X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/7816a5dca3754d9c7e7dfc70f251ac50f2c3714b..d3e190ecec67ae45891d8aee3e3c8af9fc9f8cf9:/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
index 9dd3cbb4d..e5de93521 100644
--- a/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/mercurial.mdwn
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
   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
@@ -14,10 +18,16 @@
   blindly overwrite the current file with the web edited version, losing
   any other changes.
 
-Posthook: in $srcdir/.hg/hrc, I have the following
+Posthook: in `$srcdir/.hg/hgrc`, I have the following
 
     [hooks]
     incoming.update = hg up
-    postupdate.ikiwiki = ikiwiki --setup /path/to/ikiwiki.setup --refresh
+    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.)
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+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]]