Git serve: I would like it that simple

Question

I want to know how to simply publish over http = much like Mercurial\'s hg serve! On the Windows/work box do this:

git serve 

and then on t

Answer 1

Git 2.21 (Feb. 2019) allows you to combine python and git instaweb:

See commit 2eb14bb (28 Jan 2019) by Arti Zirk (artizirk).
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit abf39e3, 05 Feb 2019)}

git-instaweb: add Python builtin http.server support

With this patch it is possible to launch git-instaweb by using Python http.server CGI handler via -d python option.

git-instaweb generates a small wrapper around the http.server (in GIT_DIR/gitweb/) that address a limitation of the CGI handler where CGI scripts have to be in a cgi-bin subdirectory and directory index can't be easily changed. To keep the implementation small, gitweb is running on url /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi and an automatic redirection is done when opening /.

The generated wrapper is compatible with both Python 2 and 3.

Python is by default installed on most modern Linux distributions which enables running git instaweb -d python without needing anything else.