gitweb: Document features better
This expands gitweb/README to talk some more about GITWEB_CONFIG, moves
feature-specific documentation in gitweb.cgi to the inside of the %features
array, and adds some short description of all the features.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 0ff6f7c..1d5217e 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -87,22 +87,63 @@
#
# use gitweb_check_feature(<feature>) to check if <feature> is enabled
+ # Enable the 'blame' blob view, showing the last commit that modified
+ # each line in the file. This can be very CPU-intensive.
+
+ # To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG
+ # $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1];
+ # To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG
+ # $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1;
+ # and in project config gitweb.blame = 0|1;
'blame' => {
'sub' => \&feature_blame,
'override' => 0,
'default' => [0]},
+ # Enable the 'snapshot' link, providing a compressed tarball of any
+ # tree. This can potentially generate high traffic if you have large
+ # project.
+
+ # To disable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG
+ # $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = [undef];
+ # To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG
+ # $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1;
+ # and in project config gitweb.snapshot = none|gzip|bzip2;
'snapshot' => {
'sub' => \&feature_snapshot,
'override' => 0,
# => [content-encoding, suffix, program]
'default' => ['x-gzip', 'gz', 'gzip']},
+ # Enable the pickaxe search, which will list the commits that modified
+ # a given string in a file. This can be practical and quite faster
+ # alternative to 'blame', but still potentially CPU-intensive.
+
+ # To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG
+ # $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1];
+ # To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG
+ # $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1;
+ # and in project config gitweb.pickaxe = 0|1;
'pickaxe' => {
'sub' => \&feature_pickaxe,
'override' => 0,
'default' => [1]},
+ # Make gitweb use an alternative format of the URLs which can be
+ # more readable and natural-looking: project name is embedded
+ # directly in the path and the query string contains other
+ # auxiliary information. All gitweb installations recognize
+ # URL in either format; this configures in which formats gitweb
+ # generates links.
+
+ # To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG
+ # $feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1];
+ # Project specific override is not supported.
+
+ # Note that you will need to change the default location of CSS,
+ # favicon, logo and possibly other files to an absolute URL. Also,
+ # if gitweb.cgi serves as your indexfile, you will need to force
+ # $my_uri to contain the script name in your $GITWEB_CONFIG.
'pathinfo' => {
'override' => 0,
'default' => [0]},
@@ -123,12 +164,6 @@
return $sub->(@defaults);
}
-# To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG
-# $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1];
-# To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG
-# $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1;
-# and in project config gitweb.blame = 0|1;
-
sub feature_blame {
my ($val) = git_get_project_config('blame', '--bool');
@@ -141,12 +176,6 @@
return $_[0];
}
-# To disable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG
-# $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = [undef];
-# To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG
-# $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1;
-# and in project config gitweb.snapshot = none|gzip|bzip2
-
sub feature_snapshot {
my ($ctype, $suffix, $command) = @_;
@@ -170,12 +199,6 @@
return $have_snapshot;
}
-# To enable system wide have in $GITWEB_CONFIG
-# $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1];
-# To have project specific config enable override in $GITWEB_CONFIG
-# $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1;
-# and in project config gitweb.pickaxe = 0|1;
-
sub feature_pickaxe {
my ($val) = git_get_project_config('pickaxe', '--bool');
