[PATCH] Documentation: setup-git-server-over-http: Mention davfs2

From

Giovanni Funchal <gafunchal@gmail.com>

Date

Aug 18, 2008, 21:46 UTC

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<1219095967-15971-1-git-send-email-gafunchal@gmail.com>

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<48A9E8BE.9040807@gmail.com>

I also added a header for the "testing" section.

Signed-off-by: Giovanni Funchal <gafunchal@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
index 4032748..827eb43 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ Now go to http://<username>@<servername>/my-new-repo.git in your
 browser to check whether it asks for a password and accepts the right
 password.
 
+
+Step 2 1/2: testing your WebDAV server
+--------------------------------------
+
 On Debian:
 
    To test the WebDAV part, do:
@@ -173,9 +177,18 @@ On Debian:
 
    Most tests should pass.
 
-A command line tool to test WebDAV is cadaver. If you prefer GUIs, for
-example, konqueror can open WebDAV URLs as "webdav://..." or
-"webdavs://...".
+An alternative is to use davfs2, a driver that allows mounting a WebDAV
+resource into the system tree. This requires root access and kernel
+support (probably your kernel includes this).
+
+  $ apt-get install davfs2
+  $ mkdir -p /mnt/webdav
+  $ mount -t davfs http://<servername>/ /mnt/webdav
+  $ ls /mnt/webdav
+  $ umount /mnt/webdav
+
+If you prefer GUIs, for example, konqueror can open WebDAV URLs as
+"webdav://..." or "webdavs://...".
 
 If you're into Windows, from XP onwards Internet Explorer supports
 WebDAV. For this, do Internet Explorer -> Open Location ->

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