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.

First there was a Navigator, then there was an Explorer. Later it was time for a Konqueror. Now it’s time for an Imperator, the VIMperator :)

VIMperator is a mozilla/firefox plugin from Martin Stubenschrott. It completely redefines the firefox interface to mimic the beloved VIM editor.

If you love vim, you are likely to love VIMperator. If not… well, your loss.