gitweb: Include a site name in page titles

This helps users tell one 'git' bookmark apart from the other in their browser and improves the indexing of gitweb sites in Web search engines. The title defaults to the SERVER_NAME environment variable, often given by the webserver. Signed-off-by: Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-mirror · Jul 11, 2006 · 49da1da · 49da1da
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commit 49da1da
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.cgi b/gitweb/gitweb.cgi
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ if (! -d $git_temp) {
 # target of the home link on top of all pages
 our $home_link = $my_uri;
 
+# name of your site or organization to appear in page titles
+# replace this with something more descriptive for clearer bookmarks
+our $site_name = $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'} || "Untitled";
+
 # html text to include at home page
 our $home_text = "indextext.html";
 
@@ -280,7 +284,7 @@ sub git_header_html {
 	my $status = shift || "200 OK";
 	my $expires = shift;
 
-	my $title = "git";
+	my $title = "$site_name git";
 	if (defined $project) {
 		$title .= " - $project";
 		if (defined $action) {
@@ -1770,7 +1774,7 @@ sub git_opml {
 	print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n".
 	      "<opml version=\"1.0\">\n".
 	      "<head>".
-	      "  <title>Git OPML Export</title>\n".
+	      "  <title>$site_name Git OPML Export</title>\n".
 	      "</head>\n".
 	      "<body>\n".
 	      "<outline text=\"git RSS feeds\">\n";