fugitive README file

Info

fugitive is a blog engine running on top of git using hooks to generate static html pages and thus having only git as dependency.

Install

Build

If you want to build fugitive from the source, clone the git repository:
git clone git://gitorious.org/fugitive/fugitive.git fugitive
Then go in the newly created directory: cd fugitive, and run the build script: ./build.sh.
This will generate an executable file "fugitive".

Create a blog

If you have the "fugitive" executable file and want to start a new blog: Run fugitive --install <dir>.
This will create the git repos with appropriate hooks and files in <dir>.
If <dir> isn't specified then the current working directory is used.

Once you have installed your blog you need to set the blog-url parameter in your git configuration. See configuration for details.

You need to use the same process to install any remote repository where you'd like to push your blog.

Update

Run fugitive --install-hooks <dir>.
This will only (re)install fugitive hooks scripts.
If <dir> isn't specified then the current working directory is used.

Configuration

All this settings are in the "fugitive" section of the git config. You can change them with the command git config fugitive.parameter value, where parameter is one of the following:

blog-url
This is the public url of the generated blog. You need to set it as soon as possible since it's required for the RSS feed (and used in the default template's footer).
public-dir
This is the path to the directory that will contain the generated html files. Defautlt value is ".", the root of the git repository. You could set it to "blog" for instance if you already have a static website under your git repos.
articles-dir
This is the path where fugitive will look for published articles. Default value is "_articles". This path is relative to the root of the git repository, must be in it and must not start with ".".
templates-dire
This is the path where fugitive will look for templates files. Default value is "_templates". This path is relative to the root of the git repository, must be in it and must not start with ".".
preproc
If you want your article to be preprocessed by an external tool (markdown, textile...) you need to set preproc to a command line that will read on stdin and write to stdout.

You must NOT put a trailing '/' at the end of any of the path.

Usage

General use

Article you want to publish should be file without the .html extension in the articles-dir directory (see CONFIGURATION).

The first line of the file will be used as title and the rest of the file as the content.

DO NOT CREATE AN ARTICLE FILE NAMED "archives".
DO NOT CREATE AN ARTICLE FILE NAMED "index".

Template system

*TODO*