An interesting feature to implement if you want to avoid browsers is create-on-push like Sourcehut has. If you push to a non-existent SSH remote URL under your account, the repo will be created (you will have to go to the browser to set a description and visibility though). See https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/cool_sr_ht_feature/
Yeah, that’s definitely something I’d like to do. Right now, creating a repo is only doable via the command line, but it’s a separate step (rcpu -h shithub.us newrepo reponame)
But it would be nice to just push. Since I control both ends of the protocol, I can add a git9-mkrepo capability that the server respects, and a flag in the client to handle it. I just need a bit of time to implement it. The only real sticking point is that right now, the server sandboxes itself within the
repository before it starts processing user commands – which is hard to do if the repository doesn’t yet exist.
Not trivially: Cgit does not run on 9front. This is hosted with a completely custom git implementation and it’s a lot easier to cat a few files than to port cgit. Also, a lot more satisfying to be fully self hosted.
Ugh, that’s the name I use for github in conversation :(
Also: Thanks to everyone that helped out, especially phil9, who made massive improvements to the web UI.
An interesting feature to implement if you want to avoid browsers is create-on-push like Sourcehut has. If you push to a non-existent SSH remote URL under your account, the repo will be created (you will have to go to the browser to set a description and visibility though). See https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/cool_sr_ht_feature/
Yeah, that’s definitely something I’d like to do. Right now, creating a repo is only doable via the command line, but it’s a separate step (
rcpu -h shithub.us newrepo reponame)But it would be nice to just push. Since I control both ends of the protocol, I can add a
git9-mkrepocapability that the server respects, and a flag in the client to handle it. I just need a bit of time to implement it. The only real sticking point is that right now, the server sandboxes itself within the repository before it starts processing user commands – which is hard to do if the repository doesn’t yet exist.Minor UI nitpick: the site forces me to scroll sideways to read each line. My screen is 1024x768.
This made me chuckle. I understand the sentiment tho. The web is in a sad state these days.
I’m loving this content. For some reason I’ve really enjoyed exploring “alternative timelines” of tech. It’s mind expanding, like reading poetry.
Was the “web” interface written from scratch? Can cgit be used for this (https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/)?
Not trivially: Cgit does not run on 9front. This is hosted with a completely custom git implementation and it’s a lot easier to cat a few files than to port cgit. Also, a lot more satisfying to be fully self hosted.
Thanks for the reply.
You mean it can’t be compiled on plan9? (I have no idea what compilers plan9 has).
There are many APIs that it uses – like mmap – which plan 9 does not have or want. Plan 9 is not a posix environment.