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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn index 6b600eef7..1c43fb272 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ This plugin allows ikiwiki to use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]] as an [[rcs]]. ### Usage -7. Install [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), [[!cpan IPC::Cmd]], [[!cpan String::ShellQuote]], and [cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like. +7. Install [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), [[!cpan IPC::Cmd]], +[[!cpan String::ShellQuote]], [[!cpan File::ReadBackwards]], and +[cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like. 7. Adjust CVS-related parameters in your setup file. Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn't need it, but you yourself might. Here's a good general-purpose one: @@ -18,7 +20,11 @@ Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn ### Implementation details * `cvs.pm` started life as a copy of [[3.14159|news/version_3.14159]]'s `svn.pm`. -* `IkiWiki.pm:wiki_file_prune_regexps` avoids copying CVS metadata into `$DESTDIR`. +* `IkiWiki.pm:wiki_file_prune_regexps` avoids copying CVS metadata +into `$DESTDIR`. +* `IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm` avoids calling ikiwiki from post-commit if it's a +directory being `cvs add`ed (this check is only compiled into the wrapper +iff the configured VCS is "cvs"). * [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]: * creates a repository, * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), @@ -27,7 +33,5 @@ Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn ### To do * Add automated tests. (Blindly adding svn-like tests to `t/file_pruned.t` doesn't do the trick.) -* If the argument to `cvs add` smells like a binary file, `cvs add -kb` it (for [[plugins/attachment]] support). -* Don't slurp the entire `cvsps` output into memory (!). * 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. * 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. |