# gitblogger 5 messages from 2010-05-20 to 2010-05-21. Participants: Andy Parkins, Ping Yin, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23858 ## Andy Parkins, 2010-05-20 17:29 Subject: gitblogger Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ht3reo%24b6i%241%40dough.gmane.org ``` Hello, Just a small announcement of a little project I just published. Normally I wouldn't bother troubling you all, but I thought whoever it was wrote the key feature (git-notes) might appreciate knowing it was being used... I've been wanting for a while to keep my blog in git (in fact I did do so, except it was a full ikiwiki installation, but ikiwiki is so slow, and meant I had to use my own computer to host my blog). What I wanted was to have a post-receive hook that automatically compiled the markdown-syntax source files to HTML articles and posted them to my blogger account. However, I wanted to be able to modify, rename, delete, etc, etc the local files while keeping the remote end in sync. I was motivated to write the necessary script when I noticed that git 1.7 comes with shiny git-notes support. This is just what I needed -- when you post an article to blogger using the GData API, it gives you back a freshly assigned post ID. That post ID is the only (reliable) way you have of keeping track of the link between the remote article and the local file that generated it. My script grabs that ID and uses git-notes to store it against the object hash of the original article file. Then, when you change that article in the repository (git diff-tree is a godsend by the way), it's a simply matter of using git-notes again to look up the postID and send the appropriate GData command to update that article. Summary: git-notes... excellent, exactly the tool I needed. If you write a blog and would prefer git + markdown for maintaining it over HTML in a web interface, the repository is at http://gitorious.org/git_blogger Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins andyparkins@gmail.com ``` ## Ping Yin, 2010-05-21 02:00 Subject: Re: gitblogger Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTilpaRyrIgHN5eK_jRFJoukOSYlyEMwU1-LdGT0K%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Andy Parkins wrote: > Hello, > > http://gitorious.org/git_blogger > You may want to have a look at toto ( http://github.com/cloudhead/toto ) git + github + herokou + markdown + txt store ``` ## Andy Parkins, 2010-05-21 08:57 Subject: [ot] Re: gitblogger Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ht5huo%24nd1%241%40dough.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` Ping Yin wrote: >> http://gitorious.org/git_blogger >> > > You may want to have a look at toto ( http://github.com/cloudhead/toto ) > git + github + herokou + markdown + txt store Maybe I've misunderstood, but isn't this just a similar thing to ikiwiki? I realise it's not a full wiki, but this toto still requires self-hosting of the blog? I really wanted to be able to make someone else (Google) do the hosting for me, but still be able to use lovely txt + git. The advantage (to me) of gitblogger was that it was simple: one post-receive hook, and only needed installing on the one central server. (Regardless, my point was only to give some feedback and encouragement (and thanks) to the developers who add these features. To show that their work is being used and is appreciated. gitblogger is just a script I wrote for me, and published in case it was useful to someone else) Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins andyparkins@gmail.com ``` ## Ping Yin, 2010-05-21 10:24 Subject: Re: [ot] Re: gitblogger Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinN37ee6_gfsQqSajoYPAbq7GEaFf93L4dNiVYo%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Andy Parkins wrote: > > Ping Yin wrote: > > >> http://gitorious.org/git_blogger > >> > > > > You may want to have a look at toto ( http://github.com/cloudhead/toto ) > > git + github + herokou + markdown + txt store > > Maybe I've misunderstood, but isn't this just a similar thing to ikiwiki?  I > realise it's not a full wiki, but this toto still requires self-hosting of > the blog? Yes, it requires self-hosting. However, you can host it to heroku for free. > > I really wanted to be able to make someone else (Google) do the hosting for > me, but still be able to use lovely txt + git. > I think your solution is great too. ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2010-05-21 15:54 Subject: Re: gitblogger Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3zkztqmhb.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` Ping Yin writes: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Andy Parkins wrote: > > > > http://gitorious.org/git_blogger > > > > You may want to have a look at toto ( http://github.com/cloudhead/toto ) > git + github + herokou + markdown + txt store Could you please add information about those projects to Git Wiki: http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools Thanks in advance -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ```