-[[meta title="Revision Control Systems"]]
+[[!meta title="Revision Control Systems"]]
Ikiwiki supports using several revision control systems for storing page
histories.
ikiwiki uses to a revision control system is sufficiently simple and
generic that it can be adapted to work with many systems by writing a
[[plugin|plugins/write]]. [[Subversion|svn]] is still a recommended choice;
-[[git]] is another well-tested option.
+[[git]] is another well-tested option.
-These are all the supported revision control systems:
-[[inline pages="rcs/* and !*/Discussion and !rcs/details" archive=yes]]
+While all supported revision control systems work well enough for basic
+use, some advanced or special features are not supported in all of them.
+Lack of support in [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] or auto.setup can make it harder to
+set up a wiki using that revision control system. The `rcs_commit_staged`
+hook is needed to use [[attachments|plugins/attachment]] or
+[[plugins/comments]]. And so on. The table below summarises this for each
+revision control system and links to more information about each.
+
+[[!table data="""
+feature |[[git]]|[[svn]]|[[bzr]] |[[monotone]]|[[mercurial]]|[[darcs]]|[[tla]] |[[cvs]]
+[[ikiwiki-makerepo]]|yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes
+auto.setup |yes |yes |incomplete|yes |incomplete |yes |incomplete|yes
+`rcs_commit_staged` |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes |no |yes
+`rcs_rename` |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes |no |yes
+`rcs_remove` |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes |no |yes
+`rcs_diff` |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes |yes |yes
+anonymous push |yes |no |no |no |no |no |no |no
+conflict handling |yes |yes |yes |buggy |yes |yes |yes |yes
+"""]]
There is a page with [[details]] about how the different systems work with
ikiwiki, for the curious.