-## A few bits about the RCS backends
+# A few bits about the RCS backends
-### Terminology
+## Terminology
``web-edit'' means that a page is edited by using the web (CGI) interface
as opposed to using a editor and the RCS interface.
-### [[Subversion]]
+## [[Subversion]]
Subversion was the first RCS to be supported by ikiwiki.
-#### How does it work internally?
+### How does it work internally?
Master repository M.
You browse and web-edit the wiki on W.
-### [darcs](http://darcs.net/) (not yet included)
+## [darcs](http://darcs.net/) (not yet included)
Support for using darcs as a backend is being worked on by [Thomas
Schwinge](mailto:tschwinge@gnu.org).
-#### How will it work internally?
+### How will it work internally?
``Master'' repository R1.
What repository should [[RecentChanges]] and [[History]] work on? R1?
-##### Rationale for doing it differently than in the Subversion case
+#### Rationale for doing it differently than in the Subversion case
darcs is a distributed RCS, which means that every checkout of a
repository is equal to the repository it was checked-out from. There is
(To be continued.)
-### [[git]] (not yet included)
+## [[Git]] (not yet included)
-A patch with full git support is at <http://people.debian.org/~roktas/patches/ikiwiki/git.patch>. Regarding the patch, Recai says:
+A patch with full [Git](http://git.or.cz) support is at <http://people.debian.org/~roktas/patches/ikiwiki/git.patch>. Regarding the patch, Recai says:
I have been testing it for the past few days and it seems satisfactory. I
haven't observed any race condition regarding the concurrent blog commits
It works for me, but of course in the end, the final decision is yours (due
to mostly GIT quirks, the implementation is not clean as SVN). Feel free
-to fix/delete/add whatever you want. Hope it doesn't have any serious bug.
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+to fix/delete/add whatever you want. Hope it doesn't have any serious bug.