From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen P. Smith" Subject: [PATCH V2] user-manual: add addition gitweb information Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:25:20 -0700 Message-ID: <1451517920-30703-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net> References: Cc: Junio C Hamano , "Stephen P. Smith" To: Git List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 31 00:25:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aEQ7P-00069d-LC for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:25:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751934AbbL3XZU (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:25:20 -0500 Received: from fed1rmfepo201.cox.net ([68.230.241.146]:40143 "EHLO fed1rmfepo201.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750803AbbL3XZT (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:25:19 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo305 ([68.230.241.173]) by fed1rmfepo201.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.15 201-2260-151-145-20131218) with ESMTP id <20151230232518.OTAA5597.fed1rmfepo201.cox.net@fed1rmimpo305> for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:25:18 -0500 Received: from thunderbird ([68.231.74.134]) by fed1rmimpo305 with cox id zzRH1r00K2tqoqC01zRHhV; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:25:17 -0500 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.568467DD.01B9,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=f8aW8pOM c=1 sm=1 a=/Rt4pg3TtX3KzfzhvVoEow==:17 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=wUQvQvOEmiQA:10 a=f_JlSur-vpJdsRJimCAA:9 a=/Rt4pg3TtX3KzfzhvVoEow==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from thunderbird.smith.home (thunderbird [127.0.0.1]) by thunderbird (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2296A13F6B9; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:25:24 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0-rc2 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Rework the section on gitweb to add information about the cgi script and the instaweb command. Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith --- 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