From: joey Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:39:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: document exactly what goes on during a cgi edit or remote commit with git X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/3f7944fdc784eaf73c683bb521a3c5adfde74295 document exactly what goes on during a cgi edit or remote commit with git --- diff --git a/doc/rcs/details.mdwn b/doc/rcs/details.mdwn index 3c9e465c2..e09fcf758 100644 --- a/doc/rcs/details.mdwn +++ b/doc/rcs/details.mdwn @@ -150,6 +150,21 @@ Note that, as a rule of thumb, you should always put the rcs wrapper (`post-upda into the master repository (`.git/hooks/`) as can be noticed in the Git wrappers of the sample [[ikiwiki.setup]]. +Here is how a web edit works with ikiwiki and git: + +* ikiwiki cgi modifies the page source in the clone +* git-commit in the clone +* git push origin master, pushes the commit from the clone to the master repo +* the master repo's post-update hook notices this update, and runs ikiwiki +* ikiwiki notices the modifies page source, and compiles it + +Here is a how a commit from a remote repository works: + +* git-commit in the remote repository +* git-push, pushes the commit to the master repo on the server +* the master repo's post-update hook notices this update, and runs ikiwiki +* ikiwiki notices the modifies page source, and compiles it + ## [[Mercurial]] The Mercurial backend is still in a early phase, so it may not be mature