Welcome to Gitlit’s documentation!

Contents:

• Introduction
• Quick Start Guide
  • Installing the package
  • Create a repository
  • Commit a modified file
  • Diff the two previous commits
  • Merge the output of the diff
  • Restore an HTML file from a repo
• Problem Statement
  • The Gospel of Git & and Source Control
  • What Everyone else does
  • Who Cares?
  • Place your trust in the mighty Gitlit
• Feature List
  • Initialize/Create a repository with a structured document
  • Commit a new revision provided a new document
  • Commit a new revision provided a changed subsection?
  • View differences between revisions of a document
  • Accept/Reject capability for merge conflicts
  • Line-by-line Pull Requests
  • Commit new revisions of a document to a branch
• Using Gitlit
  • Getting started
  • Creating a repository
  • Generating HTML from a repository
  • Making a commit
• Setting up the Development Environment
  • Initial Setup
  • After Initial Setup
  • Errors in File Location After Initial Setup
• HTML to Repository Serialization
  • Design Issues
  • Simple Paragraph Addition
  • Nested Nodes
  • Node Moves
  • Design Decision
• Text Node Name-Tracking
• Method explanation
  • Custom HTML Tags with id Info
  • XML-style Text & Tail
• Do we even need tags to track text nodes?
• Case 1: Editing A Text Node
  • Custom Tags
  • XML text tail
• Case 2: Deleting A Text Node
  • Custom Tags
  • XML text-tail
• Case 3: Inserting A Text Node
  • Custom Tags
  • XML text-tail
• Case 4: Moving A Text Node
  • Custom Tags
  • XML text-tail
• Case 5: Moving an Edited Text Node
  • Custom Tags
  • XML text-tail
• A Note about Diff implementation
• Design Decision

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page