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# Stagit: a static git page generator

Last modification on 2021-04-11

stagit is a static page generator for git.

Read the README for more information about it.

My git repository uses stagit, you can see how it looks here:

https://codemadness.org/git/

## Features

* Log of all commits from HEAD.
* Log and diffstat per commit.
* Show file tree with linkable line numbers.
* Show references: local branches and tags.
* Detect README and LICENSE file from HEAD and link it as a webpage.
* Detect submodules (.gitmodules file) from HEAD and link it as a webpage.
* Atom feed of the commit log (atom.xml).
* Atom feed of the tags/refs (tags.xml).
* Make index page for multiple repositories with stagit-index.
* After generating the pages (relatively slow) serving the files is very fast,
  simple and requires little resources (because the content is static), only
  a HTTP file server is required.
* Security: all pages are static. No CGI or dynamic code is run for the
  interface. Using it with a secure httpd such as OpenBSD httpd it is
  privilege-separated, chroot(2)'d and pledge(2)'d.
* Simple to setup: the content generation is clearly separated from serving
  it. This makes configuration as simple as copying a few directories and
  scripts.
* Usable with text-browsers such as dillo, links, lynx and w3m.


## Cons

* Not suitable for large repositories (2000+ commits), because diffstats are
  an expensive operation, the cache (-c flag) or (-l maxlimit) is a workaround
  for this in some cases.
* Not suitable for large repositories with many files, because all files are
  written for each execution of stagit. This is because stagit shows the lines
  of textfiles and there is no "cache" for file metadata (this would add more
  complexity to the code).
* Not suitable for repositories with many branches, a quite linear history is
  assumed (from HEAD).

In these cases it is better to use »cgit« or

possibly change stagit to run as a CGI program.

* Relatively slow to run the first time (about 3 seconds for sbase,
  1500+ commits), incremental updates are faster.
* Does not support some of the dynamic features cgit has, like:
  * Snapshot tarballs per commit.
  * File tree per commit.
  * History log of branches diverged from HEAD.
  * Stats (git shortlog -s).

This is by design, just use git locally.


## Clone

        git clone git://git.codemadness.org/stagit


## Browse

You can browse the source-code at:

* https://git.codemadness.org/stagit/

* gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/stagit

## Download releases

Releases are available at:

* https://codemadness.org/releases/stagit/

* gopher://codemadness.org/1/releases/stagit