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3.2       scop        1: $FreeBSD$
3.3       scop        2: $Idaemons: /home/cvs/cvsweb/README.knu,v 3.9 2001/01/13 07:48:09 knu Exp $
                      3:
3.5       scop        4: FreeBSD-CVSweb is a WWW interface for CVS repositories.
3.3       scop        5:
3.5       scop        6: CVSweb was originally written by Bill Fenner and improved by Henner
                      7: Zeller, Henrik Nordström, and Ken Coar, then Akinori MUSHA brought
                      8: it back to FreeBSD community and made further improvements.  Ville
4.1     ! schwarze    9: Skyttä continued that work; after that, the project was briefly
        !            10: maintained by Jonathan Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>.
3.5       scop       11:
                     12: To track the development, access the MAIN branch of the module
4.1     ! schwarze   13: `cvsweb' in the mandoc.bsd.lv CVS repository.  For legacy 2.x
        !            14: versions, see the branch named 'FreeBSD-cvsweb-2_0-branch'.
3.3       scop       15:
                     16:   Project home page:
                     17:     <http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/cvsweb.html>
                     18:
                     19:   Repository access:
4.1     ! schwarze   20:     <http://mandoc.bsd.lv/anoncvs.html>
3.3       scop       21:
                     22:   CVSweb of CVSweb:
4.1     ! schwarze   23:     <http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=cvsweb>
3.3       scop       24:
                     25:   Release archives:
                     26:     <http://people.FreeBSD.org/~scop/cvsweb/>
                     27:
4.1     ! schwarze   28:   A mailing list used to exist at the following place,
        !            29:   but was deleted in 2014 or maybe even earlier:
3.3       scop       30:     <freebsd-cvsweb@FreeBSD.org>
                     31:     <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cvsweb>
                     32:
                     33: Here is the list of added features over Zeller's version:
                     34:
                     35: o Customizable "show functions" option
                     36:     You can specify a regexp for each file type to teach rcsdiff(1) to
                     37:     recognize function lines.
                     38:
                     39: o Customizable PR categories
                     40: o Move $prcgi to cvsweb.conf
                     41:     Now each repository can have its own PR categories and
                     42:     query-pr.cgi URL, which can be defined in cvsweb.conf-${cvstree}.
                     43:     It is useful when you have such as NetBSD and/or OpenBSD
                     44:     repositories.
                     45:
                     46: o Improved support for text-based browsers
                     47:     Unidiff is the default format for diffs, for text-based browsers.
                     48:
                     49: o Enhanced PR # hyperlinking.
                     50:     The following styles are supported.
                     51:
                     52:         PR:     12345, 67890, ..
                     53:
                     54:         PR:     #12345, #67890, ..
                     55:
                     56:         PR#     sparc/12345, i386/67890
                     57:
                     58:         PR:     ports/43210
                     59:                 kern/98765
                     60:
                     61:         .. is related to bin/4567, which is ...
                     62:
                     63: o Manpage hyperlinking.
                     64:     Both `cat(1)' and `cat.1' styles are supported.
                     65:
                     66: o Revision numbers hyperlinking in annotation.
                     67:
                     68: o Automatic tarball generation. (Obtained from Debian)
                     69:
                     70: o Automatic zipball generation.
                     71:
                     72: o Customizable repository entry order.
                     73:
                     74: o Location text field.
                     75:
                     76: o Support for the use of localized charsets.
                     77:
                     78: o Workaround for buggy web servers.
                     79:
                     80: o Numerous bugfixes regarding URI/filename manipulation.
                     81:
                     82: o HTML improvements, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and a separate CSS file for
                     83:   presentation.
                     84:
                     85: o Security fixes to let it work under perl -T.
                     86:
                     87: o Annotate works under mod_perl and against a read only repository.
                     88:
                     89: o CvsGraph <http://www.akhphd.au.dk/~bertho/cvsgraph/> integration.
                     90:
                     91: o Syntax highlighting using GNU Enscript <http://www.iki.fi/~mtr/genscript/>.
                     92:
3.6       scop       93: o CVSHistory <http://www.jamwt.com/CVSHistory/> integration.
                     94:
3.3       scop       95: o Line number output for HTMLized views.
                     96:
                     97: o Support for showing README.cvs.html and README.cvs akin to Apache's
                     98:   FancyIndexes.
                     99:
                    100: o Support for external diff tools.
                    101:
                    102: o Works with mod_perl >= 1.99_11 as well as 1.2x.
                    103:
3.5       scop      104: o ...and much more!  See NEWS for high level changes between releases.
                    105:
                    106: See also README, as well as TODO for new features under consideration
                    107: and development.
3.3       scop      108:
                    109: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    110: The original Zeller README follows (possibly outdated to some extent):
                    111: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3.2       scop      112:
3.1       knu       113: The cgi-script cvsweb.cgi is written by Bill Fenner <fenner@freebsd.org>
                    114: (see [1]) for the freebsd project. It allows browsing of
                    115: CVS-repositories (see [2]) with an HTML-browser.
                    116:
                    117: This version is based on Bill's script and is hacked to fit our needs,
                    118: so don't blame him if anything doesn't work ..
                    119:
                    120: Added features:
                    121:  - a colored side by side diff
                    122:  - easier navigation
                    123:  - mime-type aware checkout which allows for browsing
                    124:    of version controlled HTML-pages
                    125:  - easier configuration - everything configurable is in one
                    126:    external file now
                    127:  - added cvs-annotate - this requires cvs >= 1.9
                    128:    (tested with cvs 1.10)
                    129:  - a better way of viewing timestamps: they're shown as age
                    130:    (something like 'changed 2 days 4 hours ago')
                    131:  - sorting by filename / age - just click on the corresponding
                    132:    column
                    133:  - urlencodes all filenames so files with spaces and special
                    134:    characters in their names are viewable as well.
                    135:  - selectionbox for choosing different CVS-roots
                    136:  - overview of last revisionnumber, age and logentry in the
                    137:    directory view
                    138:  - you can check out the current revision of a file if you are
                    139:    in the directory view (idea from Nick Brachet)
                    140:  - gzip'ed output if the browser accepts this; this can reduce the
                    141:    size (and download time) by a factor of 4 (directory view) to
                    142:    10 (colored diff; the size of the colored diff could be reduced
                    143:    with CSS .. anyone ?). The use of gzip has been in the very first
                    144:    version of cvsweb (by Bill Fenner), but has been removed because
                    145:    it wasn't easy to determine if a browser actually understands it. Today
                    146:    the browsers state if they accept the Content-encoding gzip..
                    147:    .. but MSIE lies about this (so cvsweb disables gzip-encoding in this
                    148:    case).
                    149:  - Tag based browsing. An easy and what I think intuitive way to browse a
                    150:    CVS tree based on tags, with filtering of files and CVS logs to only
                    151:    show whats relevant for the selected tag.
                    152:  - "Pretty-printed" checkouts for text based files. My intention is to
                    153:    eventually add cross-referencing to this, but for now the file is only
                    154:    converted to HTML with automatic detection of various links.
                    155:  - "Click-on-version" diff selection.
                    156:  - sorting for every column now
                    157:  - uses 'cvs co' for checkout instead of rcs co
                    158:  - Ability to show directory descriptions from CVSROOT/descriptions
                    159:
                    160: cvsweb.cgi became quite huge now and is bad style code (I am not a
                    161: perl-programmer - this is what I do in my spare time!) so this
                    162: should be rewritten.
                    163:
                    164: I'd propose a Java-servlet which could use the C/S-protocol .. anyone ?
                    165:
                    166: And what about using mod_perl, and rewriting it into a set of proper Perl-5
                    167: modules?
                    168:
                    169: This software is distributed under the terms of the BSD-licence.
                    170:
                    171: You can download the latest version at
3.2       scop      172:     <http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/>
3.1       knu       173:
                    174: or get it directly with cvs at
                    175:   CVSROOT:  :pserver:anonymous@cvs.stud.fh-heilbronn.de:/cvsroot/public
                    176:  Password:  anonymous
                    177:    Module:  cvsweb
                    178:
                    179: Please send suggestions, bugs etc to
                    180:     Henner Zeller <zeller@think.de>
                    181: or
                    182:     Henrik Nordstrom <hno@hem.passagen.se>
                    183:
                    184: -- refs
                    185: [1] for the original Version of cvsweb.cgi, see
                    186:     <http://www.freebsd.org/~fenner/cvsweb/>
3.7       scop      187: [2] for cvs, see <http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/>

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