gitweb: Add gitweb(1) manpage for gitweb itself

Most of what is in gitweb.txt it has been pulled directly from the
README and INSTALL files of gitweb.

Current version is somewhat based on structure of SVN::Web manpage
(one of web interfaces for Subversion).

gitweb.conf(5) i.e. gitweb configuration manpage now refers to
appropriate sections in gitweb(1).  gitweb/README now refers to
gitweb/INSTALL and gitweb(1) manpage.  gitweb/INSTALL now refers to
gitweb.conf(5) and gitweb(1).

Inspired-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 29 insertions, 345 deletions

diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL
index f5efe7454c..d134ffe4c7 100644
--- a/gitweb/INSTALL
+++ b/gitweb/INSTALL
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ Gitweb config file
 ------------------
 
 See also "Runtime gitweb configuration" section in README file
-for gitweb (in gitweb/README).
+for gitweb (in gitweb/README), and gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
 
 - You can configure gitweb further using the per-instance gitweb configuration file;
   by default this is a file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as
@@ -287,97 +287,19 @@ adding the following lines to your $GITWEB_CONFIG:
 Gitweb repositories
 -------------------
 
-- By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and
-  available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by
-  scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories (for object
-  databases to be more exact).
-
-  You can provide a pre-generated list of [visible] repositories,
-  together with information about their owners (the project ownership
-  defaults to the owner of the repository directory otherwise), by setting
-  the GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or the $projects_list
-  variable in the gitweb config file) to point to a plain file.
-
-  Each line of the projects list file should consist of the url-encoded path
-  to the project repository database (relative to projectroot), followed
-  by the url-encoded project owner on the same line (separated by a space).
-  Spaces in both project path and project owner have to be encoded as either
-  '%20' or '+'.
-
-  Other characters that have to be url-encoded, i.e. replaced by '%'
-  followed by two-digit character number in octal, are: other whitespace
-  characters (because they are field separator in a record), plus sign '+'
-  (because it can be used as replacement for spaces), and percent sign '%'
-  (which is used for encoding / escaping).
-
-  You can generate the projects list index file using the project_index
-  action (the 'TXT' link on projects list page) directly from gitweb.
-
-- By default, even if a project is not visible on projects list page, you
-  can view it nevertheless by hand-crafting a gitweb URL. You can set the
-  GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT build configuration variable (or the $strict_export
-  variable in the gitweb config file) to only allow viewing of
-  repositories also shown on the overview page.
-
-- Alternatively, you can configure gitweb to only list and allow
-  viewing of the explicitly exported repositories, via the
-  GITWEB_EXPORT_OK build configuration variable (or the $export_ok
-  variable in gitweb config file). If it evaluates to true, gitweb
-  shows repositories only if this file exists in its object database
-  (if directory has the magic file named $export_ok).
-
-- Finally, it is possible to specify an arbitrary perl subroutine that
-  will be called for each project to determine if it can be exported.
-  The subroutine receives an absolute path to the project as its only
-  parameter.
-
-  For example, if you use mod_perl to run the script, and have dumb
-  http protocol authentication configured for your repositories, you
-  can use the following hook to allow access only if the user is
-  authorized to read the files:
-
-    $export_auth_hook = sub {
-        use Apache2::SubRequest ();
-        use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(HTTP_OK);
-        my $path = "$_[0]/HEAD";
-        my $r    = Apache2::RequestUtil->request;
-        my $sub  = $r->lookup_file($path);
-        return $sub->filename eq $path
-            && $sub->status == Apache2::Const::HTTP_OK;
-    };
-
-
-Generating projects list using gitweb
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-We assume that GITWEB_CONFIG has its default Makefile value, namely
-gitweb_config.perl. Put the following in gitweb_make_index.perl file:
-
-	$GITWEB_CONFIG = "gitweb_config.perl";
-	do $GITWEB_CONFIG if -e $GITWEB_CONFIG;
-
-	$projects_list = $projectroot;
-
-Then create the following script to get list of project in the format
-suitable for GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or
-$projects_list variable in gitweb config):
-
-	#!/bin/sh
-
-	export GITWEB_CONFIG="gitweb_make_index.perl"
-	export GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"
-	export HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*"
-	export REQUEST_METHOD="GET"
-	export QUERY_STRING="a=project_index"
-
-	perl -- /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
+By default gitweb shows all git repositories under single common repository
+root on a local filesystem; see description of GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build-time
+configuration variable above (and also of GITWEB_LIST).
+
+More advanced usage, like limiting access or visibility of repositories and
+managing multiple roots are described on gitweb manpage.
 
 
 Example web server configuration
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-See also "Webserver configuration" section in README file for gitweb
-(in gitweb/README).
+See also "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections
+in gitweb(1) manpage.
 
 
 - Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script,
diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index cf528d3d4e..6da4778b73 100644
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -7,9 +7,18 @@ The one working on:
 From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
 
 
+Build time gitweb configuration
+-------------------------------
+There are many configuration variables which affect building gitweb (among
+others creating gitweb.cgi out of gitweb.perl by replacing placeholders such
+as `++GIT_BINDIR++` by their build-time values).
+
+Building and installing gitweb is described in gitweb's INSTALL file
+(in 'gitweb/INSTALL').
+
+
 Runtime gitweb configuration
 ----------------------------
-
 Gitweb obtains configuration data from the following sources in the
 following order:
 
@@ -44,266 +53,19 @@ as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
 See also gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
 
 
-Projects list file format
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Instead of having gitweb find repositories by scanning filesystem starting
-from $projectroot (or $projects_list, if it points to directory), you can
-provide list of projects by setting $projects_list to a text file with list
-of projects (and some additional info).  This file uses the following
-format:
-
-One record (for project / repository) per line, whitespace separated fields;
-does not support (at least for now) lines continuation (newline escaping).
-Leading and trailing whitespace are ignored, any run of whitespace can be
-used as field separator (rules for Perl's "split(' ', $line)").  Keyed by
-the first field, which is project name, i.e. path to repository GIT_DIR
-relative to $projectroot.  Fields use modified URI encoding, defined in
-RFC 3986, section 2.1 (Percent-Encoding), or rather "Query string encoding"
-(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#URL_encoding), the difference
-being that SP (' ') can be encoded as '+' (and therefore '+' has to be also
-percent-encoded).  Reserved characters are: '%' (used for encoding), '+'
-(can be used to encode SPACE), all whitespace characters as defined in Perl,
-including SP, TAB and LF, (used to separate fields in a record).
-
-Currently list of fields is
- * <repository path>  - path to repository GIT_DIR, relative to $projectroot
- * <repository owner> - displayed as repository owner, preferably full name,
-                        or email, or both
-
-You can additionally use $projects_list file to limit which repositories
-are visible, and together with $strict_export to limit access to
-repositories (see "Gitweb repositories" section in gitweb/INSTALL).
-
-
-Per-repository gitweb configuration
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-You can also configure individual repositories shown in gitweb by creating
-file in the GIT_DIR of git repository, or by setting some repo configuration
-variable (in GIT_DIR/config).
-
-You can use the following files in repository:
- * README.html
-   A .html file (HTML fragment) which is included on the gitweb project
-   summary page inside <div> block element. You can use it for longer
-   description of a project, to provide links (for example to project's
-   homepage), etc. This is recognized only if XSS prevention is off
-   ($prevent_xss is false); a way to include a readme safely when XSS
-   prevention is on may be worked out in the future.
- * description (or gitweb.description)
-   Short (shortened by default to 25 characters in the projects list page)
-   single line description of a project (of a repository). Plain text file;
-   HTML will be escaped. By default set to
-     Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb.
-   from the template during repository creation. You can use the
-   gitweb.description repo configuration variable, but the file takes
-   precedence.
- * category (or gitweb.category)
-   Singe line category of a project, used to group projects if
-   $projects_list_group_categories is enabled. By default (file and
-   configuration variable absent), uncategorized projects are put in
-   the $project_list_default_category category. You can use the
-   gitweb.category repo configuration variable, but the file takes
-   precedence.
- * cloneurl (or multiple-valued gitweb.url)
-   File with repository URL (used for clone and fetch), one per line.
-   Displayed in the project summary page. You can use multiple-valued
-   gitweb.url repository configuration variable for that, but the file
-   takes precedence.
- * gitweb.owner
-   You can use the gitweb.owner repository configuration variable to set
-   repository's owner. It is displayed in the project list and summary
-   page. If it's not set, filesystem directory's owner is used
-   (via GECOS field / real name field from getpwiud(3)).
- * various gitweb.* config variables (in config)
-   Read description of %feature hash for detailed list, and some
-   descriptions.
-
-
-Webserver configuration
------------------------
-
-If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http://
-repositories, you can configure apache like this:
-
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-    ServerName		git.example.org
-    DocumentRoot	/pub/git
-    SetEnv			GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
-
-    # turning on mod rewrite
-    RewriteEngine on
-
-    # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
-    RewriteRule ^/$  /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
-
-    # make access for "dumb clients" work
-    RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
-</VirtualHost>
-
-The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
-/pub/git and will serve them as http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git,
-both as cloneable GIT URL and as browseable gitweb interface.
-If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all
-then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path.
-
-Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use
-the named file (i.e. in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a
-configuration for gitweb.  Perl variables defined in here will
-override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or
-gitweb.cgi).  Look at the comments in that file for information on
-which variables and what they mean.
-
-If you use the rewrite rules from the example you'll likely also need
-something like the following in your gitweb.conf (or gitweb_config.perl) file:
-
-  @stylesheets = ("/some/absolute/path/gitweb.css");
-  $my_uri = "/";
-  $home_link = "/";
-
-
-Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root
-----------------------------------------------------
-
-If you want to use gitweb with several project roots you can edit your apache
-virtual host and gitweb.conf configuration files like this :
-
-virtual host configuration :
-
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-    ServerName			git.example.org
-    DocumentRoot		/pub/git
-    SetEnv				GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
-
-    # turning on mod rewrite
-    RewriteEngine on
-
-    # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
-    RewriteRule ^/$ 		/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT]
-
-    # look for a public_git folder in unix users' home
-    # http://git.example.org/~<user>/
-    RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
-
-    # http://git.example.org/+<user>/
-    #RewriteRule ^/\+([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
-
-    # http://git.example.org/user/<user>/
-    #RewriteRule ^/user/([^\/]+)/(gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
-
-    # defined list of project roots
-    RewriteRule ^/scm(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$		/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/pub/scm/,L,PT]
-    RewriteRule ^/var(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$		/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/var/git/,L,PT]
-
-    # make access for "dumb clients" work
-    RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
-</VirtualHost>
-
-gitweb.conf configuration :
-
-$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/pub/git";
-
-These configurations enable two things. First, each unix user (<user>) of the
-server will be able to browse through gitweb git repositories found in
-~/public_git/ with the following url : http://git.example.org/~<user>/
-
-If you do not want this feature on your server just remove the second rewrite rule.
-
-If you already use mod_userdir in your virtual host or you don't want to use
-the '~' as first character just comment or remove the second rewrite rule and
-uncomment one of the following according to what you want.
-
-Second, repositories found in /pub/scm/ and /var/git/ will be accesible
-through http://git.example.org/scm/ and http://git.example.org/var/.
-You can add as many project roots as you want by adding rewrite rules like the
-third and the fourth.
-
-
-PATH_INFO usage
------------------------
-If you enable PATH_INFO usage in gitweb by putting
-
-   $feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1];
-
-in your gitweb.conf, it is possible to set up your server so that it
-consumes and produces URLs in the form
-
-http://git.example.com/project.git/shortlog/sometag
-
-by using a configuration such as the following, that assumes that
-/var/www/gitweb is the DocumentRoot of your webserver, and that it
-contains the gitweb.cgi script and complementary static files
-(stylesheet, favicon):
-
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-	ServerAlias git.example.com
-
-	DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
-
-	<Directory /var/www/gitweb>
-		Options ExecCGI
-		AddHandler cgi-script cgi
-
-		DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
-
-		RewriteEngine On
-		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
-		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
-		RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
-	</Directory>
-</VirtualHost>
-
-The rewrite rule guarantees that existing static files will be properly
-served, whereas any other URL will be passed to gitweb as PATH_INFO
-parameter.
-
-Notice that in this case you don't need special settings for
-@stylesheets, $my_uri and $home_link, but you lose "dumb client" access
-to your project .git dirs. A possible workaround for the latter is the
-following: in your project root dir (e.g. /pub/git) have the projects
-named without a .git extension (e.g. /pub/git/project instead of
-/pub/git/project.git) and configure Apache as follows:
-
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-	ServerAlias git.example.com
-
-	DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
-
-	AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)?$ /pub/git$1$3
-	<Directory /var/www/gitweb>
-		Options ExecCGI
-		AddHandler cgi-script cgi
-
-		DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
-
-		RewriteEngine On
-		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
-		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
-		RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
-	</Directory>
-</VirtualHost>
-
-The additional AliasMatch makes it so that
-
-http://git.example.com/project.git
-
-will give raw access to the project's git dir (so that the project can
-be cloned), while
-
-http://git.example.com/project
-
-will provide human-friendly gitweb access.
-
-This solution is not 100% bulletproof, in the sense that if some project
-has a named ref (branch, tag) starting with 'git/', then paths such as
-
-http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch
-
-will fail with a 404 error.
+Web server configuration
+------------------------
+Gitweb can be run as CGI script, as legacy mod_perl application (using
+ModPerl::Registry), and as FastCGI script.  You can find some simple examples
+in "Example web server configuration" section in INSTALL file for gitweb (in
+gitweb/INSTALL).
 
+See "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections in
+gitweb(1) manpage.
 
 
+AUTHORS
+-------
 Originally written by:
   Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>