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@@ -4,7 +4,40 @@ I've just made a patch to the ikiwiki code that allows it to use the [Monotone](
 
 <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/monotone-ikiwiki.diff>
 
-At the moment it supports basic committing and listing recent changes.  It does not support rcs_notify() or rcs_getctime() yet.  Moreover,
-while there is support for simultaneous commits (e.g. conflicts), it is untested and if it happens to work would leave the repository in an unmerged state.
+At the moment it is basically complete.  At present rcs_notify() is implemeted but untested, the rest is implemented and tested.
 
-But it is better than nothing.
+The current version of the patch handles conflicts through the web interface.  It is still not perfect as it will break if there is a rename that conflicts with a web change (but so will the other Rcs plugins I think).  It also commits a revision with conflict markers if there is a conflict requiring such markers... ick.
+
+Note: This patch requires a rather recent Monotone perl module (18 August 2007 or later).  It is available from the monotone repository here: <http://viewmtn.angrygoats.net/branch/changes/net.venge.monotone>.
+
+> The setup instructions to add 40 lines of code to monotonerc is pretty frightning stuff.
+> Is there some way this can be automated? --[[Joey]]
+
+>> I've committed a bunch of this to monotone so that in future it could be removed.
+>> I've also just fixed this so it is in a separate, automagically generated, rc file.
+
+>>> Fair enough. Didn't realize you were a monotone committer. :-)
+
+>>>> I am, but still a little newish.  Feedback is good.
+
+> Having rcs_commit return a warning message when there's an unresolved conflict
+> isn't right; that message will populate the page edit box. You might want
+> to use the error() function here?
+
+>> It should never reach that case, so I have changed that to error.
+
+> There'an incomplete comment ending with "note, this relies on the fact that"
+
+>> erg... sorry, fixed.
+
+[[tag patch]]
+
+>> I've [[accepted|done]] this patch, thank you! 
+>> 
+>> I did make a few changes. Please review, and make sure it still works
+>> (a test case like we have for some of the other RCSes would be nice..)
+>> 
+>> BTW, will all the monotone output parsing work if LANG != C?
+>> 
+>> Do monotone post-commit hooks actually use REV?
+>> --[[Joey]]