Re: [Monotone-devel] ikiwiki monotone support

[William Uther]

On 13/01/2008, at 5:53 PM, Brian May wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just trying to get monotone support in ikiwiki going.

I hacked that up a while back.  I got it to the point where I could  
use it on my mac with 'web sharing'.

I think there was one patch that never got applied to the ikiwiki  
source.  It is inline in this page:

http://ikiwiki.info/bugs/Monotone_rcs_support/

Grab the diff from the source of that page, not the html...

> 1. Any reason why the Debian package doesn't install the Monotone.pm
> file by default?

As Zack noted, that file could probably do with some work.

> 2. Defaults for --confdir --rcfile --keydir seem can't be changed. The
> defaults seem to be strange.

Er, yeah.  The only one of those that should be a problem is the -- 
keydir.  As an ugly hack, you could install a link in /root/.monotone/ 
keys :).

For an rcfile, as noted in the example ikiwiki.setup, you use the  
workspace rc file, _MTN/monotonerc.  The monotone ikiwiki plugin will  
also create and load _MTN/mergerc, although much of this  
functionality is now in the default hooks, so that bit of code could  
probably be simplified a fair bit now...

> Any ideas on how to change the defaults without hacking Monotone.pm?


If you don't want to add the link in /root/.monotone, then you can  
alter your $HOME as Zack suggested, or add the option to Monotone.pm.

If you edit Monotone.pm, look for "open ($$)" and see how it handles  
$db and $workspace.  You'll then also want to change ikiwiki to use  
it.  That support is in the ikiwiki source at IkiWiki/Rcs/monotone.pm

Cheers,

Will      :-}