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+If you really need to, you can use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]]
+with ikiwiki.
+
+### Usage
+7. Install [[!cpan File::chdir]], [[!cpan File::ReadBackwards]],
+[cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), and
+[cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like.
+7. Adjust CVS-related parameters in your setup file.
+
+Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn't need it, but you yourself might. Here's a good general-purpose one:
+
+    cvs -q
+    checkout -P
+    update -dP
+    diff -u
+    rdiff -u
+
+### Implementation details
+* [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]:
+ * creates a repository,
+ * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS),
+ * configures the post-commit hook in `CVSROOT/loginfo`.
+* CVS multi-directory commits happen separately; the post-commit hook sees only the first directory's changes in time for [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]]. The next run of `ikiwiki --setup` will correctly re-render such a recentchanges entry. It should be possible to solve this problem with NetBSD's `commit_prep` and `log_accum` scripts (see below).
+
+### To do
+* Instead of resource-intensively scraping changesets with `cvsps`, have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce and keep records of commits. `cvsps` can be used as a fallback for repositories without such records.
+* Perhaps prevent web edits from attempting to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn` (and `.../cvs/foo.mdwn` on case-insensitive filesystems); thanks to the CVS metadata directory, the attempt will fail anyway (and much more confusingly) if we don't.