meson_options.txt

# Configuration for how Git behaves at runtime.
option('default_pager', type: 'string', value: 'less',
  description: 'Fall-back pager.')
option('default_editor', type: 'string', value: 'vi',
  description: 'Fall-back editor.')
option('gitconfig', type: 'string', value: '/etc/gitconfig',
  description: 'Path to the global git configuration file.')
option('gitattributes', type: 'string', value: '/etc/gitattributes',
  description: 'Path to the global git attributes file.')
option('pager_environment', type: 'string', value: 'LESS=FRX LV=-c',
  description: 'Environment used when spawning the pager')
option('perl_cpan_fallback', type: 'boolean', value: true,
  description: 'Install bundled copies of CPAN modules that serve as a fallback in case the modules are not available on the system.')
option('runtime_prefix', type: 'boolean', value: false,
  description: 'Resolve ancillary tooling and support files relative to the location of the runtime binary instead of hard-coding them into the binary.')
option('sane_tool_path', type: 'array', value: [],
  description: 'An array of paths to pick up tools from in case the normal tools are broken or lacking.')

# Build information compiled into Git and other parts like documentation.
option('build_date', type: 'string', value: '',
  description: 'Build date reported by our documentation.')
option('built_from_commit', type: 'string', value: '',
  description: 'Commit that Git was built from reported by git-version(1).')
option('user_agent', type: 'string', value: '',
  description: 'User agent reported to remote servers.')
option('version', type: 'string', value: '',
  description: 'Version string reported by git-version(1) and other tools.')

# Features supported by Git.
option('contrib', type: 'array', value: [ 'completion' ], choices: [ 'completion', 'contacts', 'subtree' ],
  description: 'Contributed features to include.')
option('credential_helpers', type: 'array', value: [ ], choices: [ 'libsecret', 'netrc', 'osxkeychain', 'wincred' ],
  description: 'Contributed features to include.')
option('curl', type: 'feature', value: 'enabled',
  description: 'Build helpers used to access remotes with the HTTP transport.')
option('expat', type: 'feature', value: 'enabled',
  description: 'Build helpers used to push to remotes with the HTTP transport.')
option('gettext', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Build translation files.')
option('gitweb', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Build Git web interface. Requires Perl.')
option('iconv', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Support reencoding strings with different encodings.')
option('pcre2', type: 'feature', value: 'enabled',
  description: 'Support Perl-compatible regular expressions in e.g. git-grep(1).')
option('perl', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Build tools written in Perl.')
option('python', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Build tools written in Python.')
option('regex', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Use the system-provided regex library instead of the bundled one.')

# Backends.
option('csprng_backend', type: 'combo', value: 'auto', choices: ['auto', 'arc4random', 'arc4random_bsd', 'getrandom', 'getentropy', 'rtlgenrandom', 'openssl', 'urandom'],
  description: 'The backend to use for generating cryptographically-secure pseudo-random numbers.')
option('https_backend', type: 'combo', value: 'auto', choices: ['auto', 'openssl', 'CommonCrypto', 'none'],
  description: 'The HTTPS backend to use when connecting to remotes.')
option('sha1_backend', type: 'combo', choices: ['openssl', 'block', 'sha1dc', 'CommonCrypto'], value: 'sha1dc',
  description: 'The backend used for hashing objects with the SHA1 object format.')
option('sha1_unsafe_backend', type: 'combo', choices: ['openssl', 'block', 'CommonCrypto', 'none'], value: 'none',
  description: 'The backend used for hashing data with the SHA1 object format in case no cryptographic security is needed.')
option('sha256_backend', type: 'combo', choices: ['openssl', 'nettle', 'gcrypt', 'block'], value: 'block',
  description: 'The backend used for hashing objects with the SHA256 object format.')
option('zlib_backend', type: 'combo', choices: ['auto', 'zlib', 'zlib-ng'], value: 'auto',
  description: 'The backend used for compressing objects and other data.')

# Build tweaks.
option('breaking_changes', type: 'boolean', value: false,
  description: 'Enable upcoming breaking changes.')
option('macos_use_homebrew_gettext', type: 'boolean', value: true,
  description: 'Use gettext from Homebrew instead of the slightly-broken system-provided one.')

# gitweb configuration.
option('gitweb_config', type: 'string', value: 'gitweb_config.perl')
option('gitweb_config_system', type: 'string', value: '/etc/gitweb.conf')
option('gitweb_config_common', type: 'string', value: '/etc/gitweb-common.conf')
option('gitweb_home_link_str', type: 'string', value: 'projects')
option('gitweb_sitename', type: 'string', value: '')
option('gitweb_projectroot', type: 'string', value: '/pub/git')
option('gitweb_project_maxdepth', type: 'string', value: '2007')
option('gitweb_export_ok', type: 'string', value: '')
option('gitweb_strict_export', type: 'string', value: '')
option('gitweb_base_url', type: 'string', value: '')
option('gitweb_list', type: 'string', value: '')
option('gitweb_hometext', type: 'string', value: 'indextext.html')
option('gitweb_css', type: 'string', value: 'static/gitweb.css')
option('gitweb_logo', type: 'string', value: 'static/git-logo.png')
option('gitweb_favicon', type: 'string', value: 'static/git-favicon.png')
option('gitweb_js', type: 'string', value: 'static/gitweb.js')
option('gitweb_site_html_head_string', type: 'string', value: '')
option('gitweb_site_header', type: 'string', value: '')
option('gitweb_site_footer', type: 'string', value: '')
option('highlight_bin', type: 'string', value: 'highlight')

# Documentation.
option('docs', type: 'array', choices: ['man', 'html'], value: [],
  description: 'Which documenattion formats to build and install.')
option('default_help_format', type: 'combo', choices: ['man', 'html'], value: 'man',
  description: 'Default format used when executing git-help(1).')
option('docs_backend', type: 'combo', choices: ['asciidoc', 'asciidoctor', 'auto'], value: 'auto',
  description: 'Which backend to use to generate documentation.')

# Testing.
option('coccinelle', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
  description: 'Provide a coccicheck target that generates a Coccinelle patch.')
option('tests', type: 'boolean', value: true,
  description: 'Enable building tests. This requires Perl, but is separate from the "perl" option such that you can build tests without Perl features enabled.')
option('test_output_directory', type: 'string',
  description: 'Path to the directory used to store test outputs')
option('test_utf8_locale', type: 'string',
  description: 'Name of a UTF-8 locale used for testing.')
option('fuzzers', type: 'boolean', value: false,
  description: 'Enable building fuzzers.')