While preparing for my [Git]{tag/git} Workshop for Flourish Conf, I thought about serving files over http directly out of a git repo.

Here is a short shell script that I came up with: git-serv.cgi.

It takes request URLs like http://domain/examples/dir/file and looks up the objects in a bare git repository in /home/git/examples.git. It looks only on the master branch, and nothing is ever checked out. If it finds a tree object, it prints the file listing at that point in the tree. If the object is a blog, it dumps the contents. Otherwise some error is reported.