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# Pygitweb
Gitweb reimplementation using **Python**, **FastAPI**, and **Pygit2**, ported from `git/gitweb/gitweb.perl`.
## Config
Settings load from `~/.pygitweb/settings.json` (or `PYGITWEB_SETTINGS_CONFIG`), `PYGITWEB_*`
environment variables, and optionally a `.env` file in the working directory via
`pydantic-settings`. See `src/pygitweb/config.py` and `settings.schema.json` for the full schema. Common ones:
- `PYGITWEB_PROJECTROOT` — absolute path to directory containing git repositories (default: `$HOME`)
- `PYGITWEB_PROJECTS_LIST` — directory to scan, or path to a project-list file (default: `PROJECTROOT`)
- `PYGITWEB_EXPORT_OK` — filename that must exist to allow export (e.g. `git-daemon-export-ok`); empty = no check
- `PYGITWEB_SITE_NAME` — site name in titles (default: `PyGitWeb`)
- `PYGITWEB_GIT` — path to the git executable (default: `git`)
- `PYGITWEB_AUTH` — `0` / `false` / `off` disables auth; `1` / `true` / `on` enables it. If **unset or empty**, auth defaults to **on**.
- `PYGITWEB_AUTH_CONFIG` — path to the auth JSON file (default: `~/.pygitweb/auth.json`). Generated to a reasonable default if not present.
- `PYGITWEB_SETTINGS_CONFIG` — path to the settings JSON file (default: `~/.pygitweb/settings.json`). Created from the environment on first run if missing.
- `PYGITWEB_ENABLED_PLUGINS` — installed plugins to load. The settings page can change this list and reload plugins immediately (`POST /settings/pygitweb/plugins`).
- `PYGITWEB_API_KEY_MAX_COUNT` — maximum Smart HTTP API keys each local user may hold (default: `2`).
- `PYGITWEB_API_KEY_EXPIRY_DAYS` — lifetime of a newly issued API key, in days. `0` means the key does not expire (the default).
- Browser login: `GET /login` (optional `?next=/path`), `POST /login` with form fields `username`, `password`, `next`; sets an HttpOnly cookie with an opaque in-process session id (also accepted by protected routes via `Authorization: Bearer`). Sessions are wiped when the process exits. `GET /logout?next=/` revokes the session and clears the cookie.
- Account and Smart HTTP keys (auth required): `GET /user` is the account page. `POST /user/keys` with JSON `{"id": "...", "readonly": false}` issues a key and returns the plaintext secret once; only its scrypt hash is stored. `readonly: true` allows fetch but not push. `DELETE /user/keys?id=<id>` revokes one key. Clone and push attempts are appended to `~/.pygitweb/smart_http.log`.
## Routes
Load the `/docs` page for a detailed view of routes (below the readme).
**No-project routes**
- `GET /`: project list
- `GET /index`: plain text project index (path, owner)
- `GET /opml`: OPML feed list
- `GET /project/{name}`: Project dispatch (See actions table)
**Hook management routes**
- `GET /project/{name}/hooks`: JSON `{hooks: [...samples...], bundles: [...]}` with current status (`installed`, `not_installed`, `different`) for every pygittools sample and bundle
- `POST /project/{name}/hook?name=<sample-or-bundle>&op=<add|remove|check>`: install, remove, or check one sample or bundle. `name` may be a sample filename (e.g. `post-receive.notify`) or a bundle name (e.g. `update`, which expands to `post-commit.notify` + `post-receive.notify`). `add`/`remove` refuse to clobber a custom hook with different content (returns `409`)
**Actions**
| Action | Query parameters | URL | Description |
|--------|------------------|-----|-------------|
| summary | *(default)* or `a` | `GET /project/{project}` | Project summary (description, owner, HEAD, tree link). |
| tree | `h`, `f` | `GET /project/{project}?a=tree&h=...&f=...` | Directory listing (tree). |
| blob | `h`, `f` | `GET /project/{project}?a=blob&h=...&f=...` | File view (HTML). |
| blob_plain | `h`, `f` | `GET /project/{project}?a=blob_plain&h=...&f=...` | Raw file download. |
| log | `h`, `updates`, `pf` | `GET /project/{project}?a=log&h=...` | Commit log. Supports long-poll subscribe. |
| shortlog | `h`, `updates`, `pf` | `GET /project/{project}?a=shortlog&h=...` | Shortlog. Supports long-poll subscribe. |
| history | `h`, `f`, `updates`, `pf` | `GET /project/{project}?a=history&h=...&f=...` | History of a file or path. Supports long-poll subscribe. |
| heads | `updates`, `pf` | `GET /project/{project}?a=heads` | List branch heads. Supports long-poll subscribe. |
| tags | `updates`, `pf` | `GET /project/{project}?a=tags` | List all tags. Supports long-poll subscribe. |
| tag | `h` | `GET /project/{project}?a=tag&h=...` | Single tag view (tag ref or hash). |
| commit | `h` | `GET /project/{project}?a=commit&h=...` | Commit information. |
| commitdiff | `h` | `GET /project/{project}?a=commitdiff&h=...` | Commit diff (unified diff rendered with [diff2html](https://github.com/rtfpessoa/diff2html)). |
| patch | `h` | `GET /project/{project}?a=patch&h=...` | Single-commit patch (plain text). |
| patches | `h`, `hb` | `GET /project/{project}?a=patches&h=...&hb=...` | Multi-commit patches for range `hb..h` (plain text). |
| blobdiff | `h`, `hb`, `f`, `fp` | `GET /project/{project}?a=blobdiff&h=...&hb=...&f=...&fp=...` | Blob diff (two versions of a file) rendered with diff2html. |
| blobpatch | `h`, `hb`, `f`, `fp` | `GET /project/{project}?a=blobpatch&h=...&hb=...&f=...&fp=...` | Blob diff as plain unified diff. |
| remotes | — | `GET /project/{project}?a=remotes` | List repo remotes. |
| object | `h` | `GET /project/{project}?a=object&h=...` | Show object by type (commit, tree, tag, or blob). |
| blame_raw | `h`, `f` | `GET /project/{project}?a=blame_raw&h=...&f=...` | File blame as JSON: array of `{commit_id, commit_msg, commit_author, time, line_range}`. Contiguous lines from the same commit are merged. |
| blame | `h`, `f` | `GET /project/{project}?a=blame&h=...&f=...` | File blame HTML view (syntax-highlighted source, line numbers, commit links per line range; hover shows author and date). |
| blame_incremental | — | | TODO |
| blame_data | — | | TODO |
| rss | — | | TODO |
| atom | — | | TODO |
| search | `patterns`, `paths`, `globs`, `heading`, `sort`, `max_count`, `multiline` | `GET /project/{project}?a=search&patterns=...` | Ripgrep search (via `python-ripgrep`); returns JSON. `paths` are relative to the project tree and cannot escape it. |
| search (page) | — | `GET /project/{project}/search` | Per-project search UI page. |
| search_help | — | | TODO |
**Blog, boards, and tasks**
- `GET /project/{project}/blog/`: markdown blog page when `articles/manifest.json` exists at `HEAD`. Otherwise the summary link stays disabled.
- `GET /project/{project}/blog/raw/{path}`: raw blob from `HEAD` for the blog viewer (markdown, manifest, and assets). Paths that escape the tree return `404`.
- `POST /tasks/move?project=<name>&board=<source>&task=<ref>&target=<board>`: move a task onto another board, such as a sprint board. Column headers on the board page show a running points total. `points` on create and update accepts `0`, `1`, `2`, `3`, `5`, `8`, `13`, or `21`; any other value is stored as unestimated.
- `POST /tasks/archive?project=<name>&board=<source>&task=<ref>`: move a task to the archive board.
- `POST /tasks/delete?project=<name>&board=<source>&task=<ref>`: delete a task.
## Query parameter short names (CGI mapping)
- `p` → project
- `a` → action
- `f` → file_name
- `fp` → file_parent
- `h` → hash
- `hp` → hash_parent
- `hb` → hash_base
- `hpb` → hash_parent_base
- `pg` → page
- `o` → order
- `s` → searchtext
- `st` → searchtype
- `sf` → snapshot_format
- `opt` → extra_options
- `sr` → search_use_regexp
- `by_tag` → ctag
- `ds` → diff_style
- `pf` → project_filter
- `updates` → long-poll subscription flag (`true` parks the request up to 30s; returns `200 OK` with an empty body on timeout/shutdown, or the action data when the queue is notified)
## Live updates (long polling)
Supported actions (`history`, `log`, `shortlog`, `heads`, `tags`) accept `updates=true` to
subscribe to the project's change queue. The request is held for up to 30 seconds:
- A `POST /_internal/notify?project=<name>` (typically from a server-side git hook) wakes
matching subscribers, who then receive the freshly-rendered action response.
- If no notification arrives in 30 seconds (or the server is shutting down), the response is `200 OK` with an empty body.
- Combine with `pf=<prefix>` to subscribe to every project under a path prefix instead of
just the URL project (the action is still rendered for the URL project).
The notify endpoint is intended for loopback use by `pygittools` post-receive hooks (see
`pygittools/hook_samples/post-receive.notify`). The server enforces loopback-only access and
rejects unknown projects; production deployments should still restrict it at the reverse proxy.
## Hook management
The project summary page exposes a **Hooks** row that lists installed hooks and lets you
install or remove pygittools samples, including the `update` bundle: `post-receive.notify`
(feeds the change queue when refs are pushed) and `post-commit.notify` (feeds the change
queue when a working clone of this repo records a local commit). Either is sufficient to
wake long-poll subscribers; installing both covers server-side and client-side commit paths.
The same operations are available programmatically via
`POST /project/{name}/hook?name=<sample-or-bundle>&op=<...>`. Bundle status is
`INSTALLED` only when every member is installed, `DIFFERENT` if any member's path holds
a custom hook (the bundle then refuses to install or remove anything to preserve the
custom hook), otherwise `NOT_INSTALLED`. When `PYGITWEB_AUTH` is enabled, `add` and `remove`
require a valid access token (`Authorization: Bearer …` from `POST /token`, or the cookie from `POST /login`); `check` is always allowed.