Merge branch 'cvs' of github.com:schmonz/ikiwiki into cvs

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / mercurial.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
index 2f148498e768627c7575ddf02dce6fb10ed3a41e..de1f148e5a030763d1c65b281f6397252aafa206 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
   It seems that with the current mercurial commit code, it will always
   blindly overwrite the current file with the web edited version, losing
   any other changes.
   It seems that with the current mercurial commit code, it will always
   blindly overwrite the current file with the web edited version, losing
   any other changes.

+* `rcs_commit_staged`, `rcs_rename`, `rcs_remove`, and `rcs_diff` are not
+  implemented for mercurial, and so attachments, remove and rename plugins
+  and recentchangesdiff cannot be used with it. (These should be fairly
+  easy to add..)

 
 Posthook: in `$srcdir/.hg/hgrc`, I have the following
 
 
 Posthook: in `$srcdir/.hg/hgrc`, I have the following
 


@@ -115,3 +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]]
 >> 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]]