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| author | http://schmonz.livejournal.com/ <http://schmonz.livejournal.com/@web> | 2009-07-31 18:17:53 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2009-07-31 18:17:53 -0400 |
| commit | faa29aaaf33af916ebb3936d9d2bcad32b8aedd6 (patch) | |
| tree | 406886f6c8ee221ca3b20347c6c1eba88f81a0e0 /doc/plugins | |
| parent | 612505d76bb338b243b9cac1f8b1a4291dd7c3e1 (diff) | |
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add working CVS plugin
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diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2b51bee2b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[!template id=plugin name=cvs core=0 author="[[schmonz]]"]] + +This plugin allows ikiwiki to use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]] as an [[rcs]]. + +* Diffs are against [[3.14159|news/version_3.14159]]. `cvs.pm` started life as a copy of `svn.pm`. +* `IkiWiki.pm` avoids copying CVS metadata into `$DESTDIR`. +* [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]: + * creates a repository, + * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), + * creates a small post-commit wrapper to prevent `cvs add <directory>` from being seen by ikiwiki's [[post-commit]] hook, + * configures the wrapper itself as a post-commit hook in `CVSROOT/loginfo`. +* [`cvsps`](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/) is required (`rcs_recentchanges()` and `rcs_diff()` need it to work). +* CVS multi-directory commits happen separately; the post-commit hook sees only the first directory's changes in time for [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]]. The next run of `ikiwiki --setup` will correctly re-render such a recentchanges entry. It might be possible to solve this problem with scripts like `commit_prep` and `log_accum` from CVS contrib. +* Due to the name of CVS's metadata directories, it's impossible to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn`. On case-insensitive filesystems it's also impossible to create `.../cvs/foo.mdwn`. +* No testing or special-casing has been done with [[attachments|plugins/attachment]], but they'll probably need `cvs add -kb`. + +Having a `$HOME/.cvsrc` isn't necessary. Sure does make using CVS more livable, though. Here's a good general-purpose one: + + cvs -q + checkout -P + update -dP + diff -u + rdiff -u + +Not knowing how the tests get set up, I blindly attempted to add subversion-like tests to `t/file_pruned.t`. They fail. But the plugin definitely works. :-) + +### Code +* [`cvs.pm`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs.pm) +* [`cvs-IkiWiki.pm.diff`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-IkiWiki.pm.diff) +* [`cvs-ikiwiki-makerepo.diff`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-ikiwiki-makerepo.diff) +* [`cvs-t-file_pruned.t.diff`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-t-file_pruned.t.diff) |