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Jakub Narebski b13e3eacef gitweb: Fix fallback mode of to_utf8 subroutine `e5d3de5` (gitweb: use Perl built-in utf8 function for UTF-8 decoding., 2007-12-04) was meant to make gitweb faster by using Perl's internals (see subsection "Messing with Perl's Internals" in Encode(3pm) manpage) Simple benchmark confirms that (old = `00f429a`, new = this version): old new old -- -65% new 189% -- Unfortunately it made fallback mode of to_utf8 do not work... except for default value 'latin1' of $fallback_encoding ('latin1' is Perl native encoding), which is why it was not noticed for such long time. utf8::valid(STRING) is an internal function that tests whether STRING is in a _consistent state_ regarding UTF-8. It returns true is well-formed UTF-8 and has the UTF-8 flag on _or_ if string is held as bytes (both these states are 'consistent'). For gitweb the second option was true, as output from git commands is opened without ':utf8' layer. What made it work at all for STRING in 'latin1' encoding is the fact that utf8:decode(STRING) turns on UTF-8 flag only if source string is valid UTF-8 and contains multi-byte UTF-8 characters... and that if string doesn't have UTF-8 flag set it is treated as in native Perl encoding, i.e. 'latin1' / 'iso-8859-1' (unless native encoding it is EBCDIC ;-)). It was ':utf8' layer that actually converted 'latin1' (no UTF-8 flag == native == 'latin1) to 'utf8'. Let's make use of the fact that utf8:decode(STRING) returns false if STRING is invalid as UTF-8 to check whether to enable fallback mode. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>		2011-12-19 12:25:43 -08:00
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static	Merge branch 'ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno'	2011-10-10 15:56:20 -07:00
gitweb.perl	gitweb: Fix fallback mode of to_utf8 subroutine	2011-12-19 12:25:43 -08:00
INSTALL	gitweb: provide a way to customize html headers	2011-10-21 10:18:37 -07:00
Makefile	Merge branch 'rj/gitweb-clean-js'	2011-10-27 12:04:21 -07:00
README	gitweb: Add gitweb(1) manpage for gitweb itself	2011-10-16 11:09:34 -07:00

README

GIT web Interface
=================

The one working on:
  http://git.kernel.org/

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:

1. built-in values (some set during build stage),
2. common system-wide configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`,
   defaults to '/etc/gitweb-common.conf'),
3. either per-instance configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG`, defaults to
   'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the installed gitweb),
   or if it does not exists then system-wide configuration file
   (`GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM`, defaults to '/etc/gitweb.conf').

Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
in above sequence.

You can read defaults in system-wide GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM from GITWEB_CONFIG
by adding

  read_config_file($GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM);

at very beginning of per-instance GITWEB_CONFIG file.  In this case
settings in said per-instance file will override settings from
system-wide configuration file.  Note that read_config_file checks
itself that the $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM file exists.

The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
optional features, stored in the '%features' variable.

Ultimate description on how to reconfigure the default features setting
in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.

See also gitweb.conf(5) manpage.


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
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Originally written by:
  Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

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