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diff --git a/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn b/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
index 4d377d3f6..412cb5eba 100644
--- a/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
     @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
      memoize("file_pruned");
      
-     sub defaultconfig () { #{{{
+     sub defaultconfig () {
     -       wiki_file_prune_regexps => [qr/\.\./, qr/^\./, qr/\/\./,
     +       wiki_file_prune_regexps => [qr/\.\./, qr/^\.(?!htaccess)/, qr/\/\.(?!htaccess)/,
                     qr/\.x?html?$/, qr/\.ikiwiki-new$/,
                     qr/(^|\/).svn\//, qr/.arch-ids\//, qr/{arch}\//],
            wiki_link_regexp => qr/\[\[(?:([^\]\|]+)\|)?([^\s\]#]+)(?:#([^\s\]]+))?\]\]/,
 
-[[tag patch]]
+[[!tag patch patch/core]]
 
 This lets the site administrator have a `.htaccess` file in their underlay
 directory, say, then get it copied over when the wiki is built. Without
@@ -37,7 +37,14 @@ Hi, I would like to have my htaccess files in svn repository so ikiwiki would ex
 That way I have revision control on that file too. That may be a security concern, but I trust everybody that has svn commit
 access and such .htaccess files should not be accessible through wiki cgi. Of course, it could default to 'off'.
 
-> See [[debbug 447267]] for a patch for this.
+> See [[!debbug 447267]] for a patch for this.
+
+>> It looks to me as though this functionality won't be included in ikiwiki
+>> unless someone who wants it takes responsibility for updating the patch
+>> from that Debian bug to be applicable to current versions, so that there's a
+>> setup file parameter for extra filenames to allow, defaulting to none
+>> (i.e. a less simplistic patch than the one at the top of this page).
+>> Joey, is this an accurate summary? --[[smcv]]
 
 ---
 
@@ -47,4 +54,10 @@ but I use ikiwiki with a very small group of people collaborating so svn/web acc
 and htaccess is for limiting access to some areas of wiki.   
 It should be off by default of course. --Max
 
-[[tag patch]]
+---
++1 I want `.htaccess` so I can rewrite some old Wordpress URLs to make feeds work again. --[[hendry]]
+
+---
++1 for various purposes (but sometimes the filename isn't `.htaccess`, so please make it configurable) --[[schmonz]]
+
+> I've described a workaround for one use case at the [[plugins/rsync]] [[plugins/rsync/discussion]] page. --[[schmonz]]