SvelteKit Git HTTP Server with git-http-backend

A Git HTTP server using native Node.js modules, SvelteKit and git-http-backend.

More information in french, see: https://notes.sklein.xyz/Projet%2032/

$ mise install
$ direnv allow
$ pnpm install
$ pnpm run dev
  VITE v7.1.3  ready in 361 ms

  ➜  Local:   http://localhost:5173/
  ➜  Network: use --host to expose
  ➜  press h + enter to show help

Only in development mode, in another terminal, execute this http call to execute Server hook init:

$ curl -s http://localhost:5173 > /dev/null

And you see in SvelteKit server this output:

Create "repos1" git bare repository
Create "repos2" git bare repository
Create "repos3" git bare repository

Execute this script to create a dummy git working copy:

$ ./scripts/create-dummy-git-working-copy.sh
Initialized empty Git repository in .../poc-node-git-server/dummy-git-working-copy/.git/
[main (root-commit) 2bf6b5a] First import
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 README.md

Now, you can go in this dummy working copy and push the content to Git server on http://localhost:3334/git/repos1.git:

$ cd dummy-git-working-copy
$ git push origin main
Enumerating objects: 3, done.
Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 221 bytes | 221.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
To http://localhost:3334/git/repos1.git
 * [new branch]      main -> main

Success :)

You can go to ./git-server/volume/repos1.git/ to verify that the content is really present in the bare Git repository:

$ cd ./git-server-volume/repos1.git/
$ git log
commit 2bf6b5a09700f5b5706a76912871fa948fc6c91e (HEAD -> main)
Author: stephane-klein <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Aug 24 11:07:11 2025 +0200

    First import

After each git push, an event with a few parameters is sent to the server's /post_recieve_hook_url/ endpoint.
You can see this event pass through in the stdout of server.js:

...
Received JSON: {
  oldrev: 'aa9c439c932854be6c217614ee35fc4f31ee9c68',
  newrev: '0e797f33342f49962a084db1c945ed0f87325543',
  refname: 'refs/heads/main',
  branch: 'main',
  repository: 'repos1.git'
}