stagit

static git page generator (mirror)
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      1 stagit
      2 ------
      3 
      4 static git page generator.
      5 
      6 It generates static HTML pages for a git repository.
      7 
      8 
      9 Usage
     10 -----
     11 
     12 Make files per repository:
     13 
     14 	$ mkdir -p htmldir && cd htmldir
     15 	$ stagit path-to-repo
     16 
     17 Make index file for repositories:
     18 
     19 	$ stagit-index repodir1 repodir2 repodir3 > index.html
     20 
     21 
     22 Build and install
     23 -----------------
     24 
     25 $ make
     26 # make install
     27 
     28 
     29 Dependencies
     30 ------------
     31 
     32 - C compiler (C99).
     33 - libc (tested with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux: glibc and musl).
     34 - libgit2 (v0.22+).
     35 - POSIX make (optional).
     36 
     37 
     38 Documentation
     39 -------------
     40 
     41 See man pages: stagit(1) and stagit-index(1).
     42 
     43 
     44 Building a static binary
     45 ------------------------
     46 
     47 It may be useful to build static binaries, for example to run in a chroot.
     48 
     49 It can be done like this at the time of writing (v0.24):
     50 
     51 cd libgit2-src
     52 
     53 # change the options in the CMake file: CMakeLists.txt
     54 BUILD_SHARED_LIBS to OFF (static)
     55 CURL to OFF              (not needed)
     56 USE_SSH OFF              (not needed)
     57 THREADSAFE OFF           (not needed)
     58 USE_OPENSSL OFF          (not needed, use builtin)
     59 
     60 mkdir -p build && cd build
     61 cmake ../
     62 make
     63 make install
     64 
     65 
     66 Extract owner field from git config
     67 -----------------------------------
     68 
     69 A way to extract the gitweb owner for example in the format:
     70 
     71 	[gitweb]
     72 		owner = Name here
     73 
     74 Script:
     75 
     76 	#!/bin/sh
     77 	awk '/^[ 	]*owner[ 	]=/ {
     78 		sub(/^[^=]*=[ 	]*/, "");
     79 		print $0;
     80 	}'
     81 
     82 
     83 Set clone url for a directory of repos
     84 --------------------------------------
     85 	#!/bin/sh
     86 	cd "$dir"
     87 	for i in *; do
     88 		test -d "$i" && echo "git://git.codemadness.org/$i" > "$i/url"
     89 	done
     90 
     91 
     92 Update files on git push
     93 ------------------------
     94 
     95 Using a post-receive hook the static files can be automatically updated.
     96 Keep in mind git push -f can change the history and the commits may need
     97 to be recreated. This is because stagit checks if a commit file already
     98 exists. It also has a cache (-c) option which can conflict with the new
     99 history. See stagit(1).
    100 
    101 git post-receive hook (repo/.git/hooks/post-receive):
    102 
    103 	#!/bin/sh
    104 	# detect git push -f
    105 	force=0
    106 	while read -r old new ref; do
    107 		hasrevs=$(git rev-list "$old" "^$new" | sed 1q)
    108 		if test -n "$hasrevs"; then
    109 			force=1
    110 			break
    111 		fi
    112 	done
    113 
    114 	# remove commits and .cache on git push -f
    115 	#if test "$force" = "1"; then
    116 	# ...
    117 	#fi
    118 
    119 	# see example_create.sh for normal creation of the files.
    120 
    121 
    122 Create .tar.gz archives by tag
    123 ------------------------------
    124 	#!/bin/sh
    125 	name="stagit"
    126 	mkdir -p archives
    127 	git tag -l | while read -r t; do
    128 		f="archives/${name}-$(echo "${t}" | tr '/' '_').tar.gz"
    129 		test -f "${f}" && continue
    130 		git archive \
    131 			--format tar.gz \
    132 			--prefix "${t}/" \
    133 			-o "${f}" \
    134 			-- \
    135 			"${t}"
    136 	done
    137 
    138 
    139 Features
    140 --------
    141 
    142 - Log of all commits from HEAD.
    143 - Log and diffstat per commit.
    144 - Show file tree with linkable line numbers.
    145 - Show references: local branches and tags.
    146 - Detect README and LICENSE file from HEAD and link it as a webpage.
    147 - Detect submodules (.gitmodules file) from HEAD and link it as a webpage.
    148 - Atom feed log (atom.xml).
    149 - Make index page for multiple repositories with stagit-index.
    150 - After generating the pages (relatively slow) serving the files is very fast,
    151   simple and requires little resources (because the content is static), only
    152   a HTTP file server is required.
    153 - Usable with text-browsers such as dillo, links, lynx and w3m.
    154 
    155 
    156 Cons
    157 ----
    158 
    159 - Not suitable for large repositories (2000+ commits), because diffstats are
    160   an expensive operation, the cache (-c flag) is a workaround for this in
    161   some cases.
    162 - Not suitable for large repositories with many files, because all files are
    163   written for each execution of stagit. This is because stagit shows the lines
    164   of textfiles and there is no "cache" for file metadata (this would add more
    165   complexity to the code).
    166 - Not suitable for repositories with many branches, a quite linear history is
    167   assumed (from HEAD).
    168 
    169   In these cases it is better to just use cgit or possibly change stagit to
    170   run as a CGI program.
    171 
    172 - Relatively slow to run the first time (about 3 seconds for sbase,
    173   1500+ commits), incremental updates are faster.
    174 - Does not support some of the dynamic features cgit has, like:
    175   - Snapshot tarballs per commit.
    176   - File tree per commit.
    177   - History log of branches diverged from HEAD.
    178   - Stats (git shortlog -s).
    179 
    180   This is by design, just use git locally.