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From: Giovanni Funchal <gafunchal@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, git@wingding.demon.nl,
	Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr, Giovanni Funchal <gafunchal@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: setup-git-server-over-http: Mention davfs2
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:05:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219093513-11248-1-git-send-email-gafunchal@gmail.com> (raw)

I just came across an interesting file system driver that allows to mount
WebDAV resources into file system tree: davfs2. I though it would be worth
mentioning this on setup-git-server-over-http.txt.

I also added a header for the "testing" section.

Signed-off-by: Giovanni Funchal <gafunchal@gmail.com>
---

davfs2 seems pretty stable and performance is quite good.

 Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
index 4032748..cde6f56 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ Now go to http://<username>@<servername>/my-new-repo.git in your
 browser to check whether it asks for a password and accepts the right
 password.
 
+
+Step 2 1/2: testing your WebDAD server
+--------------------------------------
+
 On Debian:
 
    To test the WebDAV part, do:
@@ -173,9 +177,18 @@ On Debian:
 
    Most tests should pass.
 
-A command line tool to test WebDAV is cadaver. If you prefer GUIs, for
-example, konqueror can open WebDAV URLs as "webdav://..." or
-"webdavs://...".
+An alternative is to use davfs2, a driver that allows monting a WebDAV
+resource into the system tree. This requires root access and kernel
+support (probably your kernel includes this).
+
+  $ apt-get install davfs2
+  $ mkdir -p /mnt/webdav
+  $ mount -t davfs http://<servername>/ /mnt/webdav
+  $ ls /mnt/webdav
+  $ umount /mnt/webdav
+
+If you prefer GUIs, for example, konqueror can open WebDAV URLs as
+"webdav://..." or "webdavs://...".
 
 If you're into Windows, from XP onwards Internet Explorer supports
 WebDAV. For this, do Internet Explorer -> Open Location ->
-- 
1.5.4.3

             reply	other threads:[~2008-08-18 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-18 21:05 Giovanni Funchal [this message]
2008-08-18 21:25 ` [PATCH] Documentation: setup-git-server-over-http: Mention davfs2 Marcus Griep
2008-08-18 21:46   ` Giovanni Funchal
2008-08-19  5:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-19  7:23       ` Giovanni Funchal
2008-08-19  7:48         ` Junio C Hamano

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