* Add support for using git instead of subversion as the RCS backend,

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-So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This turorial will walk
-you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]] and that has
-optional support for commits from the web.
+So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This tutorial will walk
+you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]] or [[Git]],
+and that has optional support for commits from the web.

 
 

-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki.
+1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.

 
 

-               apt-get install ikiwiki
-
-2. Create the subversion repository for your wiki.
+2. Create the master rcs repository for your wiki.

 
 

+               # Subversion

                svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
                svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
 
                svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
                svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
 

+               # Git
+               mkdir /git/wikirepo
+               cd /git/wikirepo
+               git init-db
+

 3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
 
 3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
 

+               # Subversion

                svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
 
                svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
 

-4. Create some files and add them into subversion.
-
-               echo "Welcome to my empty wiki." > ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
-               echo "Feel free to edit this page" > ~/wikiwc/sandbox.mdwn
-               svn add ~/wikiwc/*.mdwn
-               svn commit ~/wikiwc -m add
+               # Git
+               git clone /git/wikirepo ~/wikiwc

 
 

-5. Build your wiki for the first time.
+4. Build your wiki for the first time.

 
                ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
                        --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
 
 
                ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
                        --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
 

-   Replace the url with the right url to your wiki. You should now
-   be able to visit the url and see your page that you created earlier.
-
-6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
-   the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
-   --wikiname too. Get conformatble with its command line.
+   Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
+   be able to visit the url and see your wiki.

 
 

-7. Set up a Subversion [[post-commit]] hook to automatically rebuild your
-   wiki when you commit to it.
+5. Customise your wiki. The files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/` are
+   used if you don't have a custom version, so let's start by making a
+   custom version of the wiki's index page:

 
 

-               ikiwiki ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
-                       --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ --wrapper
-               mv ikiwiki-wrap /svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit
+               cd ~/wikiwc
+               cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
+               $EDITOR index.mdwn

 
 

-8. Set up a [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
+               # Subversion
+               svn add index.mdwn
+               svn commit -m customised index.mdwn

 
 

-               ikiwiki ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
-                       --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ --wrapper --cgi
-               chmod 6755 ikiwiki-wrap
-               mv wrapper ~/public_html/wiki/ikiwki.cgi
+               # Git
+               git add index.mdwn
+               git commit -m customised index.mdwn
+               git push origin

 
 

-   Note that this assumes that your web server will run CGI scripts from
-   your public_html directory. You might need to put it somewhere else
-   depending on your web server configuration.
+   You can also add any files you like from scratch of course.

 
 

-9. Add links to the CGI to all the pages in your wiki, and update your
-   post-commit hook to add such links when updating the wiki in the
-   future. Note the use of the [[WrapperParamsTrick]].
-
-               ikiwiki $(/svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit --params) --rebuild
-               ikiwiki $(/svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit --params) \
-                       --cgiurl=http://host/~you/wiki/ikiwiki.cgi --wrapper
-               mv ikiwiki-wrap /svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit
-
-   Be sure to change the cgiurl to the actual url to the wiki.cgi you
-   installed in step 9.
-
-10. Enjoy your new wiki!
+6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
+   the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
+   `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
+   (see [[usage]]).
+
+7. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
+   options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. And it's
+   also getting old to have to manualy rebuild the wiki each time you
+   change a file. Time to introduce setup files. 
+   
+   A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
+   `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it. 
+   
+   Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
+   ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
+   `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
+   hand. `rcsrepo` is the path to your master rcs repository.  Make sure
+   that all of these are pointing to the right directories, and read
+   through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
+
+   Note that the default file has a block to configure an Rcs wrapper to
+   update the wiki.  You need to uncomment the related block for whatever
+   rcs you use and comment out the other rcs blocks.
+
+   When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
+   will set everything up and update your wiki.
+
+8. Set up [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
+
+   Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the block for the cgi wrapper, make
+   sure the filename for the cgi wrapper is ok, run 
+   `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
+
+9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
+   setup a repository browser.  For Subversion, you may use [[ViewCVS]] or
+   something similar to access your [[Subversion]] repository.  For Git,
+   [[Gitweb]] can be used.
+   
+   The `historyurl` setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and in that url,
+   "\[[file]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So edit
+   ikiwiki.setup and set `historyurl` to something like this for
+   Subversion:
+
+       `http://svn.host/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki`
+
+   Or this for Git:
+
+       `http://git.host/gitweb.cgi?p=wiki.git;a=history;f=[[file]]`
+   
+   Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.
+
+10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]