PushHub

A github inspired interface to browse your Git repositories, built on top of Express and Pushover.

Installation

npm install pushhub

or

git clone http://github.com/shinuza/pushhub.git
cd pushhub
npm link

Features

• Github like presentation of your repositories
• Simple and quick set-up
• Automatic remote folder creation
• Command-line setup
• Javascript API
• Git http interface

Requirements

• Git 1.7.x
• Node.js

Usage

Pushhub is a pluggable Express app, therefore the set-up is very flexible

A) CLI: using the built-in binary

Pushhub comes with a binary, probably the simplest way to serve your Git repositories To get the pushhub command, make sure to install with the -g flag:

npm install pushhub -g

And then

pushhub --port 3000 --host localhost --directory ~/repos

point your browser to http://localhost:3000/ to see your repositories.

Note: PushHub is compatible with forever

B) JS API:

First run

npm install pushhub

Then in app.js

var pushhub = require('pushhub');
pushhub.set('git root', __dirname); // You will find a list of available settings below
pushhub.listen(3000);

And then

node app.js

Note: PushHub is compatible with up

C) JS API: With an existing Express app

You can also use PushHub in an existing Express app. Let's say you already have a website at http://localhost and blog at http://localhost/blog/, you can mount PushHub to http:/localhost/git by doing the following.

In app.js

var express = require('express');
var pushhub = require('pushhub');
var app = express();
 
// ...
 
app.use('/git', pushhub);
app.listen(3000);

And then

node app.js

Settings

A) CLI

Usage: pushhub [options]

The pushhub command accepts the following options:

• -p/--port

  • the port to listen on.
  • Defaults to 3000.

• -h/--host

  • the host to listen on.
  • Defaults to localhost.

• -d/--directory

  • the directory containing your git repositories.
  • Defaults to cwd. The node process needs read/write access to this directory

B) JS API

PushHub being an Express application, it can be configured with app.set(name[, val])

Here is a list of the relevant options:

• git root

  • the directory containing your git repositories.
  • Defaults to process.cwd().

• history by page

  • the number of commits to display on a commit history page
  • Defaults to 10.

• views

• The directory where express will look for the views, can be used to custom the templates (no recommended).

• Defaults to /path/to/node_modules/pushhub. The node process needs read/write access to this directory

Authentication

PushHub doesn't come with built-in authentication. It's otherwise very easy to set-up authentication in front of it. Basic Auth works well with both http and git interfaces.

Known Issues

• Pushover doesn't emit a create event, I've proposed a patch but in the meantime I use pushover as a dependency

Running the tests

cd /path/to/pushhub
git clone http://github.com/shinuza/pushhub-test test/sandbox/pushhub-test
npm test

Roadmap

• Readme handling
• HTTPS
• Diffs
• Look'n'feel