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-I've started reviewing this, and the main thing I don't like is the
-post-commit wrapper wrapper that ikiwiki-makerepo is patched to set up.
-That just seems unnecessarily complicated. Why can't ikiwiki itself detect
-the "cvs add <directory>" call and avoid doing anything in that case?
---[[Joey]]
-
-> The wrapper wrapper does three things:
->
-> 7. It ignores `cvs add <directory>`, since this is a weird CVS
-> behavior that ikiwiki gets confused by and doesn't need to act on.
-> 7. It prevents `cvs` locking against itself: `cvs commit` takes a
-> write lock and runs the post-commit hook, which runs `cvs update`,
-> which wants a read lock and sleeps forever -- unless the post-commit
-> hook runs in the background so the commit can "finish".
-> 7. It fails silently if the ikiwiki post-commit hook is missing.
-> CVS doesn't have any magic post-commit filenames, so hooks have to
-> be configured explicitly. I don't think a commit will actually fail
-> if a configured post-commit hook is missing (though I can't test
-> this at the moment).
->
-> Thing 1 can probably be handled within ikiwiki, if that seems less
-> gross to you.
->
-> Thing 2 I'm less sure of. (I'd like to see the web UI return
-> immediately on save anyway, to a temporary "rebuilding, please wait
-> if you feel like knowing when it's done" page, but this problem
-> with CVS happens with any kind of commit, and could conceivably
-> happen with some other VCS.)
->
-> Thing 3 I think I did in order to squelch the error messages that
-> were bollixing up the CGI. It was easy to do this in the wrapper
-> wrapper, but if that's going away, it can be done just as easily
-> with output redirection in `CVSROOT/loginfo`.
->
-> --[[schmonz]]