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Eric Sunshine 93b161c23e views: fix broken URLs involving hierarchical branch names
Git branch names can be hierarchical (for example, "wip/parser/fix"),
however, git-arr does not take this into account when formulating URLs
on branch, tree, and blobs pages. These URLs are dysfunctional because
it is assumed incorrectly that a single "../" is sufficient to climb
over the branch name when computing relative paths to resources higher
in the hierarchy. This problem manifests as failure to load static
resources (stylesheet, etc.), broken links to commits on branch pages,
and malfunctioning breadcrumb trails.

Fix this problem by computing the the proper number of "../" based upon
the branch name, rather than assuming that a single "../" will work
unconditionally. (This is analogous to the treatment already given to
hierarchical pathnames in tree and blob views.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
2015-01-11 21:18:22 +00:00
hooks Add a post-receive hook 2013-03-12 22:09:25 +00:00
static Show the age of a repository in the index, via javascript 2013-11-02 22:18:33 +00:00
views views: fix broken URLs involving hierarchical branch names 2015-01-11 21:18:22 +00:00
.gitignore Initial commit 2012-11-10 17:49:54 +00:00
git-arr repo: diff: add option to show "creation event" diff for root commit 2015-01-11 21:18:22 +00:00
git.py repo: diff: add option to show "creation event" diff for root commit 2015-01-11 21:18:22 +00:00
LICENSE Initial commit 2012-11-10 17:49:54 +00:00
README Add a note about pygments in the README 2012-11-21 00:29:43 +00:00
sample.conf repo: diff: add option to show "creation event" diff for root commit 2015-01-11 21:18:22 +00:00
TODO Initial commit 2012-11-10 17:49:54 +00:00
utils.py Enable line number anchors when using pygments HtmlFormatter 2014-07-03 00:56:19 +01:00

git-arr - A git repository browser
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git-arr is a git repository browser that can generate static HTML instead of
having to run dynamically.

It is smaller, with less features and a different set of tradeoffs than
other similar software, so if you're looking for a robust and featureful git
browser, please look at gitweb or cgit instead.

However, if you want to generate static HTML at the expense of features, then
it's probably going to be useful.

It's open source under the MIT licence, please see the LICENSE file for more
information.


Getting started
---------------

You will need Python, and the bottle.py framework (the package is usually
called python-bottle in most distributions).

If pygments is available, it will be used for syntax highlighting, otherwise
everything will work fine, just in black and white.


First, create a configuration file for your repositories. You can start by
copying sample.conf, which has the list of the available options.

Then, to generate the output to "/var/www/git-arr/" directory, run:

  $ ./git-arr --config config.conf generate --output /var/www/git-arr/

That's it!

The first time you generate, depending on the size of your repositories, it
can take some time. Subsequent runs should take less time, as it is smart
enough to only generate what has changed.


You can also use git-arr dynamically, although it's not its intended mode of
use, by running:

  $ ./git-arr --config config.conf serve

That can be useful when making changes to the software itself.


Contact
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If you want to report bugs, send patches, or have any questions or comments,
just let me know at albertito@blitiri.com.ar.