commit: c226554b64a9529296b690d827966ccf139336bd
parent ef3f1ef854936fc254da5375f69f58dad4e69ca6
Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:05:45 +0100
improve README
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -1,30 +1,62 @@
+stagit
+======
+
+static git page generator
+
Usage
-----
-mkdir -p htmldir
-cd htmldir
-stagit path-to-repo
+Make files per repository:
+
+ $ mkdir -p htmldir && cd htmldir
+ $ stagit path-to-repo
+
+Make index file for repositories:
+
+ $ stagit-index repodir1 repodir2 repodir3 > index.html
Install
-------
+
$ make
# doas make install
Dependencies
------------
+
- libgit2 (v0.22+).
- C compiler
- make
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+$ man stagit
+$ man stagit-index
+
+
Features
--------
+- Log of all commits.
- Log and diffstat per commit.
-- Show file tree.
-- Detect README and LICENSE file to make a webpage.
-- Atom feed git log.
-- Make index page for multiple repositories.
+- Show file tree with linkable line numbers.
+- Detect README and LICENSE file from HEAD and link it as a webpage.
+- Atom feed log.
+- 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.
+
+
+Cons
+----
+
+- Not suitable for large repositories (2000+ commits).
+- Not suitable for repositories with many branches, a quite linear history is assumed.
+- Relatively slow to run the first time (about 3 seconds for sbase, 1500+ commits),
+ incremental updates after it are faster.
diff --git a/example.sh b/example.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#
# Usage:
# - mkdir -p htmldir && cd htmldir
-# - sh example.sh repo-dir
+# - sh example.sh
set -e
