* Honor LC_CTIME when formatting a time for display. Thanks, Faidon

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@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
 
 * --wrapper [file]
 
-  Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
+  Generate a wrapper binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
   the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
   directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
 
   The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
-  users, as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
+  users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
 
   Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
 
@@ -70,13 +70,6 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 
   The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
 
-* --fixctime
-
-  Pull last changed time for all pages out of the revision control system.
-  This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation times of
-  items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new subversion
-  checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow.
-
 * --templatedir
 
   Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
@@ -95,19 +88,23 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 * --notify
 
   Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
-  ikiwiki as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook.
+  ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
+
+* --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
+
+  Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
 
-* --svn, --nosvn
+  If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
+  a [[Subversion]] working copy.
 
-  Enable or disable use of [[subversion]]. If subversion is enabled, the
-  `source` directory is assumed to be a working copy, and is automatically
-  updated before building the wiki. 
+  If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
+  [[git]] repository.
 
-  In [[CGI]] mode, with subversion enabled pages edited via the web will be
-  committed to subversion. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
+  In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
+  the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
   on pages.
 
-  Subversion is enabled by default.
+  svn is enabled by default.
 
 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
 
@@ -129,17 +126,27 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 * --rss, --norss
 
   If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
-  a blog.
+  a [[blog]].
 
-* --url http://someurl/
+* --pingurl url
+
+  Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
+  updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
+  http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
+
+  This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
+  url to ping.
+
+* --url url
 
   Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
 
-* --cgiurl http://someurl/ikiwiki.cgi
+* --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
 
-  Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script [[wrapper]]. Required when building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
+  Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
+  building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
 
-* --historyurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
+* --historyurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
 
   Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
   "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
@@ -149,7 +156,7 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 
   Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
 
-* --diffurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
+* --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
 
   Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
   "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
@@ -167,14 +174,37 @@ These options configure the wiki.
   Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
   May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
 
-* --hyperestraier
+* --plugin name
+
+  Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. 
+  Note that plugin names are case sensative.
 
-  Enables use of the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine for full test page
-  searches.
+* --disable-plugin name
+
+  Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
+  to do away with html sanitization.
+
+* --discussion, --no-discussion
+
+  Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
+  every page. The links are enabled by default.
+
+* --timeformat format
+
+  Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
+  strftime(3) function.
 
 * --verbose
 
-  Be vebose about what it's doing.
+  Be vebose about what is being done.
+
+* --getctime
+
+  Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
+  system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
+  times of items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new
+  subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
+  with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
 
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