This document describes the general setup and architecture that runs the git-scm.com site.
This site is served via GitHub Pages and is a Hugo site with the search implemented using Pagefind.
The content is a mix of:
-
original content from this repository
-
community book content brought in from https://github.com/progit; see the
script/update-book2.rb
andscript/book.rb
files.The content is pre-rendered and tracked in the
external/book/
directory tree. -
manual pages from releases of the git project, imported and formatted via AsciiDoctor, and translated versions of the manual pages from https://github.com/jnavila/git-manpages-l10n/ (which itself contains pre-rendered pages from https://github.com/jnavila/git-manpages-l10n/); see the
script/update-docs.rb
file.The pre-rendered pages are tracked in the
external/docs/
directory tree.
To deploy to GitHub Pages, it is necessary to turn off the default setting to
"publish from a branch" and instead change the setting to "publish with a
custom GitHub Actions workflow":
https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/configuring-a-publishing-source-for-your-github-pages-site#publishing-with-a-custom-github-actions-workflow
With this change, the site can be tested in the fork by pushing to the
gh-pages
branch (which will trigger the deploy.yml
workflow) and then
navigating to https://git-scm..github.io/.
While the site consists mostly of static content, there are a couple of parts that are sort of dynamic.
The search is implemented client-side, via Pagefind.
A few scheduled GitHub workflows keep the content up to date:
-
update-git-version-and-manual-pages
andupdate-download-data
(pick up newly released git versions) -
update-translated-manual-pages
(fetch and format translated manual pages from the jnavila/git-html-l10n repository) -
update-book
(fetch and format progit2 book content, including translations)
These workflows are also marked as workflow_dispatch
, i.e. they can be run
manually (e.g. to update the download links just after Git for Windows
published a new release).
Merges to the gh-pages
branch on GitHub auto-deploy to GitHub Pages via the
deploy
GitHub workflow.
Note that some of the formatting of manual pages and book content happens when they are imported by the GitHub workflows. Therefore, whenever there are changes to the scripts/workflows/automation that affect formatting, these workflows may need to be triggered using the force-rebuild flag to be toggled (see the individual workflows for details).
The actual DNS service is provided by Cloudflare. The domain itself is registered with Gandi, and is owned by the project via Software Freedom Conservancy. Funds for the registration are provided from the Git project's Conservancy funds, and both the Git PLC and Conservancy have credentials to modify the setup.
Note that we own both git-scm.com and git-scm.org; the latter redirects to the former.
The site mostly just runs without intervention:
-
code merged to
gh-pages
is auto-deployed -
new git versions are detected daily and manual pages and download links updated
-
book updates (including translations) are picked up daily
There are a few tasks that still need to be handled by a human:
-
new languages for book translations need to be added to
script/book.rb
-
forced re-imports of content (e.g., when fixing formatting in the imported manual pages) must be triggered manually with
force-rebuild
toggled