post-receive: exclude commits from the patch update step

[patchwork] / docs / INSTALL

diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL
index 91c60815e575ff4f5dec5056deb327b02c4d1300..5716ed231b59ac36dc6e4e3f68ad17e3011cb67e 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/INSTALL
+++ b/docs/INSTALL
@@ -113,13 +113,6 @@ in brackets):
           chars = string.letters + string.digits + string.punctuation
           print repr("".join([random.choice(chars) for i in range(0,50)]))
 
-        If you have patchwork installed in somewhere other than /srv/patchwork,
-        you'll also need to define:
-
-          ROOT_DIR
-          MEDIA_ROOT
-          TEMPLATE_DIRS
-
         If you wish to enable the XML-RPC interface, add the following to
         your local_settings.py file:
 
@@ -128,7 +121,7 @@ in brackets):
         Then, get patchwork to create its tables in your configured database:
 
          cd apps/
-         PYTHONPATH=../lib/python/django ./manage.py syncdb
+         PYTHONPATH=../lib/python ./manage.py syncdb
 
         And add privileges for your mail and web users. This is only needed if
         you use the ident-based approach. If you use password-based database
@@ -217,6 +210,39 @@ fastcgi:
 
      sudo -u nobody /srv/patchwork/apps/patchwork/bin/parsemail.sh < mail
 
+7. Set up the patchwork cron script
+
+    Patchwork uses a cron script to clean up expired registrations, and
+    send notifications of patch changes (for projects with this enabled).
+
+    Something like this in your crontab should work:
+
+      # m h  dom mon dow   command
+      PYTHONPATH=apps:.
+      DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings
+      */10 * * * * cd patchwork; python apps/patchwork/bin/patchwork-cron.py
+
+
+    - the frequency should be the same as the NOTIFICATION_DELAY_MINUTES
+    setting, which defaults to 10 minutes.
+
+8. Optional: Configure your VCS to automatically update patches
+
+    The tools directory of the patchwork distribution contains a file
+    named post-receive.hook which is an example git hook that can be
+    used to automatically update patches to the Accepted state when
+    corresponding comits are pushed via git.
+
+    To install this hook, simply copy it to the .git/hooks directory on
+    your server, name it post-receive, and make it executable.
+
+    This sample hook has support to update patches to different states
+    depending on which branch is being pushed to. See the STATE_MAP
+    setting in that file.
+
+    If you are using a system other than git, you can likely write a
+    similar hook using pwclient to update patch state. If you do write
+    one, please contribute it.
 
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