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diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt index 02621b54a0..25378f68d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt @@ -1,21 +1,25 @@ Subject: [HOWTO] Using post-update hook Message-ID: <7vy86o6usx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> -From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> +From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:19:10 -0700 Abstract: In this how-to article, JC talks about how he - uses the post-update hook to automate git documentation page + uses the post-update hook to automate Git documentation page shown at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/. +Content-type: text/asciidoc + +How to rebuild from update hook +=============================== The pages under http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ are built from Documentation/ directory of the git.git project and needed to be kept up-to-date. The www.kernel.org/ servers are mirrored and I was told that the origin of the mirror is on the machine $some.kernel.org, on which I was given an account -when I took over git maintainership from Linus. +when I took over Git maintainership from Linus. The directories relevant to this how-to are these two: - /pub/scm/git/git.git/ The public git repository. + /pub/scm/git/git.git/ The public Git repository. /pub/software/scm/git/docs/ The HTML documentation page. So I made a repository to generate the documentation under my @@ -42,7 +46,7 @@ script: EOF Initially I used to run this by hand whenever I push into the -public git repository. Then I did a cron job that ran twice a +public Git repository. Then I did a cron job that ran twice a day. The current round uses the post-update hook mechanism, like this: @@ -84,4 +88,3 @@ There are four things worth mentioning: - This is still crude and does not protect against simultaneous make invocations stomping on each other. I would need to add some locking mechanism for this. - |