WC lock idea and patch with stub functions

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / setup.mdwn

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+++ b/doc/setup.mdwn
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
 
-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
+1. [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.
 
 2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
 
-   As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source
-   directory, and outputs the files to a destination directory.
+   As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
+   and outputs the files to a destination directory.  If you keep your wiki in
+   a version control system, the source directory will contain a working copy
+   checked out from the version control system.
 
    For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
    for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
@@ -13,6 +15,9 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
                        SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
                        DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
 
+   Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own
+   edits in ikiwiki's working copy.
+
 3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
 
    This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
@@ -29,7 +34,7 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
                        All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]],
                        so this one does too.
                        ----
-                       This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net).
+                       This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
    """]]
    
    See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
@@ -40,15 +45,21 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
 
 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
 
-                       ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
+                       ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/
 
    Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
    be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
 
 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 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]]).
+   the wiki. 
+   
+   To quickly get started on a common task like blogging with ikiwiki, you
+   can copy in files from the [[examples]]. The examples are located in
+   `doc/examples/` in the ikiwiki source package.
+
+   You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
+   and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
+   [[usage]]).
 
 6. 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. Time to
@@ -89,15 +100,19 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
    
    There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is
    just how you put a directory under revision control using the various
-   systems that ikiwiki supports.
+   systems that ikiwiki supports. Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is
+   where ikiwiki keeps its state, and should be preserved, but not checked
+   into revision control.
 
    [[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
    [[toggleable id=subversion text="""
                        REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
                        svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
-                       svn import $SRCDIR file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "initial import"
-                       rm -rf $SRCDIR
-                       svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk $SRCDIR
+                       svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "create trunk"
+                       cd $SRCDIR
+                       svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk .
+                       svn add *
+                       svn commit -m "initial import"
    """]]
    
    [[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
@@ -109,6 +124,7 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
                        cp -a $SRCDIR/* .
                        git add .
                        git commit -m "initial import" -a
+                       mv $SRCDIR/.ikiwiki .
                        rm -rf $SRCDIR
                        git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
    """]]
@@ -131,6 +147,9 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
    [[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
                        REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
                        hg init $REPOSITORY
+                       cd $REPOSITORY
+                       hg add *
+                       hg commit -m "initial import"
    """]]
 
 9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.