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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn index fcf5b936f..d45992300 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ This plugin allows ikiwiki to use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]] as an [[rcs]]. ### Usage -7. Install [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), [[!cpan -File::ReadBackwards]], and +7. Install [[!cpan File::chdir]], [[!cpan File::ReadBackwards]], +[cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), and [cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like. 7. Adjust CVS-related parameters in your setup file. @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn * `cvs.pm` started life as a copy of [[3.14159|news/version_3.14159]]'s `svn.pm`. * `IkiWiki.pm:wiki_file_prune_regexps` avoids copying CVS metadata into `$DESTDIR`. -* `IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm` avoids calling ikiwiki from post-commit if it's a -directory being `cvs add`ed (this check is only compiled into the wrapper -iff the configured VCS is "cvs"). +* `IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm` provides a new "wrapperargcheck" hook, which +the plugin implements to avoid calling ikiwiki from post-commit +(and locking against itself) if it's a directory being `cvs add`ed. * [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]: * creates a repository, * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), @@ -32,6 +32,5 @@ iff the configured VCS is "cvs"). * CVS multi-directory commits happen separately; the post-commit hook sees only the first directory's changes in time for [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]]. The next run of `ikiwiki --setup` will correctly re-render such a recentchanges entry. It should be possible to solve this problem with NetBSD's `commit_prep` and `log_accum` scripts (see below). ### To do -* Add automated tests. (Blindly adding svn-like tests to `t/file_pruned.t` doesn't do the trick.) * Instead of resource-intensively scraping changesets with `cvsps`, have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce and keep records of commits. `cvsps` can be used as a fallback for repositories without such records. * Perhaps prevent web edits from attempting to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn` (and `.../cvs/foo.mdwn` on case-insensitive filesystems); thanks to the CVS metadata directory, the attempt will fail anyway (and much more confusingly) if we don't. |