Re: [PATCH] gitweb: provide a way to customize html headers

From: Lénaïc Huard <lenaic@lhuard.fr.eu.org>
Date: Oct 17, 2011, 07:28 UTC
Message-ID: <201110170928.56075.lenaic@lhuard.fr.eu.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Lénaïc Huard <lenaic@lhuard.fr.eu.org> writes:

> > This allows web sites to add some specific html headers to the pages
> > generated by gitweb.

> What do you need this for?

I want to decorate the gitweb pages with the “Google Analytics” tracking code. In order to do so, today, Google is recommending to add a <script> tag just before the closing </head> tag.

https://www.google.com/support/analyticshelp/bin/answer.py?answer=1008080&hl=en

> > The new variable $site_htmlheader can be set to a filename the content
> > of which will be inserted at the end of the <head> section of each
> > page generated by gitweb.

> Hmmm... I wonder if a file with html header fragment (which is quite
> specific subset of HTML) is a best solution.

That’s true. The piece of code to be inserted in <head> is maybe small enough so that we don’t need a file. Maybe $site_htmlheader could contain directly the html snippet to be inserted in the pages?

> > Signed-off-by: L=FE=FF=00=E9na=FE=FF=00=EFc Huard <lenaic@lhuard.fr.eu.or=

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> > ---
> >  gitweb/INSTALL     |    3 +++

> Nb. there is patch in flight adding gitweb.conf(5) and gitweb(1)
> manpages...

Ok. So, I’ll update them once a decision will be taken concerning this $site_htmlheader.

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Lénaïc Huard