The gitiles.config file supporting the site contains several configuration options.
The title of the site. Default: Gitiles.
[gitiles] siteTitle = Acme Inc. Git Browser
By default dates are formatted including the local user time zone as that matches git tools. Some users/administrators may prefer normalizing to a particular timezone so times are directly comparable without doing timezone arithmetic.
Setting fixedTimeZone to a valid Java TimeZone ID causes all dates in the UI to be implicitly converted to this timezone, and the now-redundant timezone offset to be dropped from the output.
[gitiles] fixedTimeZone = UTC
Gitiles sets the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to the HTTP origin of the client if the client's domain matches a regular expression defined in allowOriginRegex.
[gitiles] allowOriginRegex = http://localhost
By default allowOriginRegex is unset, denying all cross-origin requests.
Markdown can be completely disabled by setting render to false.
[markdown] render = false
Markdown files are limited by default to 5 MiB of input text per file. This limit is configurable, but should not be raised beyond available memory.
[markdown] inputLimit = 5M
Referenced images are inlined as base64 encoded URIs. The image limit places an upper bound on the byte size of input.
[markdown] imageLimit = 256K
The following extensions can be enabled/disabled in the markdown section:
githubFlavor: enable extensions that mirror GitHub Flavor Markdown behavior. Default is true.
autolink: automatically convert plain URLs and email addresses into links. Default follows githubFlavor.
blocknote: Gitiles style note/promo/aside blocks to raise awareness to important content. Default false.
ghthematicbreak: accept -- for <hr>, like GitHub Flavor Markdown. Default follows githubFlavor.
multicolumn: Gitiles extension to layout content in a 12 cell grid, delinated by section headers. Default false.
namedanchor: Gitiles extension to extract named anchors using #{id} syntax. Default false.
safehtml: Gitiles extension to accept very limited HTML; for security reasons all other HTML is dropped regardless of this setting. Default follows githubFlavor.
smartquote: Gitiles extension to convert single and double quote ASCII characters to Unicode smart quotes when in prose. Default false.
strikethrough: strikethrough text with GitHub Flavor Markdown style ~~. Default follows githubFlavor.
tables: format tables with GitHub Flavor Markdown. Default follows githubFlavor.
toc: Gitiles extension to replace [TOC] in a paragraph by itself with a server-side generated table of contents extracted from section headers. Default true.
IFrame support requires markdown.safehtml to be true.
IFrame source URLs can be whitelisted by providing a list of allowed URLs. URLs ending with a / are treated as prefixes, allowing any source URL beginning with that prefix.
[markdown] allowiframe = https://google.com/
URLs not ending with a / are treated as exact matches, and only those source URLs will be allowed.
[markdown] allowiframe = https://example.com allowiframe = https://example.org
If the list has a single entry with the value true, all source URLs will be allowed.
[markdown] allowiframe = true
Google Analytics can be enabled on every rendered markdown page by adding the Property ID to the configuration file:
[google] analyticsId = UA-XXXX-Y