[[!meta title="Switching to KGB from CIA"]]
-[http://cia.vc](CIA.vc) has unfortunately
-[http://shadowm.rewound.net/blog/archives/245-CIA.vc-is-dead.html](disappeared),
-and is [http://pastebin.com/9RBBniM1](unlikely to return) any time
+[CIA.vc](http://cia.vc) has unfortunately
+[disappeared](http://shadowm.rewound.net/blog/archives/245-CIA.vc-is-dead.html),
+and is [unlikely to return](http://pastebin.com/9RBBniM1) any time
soon. I personally have decided to switch to
-[http://kgb.alioth.debian.org/](KGB), but other alternatives such as
-[http://fbi.github.com](FBI) and
-[http://www.catb.org/esr/irker/](irker) exist.
+[KGB](http://kgb.alioth.debian.org/), but other alternatives such as
+[FBI](http://fbi.github.com) and
+[irker](http://www.catb.org/esr/irker/) exist.
To switch, you first need to find or set up a kgb bot. If this is a
Debian associated FOSS project, feel free to contact me or join
-#kgb-devel on irc.oftc.net and ask for someone to allow your project
+\#kgb-devel on irc.oftc.net and ask for someone to allow your project
to talk to their bot. Once you've found a bot, we need to set up the
client. [I'll talk about bot set up at the end.]
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Install the `kgb-client` and `kgb-client-git` packages. Currently, kgb
-only supports subversion and git, but I suspect this will be rectified
-shortly.
+only supports subversion, git, and cvs, but support for additional
+VCSes continue to be added as kgb gains popularity.
For git repositories, add a post-receive hook like the following:
servers:
- uri: http://servername:9999/
password: verysecret
-
+ # optional link to a website where the commits are;
+ # needs newish kgb-client and server
+ web-link: http://example.com/?p=my-repository;a=commitdiff;h=${commit}
Then, send the bot owner the password, repo-id, channel, and network
you'd like the changes to be reported to.