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diff --git a/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn b/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9beb08ece --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +If you really need to, you can use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]] +with ikiwiki. + +### Usage +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. + +Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn't need it, but you yourself might. Here's a good general-purpose one: + + cvs -q + checkout -P + update -dP + diff -u + rdiff -u + +### Implementation details +* [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]: + * creates a repository, + * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), + * configures the post-commit hook in `CVSROOT/loginfo`. + +### To do +* Have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce commits into changesets. Reasons: + 7. Obviates the need to scrape the repo's complete history to determine the last N changesets. (Repositories without such records can fall back on the `cvsps` and `File::ReadBackwards` code.) + 7. Arranges for ikiwiki to be run once per changeset, rather than CVS's once per committed file (!), which is a waste at best and bug-inducing at worst. (Currently, on multi-directory commits, only the first directory's changes get mentioned in [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]].) +* 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. |