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Git instaweb

Tobias Kraze
November 30, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Git has a built-in repository viewer for your web browser. a bit similar (but less awesome) than github.

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If you have apache installed, simply go to your repository, and enter
git instaweb --httpd apache2
otherwise, simply install lighttpd and just run
git instaweb

This should open a brower automatically pointing to your repository. If not, try to connect to localhost:1234.

You can stop the server with
git instaweb --stop

Posted by Tobias Kraze to makandra dev (2011-11-30 16:23)