cgit - cgi for git  This is an attempt to create a fast web interface for the git scm, using abuiltin cache to decrease server io-pressure.  Installation Building cgit involves building a proper version of git. How to do thisdepends on how you obtained the cgit sources: a) If you're working in a cloned cgit repository, you first need toinitialize and update the git submodule:   $ git submodule init     # register the git submodule in .git/config  $ $EDITOR .git/config    # if you want to specify a different url for git  $ git submodule update   # clone/fetch and checkout correct git version b) If you're building from a cgit tarball, you can download a proper gitversion like this:   $ make get-git  When either a) or b) has been performed, you can build and install cgit likethis:   $ make  $ sudo make install This will install cgit.cgi and cgit.css into "/var/www/htdocs/cgit". You canconfigure this location (and a few other things) by providing a "cgit.conf"file (see the Makefile for details).  Dependencies:  -git 1.5.3  -zip lib  -crypto lib  -openssl lib  Apache configuration A new Directory-section must probably be added for cgit, possibly somethinglike this:   <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/cgit/">      AllowOverride None      Options ExecCGI      Order allow,deny      Allow from all  </Directory>  Runtime configuration The file /etc/cgitrc is read by cgit before handling a request. In additionto runtime parameters, this file also contains a list of the repositoriesdisplayed by cgit. A template cgitrc is shipped with the sources, and all parameters and defaultvalues are documented in this file.  The cache When cgit is invoked it looks for a cachefile matching the request andreturns it to the client. If no such cachefile exist (or if it has expired),the content for the request is written into the proper cachefile before thefile is returned. If the cachefile has expired but cgit is unable to obtain a lock for it, thestale cachefile is returned to the client. This is done to favour pagethroughput over page freshness. The generated content contains the complete response to the client, includingthe http-headers "Modified" and "Expires".  The missing features * Submodule links in the directory listing page have a fixed format per  repository. This should probably be extended to a generic map between  submodule path and url. * Branch- and tag-lists in the summary page can get very long, they should  probably only show something like the ten "latest modified" branches and  a similar number of "most recent" tags. * There should be a new page for browsing refs/heads and refs/tags, with links  from the summary page whenever the branch/tag lists overflow. * The log-page should have more/better search options (author, committer,  pickaxe, paths) and possibly support arbitrary revision specifiers. * A set of test-scripts is required before cgit-1.0 can be released. Patches/bugreports/suggestions/comments are always welcome, please feel freeto contact the author: hjemli@gmail.com