ceylinkeylan/git-server

git server stuff
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Scripts and hooks I use to create my stagit page among with other stuff such as
tarball creation and raw file serving.

This is the _incarnation_ of stagitbuild[1], which was one of my first shell
programs (I put it under VCS months after its creation). It rebuilt the whole
website on a git push (with tarball creation) which took up to 10 whole seconds.
It had terrible code quality and I tried fixing it, but it obviously needed a
rewrite.


setting up
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Using the scripts (not the hooks) require the '$GIT_CONFDIR' variable to be set
to this directory.

You will need to copy the default configuration and edit it to set your website
directory along with other configuration options, which are briefly explained
in the file itself.

  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | $ cp config.def config                                                   |
  | $ vi config                                                              |
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

If you want to manage an existing repository under this hook, you can do it by
linking its post-receive hook

  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | $ ln -sf $PWD/post-receive /path/to/repo/hooks/post-receive              |
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can also use the `mkrepo` script in order to create a new repository that is
meant to be managed by this program. The following example will create a
repository named 'awesome-repo' with the description 'This is descriptive'. It
will then create empty files named 'raw' and 'archive'.

  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | # Syntax: mkrepo [repo] [description] [file...]                          |
  | $ mkrepo awesome-repo "This is descriptive" raw archive                  |
  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+


special files
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The post-receive hook looks for certain files which changes the way the script
behaves. These files are as follows.

- raw     :: If this file exists, the script will create raw files out of every
             branch.

- archive :: If this file exists, the script will create archives out of every
             tag and every branch.

- mirrors :: If this file exists, the script will mirror the repository to
             every listed link. Example mirros file:

             +------------------------------------------------------------+
             | [email protected]:user/awesome-repo.git                       |
             | [email protected]:user/awesome.git                            |
             +------------------------------------------------------------+


- owner   :: Unless this file exists, the script will create its own as defined
             by the configuration.

- url     :: Unless this file exists, the script will create its own as defined
             by the configuration.

- hooks/post-receive.extra
  If this file exists, post-receive hook will source it after it is done.


dependencies
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These hooks obviously depend on
- git
- stagit[2]


references
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[1]: https://github.com/cemkeylan/stagitbuild
[2]: https://codemadness.org/git/stagit