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diff --git a/doc/rcs/git.mdwn b/doc/rcs/git.mdwn index b4f639c61..c82adbd04 100644 --- a/doc/rcs/git.mdwn +++ b/doc/rcs/git.mdwn @@ -116,3 +116,38 @@ pulling changes from the bare root repository, you will need to manually update the local wiki, with a command such as `ikiwiki -setup localwiki.setup -refresh`. You could use git's `post-merge` hook to automate that command. + +## Using ikiwiki with Gerrit + +[Gerrit Code Review](https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/) manages a set of Git +repositories and provides a web interface to review and merge commits. You can +configure ikiwiki to work with a Gerrit-managed repository, allowing you to +review and merge commits to your wiki. + +First, create your initial wiki repository with Gerrit. On the server, as the +user that will own the wiki, clone that repository to create a working +directory for ikiwiki, such as /srv/wiki/ikiwiki-checkout. Create a setup file +and target directory as usual, referencing that working directory path, and +creating a post-update hook in Gerrit's repository. You'll need to set +appropriate permissions on the hook directory for the repository so that the +user running ikiwiki can compile and install the post-update hook. Also note +that you must disable web editing by disabling the editpage plugin, and you +must not enable any other plugin that commits to the repository, since ikiwiki +will not have permission to push to the repository. (Allowing web edits to +have such permission would bypass Gerrit's code review, defeating the purpose.) + +Gerrit does not run per-repository hooks, such as the post-update hook ikiwiki +installs to update the wiki after pushes. However, Gerrit has site-wide hooks, +including a ref-updated hook that runs whenever a ref changes. You can use +that hook to trigger ikiwiki's post-update hook. The following script, +installed as Gerrit's ref-updated hook, will run the post-update hook on any +repository that has a "gerrit-run-post-update-hook" file in it: + + #!/bin/sh + if [ -e "$GIT_DIR/gerrit-run-post-update-hook" ] ; then + exec "$GIT_DIR/hooks/post-update" + fi + +Then just create gerrit-run-post-update-hook in the wiki repository, run +ikiwiki --setup on the setup file, add your wiki to /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist, and +start reviewing and committing wiki changes via Gerrit. |