Moved git horror story into this repository as well as the necessary build process

This is the original article that became popular on sites like HackerNews

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 index.html
 rss.xml
+www-root
 
 # thoughts
 [0-9]*/

Makefile

@@ -16,10 +16,15 @@
 #  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 ##
 
-.PHONY: default clean
+# list of articles to compile
+articles := $(patsubst %.txt, %.html, $(wildcard papers/*.txt))
+
+.PHONY: default clean thoughts
 
 
-default:
+default: www-root
+
+thoughts:
 	repo2html \
 		-t "Mike Gerwitz's Thoughts and Ramblings" \
 		-d 'The miscellaneous thoughts and ramblings of a free software hacker' \
@@ -29,5 +34,21 @@ default:
 		'http://mikegerwitz.com/thoughts/' \
 		> index.html
 
+# all .txt articles will be compiled with asciidoc, then post-processed with the
+# mgify script
+%.html: %.txt
+	asciidoc -fasciidoc.conf -v \
+		-a stylesdir=$(PWD)/asciidoc-themes/ \
+		-a themedir=$(PWD)/asciidoc-themes/ \
+		$<
+	./tools/mgify "$@"
+
+www-root: $(articles) thoughts
+	mkdir -p www-root/papers \
+		&& cp papers/*.html www-root/papers/ \
+		&& cp -r [0-9]* www-root/ \
+		&& cp -r images/ www-root/ \
+		&& ln -sf ../images www-root/papers/images
+
 clean:
 	rm -rf [0-9]*/

asciidoc-themes/mg.css

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+
+body {
+  margin: 0px 5em;
+  text-align: justify;
+}
+
+#header, #footer, #footnotes {
+  position: relative;
+  left: -3em;
+  margin-right: -3em;
+}
+
+body p {
+  line-height: 1.5em;
+}
+
+h2 {
+  position: relative;
+
+  border-bottom: 2px solid #babdb6;
+  left: -2em;
+
+  margin-right: -2em;
+}
+
+h3 {
+  border-bottom: 1px solid #babdb6;
+}
+
+h2, h3, h4 {
+  margin-bottom: 0.5em;
+}
+
+dt {
+  font-weight: bold;
+}
+dd > p:first-child {
+  margin-top: 0;
+}
+
+tt {
+  background-color: #eeeeec;
+  color: #000055;
+}
+
+#author {
+  font-size: 1.1em;
+}
+
+.listingblock {
+  background-color: #eeeeec;
+  padding: 0.5em;
+}
+
+#gnuinside {
+  position: absolute;
+  display:  block;
+
+  top:    0px;
+  right:  0px;
+  width:  50px;
+  height: 50px;
+}
+
+#copyright {
+  text-align: center;
+  margin-top: -1.4em;
+  font-size:  small;
+}
+
+.footnote {
+  font-size: small;
+}
+
+.exampleblock {
+  margin-left: 2em;
+  padding-left: 1em;
+  border-left: 5px solid #eeeeec;
+}
+
+#footer {
+  border-top: 2px solid #babdb6;
+  padding-top: 0.5em;
+
+  font-size: small;
+}

asciidoc.conf

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Article configuration
+
+[miscellaneous]
+tabsize=4
+textwidth=80
+newline=\n
+
+[attributes]
+theme=mg
+stylesdir=./stylesheets
+linkcss=1
+disable-javascript=1

papers/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.html

tools/footer.tpl

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+<a href="http://mikegerwitz.com/about/inside/" id="gnuinside">
+  <img src="images/gnulinuxinside.png" alt="GNU/Linux Inside!" />
+</a>
+
+<div id="copyright">
+  Copyright &copy; 2012 <a href="http://mikegerwitz.com">Mike Gerwitz</a>
+  <br />
+  Verbatim distribution of this document in its entirety is permitted, provided
+  that this copyright notice is preserved.
+</div>
+
+<script type="text/javascript"
+  src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML">
+</script>

tools/mgify

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Alters/augments asciidoc output
+#
+#   Copyright (C) 2012  Mike Gerwitz
+#
+#   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+#   (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#   GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+##
+
+file="${1?Please provide filename}"
+new="$file.new"
+
+awk '
+  /<\head>/ {
+    system( "cat tools/header.tpl" );
+  }
+  /<\/body>/ {
+    system( "cat tools/footer.tpl" );
+  }
+  { print; }
+' "$file" \
+  | sed 's/\s---\s/ \&mdash; /g' \
+  > "$new"
+
+mv "$new" "$file"