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[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / mercurial.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
index 414aaa8073c3f6f857bff2b7fbc0df005bcfb76f..de1f148e5a030763d1c65b281f6397252aafa206 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
   It seems that with the current mercurial commit code, it will always
   blindly overwrite the current file with the web edited version, losing
   any other changes.
+* `rcs_commit_staged`, `rcs_rename`, `rcs_remove`, and `rcs_diff` are not
+  implemented for mercurial, and so attachments, remove and rename plugins
+  and recentchangesdiff cannot be used with it. (These should be fairly
+  easy to add..)
 
 Posthook: in `$srcdir/.hg/hgrc`, I have the following
 
@@ -49,15 +53,19 @@ The problem with --post-commit is that if you delete some pages in $SRC, ikiwiki
 >> --[[users/weakish]]
 
 >>> I don't see anything preventing you from using a setup file with
->>> `mercurual_wrapper => ".hg/ikiwiki-hook",` and then modifying the hgrc
+>>> `mercurial_wrapper => ".hg/ikiwiki-hook",` and then modifying the hgrc
 >>> to run that wrapper. --[[Joey]] 
 
+>> Thanks for pointing out this.  I have some stupid misunderstanding on the
+>> usage of mercurial_wrapper before.  The wrapper works nicely! --[[weakish]]
+
 I add the following to .hg/hgrc:(I use changegroup since I don't think we need refresh per changeset, please point out if I am wrong.)
 
     [hooks]
     changegroup = hg update >&2 && ikiwiki --setup path.to.setup.file --refresh
+    post-commit = path.to.the.mercurial.wrapper
 
-<p><del>post-commit = ikiwiki --setup path.to.setup.file --refresh</del><strong>This will cause deadlock! See bleow!</strong></p>
+-----
 
 I have no idea when the deadlock will happen.  --[[users/weakish]]
 
@@ -111,3 +119,11 @@ I have a few notes on mercurial usage after trying it out for a while:
 >> 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]]
+
+>>>> Since this is confusing people, allow me to clarify: Ikiwiki's
+>>>> recentchanges generation pulls log information directly out of the VCS as
+>>>> needed. It caches it in recentchanges/* in the `scrdir`. These cache
+>>>> files need not be preserved, should never be checked into VCS, and if
+>>>> you want to you can configure your VCSignore file to ignore them,
+>>>> just as you can configure it to ignore the `.ikiwiki` directory in the
+>>>> `scrdir`. --[[Joey]]