repo2html

a command-line tool that turns git repositories in html pages

features

• static html files
• image support (we're working on this)
• svg support (we're working on this)
• markdown files are rendered as html (we're working on this)
• no background process (unless you're using this tool as a post-receive hook, then you only need git-daemon running)
• default repository view is an html-rendered README.md file

caveats

• binary file contents are just... shown
• directory tree is shown as a flat list of files, so git repositories with many files and directories will look awful
• no commit log (yet?)
• no line numbers (yet?)

disclaimer

no one is liable if this software breaks, deletes, corrupts, or ruins anything

requirements

• chicken scheme
• utf8 egg
• lowdown egg
• sxml-transforms egg
• clojurian egg
• git

note: if you have chicken scheme installed, then you can install the eggs above by running make dependencies as root.

compilation

chicken scheme runs faster if it's compiled to a binary file. by default, the binary is named repo2html, and is installed in /usr/local/bin.

to compile repo2html into a binary file, follow the steps below:

1. ensure you're in the repo2html git repository
2. run make dependencies as root
3. run make
4. run make install as root

installation

TODO

using repo2html as a post-receive hook

TODO

using repo2html as a standalone command-line utility

TODO

configuration

you can configure repo2html by changing environment variables in the post-receive hook file.

for details about the environment variables, refer to the list below:

• REPO2HTML_PREFIX: the web directory where repo2html generates static git repositories. for example, /var/www/git/.
• REPO2HTML_CLONE_URL: the url that people will use when downloading your git repository. if you have git-daemon set up, then you can prefix the url with git://. otherwise, prefix the url with http://. for example, git://git.example.com. note: avoid slashes at the end of the url.
• REPO2HTML_TITLE: the text that populates the <title> html tag.
• REPO2HTML_DESCRIPTION: a string that populates the description meta information about your git repository.
• REPO2HTML_H1: the text that populates the <h1> html tag.

how it works

TODO

todos

• update docs according to changes in 50bbb3686d37fc00c95aedde82bc7a58de53b410. m455 updated things a bit, but he wants to touch up on way more things documentation-wise according to the changes in this commit.
• e2e tutorial
• if no README.md file exists in the root directory of the repository, then don't create the "about" nav link. instead, make the files page the index.html
• add a "license" nav link if a LICENSE file exists in the root directory of the repository. if no LICENSE file exists, then don't create the "license" nav link
• add a "contributors" nav link

hopes

• clickable line numbers in source files
• make repos with more files and directories less daunting (recursively generate a files list page for each directory in a repo?)
• nav link: Releases