X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/60bacd9db2d8ebc8a8778f7fcb93806a36085b05..d3e190ecec67ae45891d8aee3e3c8af9fc9f8cf9:/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
index 7f714512e..e5de93521 100644
--- a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,33 @@
 * Need to get post commit hook working (or an example of how to use it.)
+  * See below. --[[bma]]
 * rcs_notify is not implemented
 * 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 mercurual choke on this?
+  passed through to mercurial -u. Will mercurial choke on this?
+ * Nope. Mercurial doesn't expect any particular format for the username, 
+   though "Name <address@domain>" is standard. --[[bma]]
+* The way `-u $user` is passed to `hg commit`, there's no way to tell
+  if a given commit came in over the web or was done directly. So
+  rcs_recentchanges hardcodes 'committype => "mercurial"'. See the monotone
+  backend for an example of one that does this right.
+* The rcs_commit implementation seems not to notice if the file has been
+  changed since a web edit started. Unlike all the other frontends, which
+  use the rcstoken to detect if the web commit started editing an earlier
+  version of the file, and if so, merge the two sets of changes together.
+  It seems that with the current mercurial commit code, it will always
+  blindly overwrite the current file with the web edited version, losing
+  any other changes.
+
+Posthook: in `$srcdir/.hg/hgrc`, I have the following
+
+    [hooks]
+    incoming.update = hg up
+    update.ikiwiki = ikiwiki --setup /path/to/ikiwiki.setup --refresh
+
+This should update the working directory and run ikiwiki every time a change is recorded (someone who knows mercurial better than I do may be able to suggest a better way, but this works for me.)
+
+> Try running it with --post-commit instead of --refresh. That should
+> work better, handling both the case where the edit was made via the web
+> and then committed, and the case where a commit was made directly.
+> It can deadlock if the post-commit hook runs with --refresh in the
+> former case. --[[Joey]]