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-* Need to get post commit hook working (or an example of how to use it.)
-  * See below. --[[bma]]
 * rcs_notify is not implemented (not needed in this branch --[[Joey]])
 * Is the code sufficiently robust? It just warns when mercurial fails.
 * When rcs_commit is called with a $user that is an openid, it will be
@@ -50,3 +48,15 @@ I have a few notes on mercurial usage after trying it out for a while:
 --buo
 
 > No, those files should not be added to revision control. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> OK. I see two problems:
+
+>> 1. If I clone my wiki, I won't get an exact copy of it: I will lose the recentchanges history. This could be an acceptable limitation but IMO this should be documented.
+
+>>> The history is stored in mercurial. How will it be lost?
+
+>> 2. The output of `hg status` is polluted. This could be solved trivially by adding a line containing `recentchanges` to `.hgignore`. Another alternative would be to store the `recentchanges` directory inside `$srdcir/.ikiwiki`.
+
+>> I think the ideal solution would be to build `$destdir/recentchanges/*` directly from the output of `hg log`. --[[buo]]
+
+>>>> That would be 100 times as slow, so I chose not to do that. --[[Joey]]