web commit by http://ethan.betacantrips.com/: hmm, interesting

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / patchqueue / move_page.mdwn

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@@ -21,6 +21,47 @@ A bunch of obvious shortcomings exist:
 
 Anyhow, here's the patch, for whatever good it does.
 
+> Looks like a good start, although I agree about many of the points above,
+> and also feel that something needs to be done about rcses that don't
+> implement a move operation -- falling back to an add and delete.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+Hmm. Shouldn't that be done on a by-RCS basis, though? (i.e. implemented
+by backends in the `rcs_move` function)
+
+> Probably, yes, but maybe there's a way to avoid duplicating code for that
+> in several of them.
+
+Also, how should ikiwiki react if a page is edited (say, by another user)
+before it is moved? Bail, or shrug and proceed?
+
+> The important thing is to keep in mind that the page could be edited,
+> moved, deleted, etc in between the user starting the move and the move
+> happening. So, the code really needs to deal with all of these cases in
+> some way. It seems fine to me to go ahead with the move even if the page
+> was edited. If the page was deleted or moved, it seems reasonable to exit
+> with an error.
+>
+> Another set of issues exists if a separate web user is trying to edit the
+> page at the same time. We'll have to make sure that something sane
+> happens there; will ikiwiki re-add the moved page under the old name if
+> the user saves their edit after the move? Could be confusing.. I think it
+> probably errors out instead, but I'm not sure. Of course, this is an
+> issue that occurs if the page is moved using a regular svn commit too, so
+> it's not really your concern in a way. :-)
+
+Could you elaborate on [[commit-internals]]? Can I assume that ikiwiki's 
+working copy W will always reflect a revision of the master copy M? 
+(That is, nobody changes W and leaves it uncommitted.) I would guess 
+probably not; a user probably expects that if he starts editing W it 
+won't get randomly committed by web user actions. But then looking at
+the svn backend, it looks like if I edit foo.mdwn, don't commit, and then
+a web user makes different changes, my changes get wiped out. So does
+W "belong" to ikiwiki? --Ethan
+
+> The working copy used by ikiwiki belongs to ikiwiki; it should not be
+> edited directly.
+
     diff -urx .svn ikiwiki/IkiWiki/CGI.pm ikiwiki-new/IkiWiki/CGI.pm
     --- ikiwiki/IkiWiki/CGI.pm 2007-01-04 03:52:47.000000000 -0800
     +++ ikiwiki-new/IkiWiki/CGI.pm     2007-01-11 18:49:37.000000000 -0800