NAME

Gitalist - A modern git web viewer

SYNOPSIS

    script/gitalist_server.pl --repo_dir /home/me/code/git

INSTALL

As Gitalist follows the usual Perl module format the usual approach for installation should work e.g.

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install

or

  cpan -i Gitalist

You can also check gitalist out from git and run it, in this case you'll additionally need the author modules, but no configuration will be needed as it will default to looking for repositories the directory above the checkout.

DESCRIPTION

Gitalist is a web frontend for git repositories based on gitweb.cgi and backed by Catalyst.

History

This project started off as an attempt to port gitweb.cgi to a Catalyst app in a piecemeal fashion. As it turns out, thanks largely to Florian Ragwitz's earlier effort, it was easier to use gitweb.cgi as a template for building a new Catalyst application.

GETTING GITALIST

You can install Gitalist from CPAN in the usual way:

    cpan -i Gitalist

Alternatively, you can get Gitalist using git.

The canonical repository for the master branch is:

    it://git.shadowcat.co.uk/catagits/Gitalist.git

Gitalist is also mirrored to github, and a number of people have active forks with branches and/or new features in the master branch.

INITIAL CONFIGURATION

Gitalist is configured using Catalyst::Plugin::Configloader. The supplied sample configuration is in Config::General format, however it is possible to configure Gitalist using other config file formats (such as YAML) if you prefer.

WHEN CHECKING GITALIST OUT OF GIT

Gitalist from git includes a minimal gitalist_local.conf, which sets the repository directory to one directory higher than the Gitalist repository.

This means that if you check Gitalist out next to your other git checkouts, then starting the demo server needs no parameters at all:

    Gitalist [master]$ ./script/gitalist_server.pl
    You can connect to your server at http://localhost:3000

FOR CPAN INSTALLS

Gitalist can be supplied with a config file by setting the GITALIST_CONFIG environment variable to point to a configuration file.

If you install Gitalist from CPAN, a default configuration is installed along with gitalist, which is complete except for a repository directory. You can get a copy of this configuration by running:

  cp `perl -Ilib -MGitalist -e'print Gitalist->path_to("gitalist.conf")'` gitalist.conf

You can then edit this confg, adding a repos_dir path and customising other settings as desired.

You can then start the Gitalist demo server by setting GITALIST_CONFIG. For example:

    GITALIST_CONFIG=/usr/local/etc/gitalist.conf gitalist_server.pl

Alternatively, if you only want to set a repository directory and are otherwise happy with the default configuration, then you can set the GITALIST_REPOS_DIR environment variable, or pass the --repos_dir flag to any of the scripts.

    GITALIST_REPOS_DIR=/home/myuser/code/git gitalist_server.pl
    gitalist_server.pl --repos_dir home/myuser/code/git

The GITALIST_REPOS_DIR environment variable will override the repository directory set in configuration, and will itself be overridden by he --repos_dir flag.

RUNNING

Once you have followed the instructions above to install and configure Gitalist, you may want to run it in a more production facing environment than using the single threaded developement server.

The recommended deployment method for Gitalist is FastCGI, although Gitalist can also be run under mod_perl or as pure perl with Catalyst::Engine::PreFork.

Assuming that you have installed Gitalist's dependencies into a local::lib, and you are running from a git checkout, adding a trivial FCGI script as script/gitalist.fcgi (this file is specifically in .gitignore so you can have your own copy):

    #!/bin/sh
    export PERL5LIB=/home/t0m/public_html/Gitalist/lib:/home/t0m/perl5/lib/perl5:$PERL5LIB
    exec /home/t0m/public_html/Gitalist/script/gitalist_fastcgi.pl

This example can be seen live here:

    http://goatse.co.uk/~bobtfish/Gitalist/script/gitalist.fcgi/

CONTRIBUTING

Patches are welcome, please feel free to fork on github and send pull requests, send patches from git format-patch to the bug tracker, or host your own copy of gitalist somewhere and ask us to pull from it.

SUPPORT

Gitalist has an active irc community in #gitalist on irc.perl.org, please feel free to stop by and ask questions, report bugs or installation issues or generally for a chat about where we plan to go with the project.

SEE ALSO

Gitalist::Controller::Root

Gitalist::Git::Repository

Catalyst

AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT

  Catalyst application:
    (C) 2009 Venda Ltd and Dan Brook <broq@cpan.org>
    (C) 2009, Tom Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>
    (C) 2009, Zac Stevens <zts@cryptocracy.com>

  Original gitweb.cgi from which this was derived:
    (C) 2005-2006, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
    (C) 2005, Christian Gierke

  Model based on http://github.com/rafl/gitweb
    (C) 2008, Florian Ragwitz

LICENSE

Licensed under GNU GPL v2

cpanm Gitalist

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Gitalist