a lock for it, the
+If the cachefile has expired but cgit is unable to obtain a lock for it, the
stale cachefile is returned to the client. This is done to favour page
throughput over page freshness.
The generated content contains the complete response to the client, including
the http-headers "Modified" and "Expires".
+
+
+Online presence
+
+* The cgit homepage is hosted by cgit at http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about
+
+* Patches, bugreports, discussions and support should go to the cgit
+ mailing list: cgit@hjemli.net
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