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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
   passed through to mercurial -u. Will mercurial choke on this?
 * 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
   passed through to mercurial -u. Will mercurial choke on this?


@@ -48,3 +45,17 @@ I have a few notes on mercurial usage after trying it out for a while:
 1. I have noticed that running `ikiwiki` after a change to the wiki adds files to a directory called `recentchanges` under `$srcdir`. I don't understand why such files are needed; worse, they are not added to mercurial's list of tracked files, so they polute the output of `hg log`. Is this a bug? Should mercurial's commit hook be modified to add these files before the commit?
 
 --buo
 1. I have noticed that running `ikiwiki` after a change to the wiki adds files to a directory called `recentchanges` under `$srcdir`. I don't understand why such files are needed; worse, they are not added to mercurial's list of tracked files, so they polute the output of `hg log`. Is this a bug? Should mercurial's commit hook be modified to add these files before the commit?
 
 --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]]