reorg all the pages about rcs backends. Fix all links

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / rcs / svn / discussion.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/rcs/svn/discussion.mdwn b/doc/rcs/svn/discussion.mdwn
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..4267351
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/rcs/svn/discussion.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+If the user interrupts the page loading during the running of `svn commit`,
+the repository will be left in an inconsistent state. The probability of
+this happening increases with the size of the repository and the number of
+plugins installed, because these both affect how long the post-commit hook
+takes to run. (The core issue, I guess, is that we're abusing the concept
+of a "working copy" by giving everybody the same one). Here are the main
+solutions that I can see: (1) CGI queues commits so that a single process
+can act upon them sequentially, or (2) optionally divorce the `ikiwiki
+--refresh` from the `svn commit` so that commits happen faster. -- [[Ben]]
+
+I'm not aware of web servers, at least apache, killing cgi processes when
+the user stops a page load. If this is happening ikiwiki should be able to
+avoid it by blocking whatever signal is causing it to terminate. --[[Joey]]