Thanks for the feedback. You don't need to embed the git credentials in the site. I just made a login form that takes the gitlab credentials. Gitlab gives you

Thanks for the feedback. You don't need to embed the git credentials in the site. I just made a login form that takes the gitlab credentials. Gitlab gives you 5 users per project, so you can give several people access. You're absolutely right that this is not a replacement for a full blown CMS, or for when server side input validation is necessary, or for when different people need different edit rights. I've stayed away from using the term CMS for this reason as it implies that complex content management abilities are required. These "dynamic static" pages only give you full edit rights or not, and you need to build everything manually as it is a static website after all. I have found this approach useful for hosting a static website for an artist where I wanted the artist to be able to easily update some info on the site. I imagine there are a lot of cases like this where you are building a small static website for someone else who isn't a developer and you want them to be able to update the site themselves later, so they don't have to bother you about it.