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

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@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ rcs_commit was only changed to work around bzr's lack of a switch to set the
 username). bzr_log could probably be written better by someone better at perl,
 and rcs_getctime and rcs_notify aren't written at all. --[[bma]]
 
+(rcs_notify is not needed in this branch --[[Joey]])
+
     #!/usr/bin/perl
     
     use warnings;
@@ -165,3 +167,28 @@ and rcs_getctime and rcs_notify aren't written at all. --[[bma]]
 
 
 [[patch]]
+
+
+> Thanks for doing this.
+> bzr 0.90 has support for --author to commit to set the author for one commit at a time,
+> you might like to use that instead of changing the global username (which is racy).
+>
+> Wouter van Heyst and I were also working on a plugin for bzr, but we were waiting for
+> the smart server to grow the ability to run server side hooks, so that you can edit locally
+> and then push to rebuild the wiki, but there is no need to stop this going in in the mean
+> time.
+> Thanks again --[[JamesWestby]]
+
+>> I didn't know about --author, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the manual.
+>> I'd update the patch to reflect this, but it breaks with the version of bzr
+>> from Stable, and also the one I'm currently using from backports.org.
+
+>>> It's new (in fact I'm not even sure that it made it in to 0.90, it might be in 0.91 due
+>>> in a couple of weeks.
+>>> I was just noting it for a future enhancement. --[[JamesWestby]]
+
+> I've just posted another patch with support for bzr, including support for 
+> --author and a testsuite to git://git.samba.org/jelmer/ikiwiki.git. I hadn't 
+> seen this page earlier.  --[[jelmer]]
+
+> I used jelmer's patch --[[done]]! --[[Joey]]