From: Giovanni Funchal Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:23:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: setup-git-server-over-http: Mention davfs2 Message-ID: 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 wrote: > Giovanni Funchal 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:/// /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. > > >