Look at my source!

Posted on 12th November, 2010 | Tagged:

I have just installed gitweb on my server and have made it possible to browse the source for this website, my travel website and possibly other projects later on.

The motivation for this was to allow potential employers to look at my work and so gauge my level of competence, although as this is a personal project the bar is not quite so high as it would be for a professional one, but that is as it is. Maybe this will encourage me to habitually write better quality code :)

Also Gitweb provides an RSS feed which I am now aggregating on to my "10 latest items" component, providing me with an extra channel of content.

My original plan was to write my own PHP API for GIT and then possibly to realise a source browser as a Symfony plugin. and I did spend a few hours coding the API and trying out the sfPHPUnit2 plugin for unit testing, but time is not on my side and getting GITWeb up-and-running was very, very simple with apt-get:

apt-get install gitweb

The install creates an alias /gitweb and restarts apache. So it is up with in 15 seconds of issuing the command. I then edited the /etc/gitweb.conf file to suit my needs.

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