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| author | https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlcaGfdn9Kye1Gc8aGb67PDVQW4mKbQD7E <Amitai@web> | 2010-06-26 20:14:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@finch.kitenet.net> | 2010-06-26 20:14:50 +0000 |
| commit | 430a2308133a2733f20c5e2f75b1eb974b8fdfa0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f242d0f78960b124bb65ebed1561cf54ca079f9 /doc/rcs | |
| parent | e6bba3b3b5c7a99a38f5ae489a8fb7353013debc (diff) | |
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another reason to use NetBSD's commit_prep and log_accum for CVS
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn b/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn index f0bd0f6f0..9beb08ece 100644 --- a/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn +++ b/doc/rcs/cvs.mdwn @@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn * creates a repository, * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), * configures the post-commit hook in `CVSROOT/loginfo`. -* 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 should be possible to solve this problem with NetBSD's `commit_prep` and `log_accum` scripts (see below). ### To do -* Instead of resource-intensively scraping changesets with `cvsps`, have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce and keep records of commits. `cvsps` can be used as a fallback for repositories without such records. +* Have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce commits into changesets. Reasons: + 7. Obviates the need to scrape the repo's complete history to determine the last N changesets. (Repositories without such records can fall back on the `cvsps` and `File::ReadBackwards` code.) + 7. Arranges for ikiwiki to be run once per changeset, rather than CVS's once per committed file (!), which is a waste at best and bug-inducing at worst. (Currently, on multi-directory commits, only the first directory's changes get mentioned in [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]].) * Perhaps prevent web edits from attempting to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn` (and `.../cvs/foo.mdwn` on case-insensitive filesystems); thanks to the CVS metadata directory, the attempt will fail anyway (and much more confusingly) if we don't. |