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diff --git a/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn b/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn index 4aba78fc0..ea7a9ac89 100644 --- a/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn +++ b/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ HTML is generated from W. rcs_update() will update from M to W. CGI operates on W. rcs_commit() will commit from W to M. +For all the gory details of how ikiwiki handles this behind the scenes, +see [[commit-internals]]. + You browse and web-edit the wiki on W. @@ -45,11 +48,11 @@ There is a working copy of R1: R2. CGI operates on R2. rcs_commit() will push from R2 to R1. You browse the wiki on R1 and web-edit it on R2. This means for example -that R2 needs to be updated from R1 if you are going the web-edit a page, +that R2 needs to be updated from R1 if you are going to web-edit a page, as the user otherwise might be irritated otherwise... How do changes get from R1 to R2? Currently only internally in -rcs_commit(). Is rcs_prepedit() suitable? +rcs\_commit(). Is rcs\_prepedit() suitable? It follows that the HTML rendering and the CGI handling can be completely separated parts in ikiwiki. @@ -62,11 +65,11 @@ darcs is a distributed RCS, which means that every checkout of a repository is equal to the repository it was checked-out from. There is no forced hierarchy. -R1 is the nevertheless called the master repository. It's used for +R1 is nevertheless called the master repository. It's used for collecting all the changes and publishing them: on the one hand via the rendered HTML and on the other via the standard darcs RCS interface. -R2, the repository where CGI operates on, is just a checkout of R1 and +R2, the repository the CGI operates on, is just a checkout of R1 and doesn't really differ from the other checkouts that people will branch off from R1. |