Tag: collaboration with git

gitweb – shorty

Posted on by kodekitchen

The Team demanded (or asked nicely) for a graphical overview of all the git repositories, so here is the quick way to do it:

  1. Install gitweb

       sudo apt-get install gitweb

  2. Make an empty directory that is the root of all the repositories e.g. pub. This is necessary since git has no concept of a root repository holding others

     mkdir pub/

  3. Change owner to the user who owns the repositories

     sudo chown -R git:git pub

  4. Now we link the repositories into pub/ (Move to pub/ and do)

     ln -s /path/repo1.git rep1
 ln -s /path/repo2.git rep2

  5. Now we open /etc/gitweb.conf and edit the variable to pub/

     $projectroot = "/path/pub"

Now http://server/gitweb should show the list of repos. If not you probably have to edit $projectroot in /usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi too.