On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Jason Dagit <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Recently I wanted to use the wiki while I was offline. It's great that > > darcsit makes this possible, but I ran into some problem areas. Perhaps > > someone can help me? > > > > 1) When I wanted to edit a page locally, the text box that holds the > page's > > markup was empty. I opened the corresponding .page file in emacs and > pasted > > the contents into the browser window and edited there. This allowed me > to > > see previews and just generally use it has a wiki. But why do I have to > > bootstrap the editing process by copying out of the .page file? > > You shouldn't have to. That sounds like a serious bug. Are you using a > up-to-date Gitit, or an odd browser, or something? > My gitit is: $ gitit --version gitit version 0.6.6 +plugins I installed it yesterday from hackage. The one thing that may have confused gitit is that when I first ran it, I forgot to tell it the config file so it thought it was creating a new wiki. Maybe I should get again and this time start it with the right config file? My browser is firefox 3.x. > > 2) Once I had my local edits queued up and I wanted to share them, I > > couldn't figure out how to push them. I (ab)used my patch review account > to > > darcs.net to figure out where the wiki's repo is located and tried a > push > > but I didn't have permission to modify the wiki repo so the push failed. > > Since I can apply patches from the web interface I don't really see the > > point of sending the patches to darcs-users so I avoided configuring > > sendmail or attaching the patch in my email client. I ended up pasting > my > > local version of the page into the darcs.net wiki and hitting submit. > Since > > I only had edited one page that was "okay" but suboptimal. > > > > How can get push access to the wiki and is there a fix for #1? (maybe I > > should use scp to get a copy of the the wiki instead of darcs get?). > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > > IIRC, you can't apply a .dpatch via the Gitit web interface. You can > edit, sure, but editing is deliberately more restricted than patches: > for example, there should be no way to change preferences (such as > hooks...) through the web interface, but this can easily be done in > patches. Since preferences are very dangerous, regular web users have > no access, but more trusted users with push access can do them. > Okay, maybe general push permission shouldn't be allowed, but I was hoping I'm trusted enough in the darcs community that I could be given permissions. Thanks, Jason
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