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Can the instructions for using ikiwiki-makerepo be clarified. This command wants to create folders in the directory it is run in. Which directory should that be - $SRCDIR? --Andy

No, ikiwiki-makerepo does not create directories in the current directory. You specify the directory you want it to create and it creates the directory and makes it into a repository. The setup instuctions have examples of doing this. I don't see anything unclear. --[[Joey]]


It isn't intended that .ikiwiki be versioned, is it? Do you have a svn:ignore set? Is there some magic way you can make the svn commands (and presumably commands for the other VCSs here) ignore the .ikiwiki directory during step 8, when they import it? If not, maybe a note should be made that the user should delete this file before they import. --Ethan

No, .ikiwiki should not be versioned, and a svn:ignore of it is reasonable, although probably too much noise for the setup instructions. I've switched to a different method that preserves .ikiwiki, w/o checking it in. --[[Joey]]


These instructions should probably show how to use a bare Git repository (GIT_DIR=somewhere.git git-init-db) rather than a repository with a full working copy. You can always clone the repository if you want your own local working copy. Furthermore, this allows you to make multiple commits to your working copy before pushing them to the repository and causing the wiki to update. --[[JoshTriplett]]

I'm currently testing and running such a setup. --[[tschwinge]]

Furthermore the git instructions should be changed to move the .ikiwiki directory back into the wiki's working copy directory, isn't it? --[[tschwinge]]

Yes, I think so. I will clean these instructions up unless somebody tells me we're missing something fundamental. --[[BartMassey]]

Either you do it or I'll do it somewhen soon. --[[tschwinge]]


Curious as to why support for CVS is not built in. --[[Luther]]

See [[todo/CVS_backend|todo/CVS_backend]], but you might consider switching to a better version control system. --[[JoshTriplett]]