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[PATCH] gitweb: Include a site name in page titles

From
Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>
Date
Jul 11, 2006, 20:10 UTC
Message-ID
<11526486261142-git-send-email-alp@atoker.com>
Tip Of The Day:
    <title>: the most important element of a quality Web page.

This helps users tell one 'git' bookmark apart from the other in their browser and improves the indexing of gitweb sites in Web search engines.

Defaults to the HTTP SERVER_NAME.
Signed-off-by: Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.cgi |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.cgi b/gitweb/gitweb.cgi
index 2e87de4..be0a01d 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.cgi
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.cgi
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ if (! -d $git_temp) {
 # target of the home link on top of all pages
 our $home_link = $my_uri;
 
+# name of your site or organization to appear in page titles
+# replace this with something more descriptive for clearer bookmarks
+our $site_name = $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'} || "Untitled";
+
 # html text to include at home page
 our $home_text = "indextext.html";
 
@@ -280,7 +284,7 @@ sub git_header_html {
 	my $status = shift || "200 OK";
 	my $expires = shift;
 
-	my $title = "git";
+	my $title = "$site_name git";
 	if (defined $project) {
 		$title .= " - $project";
 		if (defined $action) {
@@ -1760,7 +1764,7 @@ sub git_opml {
 	print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n".
 	      "<opml version=\"1.0\">\n".
 	      "<head>".
-	      "  <title>Git OPML Export</title>\n".
+	      "  <title>$site_name Git OPML Export</title>\n".
 	      "</head>\n".
 	      "<body>\n".
 	      "<outline text=\"git RSS feeds\">\n";
-- 
1.4.1.g97c7-dirty
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