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, the name of the file
33 as the first argument, and the STDOUT from the command will be
34 included verbatim on the about page. Default value: none. See
38 Specifies a path, relative to each repository path, which can be used
39 to specify the date and time of the youngest commit in the repository.
40 The first line in the file is used as input to the "parse_date"
41 function in libgit. Recommended timestamp-format is "yyyy-mm-dd
42 hh:mm:ss". You may want to generate this file from a post-receive
43 hook. Default value: "info/web/last-modified".
46 Flag which, when set to "age", enables date ordering in the branch ref
47 list, and when set to "name" enables ordering by branch name. Default
51 Path used to store the cgit cache entries. Default value:
52 "/var/cache/cgit". See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
55 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
56 version of repository pages accessed with a fixed SHA1. Negative
57 values have infinite ttl. Default value: -1".
60 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
61 version of repository pages accessed without a fixed SHA1. Negative
62 values have infinite ttl. Default value: "5".
65 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
66 version of the repository summary page. Negative values have infinite
67 ttl. Default value: "5".
70 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
71 version of the repository index page. Negative values have infinite
72 ttl. Default value: "5".
75 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the result
76 of scanning a path for git repositories. Negative values have infinite
77 ttl. Default value: "15".
80 Number which specifies the time-to-live, in minutes, for the cached
81 version of the repository about page. Negative values have infinite
82 ttl. Default value: "15".
85 The maximum number of entries in the cgit cache. Default value: "0"
86 (i.e. caching is disabled).
89 Sort items in the repo list case sensitively. Default value: "1".
90 See also: repository-sort, section-sort.
93 Space-separated list of common prefixes which, when combined with a
94 repository url, generates valid clone urls for the repository. This
95 setting is only used if `repo.clone-url` is unspecified. Default value:
99 Space-separated list of clone-url templates. This setting is only
100 used if `repo.clone-url` is unspecified. Default value: none. See
101 also: "MACRO EXPANSION", "FILTER API".
104 Specifies a command which will be invoked to format commit messages.
105 The command will get the message on its STDIN, and the STDOUT from the
106 command will be included verbatim as the commit message, i.e. this can
107 be used to implement bugtracker integration. Default value: none.
108 See also: "FILTER API".
111 Flag which, when set to "date", enables strict date ordering in the
112 commit log, and when set to "topo" enables strict topological
113 ordering. If unset, the default ordering of "git log" is used. Default
117 Url which specifies the css document to include in all cgit pages.
118 Default value: "/cgit.css".
121 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit generate a html fragment
122 suitable for embedding in other html pages. Default value: none. See
125 enable-commit-graph::
126 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit print an ASCII-art commit
127 history graph to the left of the commit messages in the repository
128 log page. Default value: "0".
130 enable-filter-overrides::
131 Flag which, when set to "1", allows all filter settings to be
132 overridden in repository-specific cgitrc files. Default value: none.
135 If set to "1", cgit will act as an dumb HTTP endpoint for git clones.
136 If you use an alternate way of serving git repositories, you may wish
137 to disable this. Default value: "1".
140 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit generate extra links for
141 each repo in the repository index (specifically, to the "summary",
142 "commit" and "tree" pages). Default value: "0".
145 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display the owner of
146 each repo in the repository index. Default value: "1".
148 enable-log-filecount::
149 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit print the number of
150 modified files for each commit on the repository log page. Default
153 enable-log-linecount::
154 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit print the number of added
155 and removed lines for each commit on the repository log page. Default
158 enable-remote-branches::
159 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display remote branches
160 in the summary and refs views. Default value: "0". See also:
161 "repo.enable-remote-branches".
163 enable-subject-links::
164 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit use the subject of the
165 parent commit as link text when generating links to parent commits
166 in commit view. Default value: "0". See also:
167 "repo.enable-subject-links".
169 enable-tree-linenumbers::
170 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit generate linenumber links
171 for plaintext blobs printed in the tree view. Default value: "1".
174 Flag which, when set to "1", will allow cgit to use git config to set
175 any repo specific settings. This option is used in conjunction with
176 "scan-path", and must be defined prior, to augment repo-specific
177 settings. The keys gitweb.owner, gitweb.category, and gitweb.description
178 will map to the cgit keys repo.owner, repo.section, and repo.desc,
179 respectivly. All git config keys that begin with "cgit." will be mapped
180 to the corresponding "repo." key in cgit. Default value: "0". See also:
181 scan-path, section-from-path.
184 Url used as link to a shortcut icon for cgit. It is suggested to use
185 the value "/favicon.ico" since certain browsers will ignore other
186 values. Default value: "/favicon.ico".
189 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
190 verbatim at the bottom of all pages (i.e. it replaces the standard
191 "generated by..." message. Default value: none.
194 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
195 verbatim in the html HEAD section on all pages. Default value: none.
198 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
199 verbatim at the top of all pages. Default value: none.
202 Name of a configfile to include before the rest of the current config-
203 file is parsed. Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
206 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
207 verbatim above the repository index. This setting is deprecated, and
208 will not be supported by cgit-1.0 (use root-readme instead). Default
212 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
213 verbatim below the heading on the repository index page. This setting
214 is deprecated, and will not be supported by cgit-1.0 (use root-desc
215 instead). Default value: none.
218 Flag which, if set to "1", makes cgit print commit and tag times in the
219 servers timezone. Default value: "0".
222 Url which specifies the source of an image which will be used as a logo
223 on all cgit pages. Default value: "/cgit.png".
226 Url loaded when clicking on the cgit logo image. If unspecified the
227 calculated url of the repository index page will be used. Default
231 Specifies the number of items to display in atom feeds view. Default
235 Specifies the number of entries to list per page in "log" view. Default
239 Specifies the maximum number of commit message characters to display in
240 "log" view. Default value: "80".
243 Specifies the number of entries to list per page on the repository
244 index page. Default value: "50".
246 max-repodesc-length::
247 Specifies the maximum number of repo description characters to display
248 on the repository index page. Default value: "80".
251 Specifies the maximum size of a blob to display HTML for in KBytes.
252 Default value: "0" (limit disabled).
255 Set the default maximum statistics period. Valid values are "week",
256 "month", "quarter" and "year". If unspecified, statistics are
257 disabled. Default value: none. See also: "repo.max-stats".
260 Set the mimetype for the specified filename extension. This is used
261 by the `plain` command when returning blob content.
264 Specifies the file to use for automatic mimetype lookup. If specified
265 then this field is used as a fallback when no "mimetype.<ext>" match is
266 found. If unspecified then no such lookup is performed. The typical file
267 to use on a Linux system is /etc/mime.types. The format of the file must
269 - a comment line is an empty line or a line starting with a hash (#),
270 optionally preceded by whitespace
271 - a non-comment line starts with the mimetype (like image/png), followed
272 by one or more file extensions (like jpg), all separated by whitespace
273 Default value: none. See also: "mimetype.<ext>".
276 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
277 submodule is printed in a directory listing. The arguments for the
278 formatstring are the path and SHA1 of the submodule commit. Default
282 If set to the value "1" caching will be disabled. This settings is
283 deprecated, and will not be honored starting with cgit-1.0. Default
287 If set to "1" showing full author email adresses will be disabled.
291 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit omit the standard header
292 on all pages. Default value: none. See also: "embedded".
295 A list of subdirectories inside of scan-path, relative to it, that
296 should loaded as git repositories. This must be defined prior to
297 scan-path. Default value: none. See also: scan-path, "MACRO
301 Text which will be used as default value for "repo.readme". Multiple
302 config keys may be specified, and cgit will use the first found file
303 in this list. This is useful in conjunction with scan-path. Default
304 value: none. See also: scan-path, repo.readme.
307 If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, if any repositories are found
308 with a suffix of ".git", this suffix will be removed for the url and
309 name. This must be defined prior to scan-path. Default value: "0".
313 Maximum number of files to consider when detecting renames. The value
314 "-1" uses the compiletime value in git (for further info, look at
315 `man git-diff`). Default value: "-1".
318 Legacy alias for "section". This option is deprecated and will not be
319 supported in cgit-1.0.
322 The way in which repositories in each section are sorted. Valid values
323 are "name" for sorting by the repo name or "age" for sorting by the
324 most recently updated repository. Default value: "name". See also:
325 section, case-sensitive-sort, section-sort.
328 Text used as content for the "robots" meta-tag. Default value:
332 Text printed below the heading on the repository index page. Default
333 value: "a fast webinterface for the git dscm".
336 The content of the file specified with this option will be included
337 verbatim below the "about" link on the repository index page. Default
341 Text printed as heading on the repository index page. Default value:
342 "Git Repository Browser".
345 If set to "1" and scan-path is enabled, scan-path will recurse into
346 directories whose name starts with a period ('.'). Otherwise,
347 scan-path will stay away from such directories (considered as
348 "hidden"). Note that this does not apply to the ".git" directory in
349 non-bare repos. This must be defined prior to scan-path.
350 Default value: 0. See also: scan-path.
353 A path which will be scanned for repositories. If caching is enabled,
354 the result will be cached as a cgitrc include-file in the cache
355 directory. If project-list has been defined prior to scan-path,
356 scan-path loads only the directories listed in the file pointed to by
357 project-list. Be advised that only the global settings taken
358 before the scan-path directive will be applied to each repository.
359 Default value: none. See also: cache-scanrc-ttl, project-list,
363 The name of the current repository section - all repositories defined
364 after this option will inherit the current section name. Default value:
368 Flag which, when set to "1", will sort the sections on the repository
369 listing by name. Set this flag to "0" if the order in the cgitrc file should
370 be preserved. Default value: "1". See also: section,
371 case-sensitive-sort, repository-sort.
374 A number which, if defined prior to scan-path, specifies how many
375 path elements from each repo path to use as a default section name.
376 If negative, cgit will discard the specified number of path elements
377 above the repo directory. Default value: "0".
380 If set to "1" shows side-by-side diffs instead of unidiffs per
381 default. Default value: "0".
384 Text which specifies the default set of snapshot formats generated by
385 cgit. The value is a space-separated list of zero or more of the
386 values "tar", "tar.gz", "tar.bz2", "tar.xz" and "zip". Default value:
390 Specifies a command which will be invoked to format plaintext blobs
391 in the tree view. The command will get the blob content on its STDIN
392 and the name of the blob as its only command line argument. The STDOUT
393 from the command will be included verbatim as the blob contents, i.e.
394 this can be used to implement e.g. syntax highlighting. Default value:
395 none. See also: "FILTER API".
398 Specifies the number of branches to display in the repository "summary"
399 view. Default value: "10".
402 Specifies the number of log entries to display in the repository
403 "summary" view. Default value: "10".
406 Specifies the number of tags to display in the repository "summary"
407 view. Default value: "10".
410 Filename which, if specified, needs to be present within the repository
411 for cgit to allow access to that repository. This can be used to emulate
412 gitweb's EXPORT_OK and STRICT_EXPORT functionality and limit cgit's
413 repositories to match those exported by git-daemon. This option must
414 be defined prior to scan-path.
417 Url which, if specified, will be used as root for all cgit links. It
418 will also cause cgit to generate 'virtual urls', i.e. urls like
419 '/cgit/tree/README' as opposed to '?r=cgit&p=tree&path=README'. Default
421 NOTE: cgit has recently learned how to use PATH_INFO to achieve the
422 same kind of virtual urls, so this option will probably be deprecated.
428 Override the default about-filter. Default value: none. See also:
429 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
432 Flag which, when set to "age", enables date ordering in the branch ref
433 list, and when set to "name" enables ordering by branch name. Default
437 A list of space-separated urls which can be used to clone this repo.
438 Default value: none. See also: "MACRO EXPANSION".
441 Override the default commit-filter. Default value: none. See also:
442 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
445 Flag which, when set to "date", enables strict date ordering in the
446 commit log, and when set to "topo" enables strict topological
447 ordering. If unset, the default ordering of "git log" is used. Default
451 The name of the default branch for this repository. If no such branch
452 exists in the repository, the first branch name (when sorted) is used
453 as default instead. Default value: branch pointed to by HEAD, or
454 "master" if there is no suitable HEAD.
457 The value to show as repository description. Default value: none.
459 repo.enable-commit-graph::
460 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
461 `enable-commit-graph'. Default value: none.
463 repo.enable-log-filecount::
464 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
465 `enable-log-filecount'. Default value: none.
467 repo.enable-log-linecount::
468 A flag which can be used to disable the global setting
469 `enable-log-linecount'. Default value: none.
471 repo.enable-remote-branches::
472 Flag which, when set to "1", will make cgit display remote branches
473 in the summary and refs views. Default value: <enable-remote-branches>.
475 repo.enable-subject-links::
476 A flag which can be used to override the global setting
477 `enable-subject-links'. Default value: none.
480 Url which specifies the source of an image which will be used as a logo
481 on this repo's pages. Default value: global logo.
484 Url loaded when clicking on the cgit logo image. If unspecified the
485 calculated url of the repository index page will be used. Default
486 value: global logo-link.
489 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
490 submodule is printed in a directory listing. The arguments for the
491 formatstring are the path and SHA1 of the submodule commit. Default
494 repo.module-link.<path>::
495 Text which will be used as the formatstring for a hyperlink when a
496 submodule with the specified subdirectory path is printed in a
497 directory listing. The only argument for the formatstring is the SHA1
498 of the submodule commit. Default value: none.
501 Override the default maximum statistics period. Valid values are equal
502 to the values specified for the global "max-stats" setting. Default
506 The value to show as repository name. Default value: <repo.url>.
509 A value used to identify the owner of the repository. Default value:
513 An absolute path to the repository directory. For non-bare repositories
514 this is the .git-directory. Default value: none.
517 A path (relative to <repo.path>) which specifies a file to include
518 verbatim as the "About" page for this repo. You may also specify a
519 git refspec by head or by hash by prepending the refspec followed by
520 a colon. For example, "master:docs/readme.mkd". If the value begins
521 with a colon, i.e. ":docs/readme.rst", the default branch of the
522 repository will be used. Sharing any file will expose that entire
523 directory tree to the "/about/PATH" endpoints, so be sure that there
524 are no non-public files located in the same directory as the readme
525 file. Default value: <readme>.
528 A mask of allowed snapshot-formats for this repo, restricted by the
529 "snapshots" global setting. Default value: <snapshots>.
532 Override the current section name for this repository. Default value:
536 Override the default source-filter. Default value: none. See also:
537 "enable-filter-overrides". See also: "FILTER API".
540 The relative url used to access the repository. This must be the first
541 setting specified for each repo. Default value: none.
544 REPOSITORY-SPECIFIC CGITRC FILE
545 -------------------------------
546 When the option "scan-path" is used to auto-discover git repositories, cgit
547 will try to parse the file "cgitrc" within any found repository. Such a
548 repo-specific config file may contain any of the repo-specific options
549 described above, except "repo.url" and "repo.path". Additionally, the "filter"
550 options are only acknowledged in repo-specific config files when
551 "enable-filter-overrides" is set to "1".
553 Note: the "repo." prefix is dropped from the option names in repo-specific
554 config files, e.g. "repo.desc" becomes "desc".
560 This filter is given a single parameter: the filename of the source
561 file to filter. The filter can use the filename to determine (for
562 example) the type of syntax to follow when formatting the readme file.
563 The about text that is to be filtered is available on standard input
564 and the filtered text is expected on standard output.
567 This filter is given no arguments. The commit message text that is to
568 be filtered is available on standard input and the filtered text is
569 expected on standard output.
572 This filter is given a single parameter: the filename of the source
573 file to filter. The filter can use the filename to determine (for
574 example) the syntax highlighting mode. The contents of the source
575 file that is to be filtered is available on standard input and the
576 filtered contents is expected on standard output.
578 Also, all filters are handed the following environment variables:
580 - CGIT_REPO_URL (from repo.url)
581 - CGIT_REPO_NAME (from repo.name)
582 - CGIT_REPO_PATH (from repo.path)
583 - CGIT_REPO_OWNER (from repo.owner)
584 - CGIT_REPO_DEFBRANCH (from repo.defbranch)
585 - CGIT_REPO_SECTION (from repo.section)
586 - CGIT_REPO_CLONE_URL (from repo.clone-url)
588 If a setting is not defined for a repository and the corresponding global
589 setting is also not defined (if applicable), then the corresponding
590 environment variable will be unset.
595 The following cgitrc options supports a simple macro expansion feature,
596 where tokens prefixed with "$" are replaced with the value of a similary
597 named environment variable:
604 Macro expansion will also happen on the content of $CGIT_CONFIG, if
607 One usage of this feature is virtual hosting, which in its simplest form
608 can be accomplished by adding the following line to /etc/cgitrc:
610 include=/etc/cgitrc.d/$HTTP_HOST
612 The following options are expanded during request processing, and support
613 the environment variables defined in "FILTER API":
623 # Enable caching of up to 1000 output entriess
627 # Specify some default clone urls using macro expansion
628 clone-url=git://foo.org/$CGIT_REPO_URL git@foo.org:$CGIT_REPO_URL
630 # Specify the css url
634 # Show owner on index page
638 # Allow http transport git clone
642 # Show extra links for each repository on the index page
646 # Enable ASCII art commit history graph on the log pages
647 enable-commit-graph=1
650 # Show number of affected files per commit on the log pages
651 enable-log-filecount=1
654 # Show number of added/removed lines per commit on the log pages
655 enable-log-linecount=1
658 # Sort branches by date
670 # Enable statistics per week, month and quarter
674 # Set the title and heading of the repository index page
675 root-title=example.com git repositories
678 # Set a subheading for the repository index page
679 root-desc=tracking the foobar development
682 # Include some more info about example.com on the index page
683 root-readme=/var/www/htdocs/about.html
686 # Allow download of tar.gz, tar.bz2 and zip-files
687 snapshots=tar.gz tar.bz2 zip
691 ## List of common mimetypes
694 mimetype.gif=image/gif
695 mimetype.html=text/html
696 mimetype.jpg=image/jpeg
697 mimetype.jpeg=image/jpeg
698 mimetype.pdf=application/pdf
699 mimetype.png=image/png
700 mimetype.svg=image/svg+xml
703 # Highlight source code with python pygments-based highligher
704 source-filter=/var/www/cgit/filters/syntax-highlighting.py
706 # Format markdown, restructuredtext, manpages, text files, and html files
707 # through the right converters
708 about-filter=/var/www/cgit/filters/about-formatting.sh
711 ## Search for these files in the root of the default branch of repositories
712 ## for coming up with the about page:
745 ## List of repositories.
746 ## PS: Any repositories listed when section is unset will not be
747 ## displayed under a section heading
748 ## PPS: This list could be kept in a different file (e.g. '/etc/cgitrepos')
749 ## and included like this:
750 ## include=/etc/cgitrepos
755 repo.path=/pub/git/foo.git
756 repo.desc=the master foo repository
757 repo.owner=fooman@example.com
758 repo.readme=info/web/about.html
762 repo.path=/pub/git/bar.git
763 repo.desc=the bars for your foo
764 repo.owner=barman@example.com
765 repo.readme=info/web/about.html
768 # The next repositories will be displayed under the 'extras' heading
773 repo.path=/pub/git/baz.git
774 repo.desc=a set of extensions for bar users
777 repo.path=/pub/git/wiz.git
778 repo.desc=the wizard of foo
781 # Add some mirrored repositories
786 repo.path=/pub/git/git.git
791 repo.path=/pub/git/linux.git
794 # Disable adhoc downloads of this repo
797 # Disable line-counts for this repo
798 repo.enable-log-linecount=0
800 # Restrict the max statistics period for this repo
807 Comments currently cannot appear on the same line as a setting; the comment
808 will be included as part of the value. E.g. this line:
810 robots=index # allow indexing
812 will generate the following html element:
814 <meta name='robots' content='index # allow indexing'/>
820 Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
821 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>