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diff --git a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki.setup_require_blank_rcs_to_work_as_cgi_only.mdwn b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki.setup_require_blank_rcs_to_work_as_cgi_only.mdwn
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--- a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki.setup_require_blank_rcs_to_work_as_cgi_only.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki.setup_require_blank_rcs_to_work_as_cgi_only.mdwn
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ I had to setup explicitely rcs => "" to force it to work the way I wanted.
 
 Should it be documented ?
 
+>> `rcs => ""` is only needed with ikiwiki before version 1.37. As of 1.37,
+>> you have to manually enable a `rcs => "svn"` etc to get it to use a
+>> revision control system. So no, I don't need to document the `rcs => ""`
+>> thing. --[[Joey]]
+
 > after some tests, the main trouble with this setup is that it won't make the "svn add" for the new files.
 > I wonder what should be the setup if I want to use ikiwiki off line on the laptop and then commit back the changes, 
 > without having to take care of the new files before svn commit-ting...
@@ -21,3 +26,21 @@ Should it be documented ?
 >> works this way too, but I'm not sure. If you don't like editing pages "by hand" then maybe you should look at
 >> [[git]] or [[mercurial]] -- they should theoretically allow you to run apache on a working copy which is itself
 >> a branch of a working copy running on another machine, but I haven't used them so I don't know. --Ethan
+
+>>> Well, by hand editing is just what I'm making sometime. it's just using subversion, in fact.
+>>> But, yes, someone told me about git, which seems to allow what you are describing. In fact, my needs are typically
+>>> that I want to have 2 ikiwiki web-frontend on two (or more) different machines, with one machine sometimes off-line.
+>>> Imagine a team of auditor that want to report and collaborate on a wiki, but are not allways connected.
+
+>>>> I don't use svk, I just let the ikwiki on my laptop update a source
+>>>> directory that's a subversion checkout, and I manually commit changes
+>>>> back to the central wiki using svn. Yes, this does include manually
+>>>> adding new files. It would be possible to hack the svn module so that it
+>>>> added new files, but did not ever try to commit. Maybe call that a halfsvn
+>>>> module or something.
+>>>>
+>>>> Of course git may be a better fit. It would also be possible to add
+>>>> svk support to ikiwiki, although I've not done it yet. --[[Joey]]
+
+Looks like this is not really a bug, so I'm considering it [[bugs/done]]..
+--[[Joey]]