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authorLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>2007-02-04 23:57:34 +0100
committerLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>2007-02-05 00:12:04 +0100
commitc52e84135e6272d008f69a9ac00265875ff4e60e (patch)
tree74cb0a76ea7b69f152766cb5510c6f60a7caf2a1 /README
parentUpdate cgitrc template (diff)
downloadcgit-magenta-c52e84135e6272d008f69a9ac00265875ff4e60e.tar.xz
Add support for prefix and gitsrc arguments to 'make'
This should improve the installation a little, especially since the new
options are mentioned in the README. Also, add a make-rule to build the
git binaries if necessary + a dependency between cgit and libgit.a.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
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index 17e284e..a14418e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README
@@ -8,20 +8,36 @@ builtin cache to decrease server io-pressure. Installation -$ $EDITOR Makefile -$ make -$ sudo make install + $ make gitsrc=<path> + $ su + $ make prefix=<path> install -Note: cgit requires the git and xdiff libraries. Currently, the makefile -expects these files to be found in '../git/libgit.a' and '../git/xdiff/lib.a', -where they will be if you have built git from source in a parallell directory. + +Default value for gitsrc is "../git", and this directory should contain the +git sources. + +Default value for prefix is "/var/www/htdocs/cgit". This directory will +contain "cgit.cgi" and "cgit.css" after 'make install'. + +After installation, httpd.conf probably must be updated with a Directory- +section for cgit, possibly something like this: + + <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/cgit/"> + AllowOverride None + Options ExecCGI + Order allow,deny + Allow from all + </Directory> Runtime configuration -The file /etc/cgitrc is read by cgit before handling a request. A template -cgitrc is shipped with the sources, and all parameters and default values -can be found in this file. +The file /etc/cgitrc is read by cgit before handling a request. In addition +to runtime parameters, this file also contains a list of the repositories +displayed by cgit. + +A template cgitrc is shipped with the sources, and all parameters and default +values are documented in this file. The cache