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Loggerhead is a web viewer for Bazaar branches. Its lets users do
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* navigate through branch history
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* view the files in a given revision
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* annotate files (i.e. find out the origin of each line of a file)
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See docs/index.rst for installation instructions and basic
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This software is (C) Copyright Canonical Limited 2006-10 under the
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GPL Version 2 or later. Please see the file COPYING.txt for the
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[ Version 1.6 for Bazaar 1.6 ]
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Loggerhead is a web viewer for Bazaar branches. It can be used to
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navigate a branch history, annotate files, perform searches... all the
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Loggerhead depends on SimpleTAL for templating and Paste for the
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server. So you need these installed -- on Ubuntu you want the
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'python-simpletal' and 'python-paste' packages installed. You need
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version 1.2 or newer of Paste.
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Then simply run the 'serve-branches.py' script of loggerhead from the
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directory containing the branches you want to serve.
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Previous versions of Loggerhead read their configuration from a config
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file. This mode of operation is still supported by the
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'start-loggerhead.py' script. A 'loggerhead.conf.example' file is
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included in the source which has comments explaining the various
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Loggerhead can then be started by running::
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$ ./start-loggerhead.py
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This will run loggerhead in the background. It listens on port 8080
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by default, so go to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser to see the
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list of bublished branches.
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To stop Loggerhead, run::
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$ ./stop-loggerhead.py
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In the configuration file you can configure projects, and branches per
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project. The idea is that you could be publishing several (possibly
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unrelated) projects through the same loggerhead instance, and several
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branches for the same project. See the "loggerhead.conf.example" file
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included with the source.
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A debug and access log are stored in the logs/ folder, relative to
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the location of the start-loggerhead.py script.
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You may update the Bazaar branch at any time (for example, from a cron).
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Loggerhead will notice and refresh, and Bazaar uses its own branch
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locking to prevent corruption.
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SERVING LOGGERHEAD FROM BEHIND APACHE
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If you want to view Bazaar branches from your existing Apache
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installation, you'll need to configure Apache to proxy certain
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requests to Loggerhead. Adding lines like this to you Apache
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configuration is one way to do this::
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<Location "/branches/">
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ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8080/
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ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080/
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To speed up the display of the changelog view for large trees,
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loggerhead can be configured to cache the files changes between
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revisions. Set the 'cachepath' value in the config file.
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Loggerhead is loosely based on bazaar-webserve, which was loosely
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based on hgweb. Discussion should take place on the bazaar-dev
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mailing list at bazaar@lists.canonical.com. You can join the list at
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<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/bazaar>. You don't need to
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subscribe to post, but your first post will be held briefly for manual
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Bugs are tracked on Launchpad; start at:
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/loggerhead