Git and Gitweb

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do. Coupled with Gitweb, provides a web interface for browsing your project.

This tutorial will show you how to install, create a repo, and browse that repo on your HDA.

NOTE: Tested on Fedora 14.

Setup

• Create web app (Advanced Settings must be enabled on HDA)
1. From the Dashboard main page, select Apps at the top.
2. Choose Webapps
3. Select New Web App button at the bottom
4. Enter gitweb for the Name (ensure the path reflects the name correctly)
5. Choose Create
6. Open a terminal as root user and do the following:

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   ​cd /etc/httpd/conf.d​

7. Look for the ####-gitweb.conf (#### is some number, i.e. 1000) file and open it in your favorite editor. Remove the text between ServerAlias and the last two lines, then add the following

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   ​Alias /git /var/hda/web-apps/gitweb/html/ RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^git$ git/ [R] DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG "/etc/gitweb.conf" AddHandler cgi-script .cgi /etc/httpd/conf.d/git.conf <Directory /var/hda/web-apps/gitweb/html> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /git/ RewriteRule ^$ gitweb.cgi [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule (.*) gitweb.cgi/$1 [QSA,L] </Directory>​

8. Restart web server to enable the changes

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   ​/etc/init.d/httpd restart;​

9. Create web page to browse repository

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​{{{1}}}​

• Install dependencies

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​yum -y install git git-daemon gitweb​

• Add user

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​useradd -U -d /var/cache/git -s /usr/libexec/git-core/git-shell git​

• Set directory permissions

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​cd /var/cache chown -R git:git git chmod 755 git​

• Create public SSH key storage

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​cd /var/cache/git; mkdir .ssh chmod 700 .ssh touch .ssh/authorized_keys chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys chown -R git:git .ssh/​

• Create init script

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​vi /etc/init.d/git​

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​#!/bin/sh # # Startup/shutdown script for Git Daemon # # Linux chkconfig stuff: # # chkconfig: 345 56 10 # description: Startup/shutdown script for Git Daemon # . /etc/init.d/functions DAEMON=/usr/libexec/git-core/git-daemon ARGS='--base-path=/var/cache/git --detach --syslog --export-all --user=git --group=git' prog=git-daemon start () { echo -n $"Starting $prog: " # start daemon daemon $DAEMON $ARGS RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/git-daemon return $RETVAL } stop () { # stop daemon echo -n $"Stopping $prog: " killproc $DAEMON RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/git-daemon } restart() { stop start } case $1 in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) restart ;; status) status $DAEMON RETVAL=$? ;; *) echo $"Usage: $prog {start​

• Set init script to run

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​chmod 755 /etc/init.d/git; chkconfig git on service git start​

• Create repository

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​cd /var/cache/git/ mkdir test.git cd test.git git init --bare chown -R git:git ../test.git/​

• Add a short description

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​cd /var/cache/git/test.git/ echo "test test repo" > description​

• Configure user access

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​vi config​

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​[core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = true [gitweb] owner = Your Name​

• Create local repository and commit

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​mkdir ~/test cd ~/test && git init echo 'test' > README git add README git commit -m "initial README file"​

• Create SSH rsa public key

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​ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "admin@yourisp.com" -N amahi -f /var/cache/git/.ssh/authorized_keys​

• Push to the repository

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​git remote add origin git@git.yourisp.com:test.git git push origin master​

• Add to bottom of the configuration file

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​vi /etc/gitweb.conf​

Text

​$feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [undef]; $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [undef]; $feature{'search'}{'default'} = [undef]; $feature{'grep'}{'default'} = 1; $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['tgz', 'gzip', 'zip']; $feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1; $site_name = "HDA Git"; $projectroot = '/var/cache/git/'; $projects_list_description_width = 50; $git_temp = "/tmp"; $home_text = "indextext.html"; $site_footer = "indexfooter.html"; $projects_list = $projectroot; $home_link_str = "http://gitweb / git "; $stylesheet = "/git/static/gitweb.css"; $logo = "/git/static/git-logo.png"; $favicon = "/git/static/git-favicon.png"; $feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1]; $my_uri = "http://gitweb/git/"; $home_link = "http://gitweb/git/;"​

• Copy web files and set permissions

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​cp -r /var/www/git/* html chown -R apache:users html​




Complete

Navigate to http://gitweb/git to browse the newly created repository.




References

Hosting your own Git Repository on Fedora 12