From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: should Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt be marked obsolete? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:36:38 -0700 Message-ID: <7viq0um5vt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vsjzyrh2w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: Sitaram Chamarty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 22 20:37:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P9MUV-0008T7-DE for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:37:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754959Ab0JVSg6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:36:58 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:36284 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753083Ab0JVSgr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:36:47 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F4CE12AF; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:36:45 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=fxVXVKvoy1+uH5jf+qbiG4gojng=; b=fJnljD NTj9JTXtdEn6KCnFAIu9GpOYL8a75p3rKsi72iZxbY5L6F030MUqYsPV1YgLcmmM +9WHJsl8eCugQiusbkMZ6YqfdkEIjFA/P9k6gd61nok46m6MQapOy7mUJWhLJ6xb ZJzGGzIPvNheS6xmcMkkGEohSG3tCRaCf5zDw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=ZDVaSI8xJmCJo6AReLIKOX+ZC7x7r3N4 pX/suG6TvsoUb3sGs9T7gzUUlAXYfB8zqfH4RirXNnh+Pm8N9Zso5yzv9CbGHJoo PAyXpe6sib5uG18M1RVdlsvr9KciF1zOs2TA5Gr/iFsqPR04O71cHH7wP+kzJH06 FWmN4mW5MPg= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4799CE12AE; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:36:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.252.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 848D9E12AB; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:36:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Sitaram Chamarty's message of "Fri\, 22 Oct 2010 19\:25\:31 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 513219A2-DE0B-11DF-8404-030CEE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sitaram Chamarty writes: >> Not everybody uses gitolite, and I do not think we have broken the dumb >> HTTP support (however broken the original was ;-) to render the document >> obsolete. > > My apologies; I didn't realise my mail would come across like that. Oh no need for that; I didn't realise -my- response would, either ;-) > I just followed "man git-http-backend" and it all worked. Should there be more? No; that would mean the next step would be (as you suggested)... >> - When the above two is done, insert one line "This describes an older >> way; see <> for insn to set >> up an experimental smart HTTP server" at the beginning of the original >> document. ... this one. I trust you can take care of the gitolite documentation side ;-) Thanks.