+[[!meta date="2008-10-24 15:47:18 -0400"]]
+
This tip will describe how to allow anyone on the planet to `git push`
changes into your wiki, without needing a special account. All a user needs
to know is:
as.
Once you're done modifying the setup file, don't forget to run
-`ikiwiki -setup --refresh --wrappers` on it.
+`ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup --refresh --wrappers` on it.
## git setup
You'll need to arrange the permissions on your bare git repository so that
user anon can write to it. One way to do it is to create a group, and put
-both anon and your regular user in that group. Then make make the bare git
+both anon and your regular user in that group. Then make the bare git
repository owned and writable by the group. See [[rcs/git]] for some more
tips on setting up a git repository with multiple committers.
be present in your repository, wasting space. Since nothing refers to it,
it will be expired eventually. You can speed up the expiry by running `git
prune`.
-
-When aborting a push, ikiwiki displays an error message about why it didn't
-accept it. If using git over ssh, the user will see this error message,
-which is probably useful to them. But `git-daemon` is buggy, and hides this
-message from the user. This can make it hard for users to figure out why
-their push was rejected. (If this happens to you, look at "'git log --stat
-origin/master..`" and think about whether your changes would be accepted
-over the web interface.)