dirname, basename, bestlink, linkify, pagetitle, titlepage.

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / about_rcs_backends.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn b/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn
index 764fece974efae7672fe6244a7980c651fdb7554..ea7a9ac892d4ed154f87fbe3eaee5c1cdfb3da61 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn
+++ b/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ as opposed to using a editor and the RCS interface.
 
 ### [[Subversion]]
 
 
 ### [[Subversion]]
 

-Subversion was that first RCS to be supported by ikiwiki.
+Subversion was the first RCS to be supported by ikiwiki.

 
 #### How does it work internally?
 
 
 #### How does it work internally?
 


@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ HTML is generated from W.  rcs_update() will update from M to W.
 
 CGI operates on W.  rcs_commit() will commit from W to M.
 
 
 CGI operates on W.  rcs_commit() will commit from W to M.
 

+For all the gory details of how ikiwiki handles this behind the scenes,
+see [[commit-internals]].
+

 You browse and web-edit the wiki on W.
 
 
 You browse and web-edit the wiki on W.
 
 


@@ -45,11 +48,11 @@ There is a working copy of R1: R2.
 CGI operates on R2.  rcs_commit() will push from R2 to R1.
 
 You browse the wiki on R1 and web-edit it on R2.  This means for example
 CGI operates on R2.  rcs_commit() will push from R2 to R1.
 
 You browse the wiki on R1 and web-edit it on R2.  This means for example

-that R2 needs to be updated from R1 if you are going the web-edit a page,
+that R2 needs to be updated from R1 if you are going to web-edit a page,

 as the user otherwise might be irritated otherwise...
 
 How do changes get from R1 to R2?  Currently only internally in
 as the user otherwise might be irritated otherwise...
 
 How do changes get from R1 to R2?  Currently only internally in

-rcs_commit().  Is rcs_prepedit() suitable?
+rcs\_commit().  Is rcs\_prepedit() suitable?

 
 It follows that the HTML rendering and the CGI handling can be completely
 separated parts in ikiwiki.
 
 It follows that the HTML rendering and the CGI handling can be completely
 separated parts in ikiwiki.


@@ -62,11 +65,11 @@ darcs is a distributed RCS, which means that every checkout of a
 repository is equal to the repository it was checked-out from.  There is
 no forced hierarchy.
 
 repository is equal to the repository it was checked-out from.  There is
 no forced hierarchy.
 

-R1 is the nevertheless called the master repository.  It's used for
+R1 is nevertheless called the master repository.  It's used for

 collecting all the changes and publishing them: on the one hand via the
 rendered HTML and on the other via the standard darcs RCS interface.
 
 collecting all the changes and publishing them: on the one hand via the
 rendered HTML and on the other via the standard darcs RCS interface.
 

-R2, the repository where CGI operates on, is just a checkout of R1 and
+R2, the repository the CGI operates on, is just a checkout of R1 and

 doesn't really differ from the other checkouts that people will branch
 off from R1.
 
 doesn't really differ from the other checkouts that people will branch
 off from R1.