[monotone](http://monotone.ca/) is a distributed revision control system.
-Ikiwiki supports storing a wiki in tla.
+Ikiwiki supports storing a wiki in Monotone and editing it using the [[cgi]] interface.
+It will use the Monotone logs to generate the [[RecentChanges]] page.
-This requires the Monotone perl module from the monotone contrib/ directory
-to be installed. In particlar, it needs version 0.03 or higher of that module.
-It is available from the monotone source repository at:
+The monotone support requires the Monotone perl module (from the contrib/ directory
+in the monotone source) to be installed. In particular, it needs version 0.03 or higher of that module.
+The module is available from the monotone source repository at:
<http://viewmtn.angrygoats.net/branch/changes/net.venge.monotone>
+
+Monotone support works, but there are still a few minor missing bits (listed here so they are not forgotten):
+ * At the moment there are no links to display diffs between revisions. It shouldn't be hard to add links to a [ViewMTN](http://grahame.angrygoats.net/moinmoin/ViewMTN) instance, but it hasn't been done yet.
+ * The [[post-commit]] hook support, so that Ikiwiki sends change notifications when people commit using Monotone rather than the web interface, is partially implemented and untested.
+ * Documentation (this page) could be improved.
+ * If you have both a conflict and a simultaneous rename on a file, then Ikiwiki may get confused.
+
+There is also a mismatch between the way Ikiwiki handles conflicts and the way Monotone handles conflicts. At present, if there is a conflict, then Ikiwiki will commit a revision with conflict markers before presenting it to the user. This is ugly, but there is no clean way to fix it at present.
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