Gitlist is an open-source Git repository viewer that lets you browse your repositories and view their contents. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Gitlist on OpenSUSE.
Gitlist is a PHP application, so we need to install PHP on our system.
sudo zypper in php7 php7-openssl php7-mbstring git
In order to install Gitlist, we need to clone the Git repository.
git clone https://github.com/klaussilveira/gitlist.git /opt/gitlist
Next, we need to copy the config.ini-example file to config.ini in order to configure Gitlist.
cd /opt/gitlist
cp config.ini-example config.ini
Open the config.ini file with a text editor, and make sure that the following configuration settings are set:
[git]
client = /usr/bin/git
[app]
debug = false
cache = false
theme = "default"
[repositories]
; /srv/git/repositories = Name
/opt/gitlist/data/repositories = "My repositories"
Save the changes and exit the file.
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that we will use to install the remaining dependencies.
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
Now, we can use Composer to install the remaining dependencies.
cd /opt/gitlist
composer install --no-dev
Finally, we can start Gitlist using the built-in PHP web server.
cd /opt/gitlist/public
php -S localhost:8080
Access the Gitlist installation by visiting http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Gitlist on OpenSUSE.
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