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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 04:50:03 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   with the latest change, git-pages is now fully incremental: whether you're deploying from a git repositroy or from a directory via the CLI, it doesn't reupload files that are already a part of your site (± some corner cases)

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 04:52:47 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     this makes it particularly good for tasks like "upload your photo archive" or "publish your mixtape collection" or "put up a package repository"; basically anything that involves expanding a large set of big files in small increments

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 06:40:07 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark also great for subdirectory enjoyers where you want two "projects" to share the same domain while each having its own automation

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 06:54:22 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • dram🎀

     @dramforever no that's _partial_ uploads. those are an orthogonal thing! you can have incremental uploads to a partial site

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 06:54:55 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark doesn't have separate *authentication* for the publishing part, but, well, you're on the same domain...

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 06:54:55 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dramforever git-pages actually only does authorization, not authentication, by design (i do not want to deal with IdP or be an IdP)

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 07:28:11 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark you're developing so fast i'm mixing up new features

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 08:39:29 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • dram🎀

     @dmbaturin @dramforever imagine github pages... if it was actually _good_

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     Daniil Baturin (dmbaturin@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 08:39:30 JST Daniil Baturin

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     • dram🎀

     @dramforever @whitequark I've never heard of git-pages before, I'm sure going to check it out now!

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 08:48:51 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • dram🎀

     @dmbaturin @dramforever I would consider git-pages one of my best works

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     Daniil Baturin (dmbaturin@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 08:48:52 JST Daniil Baturin

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     @whitequark @dramforever My most recent experience with it was that I was helping someone set up GitHub Pages (she was already using GitHub) and finding that if it's set to deploy from a branch, then setting a custom domain creates a commit with a file called CNAME and from then on, changing the file changes the settings.
     I was never so disgusted by a leaky abstraction lately.
     By that measure, it's possible to be better than GH Pages simply by not being completely deranged... but judging by your other work, I trust you that you did a lot better than that bare minimum.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 08:54:49 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • dram🎀

     @dmbaturin @dramforever things you can do in git-pages:
     - deploy from git (incremental)
     - deploy from tar/tar.gz/tar.zst/zip
     - deploy from directory (incremental)
     - deploy from archive or directory to a site subdirectory
     - authorize via DNS challenge
     - authorize by putting git repo into DNS
     - authorize via Forgejo automatic token
     - add redirects
     - add headers (incl CORS)
     - store data in filesystem or S3
     - deploy in a cluster
     - get metrics and traces
     - write audit log
     - scan for malware
     & so on

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     TheZoq2 (thezoq2@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 17:55:35 JST TheZoq2

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     @whitequark @dmbaturin @dramforever Oh, being able to set CORS headers would have made a lot of tings easier for me in the past

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 18:21:01 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark @dmbaturin i don't know how much my words are worth, but i can say with confidence this is "git-pages - the static site server that cares"

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     AlexB (vmp_@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 04:49:10 JST AlexB

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     @whitequark I'm once again witnessing Whitequark being a force of nature