>> I've committed a bunch of this to monotone so that in future it could be removed. I didn't
>> want to remove it from the instructions until it was in a monotone release though.
+>>> Fair enough. Didn't realize you were a monotone committer. :-) As long as it goes away later I don't mind having it in setup initially.
+
>> The real issue here is that there is a mismatch between ikiwiki's conflict model and
>> monotone's. I need to get code into monotone to add conflict markers - that is
>> the code that goes in the monotonerc. In practice I could add this to any file I know
>> how to reference and I can then tell monotone about it with a command line arg.
>> Is there a good place for such a file?
+>>> There's not a really good place. /usr/share/ikiwiki/foo would do,
+>>> except for the systems where /usr/share/ is elsewhere. It would need to be
+>>> runtime configurable just like the basewiki and template locations are.
+>>>
+>>> Hmm, another option would be to put it in the wiki's .ikiwiki directory when
+>>> ikiwiki starts up. This is the technique used by the search plugin to create
+>>> various data and config files that hyperestradier needs.
+
> Having rcs_commit return a warning message when there's an unresolved conflict
> isn't right; that message will populate the page edit box. You might want
> to use the error() function here?