If you have a personal github page (username.github.io), you can create a folder inside this repository with your project name in lowercase, and inside that folder create an index.html redirecting to original url. As example: https://github.com/MiguelPynto/MiguelPynto.github.io/tree/master/shiftdisplay
This pre-commit hook will do the file size check: .git/hooks/pre-commit #!/bin/sh hard_limit=$(git config hooks.filesizehardlimit) soft_limit=$(git config hooks.filesizesoftlimit) : ${hard_limit:=10000000} : ${soft_limit:=500000} list_new_or_modified_files() { git diff –staged –name-status|sed -e ‘/^D/ d; /^D/! s/.\s\+//’ } unmunge() { local result=”${1#\”}” result=”${result%\”}” env echo -e “$result” } check_file_size() { n=0 while read -r munged_filename do f=”$(unmunge “$munged_filename”)” h=$(git ls-files … Read more
Add in your repo: a template of it (secret_token.rb.template), a script able to generate a proper config file secret_token.rb based on local data found on the server (like an encrypted file with the secret value ready to be decoded and put in the secret_token.rb file) From there, add a git attribute custom driver: The script … Read more
A static site cannot by definition support PHP. Static websites serve content directly from the web-server’s file-system exactly as stored. Dynamic websites generate content live per each request. The request is delegated to a running web-application that builds the content. What is a Static Website You might be interested in PieCrust. It is a static … Read more
On Dec 11, 2012 “Upload Releases” functionality aka “Downloads” was deprecated. https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads Update: On July 2, 2013 GitHub team announced a new “Releases” feature as a replacement for “Downloads” https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
Create a dummy index.html at the root and put this in your header: <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; url=https://repo.github.io/folder/index.html”> Be sure to change the destination URL. This will instantly redirect from index.html to your folder/index.html.
You can wget your way out of the GitHub repo to get a tar file (archive): wget –no-check-certificate https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz # better, if the certificate authorities are present: wget https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz will get you a file named ‘master’ from the user ‘User”s repo ‘repo’. The updated V3 API url is: https://api.github.com/repos/User/repo/:archive_format/:ref # # two possibilities for fomat: … Read more
Have you considered using GitPython? It’s designed to handle all this nonsense for you. import git g = git.cmd.Git(git_dir) g.pull() https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython