X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/23d38e0276dd6526b2d26f789fda9bb534e8f30f..fc917fa3831bbea5305e50a8fde4457ff480ad64:/doc/rcs/git/discussion.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/rcs/git/discussion.mdwn b/doc/rcs/git/discussion.mdwn index 57ec252d7..4c7df375a 100644 --- a/doc/rcs/git/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/rcs/git/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +## ikiwiki + git + + + +Here's an early page documenting setting up ikiwiki with git. It shouldn't be +this hard anymore. :-) See [[setup]] --[[Joey]] + ## Migrating from svn to git ## I'd like to migrate from svn to git, because git is better in general but also has some nice properties that go well together with my use of ikiwiki.. I only change it myself. I want a single git repo so that my website directory is self-contained so that I don't need to drag around a separate svn repository on my computer. Is it possible to use ikiwiki so that it only uses a git repository in the same dir as all files are stored and edited? @@ -27,4 +34,52 @@ Positives: UlrikSverdrup (This is now crossposted to the above mentioned [website][ulrikweb]) -[ulrikweb]: http://www.student.lu.se/~cif04usv/wiki/stuff/git.html \ No newline at end of file +[ulrikweb]: http://www.student.lu.se/~cif04usv/wiki/stuff/git.html + +> Note that while the post-commit hook above may work in some situations, it *will* fail (or at least be suboptimal) for web commits. If you're setting up ikiwiki and git for a wiki that allows web commits, you should use +> the repository and hook setups in documented in [[setup]] instead. With that method, you do end up with two separate git repos; but it's fine to only back one of them up. :-) --[[Joey]] + +## gitmanual + +Main use case I am trying to accomplish: Edit wiki pages offline. + +1. Imagine you're the administrator of the site and you want to checkout the wiki sources to give them some love while on a train journey. +2. Or you are writing a complex document and you want to simply use your favourite $EDITOR +3. Learn a little more about [git](http://git.or.cz/) + +# Workflow + +## on webconverger.org aka si.dabase.com aka hendry machine + +Wiki page created with [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info). Example usb.mdwn [usb](http://webconverger.org/usb/) + +## on monty (my laptop) + + git-clone ssh://si.dabase.com/home/hendry/wikiwc/.git/ + +You might want to set some config variables like your email as this [tutorial](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html) describes. + + echo "blah" >> usb.mdwn + +Then to commit: + + git-commit -a -m "added test" + +Send back: + + git push origin + +## on webconverger.org aka si.dabase.com aka hendry machine + +You should setup the "The git post-update wrapper" in the **ikiwiki.setup** file. + +Then the wiki should be up-to-date! :) + +# Ack + +Thanks to gitte on #git on Freenode and of course joeyh. Have a look at [[rcs/details]]. + +## Too many pages about git? +I think it would be a good thing if the various git pages where somehow unified. It seems to me that [[tips/laptop_wiki_with_git]] is currently not so different from [[git]]. Let us see what joeyh thinks about the new git pages, but if this level of detail is to go there, I think it could pretty much include (maybe as sub pages) the info in [[tips/laptop_wiki_with_git]] and [[tips/laptop_wiki_with_git_extended]] --[[DavidBremner]] + +# Does 'push' from the shallow clones work for you? git-clone and git-fetch explicitly state it doesn't...