From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:03:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Make Gitweb behave like Apache mod_userdir
Message-ID: <7vskcffqkn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7fce93be0911150204h259b7424md251c54186d05b7d@mail.gmail.com>

Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr> writes:

> I made gitweb behave a bit like UserDir module will in apache.
> In fact it's only configuration but I think it could be useful to others.

Thanks.  Any comment from gitweb gangs?

> Basicly it allows users of your server who use git to be able to use
> gitweb to browse their own root project. E.G. :
>
> Alice's private repos :
>
> /home/alice/git/product_a.git (cloned from /var/git/product_a.git)
> /home/alice/git/product_b.git (cloned from /var/git/product_b.git)
> /home/alice/git/product_c.git (cloned from /var/git/product_c.git)
>
> Alice's links to her repos which she wants to be able to browse with gitweb :
>
> /home/alice/gitweb/product_a -> /home/alice/git/product_a.git/.git
> /home/alice/gitweb/product_c -> /home/alice/git/product_c.git/.git
>
> Bare repos :
>
> /var/git/product_a.git
> /var/git/product_b.git
> /var/git/product_c.git
> /var/git/product_d.git
>
> /etc/gitweb.conf :
>
> $projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/var/git/";
>
> Apache configuration :
>
> RewriteRule ^/~([^\/]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
> [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/gitweb/,L,PT]
>
> So now all users with a gitweb folder in their home will be able to
> browse all git repos in it through http://<host>/~<user>.
>
> You will find a patch enclosed which try to describe best what I did
> and why in the gitweb/README.