## [darcs](http://darcs.net/) (not yet included)
Support for using darcs as a backend is being worked on by [Thomas
-Schwinge](mailto:tschwinge@gnu.org).
+Schwinge](mailto:tschwinge@gnu.org), although development is on hold curretly.
+There is a patch in the [[patchqueue]].
### How will it work internally?
This approach might be applicable to other distributed VCSs as well, although they're not as oriented
towards transmitting changes with standalone patch bundles (often by email) as darcs is.
+> The mercurial plugin seems to just use one repo and edit it directly - is there some reason that's okay there but not for darcs? I agree with tuomov that having just the one repo would be preferable; the point of a dvcs is that there's no difference between one repo and another. I've got a darcs.pm based on mercurial.pm, that's almost usable... --bma
+
## [[Git]]
Regarding the Git support, Recai says:
FILE' (please see the relevant comment in mergepast for more details), so I
had to invent an ugly hack just for the purpose.
+By design, Git backend uses a "master-clone" repository pair approach in contrast
+to the single repository approach (here, _clone_ may be considered as the working
+copy of a fictious web user). Even though a single repository implementation is
+possible, it somewhat increases the code complexity of backend (I couldn't figure
+out a uniform method which doesn't depend on the prefered repository model, yet).
+By exploiting the fact that the master repo and _web user_'s repo (`srcdir`) are all
+on the same local machine, I suggest to create the latter with the "`git clone -l -s`"
+command to save disk space.
+
+Note that, as a rule of thumb, you should always put the rcs wrapper (`post-update`)
+into the master repository (`.git/hooks/`) as can be noticed in the Git wrappers of
+the sample [[ikiwiki.setup]].
+
## [[Mercurial]]
The Mercurial backend is still in a early phase, so it may not be mature
If you have any question or suggestion about the Mercurial backend
please refer to [Emanuele](http://nerd.ocracy.org/em/)
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