[PATCH] user-manual: add addition gitweb information
- From
- Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
- Date
- Dec 30, 2015, 21:26 UTC
- Message-ID
- <1451510768-28656-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net>
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> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 1c790ac..72fb11e 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2125,8 +2125,18 @@ 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 files and history without having to install Git. The script +enables the user to browse the repository revisions, file contents and +logs. Features like RSS/Atom feeds and blame/annotation details may +optionally be enabled. + +The linkgit:git-instaweb[1] command provides an simple way to start +browsing the repository. The defualt 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 +4661,6 @@ 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.
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