From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: setup-git-server-over-http: Mention davfs2 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:48:21 -0700 Message-ID: <7vtzdhfnsq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <48A9E8BE.9040807@gmail.com> <1219095967-15971-1-git-send-email-gafunchal@gmail.com> <7vwsidh7hi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, git@wingding.demon.nl, Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr To: "Giovanni Funchal" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 19 09:49:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KVLyB-0006jj-4e for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:49:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752838AbYHSHsc (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:48:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752062AbYHSHsc (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:48:32 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:34146 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752697AbYHSHsb (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:48:31 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E315A052; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:48:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB8F75A051; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:48:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Giovanni Funchal's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:23:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 36D2F49C-6DC3-11DD-83C9-B29498D589B0-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Giovanni Funchal" writes: >> In addition, testing with davfs2 requires you to have root access. > > When davfs2 is properly configured, the file system can be mounted in > user space by non-root users. Root access is needed only when > installing. Ok, then I misread your description. This part should be clarified: >>> +An alternative is to use davfs2, a driver that allows mounting a WebDAV >>> +resource into the system tree. This requires root access and kernel s/This/Installing this module/; >>> +support (probably your kernel includes this). >>> + >>> + $ apt-get install davfs2 s/\$ /# /; >>> + $ mkdir -p /mnt/webdav ditto. >>> + $ mount -t davfs http:/// /mnt/webdav >>> + $ ls /mnt/webdav >>> + $ umount /mnt/webdav