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", and must be defined prior, to augment repo-specific
167 settings. The keys gitweb.owner, gitweb.category, and gitweb.description
168 will map to the cgit keys repo.owner, repo.section, and repo.desc,
169 respectivly. All git config keys that begin with "cgit." will be mapped
170 to the corresponding "repo." key in cgit. Default value: "0". See also:
171 scan-path, section-from-path.
174 Url used as link to a shortcut icon for cgit. If specified, it is
175 suggested to use the value "/favicon.ico" since certain browsers will
176 ignore other values. Default value: none.
179 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
180 verbatim at the bottom of all pages (i.e. it replaces the standard
181 "generated by..." message. Default value: none.
184 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
185 verbatim in the html HEAD section on all pages. Default value: none.
188 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
189 verbatim at the top of all pages. Default value: none.
192 Name of a configfile to include before the rest of the current config-
193 file is parsed. Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
196 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
197 verbatim above the repository index. This setting is deprecated, and
198 will not be supported by cgit-1.0 (use root-readme instead). Default
202 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
203 verbatim below the heading on the repository index page. This setting
204 is deprecated, and will not be supported by cgit-1.0 (use root-desc
205 instead). Default value: none.
208 Flag which, if set to "1", makes cgit print commit and tag times in the
209 servers timezone. Default value: "0".
212 Url which specifies the source of an image which will be used as a logo
213 on all cgit pages. Default value: "/cgit.png".
216 Url loaded when clicking on the cgit logo image. If unspecified the
217 calculated url of the repository index page will be used. Default
221 Specifies the number of items to display in atom feeds view. Default
225 Specifies the number of entries to list per page in "log" view. Default
229 Specifies the maximum number of commit message characters to display in
230 "log" view. Default value: "80".
233 Specifies the number of entries to list per page on the repository
234 index page. Default value: "50".
236 max-repodesc-length::
237 Specifies the maximum number of repo description characters to display
238 on the repository index page. Default value: "80".
241 Specifies the maximum size of a blob to display HTML for in KBytes.
242 Default value: "0" (limit disabled).
245 Set the default maximum statistics period. Valid values are "week",
246 "month", "quarter" and "year". If unspecified, statistics are
247 disabled. Default value: none. See also: "repo.max-stats".
250 Set the mimetype for the specified filename extension. This is used
251 by the `plain` command when returning blob content.
254 Specifies the file to use for automatic mimetype lookup. If specified
255 then this field is used as a fallback when no "mimetype.<ext>" match is
256 found. If unspecified then no such lookup is performed. The typical file
257 to use on a Linux system is /etc/mime.types. The format of the file must
259 - a comment line is an empty line or a line starting with a hash (#),
260 optionally preceded by whitespace
261 - a non-comment line starts with the mimetype (like image/png), followed
262 by one or more file extensions (like jpg), all separated by whitespace
263 Default value: none. See also: "mimetype.<ext>".
266 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
267 submodule is printed in a directory listing. The arguments for the
268 formatstring are the path and SHA1 of the submodule commit. Default
272 If set to the value "1" caching will be disabled. This settings is
273 deprecated, and will not be honored starting with cgit-1.0. Default
277 If set to "1" showing full author email adresses will be disabled.
281 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit omit the standard header
282 on all pages. Default value: none. See also: "embedded".
285 A list of subdirectories inside of scan-path, relative to it, that
286 should loaded as git repositories. This must be defined prior to
287 scan-path. Default value: none. See also: scan-path, "MACRO
291 Text which will be used as default value for "repo.readme". Default
295 If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, if any repositories are found
296 with a suffix of ".git", this suffix will be removed for the url and
297 name. This must be defined prior to scan-path. Default value: "0".
301 Maximum number of files to consider when detecting renames. The value
302 "-1" uses the compiletime value in git (for further info, look at
303 `man git-diff`). Default value: "-1".
306 Legacy alias for "section". This option is deprecated and will not be
307 supported in cgit-1.0.
310 The way in which repositories in each section are sorted. Valid values
311 are "name" for sorting by the repo name or "age" for sorting by the
312 most recently updated repository. Default value: "name". See also:
313 section, case-sensitive-sort, section-sort.
316 Text used as content for the "robots" meta-tag. Default value:
320 Text printed below the heading on the repository index page. Default
321 value: "a fast webinterface for the git dscm".
324 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
325 verbatim below the "about" link on the repository index page. Default
329 Text printed as heading on the repository index page. Default value:
330 "Git Repository Browser".
333 If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, scan-path will recurse into
334 directories whose name starts with a period ('.'). Otherwise,
335 scan-path will stay away from such directories (considered as
336 "hidden"). Note that this does not apply to the ".git" directory in
337 non-bare repos. This must be defined prior to scan-path.
338 Default value: 0. See also: scan-path.
341 A path which will be scanned for repositories. If caching is enabled,
342 the result will be cached as a cgitrc include-file in the cache
343 directory. If project-list has been defined prior to scan-path,
344 scan-path loads only the directories listed in the file pointed to by
345 project-list. Be advised that only the global settings taken
346 before the scan-path directive will be applied to each repository.
347 Default value: none. See also: cache-scanrc-ttl, project-list,
351 The name of the current repository section - all repositories defined
352 after this option will inherit the current section name. Default value:
356 Flag which, when set to "1", will sort the sections on the repository
357 listing by name. Set this flag to "0" if the order in the cgitrc file should
358 be preserved. Default value: "1". See also: section,
359 case-sensitive-sort, repository-sort.
362 A number which, if defined prior to scan-path, specifies how many
363 path elements from each repo path to use as a default section name.
364 If negative, cgit will discard the specified number of path elements
365 above the repo directory. Default value: "0".
368 If set to "1" shows side-by-side diffs instead of unidiffs per
369 default. Default value: "0".
372 Text which specifies the default set of snapshot formats generated by
373 cgit. The value is a space-separated list of zero or more of the
374 values "tar", "tar.gz", "tar.bz2", "tar.xz" and "zip". Default value:
378 Specifies a command which will be invoked to format plaintext blobs
379 in the tree view. The command will get the blob content on its STDIN
380 and the name of the blob as its only command line argument. The STDOUT
381 from the command will be included verbatim as the blob contents, i.e.
382 this can be used to implement e.g. syntax highlighting. Default value:
383 none. See also: "FILTER API".
386 Specifies the number of branches to display in the repository "summary"
387 view. Default value: "10".
390 Specifies the number of log entries to display in the repository
391 "summary" view. Default value: "10".
394 Specifies the number of tags to display in the repository "summary"
395 view. Default value: "10".
398 Filename which, if specified, needs to be present within the repository
399 for cgit to allow access to that repository. This can be used to emulate
400 gitweb's EXPORT_OK and STRICT_EXPORT functionality and limit cgit's
401 repositories to match those exported by git-daemon. This option must
402 be defined prior to scan-path.
405 Url which, if specified, will be used as root for all cgit links. It
406 will also cause cgit to generate 'virtual urls', i.e. urls like
407 '/cgit/tree/README' as opposed to '?r=cgit&p=tree&path=README'. Default
409 NOTE: cgit has recently learned how to use PATH_INFO to achieve the
410 same kind of virtual urls, so this option will probably be deprecated.
416 Override the default about-filter. Default value: none. See also:
417 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
420 Flag which, when set to "age", enables date ordering in the branch ref
421 list, and when set to "name" enables ordering by branch name. Default
425 A list of space-separated urls which can be used to clone this repo.
426 Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
429 Override the default commit-filter. Default value: none. See also:
430 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
433 Flag which, when set to "date", enables strict date ordering in the
434 commit log, and when set to "topo" enables strict topological
435 ordering. If unset, the default ordering of "git log" is used. Default
439 The name of the default branch for this repository. If no such branch
440 exists in the repository, the first branch name (when sorted) is used
441 as default instead. Default value: branch pointed to by HEAD, or
442 "master" if there is no suitable HEAD.
445 The value to show as repository description. Default value: none.
447 repo.enable-commit-graph::
448 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
449 `enable-commit-graph'. Default value: none.
451 repo.enable-log-filecount::
452 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
453 `enable-log-filecount'. Default value: none.
455 repo.enable-log-linecount::
456 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
457 `enable-log-linecount'. Default value: none.
459 repo.enable-remote-branches::
460 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display remote branches
461 in the summary and refs views. Default value: <enable-remote-branches>.
463 repo.enable-subject-links::
464 A flag which can be used to override the global setting
465 `enable-subject-links'. Default value: none.
468 Url which specifies the source of an image which will be used as a logo
469 on this repo's pages. Default value: global logo.
472 Url loaded when clicking on the cgit logo image. If unspecified the
473 calculated url of the repository index page will be used. Default
474 value: global logo-link.
477 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
478 submodule is printed in a directory listing. The arguments for the
479 formatstring are the path and SHA1 of the submodule commit. Default
482 repo.module-link.<path>::
483 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
484 submodule with the specified subdirectory path is printed in a
485 directory listing. The only argument for the formatstring is the SHA1
486 of the submodule commit. Default value: none.
489 Override the default maximum statistics period. Valid values are equal
490 to the values specified for the global "max-stats" setting. Default
494 The value to show as repository name. Default value: <repo.url>.
497 A value used to identify the owner of the repository. Default value:
501 An absolute path to the repository directory. For non-bare repositories
502 this is the .git-directory. Default value: none.
505 A path (relative to <repo.path>) which specifies a file to include
506 verbatim as the "About" page for this repo. You may also specify a
507 git refspec by head or by hash by prepending the refspec followed by
508 a colon. For example, "master:docs/readme.mkd". If the value begins
509 with a colon, i.e. ":docs/readme.rst", the default branch of the
510 repository will be used. Default value: <readme>.
513 A mask of allowed snapshot-formats for this repo, restricted by the
514 "snapshots" global setting. Default value: <snapshots>.
517 Override the current section name for this repository. Default value:
521 Override the default source-filter. Default value: none. See also:
522 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
525 The relative url used to access the repository. This must be the first
526 setting specified for each repo. Default value: none.
529 REPOSITORY-SPECIFIC CGITRC FILE
530 -------------------------------
531 When the option "scan-path" is used to auto-discover git repositories, cgit
532 will try to parse the file "cgitrc" within any found repository. Such a
533 repo-specific config file may contain any of the repo-specific options
534 described above, except "repo.url" and "repo.path". Additionally, the "filter"
535 options are only acknowledged in repo-specific config files when
536 "enable-filter-overrides" is set to "1".
538 Note: the "repo." prefix is dropped from the option names in repo-specific
539 config files, e.g. "repo.desc" becomes "desc".
545 This filter is given no arguments. The about text that is to be
546 filtered is available on standard input and the filtered text is
547 expected on standard output.
550 This filter is given no arguments. The commit message text that is to
551 be filtered is available on standard input and the filtered text is
552 expected on standard output.
555 This filter is given a single parameter: the filename of the source
556 file to filter. The filter can use the filename to determine (for
557 example) the syntax highlighting mode. The contents of the source
558 file that is to be filtered is available on standard input and the
559 filtered contents is expected on standard output.
561 Also, all filters are handed the following environment variables:
563 - CGIT_REPO_URL (from repo.url)
564 - CGIT_REPO_NAME (from repo.name)
565 - CGIT_REPO_PATH (from repo.path)
566 - CGIT_REPO_OWNER (from repo.owner)
567 - CGIT_REPO_DEFBRANCH (from repo.defbranch)
568 - CGIT_REPO_SECTION (from repo.section)
569 - CGIT_REPO_CLONE_URL (from repo.clone-url)
571 If a setting is not defined for a repository and the corresponding global
572 setting is also not defined (if applicable), then the corresponding
573 environment variable will be unset.
578 The following cgitrc options supports a simple macro expansion feature,
579 where tokens prefixed with "$" are replaced with the value of a similary
580 named environment variable:
587 Macro expansion will also happen on the content of $CGIT_CONFIG, if
590 One usage of this feature is virtual hosting, which in its simplest form
591 can be accomplished by adding the following line to /etc/cgitrc:
593 include=/etc/cgitrc.d/$HTTP_HOST
595 The following options are expanded during request processing, and support
596 the environment variables defined in "FILTER API":
606 # Enable caching of up to 1000 output entriess
610 # Specify some default clone urls using macro expansion
611 clone-url=git://foo.org/$CGIT_REPO_URL git@foo.org:$CGIT_REPO_URL
613 # Specify the css url
617 # Show extra links for each repository on the index page
621 # Enable ASCII art commit history graph on the log pages
622 enable-commit-graph=1
625 # Show number of affected files per commit on the log pages
626 enable-log-filecount=1
629 # Show number of added/removed lines per commit on the log pages
630 enable-log-linecount=1
641 # Enable statistics per week, month and quarter
645 # Set the title and heading of the repository index page
646 root-title=example.com git repositories
649 # Set a subheading for the repository index page
650 root-desc=tracking the foobar development
653 # Include some more info about example.com on the index page
654 root-readme=/var/www/htdocs/about.html
657 # Allow download of tar.gz, tar.bz2 and zip-files
658 snapshots=tar.gz tar.bz2 zip
662 ## List of common mimetypes
665 mimetype.gif=image/gif
666 mimetype.html=text/html
667 mimetype.jpg=image/jpeg
668 mimetype.jpeg=image/jpeg
669 mimetype.pdf=application/pdf
670 mimetype.png=image/png
671 mimetype.svg=image/svg+xml
675 ## List of repositories.
676 ## PS: Any repositories listed when section is unset will not be
677 ## displayed under a section heading
678 ## PPS: This list could be kept in a different file (e.g. '/etc/cgitrepos')
679 ## and included like this:
680 ## include=/etc/cgitrepos
685 repo.path=/pub/git/foo.git
686 repo.desc=the master foo repository
687 repo.owner=fooman@example.com
688 repo.readme=info/web/about.html
692 repo.path=/pub/git/bar.git
693 repo.desc=the bars for your foo
694 repo.owner=barman@example.com
695 repo.readme=info/web/about.html
698 # The next repositories will be displayed under the 'extras' heading
703 repo.path=/pub/git/baz.git
704 repo.desc=a set of extensions for bar users
707 repo.path=/pub/git/wiz.git
708 repo.desc=the wizard of foo
711 # Add some mirrored repositories
716 repo.path=/pub/git/git.git
721 repo.path=/pub/git/linux.git
724 # Disable adhoc downloads of this repo
727 # Disable line-counts for this repo
728 repo.enable-log-linecount=0
730 # Restrict the max statistics period for this repo
737 Comments currently cannot appear on the same line as a setting; the comment
738 will be included as part of the value. E.g. this line:
740 robots=index # allow indexing
742 will generate the following html element:
744 <meta name='robots' content='index # allow indexing'/>
750 Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
751 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>