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

From: Giovanni Funchal <gafunchal@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 19, 2008, 07:23 UTC
Message-ID: <c475e2e60808190023r2984cea3r11bd27fd331234b4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsidh7hi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

> Googling for "davfs2 WebDAV" returns 13,600 hits, while "cadaver WebDAV"
> hits 39,100.

Woops, sorry for that, in fact I greatly misunderstood the statement "A command line tool to test WebDAV is cadaver." I though this meant "The command line tool is dead / It does not exist anymore". I didn't realize "cadaver" was its name!

> 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. Cadaver also needs root access for installation,

-- Giovanni

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Giovanni Funchal <gafunchal@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I just came across an interesting file system driver that allows to mount
>> WebDAV resources into file system tree: davfs2. I though it would be worth
>> mentioning this on setup-git-server-over-http.txt.
>
> I might agree with "It would be worth mentioning", but I do not think that
> is what you did.
>
>> +
>> +Step 2 1/2: testing your WebDAV server
>> +--------------------------------------
>> +
>> ...
>> -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://...".
>
> You are dropping mention of cadaver and the only remaining suggestion for
> command line testing is via davfs2.
>
> Googling for "davfs2 WebDAV" returns 13,600 hits, while "cadaver WebDAV"
> hits 39,100.  In addition, testing with davfs2 requires you to have root
> access.
>
> When troubleshooting a nonworking system, it often is easier to do it from
> a command line tool than from GUI (one of whose main point is to hide away
> the low-level details).  And I thought the title of this semi-section was
> "Testing"?
>
> Offering alternatives for command line tools is good, but that is not what
> this patch does.
>
>
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