From: "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net>
Subject: [PATCH] user-manual: add addition gitweb information
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 14:26:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1451510768-28656-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net> (raw)
Rework the section on gitweb to add information about the cgi script
and the instaweb command.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
---
Documentation/user-manual.txt | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 1c790ac..72fb11e 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2125,8 +2125,18 @@ Allowing web browsing of a repository
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The gitweb cgi script provides users an easy way to browse your
-project's files and history without having to install Git; see the file
-gitweb/INSTALL in the Git source tree for instructions on setting it up.
+project's files and history without having to install Git. The script
+enables the user to browse the repository revisions, file contents and
+logs. Features like RSS/Atom feeds and blame/annotation details may
+optionally be enabled.
+
+The linkgit:git-instaweb[1] command provides an simple way to start
+browsing the repository. The defualt server when using instaweb is
+lighttpd.
+
+See the file gitweb/INSTALL in the Git source tree and
+linkgit:gitweb[1] for instructions on details setting up a permament
+installation with a CGI or Perl capable server.
[[sharing-development-examples]]
Examples
@@ -4651,8 +4661,6 @@ documentation.
Add a section on working with other version control systems, including
CVS, Subversion, and just imports of series of release tarballs.
-More details on gitweb?
-
Write a chapter on using plumbing and writing scripts.
Alternates, clone -reference, etc.
--
2.7.0-rc2
next reply other threads:[~2015-12-30 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-30 21:26 Stephen P. Smith [this message]
2015-12-30 22:19 ` [PATCH] user-manual: add addition gitweb information Junio C Hamano
2015-12-30 23:25 ` [PATCH V2] " Stephen P. Smith
2015-12-30 23:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-31 0:13 ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2015-12-31 0:23 ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2015-12-31 0:44 ` Junio C Hamano
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