X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/598ffb71331c9363157d44b7bc85d4bb3bfef81a..572acb253b320e9970c7e3824170fd4235623dd5:/doc/tips/laptop_wiki_with_git.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/laptop_wiki_with_git.mdwn b/doc/tips/laptop_wiki_with_git.mdwn index bb14f6d38..9758beb80 100644 --- a/doc/tips/laptop_wiki_with_git.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/laptop_wiki_with_git.mdwn @@ -15,13 +15,15 @@ for setting up ikiwiki with git. Next, `git clone` the source (`$REPOSITORY`, not `$SRCDIR`) from the server to the laptop. -Now, set up a web server on your laptop, if it doesn't already have one. +Now, set up a [[web_server|dot_cgi]] on your laptop, if it doesn't +already have one. Now you need to write a setup file for ikiwiki on the laptop. Mostly this is standard, but a few special settings are needed: * Configure a cgi wrapper as usual, but configure the git wrapper to - be written to the `post-commit` hook of the git clone. + be written to the `post-commit` hook of the git clone, rather than the + usual `post-update` hook. * By default, ikiwiki pulls and pushes from `origin`. This shouldn't be done on the laptop, because the origin may not be accessible (when the @@ -42,8 +44,8 @@ run setup.) Use standard git commands to handle pulling from and pushing to the server. -Note: Currently, after pulling changes, you will need to manually update -the wiki, with a command such as `ikiwiki -setup wiki.setup -refresh`. This -is because git 1.5.4 doesn't have a hook that is run locally after pulling -changes. Newer versions of git will have a `post-merge` hook that should -work for this purpose. +Note that if changes are pulled from the server, you will need to manually +update the wiki, with a command such as `ikiwiki -setup wiki.setup -refresh`. +If you'd like it to automatically update when changes are merged in, you +can simply make a symlink `post-merge` hook pointing at the `post-update` +hook ikiwiki created.