GIT REST API

The aim of the project is to provide a restful Git API that mimics as most as possible the old good git.

For example, in order to commit a change in shell you should do:

$ mkdir new-project
$ cd new-project
$ git init
$ git add file.c
$ git commit -m 'A commit message'
$ git add file.c
$ git commit -m 'A second commit message'
$ git show HEAD~:file.c

In case of git-rest-api you should do:

POST /init
  { "repo": "new-project" }
POST /repo/new-project/tree/file.c
POST /repo/new-project/commit
  { "message": "A commit message" }
POST /repo/new-project/tree/file.c
POST /repo/new-project/commit
  { "message": "A second commit message" }
GET  /repo/new-project/show/file.c?rev=HEAD~

Install

In your project install git-rest-api and express:

$ npm install git-rest-api
$ npm install express

Environment variables

The following environment variables are supported:

• PORT: port to serve at, default is 8080
• PREFIX: string prefix to serve repositories at, i.e. http://localhost:[port]/[prefix]/repo/:repo/tree/:path
• TMPDIR: name of temporary directory to use to cache repositories
• LOGLEVEL: log level for winston logger. Default is error

Example servers

Example 1: A simple example of a server running git-rest-api:

var app = require('express')(),
    git = require('git-rest-api');

git.init(app, { installMiddleware: true }).then(function () {
  app.listen(8080);
  console.log('Listening on', 8080);
});

Example 2: All actions on repositories are specific to the client session. To share repositories between sessions/cookies, pass an existing path to workDir in the init config, e.g.

mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
var WRKDIR = './wrk-test-git';
mkdirp.sync(WRKDIR, 0755);
git.init(app, { workDir: WRKDIR }).then(function () {
  ...
});

Example 3: For a dockerized version, check docker-node-git-rest-api

Example clients

• git-rest-api-client-php
• Can also be used as a flysystem adapter via flysystem-git

Testing

1. For direct testing on your local machine: npm install followed by npm test
2. For using the provided vagrant virtual environment: cd vagrant followed by make
3. To increase verbosity: export LOGLEVEL=info

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