X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/e12daf3d982d6c78bd777ffa0a710d3d7cc801d8..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 800d71316..9758beb80 100644 --- a/doc/tips/laptop_wiki_with_git.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/laptop_wiki_with_git.mdwn @@ -15,14 +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|apache_cgi]] on your laptop, if it doesn't +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 @@ -46,4 +47,5 @@ Use standard git commands to handle pulling from and pushing to the server. 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 symlink the post-commit hook to a post-merge hook. +can simply make a symlink `post-merge` hook pointing at the `post-update` +hook ikiwiki created.