I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki.

  • Is it possible to have ikiwiki point to a subversion repository which is on a different server? The basic checkin/checkout functionality seems to work but there doesn't seem to be any way to make the post-commit hook work for a non-local server?

This is difficult to do since ikiwiki's post-commit wrapper expects to run on a machine that contains both the svn repository and the .ikiwiki state directory. However, with recent versions of ikiwiki, you can get away without running the post-commit wrapper on commit, and all you lose is the ability to send commit notification emails.

(And now that recentchanges includes rss, you can just subscribe to that, no need to worry about commit notification emails anymore.)

  • Is it possible / sensible to have ikiwiki share a subversion repository with other data (either completely unrelated files or another ikiwiki instance)? This works in part but again the post-commit hook seems problematic.

--AdamShand

Sure, see ikiwiki's subversion repository for example of non-wiki files in the same repo. If you have two wikis in one repository, you will need to write a post-commit script that calls the post-commit wrappers for each wiki. --Joey