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Joey Hess 2009-08-21 16:09:26 -04:00
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@ -20,16 +20,34 @@ the "cvs add <directory>" call and avoid doing anything in that case?
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> Thing 1 can probably be handled within ikiwiki, if that seems less
> gross to you.
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>> It seems like it might be. You can use a `getopt` hook to check
>> `@ARGV` to see how it was called. --[[Joey]]
> Thing 2 I'm less sure of. (I'd like to see the web UI return
> immediately on save anyway, to a temporary "rebuilding, please wait
> if you feel like knowing when it's done" page, but this problem
> with CVS happens with any kind of commit, and could conceivably
> happen with some other VCS.)
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>> None of the other VCSes let a write lock block a read lock, apparently.
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>> Anyway, re the backgrounding, when committing via the web, the
>> post-commit hook doesn't run anyway; the rendering is done via the
>> ikiwiki CGI. It would certianly be nice if it popped up a quick "working"
>> page and replaced it with the updated page when done, but that's
>> unrelated; the post-commit
>> hook only does rendering when committing using the VCS directly. The
>> backgrounding you do actually seems safe enough -- but tacking
>> on a " &" to the ikiwiki wrapper call doesn't need a wrapper script,
>> does it? --[[Joey]]
> Thing 3 I think I did in order to squelch the error messages that
> were bollixing up the CGI. It was easy to do this in the wrapper
> wrapper, but if that's going away, it can be done just as easily
> with output redirection in `CVSROOT/loginfo`.
>
> --[[schmonz]]
>> If the error messages screw up the CGI they must go to stdout.
>> I thought we had stderr even in the the CVS dark ages. ;-) --[[Joey]]