improve documentation

- add example to README to extract gitweb.owner from a git config.
  this is used in gitweb and some cgit configurations.
- fix (new) mandoc warnings (new sentence on each line).
- improve some texts in the man pages, sort / structure some list items.
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README
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@ -61,6 +61,23 @@ make
make install
Extract owner field from git config
-----------------------------------
A (hacky) way to extract the gitweb owner for example in the format:
[gitweb]
owner = Name here
Script:
#!/bin/sh
awk '/^[ ]*owner[ ]=/ {
sub(/^[^=]*=[ ]*/, "");
print $0;
}'
Features
--------
@ -86,7 +103,7 @@ Cons
- Not suitable for repositories with many branches, a quite linear history is
assumed (from HEAD).
- Relatively slow to run the first time (about 3 seconds for sbase,
1500+ commits), incremental updates after it are faster.
1500+ commits), incremental updates are faster.
- Does not support some of the dynamic features cgit has, like:
- snapshot tarballs.
- file tree per commit.

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@ -10,13 +10,14 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
will create an index HTML page for the repositories specified and writes
the HTML data to stdout. The repos in the index are in the same order as
the arguments
the HTML data to stdout.
The repos in the index are in the same order as the arguments
.Ar repodir
specified.
.Pp
The basename of the directory is used as the name. The suffix ".git" is
removed from the basename, this is commonly used for "bare" repos.
The basename of the directory is used as the repository name.
The suffix ".git" is removed from the basename, this suffix is commonly used
for "bare" repos.
.Pp
The content of the follow files specifies the meta data for each repository:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
@ -28,10 +29,10 @@ owner of repository
.Pp
For changing the style of the page you can use the following files:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It logo.png
32x32 logo.
.It favicon.png
favicon image.
.It logo.png
32x32 logo.
.It style.css
CSS stylesheet.
.El

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@ -14,51 +14,58 @@ writes HTML pages for the repository
.Ar repodir
to the current directory.
.Pp
Optionally the
.Fl c Ar cachefile
option can be used to cache the entries of the log page up to the point of
the last commit. The
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl c Ar cachefile
Cache the entries of the log page up to the point of
the last commit.
The
.Ar cachefile
will store the last commit id and the entries in the HTML table. It is up
to the user to make sure the state of the
will store the last commit id and the entries in the HTML table.
It is up to the user to make sure the state of the
.Ar cachefile
is in sync with the history of the repository.
.El
.Pp
The following files will be written:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It atom.xml
Atom XML feed
.It files.html
List of files in the latest HEAD commit, linking to the file.
List of files in the latest tree, linking to the file.
.It log.html
List of commits in order of most recent to old of the commits (top to bottom),
each commit links to a page with a diff and diffstat of the commit.
each commit links to a page with a diffstat and diff of the commit.
.It refs.html
Lists references of the repository such as branches and tags.
.El
.Pp
For each entry in HEAD a file will be written in the format:
file/filepath.html. This file will contain the textual data of the file
prefixed by line numbers. The file will have the string "Binary file"
if the data is considered to be non-textual.
file/filepath.html.
This file will contain the textual data of the file prefixed by line numbers.
The file will have the string "Binary file" if the data is considered to be
non-textual.
.Pp
For each commit a file will be written in the format:
commit/commitid.html. This file will contain the diff and diffstat of the
commit. It will write the string "Binary files differ" if the data is
considered to be non-textual. Too large diffs will be suppressed and a string
commit/commitid.html.
This file will contain the diffstat and diff of the commit.
It will write the string "Binary files differ" if the data is considered to
be non-textual.
Too large diffs will be suppressed and a string
"Diff is too large, output suppressed" will be written.
.Pp
When a commit HTML file exists it won't be overwritten again, note that if
you've changed
.Nm
or changed one of the metadata files of the repository it is recommended to
recreate all the output files because it will contain old data. To do this
remove the output directory and
recreate all the output files because it will contain old data.
To do this remove the output directory and
.Ar cachefile ,
then recreate the files.
.Pp
The basename of the directory is used as the name. The suffix ".git" is
removed from the basename, this is commonly used for "bare" repos.
The basename of the directory is used as the repository name.
The suffix ".git" is removed from the basename, this suffix is commonly used
for "bare" repos.
.Pp
The content of the follow files specifies the metadata for each repository:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
@ -75,10 +82,10 @@ exists in HEAD a direct link in the menu is made.
.Pp
For changing the style of the page you can use the following files:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It logo.png
32x32 logo.
.It favicon.png
favicon image.
.It logo.png
32x32 logo.
.It style.css
CSS stylesheet.
.El