I’m looking for a web-based client, like git gui for choosing files to stage and to make commits. The actual files in the git repo would be edited elsewhere, so that is taken care of, but my google-fu is letting me down in this endeavour of finding the actual client.

There is a metric ton of repo browsers, and that would be fine, as long as they also could show status and diffs from a git repo and being able to commit.

Anyone have any pointers to anything a web git client? Thanks!

  • @canpolat@programming.devMEnglish
    5•11 months ago

    Not sure I understand the use case and why something like VS Code’s Git UI (or some other GUI) cannot solve the problem. Why does it need to be web-based, for example?

    • Magnus ÅhallOPA
      4•11 months ago

      It will be used to put changes to n8n workflows into git repos. The n8n software is in the browser, and I can extract the workspaces and write them to a directory on the server, but the n8n users will not have access to this directory, nor are they especially well versed on git. Simple staging and commiting would be ok though.

      Found a long list of git clients and among them found git webcommit and ungit, which seems to fit the bill. Still browsing the list, so haven’t had the time to try them out yet :)

      • @canpolat@programming.devMEnglish
        4•11 months ago

        I see. Good luck with your search. Would be great if you could update the thread once you settle on a solution.

        • Magnus ÅhallOPA
          4•11 months ago

          The look of ungit would confuse my users I’m afraid.

          In the end I whipped up our own solution, with the added benefit of it being more efficient to the problem domain.

          Take a look at https://files.ahall.se/n8n-gitted.mp4 where I demonstrate the functionality. The user makes changes to the n8n workflows, goes to the git system page and syncs the workflows to the git repo residing on the same docker as the n8n instance. User can then choose workflows with changes that are to be commited, types a message and is done.

          Selecting an earlier commit does a git checkout on that commit and shows the files. Clicking on a file copies the contents of it. In this case, the workflow can be pasted into n8n and the user can pick and choose what was desired to bring back.

          The git system page is static HTML and javascript, and communicates through webhooks to a git workflow in n8n. https://files.ahall.se/workflow-git.png

          • Magnus ÅhallOPA
            1•11 months ago

            If anyone is using specifically n8n and would like a small backup/change log, I could provide the workflow and the frontend code. A small change of n8n webhook URL is probably only what’s needed to get it running.

    • Magnus ÅhallOPA
      2•11 months ago

      Only if it doesn’t need to be run in electron and can be embedded in a webpage, running with a git repo local to the kraken installation.

  • Jakub NarębskiEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    There is git instaweb command, which runs gitweb for current repo using a specified web server (apache2, lighttpd, mongoose, plackup, python and webrick are supported), and starts a browser. Though gitweb is slightly (or more than slightly) dated, and what is more important, read only.

    You can see (modified) gitweb in action on https://repo.or.cz/

    • Magnus ÅhallOPA
      1•11 months ago

      Yeah, tried that first, but the read onlyness was a slight problem :)