From e7a8c3f0fbb3f6345c0a4aeb324c784ca0976f39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ardis Lu <ardisglu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:08:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Improve web view styling

This set of changes is intended to retain the original "feel" but improve usability. Mainly just making things bigger to better utilize screen space, and horizontal centering.

More opinionated stylistic changes to come later.
---
 etc/gitweb.conf                    |  5 +++
 setup.sh                           | 10 ++++++
 usr/share/gitweb/static/custom.css | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 65 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 usr/share/gitweb/static/custom.css

diff --git a/etc/gitweb.conf b/etc/gitweb.conf
index 1e605ea..66e892f 100644
--- a/etc/gitweb.conf
+++ b/etc/gitweb.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 $projectroot = '/srv/git';
 $git_temp = '/tmp';
 
+# https://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb.conf#_links_and_their_targets
+$home_link_str = 'git.ardis.lu';
+push @stylesheets, 'static/custom.css';
+$site_html_head_string = '<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"></meta>';
+
 # https://git-scm.com/docs/gitweb.conf#_changing_gitwebs_look
 $site_name = 'git.ardis.lu';
 $projects_list_description_width = 120; # Increase project description character limit from 25
diff --git a/setup.sh b/setup.sh
index c6a277a..379f402 100644
--- a/setup.sh
+++ b/setup.sh
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ git config --system safe.directory '*'
 # Otherwise HEAD will point to "master" when using init, even if the pushed repo has renamed main branch
 git config --system init.defaultBranch main
 
+# Better git defaults
+# See https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git
+git config --system column.ui auto
+git config --system branch.sort -committerdate
+git config --system tag.sort version:refname
+git config --system diff.algorithm histogram
+git config --system diff.colorMoved plain
+git config --system diff.mnemonicPrefix true
+git config --system diff.renames true
+
 # Setup gitweb
 cp -f ./etc/gitweb.conf /etc
 cp -f ./etc/caddy/Caddyfile /etc/caddy
diff --git a/usr/share/gitweb/static/custom.css b/usr/share/gitweb/static/custom.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19e1228
--- /dev/null
+++ b/usr/share/gitweb/static/custom.css
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+body {
+  font-size: 16px;
+  min-inline-size: min(100% - 22px, 1440px);
+  inline-size: fit-content;
+  margin-inline: auto;
+}
+
+table.project_list,
+table.shortlog,
+table.tags,
+table.heads,
+table.tree,
+table.history,
+table.commit_search,
+table.search {
+  inline-size: 100%;
+}
+
+table.project_list {
+  & th,
+  td {
+    line-height: 2;
+    padding-block: 8px;
+    padding-inline: 4px 16px;
+  }
+}
+
+/* Gitweb replaces all spaces in commit descriptions (log) with &nbsp; which will not wrap by default. */
+div.log,
+div.log_body,
+div.page_body {
+  overflow-wrap: break-word;
+  /* Otherwise body will stretch to fit longest line. */
+  max-inline-size: min(100dvi - 38px, 1440px);
+}
+
+div.log_body {
+  padding: 8px;
+}
+
+td.link,
+td.selflink {
+  font-size: 80%;
+}
+
+td.pre,
+div.pre,
+div.diff {
+  font-size: 14px;
+}
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