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git-site-gen AKA gsg

Design Goals

  • General purpose/easy to use
  • Easy to hack/customize
  • Small library dependency footprint

Features

DONE:

  • Generate top level index with links to all projects
  • Generate project specific index with links to git log/diffs and file content of repo
  • Extremely basic markdown parser (only supports headings, non nested bullets, backticks code blocks, links and strikethru)
  • Line numbers for file browsing
  • Diff highlighting for log
  • Show git:// address for cloning (configurable via config file)
  • Support detection of misconfig of config file (pretty basic at this stage)
  • Detects binary files

TODO:

  • Show last commit time in top level index
  • Link to view raw file
  • Get diff stat for top of log index links
  • Code needs to be more robust / handle failure cases
  • Need to recurse git home, right now will only pull dirs in root of git home
  • README.md markdown renderer/parser / display in project index (Halfway / in progress)
  • (Stretch Goal) HTML based syntax highlighting for files
  • View history of files
  • Add support for displaying difference branches
  • Figure out more efficient/faster detection of binary files

Layout

  • gsg -- Perl script to generate the site, uses modules below
  • Gsg::Gather.pm -- module to assemble data structures from git trees that need to be obtained as part of generating the site
  • Gsg::Html.pm -- probably a bad name, used for writing HTML files and/or editing text in other data structures with html content
  • Gsg::MdParse.pm -- module for parsing markdown. Likely a fools errand to be writing this myself but I'd like to try
  • Gsg::ConfigParse.pm -- module to parse gsg config, might be overkill to have it's own module
  • gsg.config -- Config file that gsg reads to inform behavior (git repos dir, what to include/exclude, etc)

Deps/Compatibility

How to use

  1. Clone this repo and run the install script ( must have also cloned/installed aforementioned Shellex dep )
  2. Edit the config file with your desired params or create one and pass it in with gsg --config-file $path_to_config , delete any that you are not using
  3. Run ./gsg

Contributions/Issues/Bugs

Reach out to me at via email at pm dot me, spesk@. If it turns out that people actually want to use this I'll move it to another git host that provides more features for a collaborative workflow.

License

GPLv3 - see LICENSE.md