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@@ -24,4 +24,25 @@ to automatically push any changed pages to (1).
 As a proof of concept, I added an rsync post-commit hook after
 ikiwiki's usual. It worked, just not for web edits, which is how
 the wiki will be used. So I wrote this plugin to finish the job.
-The wiki now lives on (1), and clicking "edit" just works.
+The wiki now lives on (1), and clicking "edit" just works. --[[schmonz]]
+
+> Just out of interest, why use `rsync` and not `git push`.  i.e. a
+> different setup to solve the same problem would be to run a
+> normal ikiwiki setup on the universities server with its git
+> repository available over ssh (same security setup your using
+> for rsync should work for git over ssh).  On the cgi-capable server,
+> when it would rsync, make it git push.  It would seem that git
+> has enough information that it should be able to be more
+> network efficient.  It also means that corruption at one end
+> wouldn't be propagated to the other end. -- [[Will]]
+
+>> Hey, that's a nice solution. (The site was in svn to begin with,
+>> but it's in git now.) One advantage of my approach in this particular
+>> case: server (1) doesn't have `git` installed, but does have `rsync`,
+>> so (1)'s environment can remain completely untweaked other than the
+>> SSH arrangement. I kind of like that all the sysadmin effort is
+>> contained on one host.
+>>
+>> This plugin is definitely still useful for projects not able to use
+>> a DVCS (of which I've got at least one other), and possibly for
+>> other uses not yet imagined. ;-) --[[schmonz]]