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diff --git a/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn b/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn index 197f09394..1aafd4a8e 100644 --- a/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn +++ b/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn @@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ off from R1. (To be continued.) -## [[Git]] (not yet included) +## [[Git]] -A patch with full [Git](http://git.or.cz) support is at <http://people.debian.org/~roktas/patches/ikiwiki/git.patch>. Regarding the patch, Recai says: +Regarding the Git support, Recai says: I have been testing it for the past few days and it seems satisfactory. I haven't observed any race condition regarding the concurrent blog commits @@ -90,35 +90,3 @@ bugs. It also has some drawbacks (especially wrt merge which was the hard part). GIT doesn't have a similar functionality like 'svn merge -rOLD:NEW FILE' (please see the relevant comment in mergepast for more details), so I had to invent an ugly hack just for the purpose. - -Some other notes: - -- There are two separate helper packages in git.pm. To keep things self - confined, I haven't split it up. - -- I've used a (mini) Debug.pm during the tests and made it a separate file - for the convenience of others. It relies on the "constant folding" - feature of Perl, so there shouldn't be a runtime penalty (at least this - is what the 'perl -MO=Deparse shows', haven't made a real benchmark). - -- rcs_notify() has not been implemented yet (I have noticed it after I - finished the main work). - -- GIT backend uses the gitweb for repository browsing (the counterpart of - ViewCVS). - -- There might be some subs in GIT name space which you may prefer to move to - the main code. - -- Due to the reasons explained in the code, I've written an rcs_invoke() - wrapper. May be there should be a better approach to reach the same - goal. - -- There are some parts which I may change in future, like using a global - rcs_fatal_error and the ugly error reporting code in _rcs_commit. - -- Documentation is missing. - -It works for me, but of course in the end, the final decision is yours (due -to mostly GIT quirks, the implementation is not clean as SVN). Feel free -to fix/delete/add whatever you want. Hope it doesn't have any serious bug. |