-[[meta title="Revision Control Systems"]]
+[[!meta title="Revision Control Systems"]]
Ikiwiki supports using several revision control systems for storing page
histories.
Ikiwiki started out supporting only [[Subversion|svn]], but the interface
ikiwiki uses to a revision control system is sufficiently simple and
generic that it can be adapted to work with many systems by writing a
-[[plugin|plugins/write]]. [[Subversion|svn]] is still a recommended choice
-(since [[Joey]] uses it); [[git]] is another well-tested option.
+[[plugin|plugins/write]]. These days, most people use [[git]].
-These are all the supported revision control systems:
-[[inline pages="rcs/* and !*/Discussion and !details" archive=yes]]
+While all supported revision control systems work well enough for basic
+use, some advanced or special features are not supported in all of them.
+The table below summarises this for each revision control system and
+links to more information about each.
+
+[[!table data="""
+feature |[[git]]|[[svn]]|[[bzr]] |[[monotone]]|[[mercurial]]|[[darcs]]|[[tla]] |[[cvs]]
+[[ikiwiki-makerepo]]|yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes
+auto.setup |yes |yes |incomplete|yes |incomplete |yes |incomplete|yes
+`rcs_commit_staged` |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes
+`rcs_rename` |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes
+`rcs_remove` |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes
+`rcs_diff` |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes
+`rcs_getctime` |fast |slow |slow |slow |fast |slow |slow |slow
+`rcs_getmtime` |fast |slow |slow |slow |fast |no |no |no
+`rcs_preprevert` |yes |no |no |no |no |no |no |no
+`rcs_revert` |yes |no |no |no |no |no |no |no
+anonymous push |yes |no |no |no |no |no |no |no
+conflict handling |yes |yes |yes |buggy |yes |yes |yes |yes
+openid username |yes |no |no |no |yes |yes |no |no
+"""]]
+
+Notes:
+
+* Lack of support in [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] or auto.setup can make it harder to
+ set up a wiki using that revision control system.
+* The `rcs_commit_staged` hook is needed to use [[attachments|plugins/attachment]]
+ or [[plugins/comments]].
+* `rcs_getctime` and `rcs_getmtime` may be implemented in a fast way (ie, one log
+ lookup for all files), or very slowly (one lookup per file).
+* Openid username support allows avoiding display of Google's ugly openids.
There is a page with [[details]] about how the different systems work with
ikiwiki, for the curious.