mkdocs-git-committers-plugin-2

MkDocs plugin for displaying a list of committers associated with a file in mkdocs. The plugin uses GitHub or GitLab API to fetch the list of contributors for each page.

🥳 NEW! Works with GitLab too!

For ease of use, this plugin is integrated in the material for mkdocs theme by Martin Donath. See Mkdocs material documentation.

Other MkDocs plugins that use information to fetch authors:

• mkdocs-git-authors-plugin for displaying user names a number of lines contributed (uses local Git information)
• mkdocs-git-committers-plugin display contributors for a page (uses local Git information, completed with REST GitHub API v3)

Setup

Install the plugin using pip:

pip install mkdocs-git-committers-plugin-2

Activate the plugin in mkdocs.yml:

For a repository hosted on GitHub:

plugins:
  - git-committers:
      repository: organization/repository

For a repository hosted on GitLab:

plugins:
  - git-committers:
      gitlab_repository: 12345678
      token: !ENV ["CI_JOB_TOKEN"]

For a repository hosted on GitLab, you need to provide a token so that the plugin can access the GitLab API. If the token is not set in mkdocs.yml it will be read from the MKDOCS_GIT_COMMITTERS_APIKEY environment variable.

For a repository hosted on GitHub, you can provide a token to increase the rate limit and go beyond the default 60 requests per hour per IP address. The plugin will make one request per mkdocs document. The token does not need any scope: uncheck everything when creating the GitHub Token at github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new, unless you access private repositories.

For private GitHub repositories, you only need to allow read-only access to Contents and Metadata on the target repository. This could be done by setting Read-only access of Permissions > Repository permissions > Contents.

Counting Contributors

• In GitHub repositories, the commit authors, committers, and co-authors are counted as contributors. However, the plugin requires a GitHub token to fetch the list of co-authors. If co-authors exist but no token is provided, the plugin will show a warning and will only display the commit authors and committers.
• In GitLab repositories, only the commit authors are counted as contributors.

Config

• enabled - Disables plugin if set to False for e.g. local builds (default: True)

• repository - For GitHub, the name of the repository, e.g. 'ojacques/mkdocs-git-committers-plugin-2'

• gitlab_repository - For GitLab, the project ID, e.g. '12345678'

• branch - The name of the branch to get contributors from. Example: 'master' (default)

• token - A GitHub or GitLab personal access token for REST API calls.

  • For GitHub, token does not need any scope: uncheck everything when creating the GitHub Token at github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new, unless you access private repositories.
  • For GitLab, a project access token scoped to read_api is expected to work. That way, the token is limited to the project and has access to read the repository. You could use a personal access token at gitlab.com/-/profile/personal_access_tokens, but it will grant access to more repositories than you want.

• enterprise_hostname - For GitHub enterprise: the GitHub enterprise hostname.

• gitlab_hostname - For GitLab: the GitLab hostname if different from gitlab.com (self-hosted).

• api_version - For GitHub and GitLab self-hosted, the API version part that needs to be appended to the URL. Defaults to v4 for GitLab, and nothing for GitHub Enterprise (you may need v3).

• docs_path - the path to the documentation folder. Defaults to docs/.

• cache_dir - The path which holds the authors cache file to speed up documentation builds. Defaults to .cache/plugin/git-committers/. The cache file is named page-authors.json.

• exclude - Specify a list of page source paths (one per line) that should not have author(s) or last commit date included (excluded from processing by this plugin). Default is empty. Examples:

  # mkdocs.yml
  plugins:
    - git-committers:
        repository: organization/repository
        exclude:
          - README.md
          - subfolder/page.md
          - another_page.md
          - all_files_inside_folder/*
          - folder_and_subfolders/**
  

• exclude_committers - Specify a list of usernames to exclude certain committers. Default is empty.

History

This is a fork from the original mkdocs-git-committers-plugin by @byrnereese.

I had to create this fork so that it could be uploaded and distributed through PyPi. The package has been renamed to mkdocs-git-committers-plugin-2.

This "v2" differs from the original by:

• Fetch contributors directly from GitHub
• Eliminate the need to match git commit logs with entries in GitHub, and thus GitHub API calls
• No more risk of matching the incorrect contributor as the information comes directly from GitHub
• last_commit_date is now populated with local git info
• Use a cache file to speed up following builds: authors are fetched from GitHub for a page only if that page has changed since the last build

All of the above improves accuracy and performances.

Note: the plugin configuration in mkdocs.yml still uses the original git-committers sections.

Limitations

• Getting the contributors relies on what is available on GitHub or GitLab.
• For now, non-recursive Git submodule is supported for GitHub, while GitLab submodules and recursive submodules will report no contributors.
• GitLab users may not be properly identified. See issue #50

Usage

You have 2 options to use this plugin:

1. Use Mkdocs material theme (see Mkdocs material documentation).
2. Use the plugin directly in your template. See below.

Display Last Commit

In addition to displaying a list of committers for a file, you can also access the last commit date for a page if you want to display the date the file was last updated.

Template Code for last commit

<ul class="metadata page-metadata" data-bi-name="page info" lang="en-us" dir="ltr">
  <li class="last-updated-holder displayDate loading">
    <span class="last-updated-text">Last updated:</span>
    <time role="presentation" datetime="2018-10-25T00:00:00.000Z" data-article-date-source="ms.date">{% if last_commit_date %}{{ last_commit_date }}{% endif %}</time>
  </li>
</ul>

Display List of Committers

Avatar

The avatar of the contributors is provided by GitHub. It uses maximal resolution.

Template Code for avatars

{% block footer %}
<ul class="metadata page-metadata" data-bi-name="page info" lang="en-us" dir="ltr">
  <li class="contributors-holder">
    <span class="contributors-text">Contributors</span>
    <ul class="contributors" data-bi-name="contributors">
      {%- for user in committers -%}
      <li><a href="{{ user.url }}" title="{{ user.name }}" data-bi-name="contributorprofile" target="_blank"><img src="{{ user.avatar }}" alt="{{ user.name }}"></a></li>
      {%- endfor -%}
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>
{% endblock %}

CSS

.metadata{
    list-style:none;
    padding:0;
    margin:0;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
    color: #999;
    font-size:0.85em;
}
.metadata.page-metadata .contributors-text{
    margin-right:5px
}
body[dir=rtl] .metadata.page-metadata .contributors-text{
    margin-right:0;
    margin-left:5px
}
.page-metadata .contributors{
    display:inline-block;
    list-style:none;
    margin:0!important;
    padding:0!important
}
.page-metadata .contributors li{
    display:inline-block;
    vertical-align:top;
    margin:0;
    padding:0
}

Javascript

    $( '.contributors img[data-src]' ).each( function() {
        src = $(this).attr("data-src");
        $(this).attr('src',src);
    });

More information about templates here.

More information about blocks here.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the following contributors:

• Byrne Reese - original author, maintainer
• Nathan Hernandez
• Chris Northwood
• Martin Donath
• PTKay
• Guts
• Fir121
• dstockhammer
• thor
• n2N8Z
• barreeeiroo
• j3soon
• vrenjith
• rkorzeniec
• karelbemelmans
• andrew-rowson-lseg