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diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/rsync/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/rsync/discussion.mdwn index a2c2eb725..b2d21e6d5 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/rsync/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/rsync/discussion.mdwn @@ -25,3 +25,14 @@ As a proof of concept, I added an rsync post-commit hook after ikiwiki's usual. It worked, just not for web edits, which is how the wiki will be used. So I wrote this plugin to finish the job. The wiki now lives on (1), and clicking "edit" just works. + +> Just out of interest, why use `rsync` and not `git push`. i.e. a +> different setup to solve the same problem would be to run a +> normal ikiwiki setup on the universities server with its git +> repository available over ssh (same security setup your using +> for rsync should work for git over ssh). On the cgi-capable server, +> when it would rsync, make it git push. It would seem that git +> has enough information that it should be able to be more +> network efficient. It also means that corruption at one end +> wouldn't be propagated to the other end. -- [[Will]] + |