lit

Tim Caswell has several projects that interact directly with git. He has a few websites served directly from a bare git repo powered by https://github.com/creationix/wheaty. Another project that uses git as a storage medium is a package server for the node.js API implemented in Lua: https://github.com/luvit/lit. Both serve files from a git repository, and lit will actually write to the repository. There are several others that Tim has built over the years, but those are the two that I am familiar with.

It isn't linked to in the article, but if you're interested in this please do check out luvit by tim caswell (https://luvit.io/). It's a very impressive system. At a very high level luvit looks like node.js for Lua, with some extra goodies thrown in like being able to bake your apps into single binaries. This is awesome in itself and the article discusses these things. That said, I think the major innovation over using javascript is that it allows the support for coroutine-based I/O. This means you can get the performance benefits of non-blocking node.js without the headache of callbacks/promises. I think the linked article only touches on coroutines briefly but they are a major piece of Lua's awesomeness that you shouldn't miss. Though you aren't required to use coroutines, the package management server which hosts packages for luvit is