This plugin allows ikiwiki to use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]] as an [[rcs]].
### Usage
-7. Install [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), [[!cpan IPC::Cmd]],
-[[!cpan String::ShellQuote]], [[!cpan File::ReadBackwards]], and
+7. Install [[!cpan File::chdir]], [[!cpan File::ReadBackwards]],
+[cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), and
[cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like.
7. Adjust CVS-related parameters in your setup file.
* `cvs.pm` started life as a copy of [[3.14159|news/version_3.14159]]'s `svn.pm`.
* `IkiWiki.pm:wiki_file_prune_regexps` avoids copying CVS metadata
into `$DESTDIR`.
-* `IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm` avoids calling ikiwiki from post-commit if it's a
-directory being `cvs add`ed (this check is only compiled into the wrapper
-iff the configured VCS is "cvs").
+* `IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm` provides a new "wrapperargcheck" hook, which
+the plugin implements to avoid calling ikiwiki from post-commit
+(and locking against itself) if it's a directory being `cvs add`ed.
* [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]:
* creates a repository,
* imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS),
* CVS multi-directory commits happen separately; the post-commit hook sees only the first directory's changes in time for [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]]. The next run of `ikiwiki --setup` will correctly re-render such a recentchanges entry. It should be possible to solve this problem with NetBSD's `commit_prep` and `log_accum` scripts (see below).
### To do
-* Add automated tests. (Blindly adding svn-like tests to `t/file_pruned.t` doesn't do the trick.)
* Instead of resource-intensively scraping changesets with `cvsps`, have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce and keep records of commits. `cvsps` can be used as a fallback for repositories without such records.
* Perhaps prevent web edits from attempting to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn` (and `.../cvs/foo.mdwn` on case-insensitive filesystems); thanks to the CVS metadata directory, the attempt will fail anyway (and much more confusingly) if we don't.