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From: "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net>
Subject: [PATCH V2] user-manual: add addition gitweb information
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:25:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1451517920-30703-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqoad7d1g0.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

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>
---

Notes:
    Removed wording duplication in the first paragraph.
    
    Added explicit gitweb reference with regard to instaweb.
    
    Fixed two spelling errors.

 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 1c790ac..226b972 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2125,8 +2125,17 @@ 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 revisions, file contents and logs without having to install
+Git. Features like RSS/Atom feeds and blame/annotation details may
+optionally be enabled.
+
+The linkgit:git-instaweb[1] command provides a simple way to start
+browsing the repository using gitweb. The default 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 +4660,6 @@ 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

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-30 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-30 21:26 [PATCH] user-manual: add addition gitweb information Stephen P. Smith
2015-12-30 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-30 23:25   ` Stephen P. Smith [this message]
2015-12-30 23:29     ` [PATCH V2] " 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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