Support language detection and syntax highlighting in legacy versions of gitweb(1).
Legacy versions of Gitweb lack support for language detection and syntax highlighting, an important feature found in modern VCS repository web UIs. For many, upgrading major versions is risky, time consuming, and prone to downtime.
gitweb.js is a microlibrary that provides customizable support for language detection and syntax highlighting by using highlight.js and jQuery.
By default, language support is provided for:
- C
- C++
- CSS
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Perl
- PHP
- Ruby
All languages have at least one file type that can be directly associated with
source files of the given language. Likewise, many languages have multiple file
types that should be recognized as the same language. An example would be in PHP,
where .php, .php5, and .phtml are all valid PHP file types.
gitweb.js provides support for detecting and highlighting file types associated with a primary file type.