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commit 8eabe24bdda7003453bbd034d82ebc479e2c76bc
parent e9e7978381a2b3567902420d5ea1539d3c695b31
Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date:   Sat, 22 Apr 2017 14:38:39 +0200

improve documentation

- add example to README to extract gitweb.owner from a git config.
  this is used in gitweb and some cgit configurations.
- fix (new) mandoc warnings (new sentence on each line).
- improve some texts in the man pages, sort / structure some list items.

Diffstat:
MREADME | 19++++++++++++++++++-
Mstagit-index.1 | 13+++++++------
Mstagit.1 | 47+++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README @@ -61,6 +61,23 @@ make make install +Extract owner field from git config +----------------------------------- + +A (hacky) way to extract the gitweb owner for example in the format: + + [gitweb] + owner = Name here + +Script: + + #!/bin/sh + awk '/^[ ]*owner[ ]=/ { + sub(/^[^=]*=[ ]*/, ""); + print $0; + }' + + Features -------- @@ -86,7 +103,7 @@ Cons - Not suitable for repositories with many branches, a quite linear history is assumed (from HEAD). - Relatively slow to run the first time (about 3 seconds for sbase, - 1500+ commits), incremental updates after it are faster. + 1500+ commits), incremental updates are faster. - Does not support some of the dynamic features cgit has, like: - snapshot tarballs. - file tree per commit. diff --git a/stagit-index.1 b/stagit-index.1 @@ -10,13 +10,14 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm will create an index HTML page for the repositories specified and writes -the HTML data to stdout. The repos in the index are in the same order as -the arguments +the HTML data to stdout. +The repos in the index are in the same order as the arguments .Ar repodir specified. .Pp -The basename of the directory is used as the name. The suffix ".git" is -removed from the basename, this is commonly used for "bare" repos. +The basename of the directory is used as the repository name. +The suffix ".git" is removed from the basename, this suffix is commonly used +for "bare" repos. .Pp The content of the follow files specifies the meta data for each repository: .Bl -tag -width Ds @@ -28,10 +29,10 @@ owner of repository .Pp For changing the style of the page you can use the following files: .Bl -tag -width Ds -.It logo.png -32x32 logo. .It favicon.png favicon image. +.It logo.png +32x32 logo. .It style.css CSS stylesheet. .El diff --git a/stagit.1 b/stagit.1 @@ -14,51 +14,58 @@ writes HTML pages for the repository .Ar repodir to the current directory. .Pp -Optionally the -.Fl c Ar cachefile -option can be used to cache the entries of the log page up to the point of -the last commit. The +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl c Ar cachefile +Cache the entries of the log page up to the point of +the last commit. +The .Ar cachefile -will store the last commit id and the entries in the HTML table. It is up -to the user to make sure the state of the +will store the last commit id and the entries in the HTML table. +It is up to the user to make sure the state of the .Ar cachefile is in sync with the history of the repository. +.El .Pp The following files will be written: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It atom.xml Atom XML feed .It files.html -List of files in the latest HEAD commit, linking to the file. +List of files in the latest tree, linking to the file. .It log.html List of commits in order of most recent to old of the commits (top to bottom), -each commit links to a page with a diff and diffstat of the commit. +each commit links to a page with a diffstat and diff of the commit. .It refs.html Lists references of the repository such as branches and tags. .El .Pp For each entry in HEAD a file will be written in the format: -file/filepath.html. This file will contain the textual data of the file -prefixed by line numbers. The file will have the string "Binary file" -if the data is considered to be non-textual. +file/filepath.html. +This file will contain the textual data of the file prefixed by line numbers. +The file will have the string "Binary file" if the data is considered to be +non-textual. .Pp For each commit a file will be written in the format: -commit/commitid.html. This file will contain the diff and diffstat of the -commit. It will write the string "Binary files differ" if the data is -considered to be non-textual. Too large diffs will be suppressed and a string +commit/commitid.html. +This file will contain the diffstat and diff of the commit. +It will write the string "Binary files differ" if the data is considered to +be non-textual. +Too large diffs will be suppressed and a string "Diff is too large, output suppressed" will be written. .Pp When a commit HTML file exists it won't be overwritten again, note that if you've changed .Nm or changed one of the metadata files of the repository it is recommended to -recreate all the output files because it will contain old data. To do this -remove the output directory and +recreate all the output files because it will contain old data. +To do this remove the output directory and .Ar cachefile , then recreate the files. .Pp -The basename of the directory is used as the name. The suffix ".git" is -removed from the basename, this is commonly used for "bare" repos. +The basename of the directory is used as the repository name. +The suffix ".git" is removed from the basename, this suffix is commonly used +for "bare" repos. .Pp The content of the follow files specifies the metadata for each repository: .Bl -tag -width Ds @@ -75,10 +82,10 @@ exists in HEAD a direct link in the menu is made. .Pp For changing the style of the page you can use the following files: .Bl -tag -width Ds -.It logo.png -32x32 logo. .It favicon.png favicon image. +.It logo.png +32x32 logo. .It style.css CSS stylesheet. .El