repo2html

a post-receive hook that generates an html view of a git repository.

features

• static html files
• no background process other than git-daemon
• default repository view is an html-rendered README.md file

caveats

• binary file contents are just... shown
• images don't render
• 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
• git

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

quickstart

on your server, run the following commands, changing anything occurs between angled brackets ("<" and ">"):
adduser git
mkdir /var/www/git
chown git:git /var/www/git
cp git-daemon.service /etc/systemd/system/
ufw allow 9418
systemctl enable --now git-daemon.service
su - git
mkdir projects
clone this repository
cd into this repository
sudo make dependencies
make
sudo make install
edit the post-receive file
cp post-receive <path/to/bare/git/repository>/hooks/
chmod u+x <path/to/bare/git/repository>/hooks/post-receive
then in a git repository on your local machine, run git remote add origin git@<example.com>:~/projects/<repository-name>
git push

compilation

sudo make dependencies
make
sudo make install

server setup

TODO (git user, ssh, ufw ports, web directory, git-daemon, mkdir /home/git/projects, post-receive hook, systemd service)

usage

TODO: just talk about how the post-receive hook works. shouldn't be too long

configuration

TODO: describe environment variables in post-receive hook

todos

• ☐ nav link: License (look for LICENSE file)
• ☐ nav link: Contributors

hopes

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

TODO