smithy (n) A blacksmith's shop; a forge.

Smithy is a web frontend for git repositories. It's implemented entirely in Golang, compiles to a single binary, and it's fast and easy to deploy. Smithy is an alternative to cgit or gitweb, and doesn't seek to compete with Gitea and the like.

• Golang
• Single binary
• Easy to deploy
• Fast
• Customizable
• Free software
• Javascript-free

The only dependency is Golang 1.16 or higher. Contributors to smithy should have the optional scdoc for generating documentation.

$ git clone https://github.com/honza/smithy
$ make
$ ./smithy --help

We provide a make rule for installing/uninstall smithy. It will also install a sample configuration file at /usr/local/share/smithy/smithy.yml that you can later use as a guide.

$ make install
$ make uninstall

You can generate a sample configuration by issuing make smithy.yml command or directly using the smithy binary:

$ make smithy.yml # will generate a smithy.yml file
$ smithy generate > config.yml
$ smithy serve --config config.yml

A sample configuration can be:

title: Smithy, a lightweight git forge
description: Publish your git repositories with ease
port: 3456
git:
  root: "/var/www/git"
  repos:
    - path: "some-cool-project"
      slug: "some-cool-project"
      title: "Some Cool Project"
      description: "Something really cool to change the world"
    - path: "ugly-hacks"
      exclude: true

static:
  root:
  prefix: /static/

templates:
  dir:

Out of the box, smithy bundles templates and css in the binary. Setting static.root, and templates.dir to empty string will cause smithy to use the bundled assets.

If you'd like to customize the templates or the css, copy the include directory somewhere, and then set static.root, and templates.dir to that directory.

Smithy is currently hosting itself on my domain.

Contributions are most welcome. You can open a pull request on GitHub, or email a patch to honza@pokorny.ca.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.