improve documentation - stagit - static git page generator
(HTM) git clone git://git.codemadness.org/stagit
(DIR) Log
(DIR) Files
(DIR) Refs
(DIR) README
(DIR) LICENSE
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(DIR) commit 8eabe24bdda7003453bbd034d82ebc479e2c76bc
(DIR) parent e9e7978381a2b3567902420d5ea1539d3c695b31
(HTM) Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 14:38:39 +0200
improve documentation
- add example to README to extract gitweb.owner from a git config.
this is used in gitweb and some cgit configurations.
- fix (new) mandoc warnings (new sentence on each line).
- improve some texts in the man pages, sort / structure some list items.
Diffstat:
M README | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
M stagit-index.1 | 13 +++++++------
M stagit.1 | 47 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
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(DIR) diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -61,6 +61,23 @@ make
make install
+Extract owner field from git config
+-----------------------------------
+
+A (hacky) way to extract the gitweb owner for example in the format:
+
+ [gitweb]
+ owner = Name here
+
+Script:
+
+ #!/bin/sh
+ awk '/^[ ]*owner[ ]=/ {
+ sub(/^[^=]*=[ ]*/, "");
+ print $0;
+ }'
+
+
Features
--------
@@ -86,7 +103,7 @@ 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.
(DIR) diff --git a/stagit-index.1 b/stagit-index.1
@@ -10,13 +10,14 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
will create an index HTML page for the repositories specified and writes
-the HTML data to stdout. The repos in the index are in the same order as
-the arguments
+the HTML data to stdout.
+The repos in the index are in the same order as the arguments
.Ar repodir
specified.
.Pp
-The basename of the directory is used as the name. The suffix ".git" is
-removed from the basename, this is commonly used for "bare" repos.
+The basename of the directory is used as the repository name.
+The suffix ".git" is removed from the basename, this suffix is commonly used
+for "bare" repos.
.Pp
The content of the follow files specifies the meta data for each repository:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
@@ -28,10 +29,10 @@ owner of repository
.Pp
For changing the style of the page you can use the following files:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It logo.png
-32x32 logo.
.It favicon.png
favicon image.
+.It logo.png
+32x32 logo.
.It style.css
CSS stylesheet.
.El
(DIR) diff --git a/stagit.1 b/stagit.1
@@ -14,51 +14,58 @@ writes HTML pages for the repository
.Ar repodir
to the current directory.
.Pp
-Optionally the
-.Fl c Ar cachefile
-option can be used to cache the entries of the log page up to the point of
-the last commit. The
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl c Ar cachefile
+Cache the entries of the log page up to the point of
+the last commit.
+The
.Ar cachefile
-will store the last commit id and the entries in the HTML table. It is up
-to the user to make sure the state of the
+will store the last commit id and the entries in the HTML table.
+It is up to the user to make sure the state of the
.Ar cachefile
is in sync with the history of the repository.
+.El
.Pp
The following files will be written:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It atom.xml
Atom XML feed
.It files.html
-List of files in the latest HEAD commit, linking to the file.
+List of files in the latest tree, linking to the file.
.It log.html
List of commits in order of most recent to old of the commits (top to bottom),
-each commit links to a page with a diff and diffstat of the commit.
+each commit links to a page with a diffstat and diff of the commit.
.It refs.html
Lists references of the repository such as branches and tags.
.El
.Pp
For each entry in HEAD a file will be written in the format:
-file/filepath.html. This file will contain the textual data of the file
-prefixed by line numbers. The file will have the string "Binary file"
-if the data is considered to be non-textual.
+file/filepath.html.
+This file will contain the textual data of the file prefixed by line numbers.
+The file will have the string "Binary file" if the data is considered to be
+non-textual.
.Pp
For each commit a file will be written in the format:
-commit/commitid.html. This file will contain the diff and diffstat of the
-commit. It will write the string "Binary files differ" if the data is
-considered to be non-textual. Too large diffs will be suppressed and a string
+commit/commitid.html.
+This file will contain the diffstat and diff of the commit.
+It will write the string "Binary files differ" if the data is considered to
+be non-textual.
+Too large diffs will be suppressed and a string
"Diff is too large, output suppressed" will be written.
.Pp
When a commit HTML file exists it won't be overwritten again, note that if
you've changed
.Nm
or changed one of the metadata files of the repository it is recommended to
-recreate all the output files because it will contain old data. To do this
-remove the output directory and
+recreate all the output files because it will contain old data.
+To do this remove the output directory and
.Ar cachefile ,
then recreate the files.
.Pp
-The basename of the directory is used as the name. The suffix ".git" is
-removed from the basename, this is commonly used for "bare" repos.
+The basename of the directory is used as the repository name.
+The suffix ".git" is removed from the basename, this suffix is commonly used
+for "bare" repos.
.Pp
The content of the follow files specifies the metadata for each repository:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
@@ -75,10 +82,10 @@ exists in HEAD a direct link in the menu is made.
.Pp
For changing the style of the page you can use the following files:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It logo.png
-32x32 logo.
.It favicon.png
favicon image.
+.It logo.png
+32x32 logo.
.It style.css
CSS stylesheet.
.El