diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 07cab8f6a47d4e49fab4d4f68d6998b2e0fff74b..1ec90f53faeec949a1240bd362096f31426d3a68 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1578,32 +1578,32 @@ gitweb:
 	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)gitweb $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) all
 
 ifdef JSMIN
-GITWEB_PROGRAMS += gitweb/gitweb.min.js
-GITWEB_JS = gitweb/gitweb.min.js
+GITWEB_PROGRAMS += gitweb/static/gitweb.min.js
+GITWEB_JS = gitweb/static/gitweb.min.js
 else
-GITWEB_JS = gitweb/gitweb.js
+GITWEB_JS = gitweb/static/gitweb.js
 endif
 ifdef CSSMIN
-GITWEB_PROGRAMS += gitweb/gitweb.min.css
-GITWEB_CSS = gitweb/gitweb.min.css
+GITWEB_PROGRAMS += gitweb/static/gitweb.min.css
+GITWEB_CSS = gitweb/static/gitweb.min.css
 else
-GITWEB_CSS = gitweb/gitweb.css
+GITWEB_CSS = gitweb/static/gitweb.css
 endif
 OTHER_PROGRAMS +=  gitweb/gitweb.cgi  $(GITWEB_PROGRAMS)
 gitweb/gitweb.cgi: gitweb/gitweb.perl $(GITWEB_PROGRAMS)
 	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)gitweb $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) $(patsubst gitweb/%,%,$@)
 
 ifdef JSMIN
-gitweb/gitweb.min.js: gitweb/gitweb.js
+gitweb/static/gitweb.min.js: gitweb/static/gitweb.js
 	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)gitweb $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) $(patsubst gitweb/%,%,$@)
 endif # JSMIN
 ifdef CSSMIN
-gitweb/gitweb.min.css: gitweb/gitweb.css
+gitweb/static/gitweb.min.css: gitweb/static/gitweb.css
 	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)gitweb $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) $(patsubst gitweb/%,%,$@)
 endif # CSSMIN
 
 
-git-instaweb: git-instaweb.sh gitweb/gitweb.cgi gitweb/gitweb.css gitweb/gitweb.js
+git-instaweb: git-instaweb.sh gitweb/gitweb.cgi gitweb/static/gitweb.css gitweb/static/gitweb.js
 	$(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ $@+ && \
 	sed -e '1s|#!.*/sh|#!$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)|' \
 	    -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/$(GIT_VERSION)/g' \
diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL
index d484d76b753ef3d4ca0d75725e44f3c58ab2b482..823053173c92e4097dad54945db16f42b4b5d994 100644
--- a/gitweb/INSTALL
+++ b/gitweb/INSTALL
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ GIT web Interface (gitweb) Installation
 =======================================
 
 First you have to generate gitweb.cgi from gitweb.perl using
-"make gitweb", then copy appropriate files (gitweb.cgi, gitweb.js,
-gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png) to their destination.
-For example if git was (or is) installed with /usr prefix, you can do
+"make gitweb", then "make install-gitweb" appropriate files
+(gitweb.cgi, gitweb.js, gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png)
+to their destination. For example if git was (or is) installed with
+/usr prefix and gitwebdir is /var/www/cgi-bin, you can do
 
 	$ make prefix=/usr gitweb                            ;# as yourself
 	# make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin install-gitweb     ;# as root
@@ -81,16 +82,14 @@ Build example
   minifiers, you can do
 
 	make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/home/local/scm" \
-	     GITWEB_JS="/gitweb/gitweb.js" \
-	     GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb/gitweb.css" \
-	     GITWEB_LOGO="/gitweb/git-logo.png" \
-	     GITWEB_FAVICON="/gitweb/git-favicon.png" \
+	     GITWEB_JS="gitweb/static/gitweb.js" \
+	     GITWEB_CSS="gitweb/static/gitweb.css" \
+	     GITWEB_LOGO="gitweb/static/git-logo.png" \
+	     GITWEB_FAVICON="gitweb/static/git-favicon.png" \
 	     bindir=/usr/local/bin \
 	     gitweb
 
-	cp -fv gitweb/gitweb.{cgi,js,css} \
-	       gitweb/git-{favicon,logo}.png \
-	     /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/
+	make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb install-gitweb
 
 
 Gitweb config file
diff --git a/gitweb/Makefile b/gitweb/Makefile
index 935d2d2e0775234fc99a29fd5b7610978a00099f..d2584fedd8811a47c35d6f814c5b57e4a0fb2f2c 100644
--- a/gitweb/Makefile
+++ b/gitweb/Makefile
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ all::
 # Define V=1 to have a more verbose compile.
 #
 # Define JSMIN to point to JavaScript minifier that functions as
-# a filter to have gitweb.js minified.
+# a filter to have static/gitweb.js minified.
 #
 # Define CSSMIN to point to a CSS minifier in order to generate a minified
-# version of gitweb.css
+# version of static/gitweb.css
 #
 
 prefix ?= $(HOME)
@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT =
 GITWEB_BASE_URL =
 GITWEB_LIST =
 GITWEB_HOMETEXT = indextext.html
-GITWEB_CSS = gitweb.css
-GITWEB_LOGO = git-logo.png
-GITWEB_FAVICON = git-favicon.png
-GITWEB_JS = gitweb.js
+GITWEB_CSS = static/gitweb.css
+GITWEB_LOGO = static/git-logo.png
+GITWEB_FAVICON = static/git-favicon.png
+GITWEB_JS = static/gitweb.js
 GITWEB_SITE_HEADER =
 GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER =
 
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ PERL_PATH  ?= /usr/bin/perl
 # Shell quote;
 bindir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(bindir))#'
 gitwebdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitwebdir))#'
+gitwebstaticdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitwebdir)/static)#'
 SHELL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH))#'
 PERL_PATH_SQ  = $(subst ','\'',$(PERL_PATH))#'
 DESTDIR_SQ    = $(subst ','\'',$(DESTDIR))#'
@@ -88,26 +89,26 @@ all:: gitweb.cgi
 GITWEB_PROGRAMS = gitweb.cgi
 
 ifdef JSMIN
-GITWEB_FILES += gitweb.min.js
-GITWEB_JS = gitweb.min.js
-all:: gitweb.min.js
-gitweb.min.js: gitweb.js GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS
+GITWEB_FILES += static/gitweb.min.js
+GITWEB_JS = static/gitweb.min.js
+all:: static/gitweb.min.js
+static/gitweb.min.js: static/gitweb.js GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS
 	$(QUIET_GEN)$(JSMIN) <$< >$@
 else
-GITWEB_FILES += gitweb.js
+GITWEB_FILES += static/gitweb.js
 endif
 
 ifdef CSSMIN
-GITWEB_FILES += gitweb.min.css
-GITWEB_CSS = gitweb.min.css
-all:: gitweb.min.css
-gitweb.min.css: gitweb.css GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS
+GITWEB_FILES += static/gitweb.min.css
+GITWEB_CSS = static/gitweb.min.css
+all:: static/gitweb.min.css
+static/gitweb.min.css: static/gitweb.css GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS
 	$(QUIET_GEN)$(CSSMIN) <$ >$@
 else
-GITWEB_FILES += gitweb.css
+GITWEB_FILES += static/gitweb.css
 endif
 
-GITWEB_FILES += git-logo.png git-favicon.png
+GITWEB_FILES += static/git-logo.png static/git-favicon.png
 
 GITWEB_REPLACE = \
 	-e 's|++GIT_VERSION++|$(GIT_VERSION)|g' \
@@ -147,12 +148,13 @@ gitweb.cgi: gitweb.perl GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS
 install: all
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebdir_SQ)'
 	$(INSTALL) -m 755 $(GITWEB_PROGRAMS) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebdir_SQ)'
-	$(INSTALL) -m 644 $(GITWEB_FILES)    '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebdir_SQ)'
+	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebstaticdir_SQ)'
+	$(INSTALL) -m 644 $(GITWEB_FILES) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebstaticdir_SQ)'
 
 ### Cleaning rules
 
 clean:
-	$(RM) gitweb.cgi gitweb.min.js gitweb.min.css GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS
+	$(RM) gitweb.cgi static/gitweb.min.js static/gitweb.min.css GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS
 
 .PHONY: all clean install .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE FORCE
 
diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index 71742b335dd786a24699b06b17519e264724ea5b..0e19be8d216aa813221c8663d6424f96f80bfb14 100644
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -80,24 +80,26 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
    Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server
    (or to be more generic, the URI of gitweb stylesheet).  Relative to the
    base URI of gitweb.  Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from
-   the gitweb config file.  [Default: gitweb.css (or gitweb.min.css if the
-   CSSMIN variable is defined / CSS minifier is used)]
+   the gitweb config file.  [Default: static/gitweb.css (or
+   static/gitweb.min.css if the CSSMIN variable is defined / CSS minifier
+   is used)]
  * GITWEB_LOGO
    Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server
    (or to be more generic URI of logo, 72x27 size, displayed in top right
    corner of each gitweb page, and used as logo for Atom feed).  Relative
-   to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: git-logo.png]
+   to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: static/git-logo.png]
  * GITWEB_FAVICON
    Points to the location where you put git-favicon.png on your web server
    (or to be more generic URI of favicon, assumed to be image/png type;
    web browsers that support favicons (website icons) may display them
    in the browser's URL bar and next to site name in bookmarks).  Relative
-   to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: git-favicon.png]
+   to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: static/git-favicon.png]
  * GITWEB_JS
    Points to the localtion where you put gitweb.js on your web server
    (or to be more generic URI of JavaScript code used by gitweb).
-   Relative to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: gitweb.js (or gitweb.min.js
-   if JSMIN build variable is defined / JavaScript minifier is used)]
+   Relative to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: static/gitweb.js (or
+   static/gitweb.min.js if JSMIN build variable is defined / JavaScript
+   minifier is used)]
  * GITWEB_CONFIG
    This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' and can be used to override any
    of the options above as well as some other options -- see the "Runtime
diff --git a/gitweb/git-favicon.png b/gitweb/static/git-favicon.png
similarity index 100%
rename from gitweb/git-favicon.png
rename to gitweb/static/git-favicon.png
diff --git a/gitweb/git-logo.png b/gitweb/static/git-logo.png
similarity index 100%
rename from gitweb/git-logo.png
rename to gitweb/static/git-logo.png
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.css b/gitweb/static/gitweb.css
similarity index 100%
rename from gitweb/gitweb.css
rename to gitweb/static/gitweb.css
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.js b/gitweb/static/gitweb.js
similarity index 100%
rename from gitweb/gitweb.js
rename to gitweb/static/gitweb.js
diff --git a/t/gitweb-lib.sh b/t/gitweb-lib.sh
index 5a734b1b7b2df4a5c5c35f5347c618f3735317ac..b70b891b628d1e5d7fe68b4d303c17fdd0416981 100644
--- a/t/gitweb-lib.sh
+++ b/t/gitweb-lib.sh
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ our \$site_name = '[localhost]';
 our \$site_header = '';
 our \$site_footer = '';
 our \$home_text = 'indextext.html';
-our @stylesheets = ('file:///$TEST_DIRECTORY/../gitweb/gitweb.css');
-our \$logo = 'file:///$TEST_DIRECTORY/../gitweb/git-logo.png';
-our \$favicon = 'file:///$TEST_DIRECTORY/../gitweb/git-favicon.png';
+our @stylesheets = ('file:///$TEST_DIRECTORY/../gitweb/static/gitweb.css');
+our \$logo = 'file:///$TEST_DIRECTORY/../gitweb/static/git-logo.png';
+our \$favicon = 'file:///$TEST_DIRECTORY/../gitweb/static/git-favicon.png';
 our \$projects_list = '';
 our \$export_ok = '';
 our \$strict_export = '';