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[[!meta title="Revision Control Systems"]]
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Ikiwiki supports using several revision control systems for storing page
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histories.
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Ikiwiki started out supporting only [[Subversion|svn]], but the interface
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ikiwiki uses to a revision control system is sufficiently simple and
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generic that it can be adapted to work with many systems by writing a
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[[plugin|plugins/write]]. [[Subversion|svn]] is still a recommended choice;
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[[git]] is another well-tested option.
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While all supported revision control systems work well enough for basic
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use, some advanced or special features are not supported in all of them.
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Lack of support in [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] or auto.setup can make it harder to
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set up a wiki using that revision control system. The `rcs_commit_staged`
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hook is needed to use [[attachments|plugins/attachment]] or
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[[plugins/comments]]. `rcs_getctime` may be implemented in a fast way
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(ie, one log lookup for all files), or very slowly (one lookup per file).
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And so on. The table below summarises this for each revision control
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system and links to more information about each.
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[[!table data="""
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feature |[[git]]|[[svn]]|[[bzr]] |[[monotone]]|[[mercurial]]|[[darcs]]|[[tla]] |[[cvs]]
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[[ikiwiki-makerepo]]|yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes
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auto.setup |yes |yes |incomplete|yes |incomplete |yes |incomplete|yes
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`rcs_commit_staged` |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes |no |yes
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`rcs_rename` |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes |no |yes
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`rcs_remove` |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes |no |yes
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`rcs_diff` |yes |yes |yes |yes |no |yes |yes |yes
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`rcs_getctime` |fast |slow |slow |slow |slow |slow |slow |slow
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`rcs_getmtime` |fast |slow |no |no |no |no |no |no
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anonymous push |yes |no |no |no |no |no |no |no
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conflict handling |yes |yes |yes |buggy |yes |yes |yes |yes
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"""]]
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There is a page with [[details]] about how the different systems work with
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ikiwiki, for the curious.
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