cgit

Cgit is an attempt to create a fast web interface for the git version control system, using a built in cache to decrease pressure on the git server.

Installation

Install the cgit package.

To use cgit a web server must be installed and configured on the system.

Configuration of web server

Apache

You may add the following either to the end of your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file or place it in a separate file inside the /etc/httpd/conf/extra/ directory.

ScriptAlias /cgit "/usr/lib/cgit/cgit.cgi/"
Alias /cgit-css "/usr/share/webapps/cgit/"
<Directory "/usr/share/webapps/cgit/">
   AllowOverride None
   Options None
   Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgit/">
   AllowOverride None
   Options ExecCGI FollowSymlinks
   Require all granted
</Directory>

Make sure that the cgi module is being loaded in the httpd.conf by uncommenting this line:

LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so

and restart httpd.service to apply the changes.

Lighttpd

The following configuration will let you access cgit through http://your.server.com/git or http://your.server.com/cgit. The cgit url is not perfect (for example you will see "cgit.cgi" in all repos' url) but works.

Create the file /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/cgit.conf:

server.modules += ( "mod_cgi", "mod_alias" )

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgit" {
    server.document-root = "/usr/share/webapps/"
    server.indexfiles = ("cgit.cgi")
    cgi.assign = ("cgit.cgi" => "")
    mimetype.assign = ( ".css" => "text/css" )
}

alias.url += (
    "/git" => "/usr/share/webapps/cgit/cgit.cgi",
)
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/git" {
    cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
}

And include this file in /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf:

include "conf.d/cgit.conf"

and restart lighttpd.

Lighttpd sub-domain

This alternative lighttpd configuration will serve Cgit on a sub-domain like git.example.com with optional SSL support, and rewrites creating nice permalinks: 

server.modules += ( "mod_cgi", "mod_rewrite" )

#$SERVER["socket"] == ":443" {
$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {
    #ssl.engine                    = "enable"
    #ssl.pemfile                   = "/etc/lighttpd/ssl/git.example.com.pem"

    server.name          = "git.example.com"
    server.document-root = "/usr/share/webapps/cgit/"

    index-file.names     = ( "cgit.cgi" )
    cgi.assign           = ( "cgit.cgi" => "" )
    mimetype.assign      = ( ".css" => "text/css" )
    url.rewrite-once     = (
        "^/cgit/cgit.css"   => "/cgit.css",
        "^/cgit/cgit.png"   => "/cgit.png",
        "^/([^?/]+/[^?]*)?(?:\?(.*))?$"   => "/cgit.cgi?url=$1&$2",
    )
}

Using fcgiwrap

The following configuration uses fcgiwrap and will serve Cgit on a subdomain like git.example.com.

Start and enable . Then, configure Nginx:

Using uwsgi

The following example will setup cgit using the native cgi plugin for uwsgi.

First, install and .

Add below server block to your configuration:

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name git.example.com;
  root /usr/share/webapps/cgit;

  # Serve static files with nginx
  location ~* ^.+(cgit.(css|png)|favicon.ico|robots.txt) {
    root /usr/share/webapps/cgit;
    expires 30d;
  }
  location / {
    try_files $uri @cgit;
  }
  location @cgit {
    gzip off;
    include uwsgi_params;
    uwsgi_modifier1 9;
    uwsgi_pass unix:/run/uwsgi/cgit.sock;
  }
}

Add a uwsgi configuration for cgit.

Enable and start the corresponding socket .

h2o

Package h2o-gitAUR has its own CGI wrapper fastcgi-cgi, which supports cgit with the following configuration.

Configuration of cgit

See for the list of all configuration options.

Basic configuration

Before you can start adding repositories you will first have to create the basic cgit configuration file at .

#
# cgit config
#

css=/cgit.css
logo=/cgit.png

# Following lines work with the above Apache config
#css=/cgit-css/cgit.css
#logo=/cgit-css/cgit.png

# Following lines work with the above Lighttpd config
#css=/cgit/cgit.css
#logo=/cgit/cgit.png

# Allow http transport git clone
#enable-http-clone=0


# if you do not want that webcrawler (like google) index your site
robots=noindex, nofollow

# if cgit messes up links, use a virtual-root. For example, cgit.example.org/ has this value:
virtual-root=/

Adding repositories

Now you can add your repos:

#
# List of repositories.
# This list could be kept in a different file (e.g. '/etc/cgitrepos')
# and included like this:
#   include=/etc/cgitrepos
#

repo.url=MyRepo
repo.path=/srv/git/MyRepo.git
repo.desc=This is my git repository

# For a non-bare repository
repo.url=MyOtherRepo
repo.path=/srv/git/MyOtherRepo/.git
repo.desc=That's my other git repository

Or else, it is also possible to configure cgit to automatically search for the repo:

scan-path=/srv/git/

If you use the method above, add the descriptions to file and add the following lines to show the author:

If you are coming from gitweb and want to keep the descriptions and owner information, then use:

enable-git-config=1

For detailed documentation about the available settings in this configuration file, please see the manpage ().

Syntax highlighting

Cgit supports syntax highlighting when viewing blobs. To enable syntax highlighting, you have several options.

Using python-pygments

Install and add the filter in 

source-filter=/usr/lib/cgit/filters/syntax-highlighting.py

To change the coloring style, modify the argument that is passed to HtmlFormatter in the file. For instance, to change the coloring style to 'tango':

 formatter = HtmlFormatter(encoding='utf-8', style='tango')

To get a list of all coloring styles that are available, do:

 $ python
 >>> from pygments.styles import get_all_styles
 >>> list(get_all_styles())
 ['manni', 'igor', 'xcode', 'vim', 'autumn', 'vs', 'rrt', 'native', 'perldoc', 'borland', 'tango', 'emacs', 'friendly', 'monokai', 'paraiso-dark', 'colorful', 'murphy', 'bw', 'pastie', 'paraiso-light', 'trac', 'default', 'fruity']

Using highlight

Install the package.

Copy to /usr/lib/cgit/filters/syntax-highlighting-edited.sh. Then, in the copied file, comment out version 2 and comment in version 3. You may want to add to the options of highlight for a more colorful output without editing cgit's css file. Enable the filter in 

source-filter=/usr/lib/cgit/filters/syntax-highlighting-edited.sh

Integration

Gitosis

If you want to integrate with gitosis you will have to run two commands to give apache permission to look though the folder.

# chgrp http /srv/gitosis
# chmod a+rx /srv/gitosis

Gitolite

If you added repositories managed by gitolite you have to change the permissions, so the web server can access the files.

  • Add the http user to the gitolite group:
    • as the root user.
  • Change permission for future repositories:
  • Change permission for the gitolite home directory, and existing repositories. Run the following two commands:
    • as the root user.
    • as the root user.

Troubleshooting

snapshots does not show properly

If you have enabled scan-path as well as snapshots, the order in cgitrc matters. According to cgit mailing list, snapshots should be specified before scan-path

snapshots=tar.gz tar.bz2 zip
scan-path=/path/to/your/repositories

source-filter does not work properly

If you have enabled scan-path, again, the order in cgitrc matters. source-filter should be specified before scan-path, otherwise it will have no effect.

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