Reputation: 1427

How to install GitWeb on Windows?

I'm trying to use GitWeb to explore my repositories, I'm completely new to it, so I'm having a little problems, I know that GitWeb is shipped with Git, I downloaded it from here http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=full+installer+official+git, it is located on \share\gitweb, then I opened the console (Git Bash), browsed to the repository and ran the command git instaweb, but it says git: 'instaweb' is not a git command.

Anyone know what is the right way to install and configure GitWeb?

I already read a lot of tutorials, but they are so confusing :/

Any help will be appreciated, thanks.

Upvotes: 5

Answers (7)

zwhconst

Reputation: 1523

As in here:

I got it working using git in MSYS2:

Install MSYS2

Install git:

pacman -S git

Install ruby (webrick is part of Ruby standard library):

pacman -S ruby

You may need to install the CGI.pm perl module using CPAN

And go:

git instaweb -d webrick

Upvotes: 1

VonC

Reputation: 1328232

4 years later (2018), gitweb is definitively removed from Git for Windows:

See Git for Windows 2.19.0 (Sept. 2018):

The gitweb component was removed because it is highly unlikely to be used on Windows.

See git-for-windows/git issue 1362

Git for Windows is intended to be used by end users. GitWeb, however, wants to be used in conjunction with a web server such as Apache, and even requires a Perl module to be installed in that web server.

It is almost guaranteed that nobody uses Git for Windows that way, so let's just exclude those files from the installer.

Upvotes: 0

VonC

Reputation: 1328232

An alternative to Gogs (mentioned in this answer) is gitea.io.

Gogs is developed by one maintainer (@Unknwon).
Gitea is developed more collaboratively.

Gitea releases are more regular than Gogs releases, and its feature set is more complete.