What SCM-based blog engines are there?

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Recently I came across a blog engine that works in quite unusual way. It polls a git repository and publishes a blog post after something new has been found in the repo. The post is generated as a static HTML and put somewhere in public_html. Homepage gets updated.

Do you know any git/hg/svn based blog engines like this? Let's create a list of all SCM-based blog engines as a community wiki.

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '11 at 01:13

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ikiwiki is a similar idea for wikis. It contains a few plugins that make it readily useable as a blog.

answered Feb 07 '11 at 01:13

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Some real running examples are listed at http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwikiusers/ (see the "Personal sites and blogs" section). – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Mar 05 '11 at 20:56

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '11 at 04:53

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I've been using the Mercurial based blohg and have found it to be excellent:

Blohg home: http://hg.rafaelmartins.eng.br/blohg/
My blohg: http://ry4an.org/unblog/
My backing repo: http://ry4an.org/hg/unblog/

answered Feb 07 '11 at 04:53

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 08 '11 at 22:29

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You can also use GitHub for your own blog.
See the details in this post "Publishing a Blog with GitHub Pages and Jekyll".

Jekyll can be used with any SCM - this is just a static site generator suitable for blogs. To start up quickly, get jekyll-template.

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answered Feb 07 '11 at 05:09

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Thanks for mentioning it. However, I'm interested only in a repo and blog engine that I host myself – Nowaker Feb 07 '11 at 10:17
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Jekyll turned out to be most interesting. This is just a static site generator suitable for blogs. What I like most in Jekyll is the fact that it can be used with any SCM and is the fastest to set up. Thanks! – Nowaker Feb 08 '11 at 22:25

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 07 '11 at 10:13

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This is what I found for git:

Shinmun: http://github.com/georgi/shinmun
git-blog: http://github.com/elliottcable/git-blog
Wheat: http://github.com/creationix/wheat

answered Feb 07 '11 at 10:13

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 14 '11 at 08:16

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Here is the list of git-based Wiki & Blog engines: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools#Wikis.2C_blogs.2C_etc.

answered Mar 14 '11 at 08:16

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What SCM-based blog engines are there?

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