Gitlist is a web-based interface for navigating git repositories, and it can be installed on Windows 11. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install Gitlist on your Windows 11 machine.
Before we start, make sure that you have the following software installed on your machine:
Open your preferred web browser and navigate to https://gitlist.org/.
Click the "Download" button, and a zip file containing Gitlist will be downloaded to your Windows 11 machine.
Next, navigate to the location where you downloaded the Gitlist zip file and extract its contents to a folder on your machine.
Open a command prompt on Windows 11 and change the directory to the newly created Gitlist folder.
Run the following command to install Composer dependencies:
php composer.phar install
Once this command has finished installing, you should have a new folder called "vendor" under the Gitlist directory.
Copy the "config.ini-example" file in the Gitlist directory to a new file named "config.ini". Open the new file, which should be located in the same directory as the original, in a text editor.
Change the "repositories[]" line to point to the directory where your git repositories are located on your Windows 11 machine.
For example:
repositories[] = "C:\Repositories\"
Make sure to use backslashes instead of forward slashes, and make sure the path is enclosed in quotes.
Save the changes to config.ini.
Gitlist runs on a PHP web server. To start the server, navigate to the Gitlist directory in a command prompt and run this command:
php -S localhost:8000
This will start a PHP web server on port 8000.
Open a web browser on your Windows 11 machine and navigate to http://localhost:8000, where you should see the Gitlist interface.
You can now use Gitlist to navigate your git repositories.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Gitlist on your Windows 11 machine.
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