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I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki.

  • Is it possible to have ikiwiki point to a subversion repository which is on a different server? The basic checkin/checkout functionality seems to work but there doesn't seem to be any way to make the post-commit hook work for a non-local server?

This is difficult to do since ikiwiki's post-commit wrapper expects to run on a machine that contains both the svn repository and the .ikiwiki state directory. However, with recent versions of ikiwiki, you can get away without running the post-commit wrapper on commit, and all you lose is the ability to send commit notification emails.

(And now that [[recentchanges]] includes rss, you can just subscribe to that, no need to worry about commit notification emails anymore.)

  • Is it possible / sensible to have ikiwiki share a subversion repository with other data (either completely unrelated files or another ikiwiki instance)? This works in part but again the post-commit hook seems problematic.

--[[AdamShand]]

Sure, see ikiwiki's subversion repository for example of non-wiki files in the same repo. If you have two wikis in one repository, you will need to write a post-commit script that calls the post-commit wrappers for each wiki. --[[Joey]]