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+What directory is the 'working copy'? There can be two interpretations: the current dir and the .git dir.
+
+> It is fairly common terminology amoung all version control systems to use
+> "working copy" to refer to a checkout from version control, including
+> copies of all the versioned files, and whatever VCS-specific cruft that
+> entails. So, a working copy is everything you get when you `git clone`
+> a repository. --[[Joey]]
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@@ -245,3 +245,16 @@ Thank you! I'm not a Perl programmer, so what's your opinion: is this behavior a
 
 I am experiencing the same problem "/etc/ikiwiki/custom: failed to set up the repository with ikiwiki-makerepo
 " on Debian squeeze with perl5.10.0. Upgrading to ikiwiki 3.10 fixes it. -- [Albert](http://www.docunext.com/)
+
+----
+
+Just a note, perl 5.10 isn't packaged as part of RHEL or thus CentOS nor EPEL,
+so it's not especially trivial to satisfy that requirement for ikiwiki on
+those platforms, without backporting it from Fedora or building from source.
+However, I have an ikiwiki 3.20100403 running on RHEL-4 supplied 5.8.8 without
+(seemingly too much) complaint.  How strong is the 5.10 requirement? what
+precicely breaks without it? -- [[Jon]]
+
+> I don't remember what was the specific problem with perl 5.8.8. All I can
+> find is some taint checking bugs, which are currently worked around by
+> taint checking being disabled. --[[Joey]]