[darcs-users] proposed change to manual

[David Roundy]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:01:50AM -0700, Issac Trotts wrote:
> The section "Making your repository visible to others" contains this
> advice: "The recommended way to [let the world know about your changes]
> (using apache in a UNIX environment) is to create a directory called
> /var/www/repos, and then put a symlink to your repo there."
> 
> I guess it would be more helpful to give an example of the commands,
> since it's not really clear what is meant by "repo."  "Repo" could easily
> be taken to mean the _darcs directory, which is what I thought when I
> first read this.  
> 
>   cd /var/www/repos
>   ln -s ~/myproject .

I've added essentially this example to the manual.

> I prefer 
> 
>   cd /var/www/repos
>   darcs get ~/myproject
> 
> but I'm a novice so what do I know...

The problem with this would be that every time you made a change to your
project you'd have to cd into /var/www/repos/myproject and run darcs pull,
if you want your changes to be made available to the outside world.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org