garbash-stagit

garbash fork of stagit for git hosting with subdirs
git clone git://git.alexkarle.com.com/garbash-stagit
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      1 .Dd August 2, 2021
      2 .Dt STAGIT 1
      3 .Os
      4 .Sh NAME
      5 .Nm stagit
      6 .Nd static git page generator
      7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
      8 .Nm
      9 .Op Fl c Ar cachefile
     10 .Op Fl l Ar commits
     11 .Op Fl u Ar baseurl
     12 .Op Fl r Ar rooturl
     13 .Ar repodir
     14 .Sh DESCRIPTION
     15 .Nm
     16 writes HTML pages for the repository
     17 .Ar repodir
     18 to the current directory.
     19 .Pp
     20 The options are as follows:
     21 .Bl -tag -width Ds
     22 .It Fl c Ar cachefile
     23 Cache the entries of the log page up to the point of
     24 the last commit.
     25 The
     26 .Ar cachefile
     27 will store the last commit id and the entries in the HTML table.
     28 It is up to the user to make sure the state of the
     29 .Ar cachefile
     30 is in sync with the history of the repository.
     31 .It Fl l Ar commits
     32 Write a maximum number of
     33 .Ar commits
     34 to the log.html file only.
     35 However the commit files are written as usual.
     36 .It Fl u Ar baseurl
     37 Base URL to make links in the Atom feeds absolute.
     38 For example: "https://git.codemadness.org/stagit/".
     39 .It Fl r Ar rooturl
     40 Root URL to link to for the logo.
     41 Defaults to "..".
     42 .El
     43 .Pp
     44 The options
     45 .Fl c
     46 and
     47 .Fl l
     48 cannot be used at the same time.
     49 .Pp
     50 The following files will be written:
     51 .Bl -tag -width Ds
     52 .It atom.xml
     53 Atom XML feed of the last 100 commits.
     54 .It tags.xml
     55 Atom XML feed of the tags.
     56 .It files.html
     57 List of files in the latest tree, linking to the file.
     58 .It log.html
     59 List of commits in reverse chronological applied commit order, each commit
     60 links to a page with a diffstat and diff of the commit.
     61 .It refs.html
     62 Lists references of the repository such as branches and tags.
     63 .El
     64 .Pp
     65 For each entry in HEAD a file will be written in the format:
     66 file/filepath.html.
     67 This file will contain the textual data of the file prefixed by line numbers.
     68 The file will have the string "Binary file" if the data is considered to be
     69 non-textual.
     70 .Pp
     71 For each commit a file will be written in the format:
     72 commit/commitid.html.
     73 This file will contain the diffstat and diff of the commit.
     74 It will write the string "Binary files differ" if the data is considered to
     75 be non-textual.
     76 Too large diffs will be suppressed and a string
     77 "Diff is too large, output suppressed" will be written.
     78 .Pp
     79 When a commit HTML file exists it won't be overwritten again, note that if
     80 you've changed
     81 .Nm
     82 or changed one of the metadata files of the repository it is recommended to
     83 recreate all the output files because it will contain old data.
     84 To do this remove the output directory and
     85 .Ar cachefile ,
     86 then recreate the files.
     87 .Pp
     88 The basename of the directory is used as the repository name.
     89 The suffix ".git" is removed from the basename, this suffix is commonly used
     90 for "bare" repos.
     91 .Pp
     92 The content of the follow files specifies the metadata for each repository:
     93 .Bl -tag -width Ds
     94 .It .git/description or description (bare repo).
     95 description
     96 .It .git/owner or owner (bare repo).
     97 owner of repository
     98 .It .git/url or url (bare repo).
     99 primary clone URL of the repository, for example:
    100 git://git.codemadness.org/stagit
    101 .El
    102 .Pp
    103 When a README or LICENSE file exists in HEAD or a .gitmodules submodules file
    104 exists in HEAD a direct link in the menu is made.
    105 .Pp
    106 For changing the style of the page you can use the following files:
    107 .Bl -tag -width Ds
    108 .It favicon.png
    109 favicon image.
    110 .It logo.png
    111 32x32 logo.
    112 .It style.css
    113 CSS stylesheet.
    114 .El
    115 .Sh EXIT STATUS
    116 .Ex -std
    117 .Sh EXAMPLES
    118 .Bd -literal
    119 mkdir -p htmlroot/htmlrepo1 && cd htmlroot/htmlrepo1
    120 stagit path/to/gitrepo1
    121 # repeat for other repositories.
    122 .Ed
    123 .Pp
    124 To update the HTML files when the repository is changed a git post-receive hook
    125 can be used, see the file example_post-receive.sh for an example.
    126 .Sh SEE ALSO
    127 .Xr stagit-index 1
    128 .Sh AUTHORS
    129 .An Hiltjo Posthuma Aq Mt hiltjo@codemadness.org