Show Post's Revision History For Jekyll/Octopress Powered Sites

This plugin provide a Liquid tag to generate blog post's revision history, which are nothing but commit messages when you do git commit. See this blog post for more information and also as a demo.

Installation

Put revision.rb to your /_plugins/ (for Jekyll) or /plugins/ (for Octopress) directory of your blog source root. Require installation of jekyll-date-format.

Configuration

If your blog source are hosted on Github, you can set two optional configurations in your _config.yml. Then this plugin will also generate links to Github commit history for each post.

• github_user: your user name on Github
• github_repo: your blog source repo name on Github. More specifically, for Jekyll sites hosted on Github Pages, this should be SOMEBODY.github.[io][com].

Usage

Put revision.html somewhere in your _include (for Jekyll) or source/_include (for Octopress) directory. And include this html file somewhere in your post layout file.

One optional argument, limit, is accepted by the revision tag. It specifies the maximum git-log number. It's default value is 5.

Notes

When generate Github commit history links, this plugin assumes that:

• If you specify source in your _config.yml, then blog posts are in source/_posts directory. (For Octopress sites)

• Otherwise, blog posts should be in _posts directory. (For Jekyll sites)

If this assumption is not right in your case, then you'll probably need to tweak the url patterns a little bit.