Git and Gitweb

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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)

From the Dashboard main page, select Apps at the top.
Choose Webapps
Select New Web App button at the bottom
Enter gitweb for the Name (ensure the path reflects the name correctly)
Choose Create
Open a terminal as root user and do the following:
Install dependencies

bash code

yum -y install git git-daemon gitweb
Look for the ####-gitweb.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d (#### is some number, i.e. 1000) file and open it in your favorite editor. Add text after ServerAlias line

Text

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
Restart web server to enable the changes

bash code

/etc/init.d/httpd restart;
Create web page to browse repository

bash code
`cd /var/hda/web-apps/gitweb echo '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Your Page Title</title> <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://git/git/"></HEAD> <BODY> Optional page text here. </BODY> </HTML>' > html/index.html chown apache.users html/index.html`

Add user

bash code
`useradd -U -d /var/cache/git -s /usr/libexec/git-core/git-shell git`

Set directory permissions

bash code
`cd /var/cache chown -R git:git git chmod 755 git`

Create public SSH key storage

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

Create /etc/init.d/git file and add the following

Text

#!/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|stop|restart|status}"  exit 3 esac   exit $RETVAL

Set init script to run

bash code
`chmod 755 /etc/init.d/git; chkconfig git on service git start`

Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/git.conf and text to the bottom

Text
`<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>`

Create repository

bash code
`cd /var/cache/git/ mkdir test cd test git init chown -R git:git ../test/`

Add a short description

bash code
`cd /var/cache/git/test/ echo "test test repo" > description`

Edit config and add the following at the bottom

Text
`[gitweb] owner = Your Name`

Create local repository and commit

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

Create SSH rsa public key

bash code
`ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "user@yourisp.com" -N amahi -f /var/cache/git/.ssh/authorized_keys`

Push to the repository

bash code
`git remote add origin user@hda.home.com:test git push origin master`

Add to bottom of /etc/gitweb.conf file

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

bash code
`cp -r /var/www/git/* html chown -R apache:users html`

Complete

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

References

Hosting your own Git Repository on Fedora 12

Amahi Wiki

Links

Personal tools

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