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diff --git a/gitweb.txt b/gitweb.txt index af6bf3c45..1030e9667 100644 --- a/gitweb.txt +++ b/gitweb.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ gitweb - Git web interface (web frontend to Git repositories) SYNOPSIS -------- To get started with gitweb, run linkgit:git-instaweb[1] from a Git repository. -This would configure and start your web server, and run web browser pointing to +This will configure and start your web server, and run a web browser pointing to gitweb. @@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ Gitweb provides a web interface to Git repositories. Its features include: * Browsing every revision of the repository. * Viewing the contents of files in the repository at any revision. * Viewing the revision log of branches, history of files and directories, - see what was changed when, by who. + seeing what was changed, when, and by whom. * Viewing the blame/annotation details of any file (if enabled). * Generating RSS and Atom feeds of commits, for any branch. The feeds are auto-discoverable in modern web browsers. -* Viewing everything that was changed in a revision, and step through +* Viewing everything that was changed in a revision, and stepping through revisions one at a time, viewing the history of the repository. -* Finding commits which commit messages matches given search term. +* Finding commits whose commit messages match a given search term. See http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/tree/HEAD:/gitweb/[] for gitweb source code, browsed using gitweb itself. @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ for details. Repositories ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gitweb can show information from one or more Git repositories. These -repositories have to be all on local filesystem, and have to share common +repositories have to be all on local filesystem, and have to share a common repository root, i.e. be all under a single parent repository (but see also -"Advanced web server setup" section, "Webserver configuration with multiple +the "Advanced web server setup" section, "Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root" subsection). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ our $projectroot = '/path/to/parent/directory'; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The default value for `$projectroot` is `/pub/git`. You can change it during -building gitweb via `GITWEB_PROJECTROOT` build configuration variable. +building gitweb via the `GITWEB_PROJECTROOT` build configuration variable. By default all Git repositories under `$projectroot` are visible and available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by scanning the @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ found at "$projectroot/$repo". Projects list file format ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Instead of having gitweb find repositories by scanning filesystem +Instead of having gitweb find repositories by scanning the filesystem starting from $projectroot, you can provide a pre-generated list of visible projects by setting `$projects_list` to point to a plain text file with a list of projects (with some additional info). |