[PATCH v2 1/5] gitweb: add viewport meta tag for mobile devices

From: Rito Rhymes via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2026, 15:53 UTC
Message-ID: <ff85e97ceedd206f723061ced972b7b7ba431b56.1771257211.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2043.v2.git.1771257211.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Rito Rhymes <rito@ritovision.com>

Without a viewport meta tag, phone browsers render gitweb at desktop width and scale the whole page down to fit the screen.

Add a viewport meta tag so the layout viewport tracks device width. This is the baseline needed for mobile CSS fixes in follow-up commits.

Signed-off-by: Rito Rhymes <rito@ritovision.com>
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 gitweb/gitweb.perl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index b5490dfecf..fde804593b 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -4214,6 +4214,7 @@ sub git_header_html {
 <head>
 <meta name="generator" content="gitweb/$version git/$git_version$mod_perl_version"/>
 <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow"/>
+<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
 <title>$title</title>
 EOF
 	# the stylesheet, favicon etc urls won't work correctly with path_info

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