From 4711076fad54ff8152f03a7e4bdd4b5c2df1916c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:39 -0500 Subject: clarify --- doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn index e71c8106a..de1f148e5 100644 --- a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn @@ -119,3 +119,11 @@ I have a few notes on mercurial usage after trying it out for a while: >> I think the ideal solution would be to build `$destdir/recentchanges/*` directly from the output of `hg log`. --[[buo]] >>>> That would be 100 times as slow, so I chose not to do that. --[[Joey]] + +>>>> Since this is confusing people, allow me to clarify: Ikiwiki's +>>>> recentchanges generation pulls log information directly out of the VCS as +>>>> needed. It caches it in recentchanges/* in the `scrdir`. These cache +>>>> files need not be preserved, should never be checked into VCS, and if +>>>> you want to you can configure your VCSignore file to ignore them, +>>>> just as you can configure it to ignore the `.ikiwiki` directory in the +>>>> `scrdir`. --[[Joey]] -- cgit v1.2.3