A static site repo viewer

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Hi! Darcs newbie here. I've been enjoying learning about it.

I spent some time over the weekend working on a static site generator for
displaying a darcs repository. It's very basic at the moment, but it does
work, allowing you to browse files, view patches, clone, and pull a
specific patch.

It's here: https://repos.tuckerm.us/repos/eleventy-darcs

Since I only learned about darcs recently, I have a question about how a
typical darcs user would "push" their work to a static website.

If you were working on multiple changes locally and only wanted one of
those changes to show up on your website, how would you want to do that? I
know that with "darcs push" you can specify which patch(es) you want to
push. But in this case, with a static website, you aren't actually pushing
to a remote repository. The idea here is that the plain HTML pages are
generated locally on your computer, and then you copy those HTML pages to
your web server. Would it make sense to have a config file where you list
specific tags and patches that should show up on the site, with a default
option of showing all available patches? That doesn't seem all that
different from typing "darcs push" to either send all patches or send some
specific ones. But maybe there is a more darcs-y way of doing this that I'm
not familiar with.

Some other notes:

- It works on the darcs.net repository.
- It takes about a minute (on my computer, at least) to generate the site
for darcs.net.
- The full output of "darcs log --verbose" alone is 87 megabytes.
- The resulting HTML pages are 300+ megabytes.

I plan to add features to this over the next few weekends. Would love to
hear any suggestions people have!

-Tucker

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Hi! Darcs newbie here. I&#39;ve been enjoying learnin=
g about it.</div><div><br></div><div>I spent some time over the weekend wor=
king on a static site generator for displaying a darcs repository. It&#39;s=
 very basic at the moment, but it does work, allowing you to browse files, =
view patches, clone, and pull a specific patch.</div><div><br></div><div>It=
&#39;s here: <a href=3D"https://repos.tuckerm.us/repos/eleventy-darcs">http=
s://repos.tuckerm.us/repos/eleventy-darcs</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sinc=
e I only learned about darcs recently, I have a question about how a typica=
l darcs user would &quot;push&quot; their work to a static website.</div><d=
iv><br></div><div>If you were working on multiple changes locally and only =
wanted one of those changes to show up on your website, how would you want =
to do that? I know that with &quot;darcs push&quot; you can specify which p=
atch(es) you want to push. But in this case, with a static website, you are=
n&#39;t actually pushing to a remote repository. The idea here is that the =
plain HTML pages are generated locally on your computer, and then you copy =
those HTML pages to your web server. Would it make sense to have a config f=
ile where you list specific tags and patches that should show up on the sit=
e, with a default option of showing all available patches? That doesn&#39;t=
 seem all that different from typing &quot;darcs push&quot; to either send =
all patches or send some specific ones. But maybe there is a more darcs-y w=
ay of doing this that I&#39;m not familiar with.</div><div><br></div><div>S=
ome other notes:</div><div><br></div><div>- It works on the <a href=3D"http=
://darcs.net">darcs.net</a> repository.</div><div>- It takes about a minute=
 (on my computer, at least) to generate the site for <a href=3D"http://darc=
s.net">darcs.net</a>.</div><div>- The full output of &quot;darcs log --verb=
ose&quot; alone is 87 megabytes.</div><div>- The resulting HTML pages are 3=
00+ megabytes. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div> I plan to add features t=
o this over the next few weekends. Would love to hear any suggestions peopl=
e have!<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>-Tucker<br></div></div>

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