mkdocs-git-committers-plugin

MkDocs plugin for displaying a list of committers associated with a file in mkdocs.

Setup

Install the plugin using pip:

pip install mkdocs-git-committers-plugin

Activate the plugin in mkdocs.yml:

plugins:
  - search
  - git-committers

Note: If you have no plugins entry in your config file yet, you'll likely also want to add the search plugin. MkDocs enables it by default if there is no plugins entry set, but now you have to enable it explicitly.

More information about plugins in the MkDocs documentation.

Config

• enterprise_hostname - The enterprise hostname of your github account (Github Enterprise customers only).
• repository - The name of the repository, e.g. 'byrnereese/mkdocs-git-committers-plugin'
• branch - The name of the branch to pull commits from, e.g. 'master' (default)
• token - A github Personal Access Token to avoid github rate limits

Tip: You can specify the GitHub token via an environment variable in the following way:

plugins:
  - git-committers:
      repository: johndoe/my-docs
      branch: master
      token: !!python/object/apply:os.getenv ["MKDOCS_GIT_COMMITTERS_APIKEY"]

If the token is not set in mkdocs.yml it will be read from the MKDOCS_GIT_COMMITTERS_APIKEY environment variable.

If no token is present, the plugin will be disabled automatically. This can be helpful as when actively working on documentation, the git-committers plugin can dramatically slow down page rendering times.

Usage

Display Last Commit

In addition to displaying a list of committers for a file, you can also access all the information relating to the last commit of the file. This is useful for example if you want to display the date the file was last updated.

Manually Adding Contributors

There are circumstances where you would like to credit a contributor, but their github username is not in the commit history. To force a contributor to appear, use page meta:

contributors: byrnereese,grokify

# My page title

Template Code

<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 %}{{ last_commit.commit.committer.date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}{% endif %}</time>
  </li>
</ul>

Display List of Committers

Template Code

{% 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.repos }}" title="{{ user.name }}" data-bi-name="contributorprofile"><img src="../img/contributor.svg" data-src="{{ user.avatar }}?size=32" 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
}
.page-metadata .contributors li img{
    border-radius:100%;
    height:16px;
    margin-top:-3px;
    overflow:hidden;
    width:16px
}

Javascript

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

contributor.svg

Add contributor.svg to your img/ folder

More information about templates here.

More information about blocks here.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the following contributors:

• Nathan Hernandez
• Chris Northwood