[users] Any live gmnigit capsules?

[Byron Torres]

9 Dec 2021 08:51:43 Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>:

> "Byron Torres" <b@torresjrjr.com> writes:
>
>> Does anyone know of a live [gmnigit] instance? I'd like to see one for
>> myself.
>>
>> I've been looking for a Gemini version of [stagit], and I came across
>> gmnigit from the [archives]. The author's entire website and capsule,
>> including the supposed gmnigit [demo], is down.
>>
>> => https://git.sr.ht/~kornellapacz/gmnigit gmnigit
>> => https://codemadness.org/stagit.html stagit
>> => https://mailing-list-archive.gemi.dev/www/2021/006404.html archives
>> => gemini://lapacz-kornel.dev/git/gmnigit/ demo
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using gmnigit at:
>
>     gemini://git.omarpolo.com
>
> and gitolite to manage the repositories.  My setup is like this: in
> gitolite.conf I have a rule like:
>
> repo @gemini
>     option hook.post-receive = gmnigit
>
> and then a bunch of repositories using that rule
>
> @gemini = a68-mode
> @gemini = acmetag
> @gemini = blog
> @gemini = dots
> # ...
>
> In gitolite-admin/local/hooks/repo-specific/gmnigit I have
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> while read -r _ _ ref; do
>     if [ "$ref" != "refs/heads/master" -a \
>          "$ref" != "refs/heads/main" ]; then
>         continue
>     fi
>
>     name="$(basename $PWD)"
>     gmnigit -repo . \
>         -refs \
>         -name "${name%%.git}" \
>         -dist ~/public/"${name%%.git}" \
>         -url "https://git.omarpolo.com/${name}"
>     if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>         echo "gmnigit failed for $PWD (ref=$ref)"
>         exit 1
>     fi
> done
>
> that generates the repositories.
>
> My only annoyance with gmnigit is its speed: it could save some time by
> limiting the number of commits exported, like the last 500 or so, but it
> currently exports all of them and that could take a while for medium
> repositories.
>
> Overall thought, I'm happy about it, it's been working fine for various
> months already.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Omar Polo

Thank you for the in-depth review,
and for sharing your script.

Perhaps gmnigit doesn't use cache. idk.

I wish stagit et al. supported a "projects"
meta-index page natively, though I suppose
taking advantage of their composability might
be enough to make my own.