X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/430a2308133a2733f20c5e2f75b1eb974b8fdfa0..3a04e96389def78bcb873a4487b85f4d75653199:/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn diff --git a/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn b/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn index 9beb08ece..a8f2f2754 100644 --- a/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn +++ b/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn @@ -1,13 +1,18 @@ -If you really need to, you can use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]] -with ikiwiki. +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=schmonz/cvs author="[[schmonz]]"]] + +If you really need to, you can use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent +Versions System]] with ikiwiki. ### Usage 7. Install [[!cpan File::chdir]], [[!cpan File::ReadBackwards]], -[cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), and -[cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like. + [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/) + (note: probably not [cvsps3](http://www.catb.org/~esr/cvsps/)), and + [cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like. 7. Adjust CVS-related parameters in your setup file. -Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn't need it, but you yourself might. Here's a good general-purpose one: +Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the +plugin doesn't need it, but you yourself might. Here's a good +general-purpose one: cvs -q checkout -P @@ -17,12 +22,26 @@ Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn ### Implementation details * [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]: - * creates a repository, - * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), - * configures the post-commit hook in `CVSROOT/loginfo`. + * creates a repository, + * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag + IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), + * configures the post-commit hook in `CVSROOT/loginfo`. ### To do -* Have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce commits into changesets. Reasons: - 7. Obviates the need to scrape the repo's complete history to determine the last N changesets. (Repositories without such records can fall back on the `cvsps` and `File::ReadBackwards` code.) - 7. Arranges for ikiwiki to be run once per changeset, rather than CVS's once per committed file (!), which is a waste at best and bug-inducing at worst. (Currently, on multi-directory commits, only the first directory's changes get mentioned in [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]].) -* Perhaps prevent web edits from attempting to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn` (and `.../cvs/foo.mdwn` on case-insensitive filesystems); thanks to the CVS metadata directory, the attempt will fail anyway (and much more confusingly) if we don't. +* Expand test coverage and fix bugs. +* Have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and + `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce commits into changesets. Reasons: + 7. Obviates the need to scrape the repo's complete history to + determine the last N changesets. (Repositories without such + records can fall back on the `cvsps` and `File::ReadBackwards` + code.) + 7. Arranges for ikiwiki to be run once per changeset, rather + than CVS's once per committed file (!), which is a waste at + best and bug-inducing at worst. (Currently, on multi-directory + commits, only the first directory's changes get mentioned + in [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]].) +* Perhaps prevent web edits from attempting to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn` + (and `.../cvs/foo.mdwn` on case-insensitive filesystems); thanks + to the CVS metadata directory, the attempt will fail anyway (and + much more confusingly) if we don't. +* Do a writeup for [[rcs/details]].