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| author | joey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071> | 2007-09-05 18:44:32 +0000 |
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| committer | joey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071> | 2007-09-05 18:44:32 +0000 |
| commit | f1babffe20cdeb5c8ccca0812bdf7948150a077d (patch) | |
| tree | 2e6275b968aef31c49dd4c2e04ef8a0cb7168b7f | |
| parent | 85aa453d0f34f697f0f2554a52900c35b68432b3 (diff) | |
web commit by http://natalian.org/: a little clearer
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/post-commit.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/post-commit.mdwn b/doc/post-commit.mdwn index ea11ba7c9..18eae1735 100644 --- a/doc/post-commit.mdwn +++ b/doc/post-commit.mdwn @@ -1,10 +1,7 @@ If your wiki is kept in [[revision_control|rcs]], a post-commit hook is run -every time you commit a change to your repository. To make the wiki be -updated each time a commit is made, it can be run from (or as) a -post-commit hook. +every time you commit a change to your repository. -The best way to run ikiwiki in a post-commit hook is using a wrapper, which -ikiwiki is usually configured to generate using a setup file. +ikiwiki generates the "post-commit hook" once you've uncommented the relevant section (under wrappers) in the ikiwiki.setup. The generated wrapper is a C program that is designed to safely be made suid if necessary. It's hardcoded to run ikiwiki with the settings @@ -17,4 +14,4 @@ your wiki checkout and html directory. If so, you can safely make the wrapper suid to a user who can write there (*not* to root!). You might want to read [[Security]] first. -[[Setup]] explains setting this up in more detail. +[[Setup]] explains setting this up from the start and see [[rcs/details]] to know more. |