📝 Jekyll Git Metadata

Note

This is a fork of a fork of a gem made for Jekyll 3. The previous fork was not published to any package registry (but made several very helpful additions) so this one serves as an accessible way to continue using the functionality of the original package in new Jekyll sites. You can see an example of the package in the footer of this site and I plan on accepting contributions/improvements through PRs.

👋 Introduction

Expose Git metadata to Jekyll. Just like how Github exposes repository metadata, this plugin will expose information about your git repository for your templates. For example:

{{site.git.total_commits}} # => Will return the total number of commits for your Jekyll repository

See usage for more detail on the schema of site.git.

💾 Installation

My version of thie gem is installable from GitHub Package Registry (GPR)'s rubygems accesspoint.

Important

You must provide a GitHub access token with read:packages permission to install this package! This is just something that GPR requires and you can learn more about the ways to do it here or see an example of how to implement this package in a GitHub action here

Install with the command line:

gem install jekyll-git

Add to your Gemfile:

source "https://rubygems.pkg.github.com/matmanna" do
  gem "jekyll-git"
end

Add to your _config.yml:

gems:
  - jekyll-git

⌨️ Usage

This plugin adds a hash of git information to the site and page variables. The hash looks something like this:

{"authors"=>
  [
   {"commits"=>2, "name"=>"Ivan Tse", "email"=>"ivan@example.com"},
   {"commits"=>5, "name"=>"John Smith", "email"=>"john@example.com"}
  ],
 "total_commits"=>7,
 "total_additions"=>57,
 "total_subtractions"=>22,
 "first_commit"=>
  {"short_sha"=>"d15cbe8",
   "long_sha"=>"d15cbe8d0f4d4db9efda7a3daabbe966c21f3848",
   "author_name"=>"John Smith",
   "author_email"=>"john@example.com",
   "author_date"=>"Thu Jan 16 23:36:00 2014 -0500",
   "commit_name"=>"John Smith",
   "commit_email"=>"john@example.com",
   "commit_date"=>"Thu Jan 16 23:36:00 2014 -0500",
   "message"=>"A commit!"},
 "last_commit"=>
  {"short_sha"=>"f88ca3b",
   "long_sha"=>"f88ca3bff630efb6cdb356fad3d640534b109572",
   "author_name"=>"Ivan Tse",
   "author_email"=>"ivan@example.com",
   "author_date"=>"Mon Jul 14 04:04:47 2014 -0400",
   "commit_name"=>"John Smith",
   "commit_email"=>"john@example.com",
   "commit_date"=>"Mon Jul 14 04:04:47 2014 -0400",
   "message"=>"Fix some stuff"}}

To access this hash, use either page.git or site.git. page.git contains the git information about that particuliar page/file. site.git contains the git information for the entire git repository. site.git also includes total_files and project_name variables.

🙌 Acknowledgements

• Ivan Tse - The package's original author/maintainer (2017)
• Łukasz Jachym - For forking the original and making improvements (2023)
• Me