web commit by http://willu.myopenid.com/: Respond with details of monotone plugin...

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / bugs / Monotone_rcs_support.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/bugs/Monotone_rcs_support.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Monotone_rcs_support.mdwn
index c976268f2a9ae1a1f8d143344599ec25ece0cee2..fad95d155d463b69e2f1f5d26199e5f0ca06d746 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/Monotone_rcs_support.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Monotone_rcs_support.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #Ikiwiki plugin for the Monotone revision control system.
 
-I've just made a patch to the ikiwiki code that allows it to use the [Monotone](http://monotone.ca/) revision control system.  It is available at:
+I've just made a patch to the ikiwiki code that allows it to use the [[rcs/Monotone]] revision control system.  It is available at:
 
 <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/monotone-ikiwiki.diff>
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Note: This patch requires a rather recent Monotone perl module (18 August 2007 o
 
 >>> Fair enough. Didn't realize you were a monotone committer. :-)
 
->>>> I am, but still a little newish.  Feedback is good.
+>>>> I am, but still a little newish.  Feedback is good.  In particular, this is my first major bit of PERL.
 
 > 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
@@ -31,3 +31,64 @@ Note: This patch requires a rather recent Monotone perl module (18 August 2007 o
 >> erg... sorry, fixed.
 
 [[tag patch]]
+
+>> I've [[accepted|done]] this patch, thank you! 
+
+>>> Thanks for committing it.  I hate keeping my own diffs. :)
+
+>> 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..)
+
+>>> Tested.  It still works at least as well as it did.  I'll try to get to a test case soon.
+>>> In checking the source I noticed a few bogus comments I left in when editing,
+>>> and a bug in page adding.
+>>> Here is a small patch for them:
+
+    Index: IkiWiki/Rcs/monotone.pm
+    ===================================================================
+    --- IkiWiki/Rcs/monotone.pm        (revision 4195)
+    +++ IkiWiki/Rcs/monotone.pm        (working copy)
+    @@ -245,6 +245,9 @@
+               # FIXME: use of $file in these backticks is not wise from a
+               # security POV. Probably safe, but should be avoided
+               # anyway.
+    +          # At the moment the backticks are used because the above call using the automate
+    +          # interface was failing.  When that bug in monotone is fixed, we should switch
+    +          # back.
+               my $diff = `mtn --root=$config{mtnrootdir} au content_diff -r $oldrev -r $rev $file`; # was just $out;
+     
+               if ($diff) {
+    @@ -314,8 +317,6 @@
+                                               "Please use the non-web interface to resolve the conflicts.");
+                               }
+                               
+    -                          # suspend this revision because it has
+    -                          # conflict markers...
+                               if (system("mtn", "--root=$config{mtnrootdir}",
+                                          "update", "-r", $mergeResult) != 0) {
+                                       debug("Unable to update to rev $mergeResult after conflict-enhanced merge on conflicted commit!");
+    @@ -363,7 +364,7 @@
+       check_config();
+     
+       if (system("mtn", "--root=$config{mtnrootdir}", "add", "--quiet",
+    -             "$config{srcdir}/$file") != 0) {
+    +             $file) != 0) {
+               error("Monotone add failed");
+       }
+     } #}}}
+
+>> BTW, will all the monotone output parsing work if LANG != C?
+
+>>> It should (he says crossing fingers).
+>>> In the places where I do any complex parsing I'm using a special
+>>> version of the mtn commands designed for scripting.  They have a
+>>> stable, easy to parse, output that doesn't get translated (I think).
+
+>> Do monotone post-commit hooks actually use REV?
+
+>>> Monotone post-commit hooks are written in Lua and can do
+>>> what they please.  Setting the REV environment var before
+>>> calling Ikiwiki seems reasonable, but I've not written the
+>>> Lua hook.
+
+>> --[[Joey]]