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- libgit2 (v0.22+).
-- libc (tested with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, glibc and musl).
+- libc (tested with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux: glibc and musl).
- C compiler (C99).
- make
make install
+Extract owner field from git config
+-----------------------------------
+
+A way to extract the gitweb owner for example in the format:
+
+ [gitweb]
+ owner = Name here
+
+Script:
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+ awk '/^[ ]*owner[ ]=/ {
+ sub(/^[^=]*=[ ]*/, "");
+ print $0;
+ }'
+
+
+Set clone url for a directory of repos
+--------------------------------------
+ #!/bin/sh
+ cd "$dir"
+ for i in *; do
+ test -d "$i" && echo "git://git.codemadness.org/$i" > "$i/url"
+ done
+
+
+Update files on git push
+------------------------
+
+Using a post-receive hook the static files can be automatically updated.
+Keep in mind git push -f can change the history and the commits may need
+to be recreated. This is because stagit checks if a commit file already
+exists. It also has a cache (-c) option which can conflict with the new
+history. See stagit(1).
+
+git post-receive hook (repo/.git/hooks/post-receive):
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+ # detect git push -f
+ force=0
+ while read -r old new ref; do
+ hasrevs=$(git rev-list "$old" "^$new" | sed 1q)
+ if test -n "$hasrevs"; then
+ force=1
+ break
+ fi
+ done
+
+ # remove commits and .cache on git push -f
+ #if test "$force" = "1"; then
+ # ...
+ #fi
+
+ # see example_create.sh for normal creation of the files.
+
+
+Create .tar.gz archives by tag
+------------------------------
+ #!/bin/sh
+ name="stagit"
+ mkdir -p archives
+ git tag -l | while read -r t; do
+ f="archives/$name-$t.tar.gz"
+ test -f "$f" || git archive --format tar.gz "$t" -o "$f"
+ done
+
+
Features
--------
- After generating the pages (relatively slow) serving the files is very fast,
simple and requires little resources (because the content is static), only
a HTTP file server is required.
+- Usable with text-browsers such as dillo, links, lynx and w3m.
Cons
- Not suitable for repositories with many branches, a quite linear history is
assumed (from HEAD).
- Relatively slow to run the first time (about 3 seconds for sbase,
- 1500+ commits), incremental updates after it are faster.
+ 1500+ commits), incremental updates are faster.
- Does not support some of the dynamic features cgit has, like:
- snapshot tarballs.
- file tree per commit.