Using ikiwiki via command line: Workflow and permission problem

I use my ikiwiki for personal notes only on my laptop locally (the html pages are under ~/public_html/mywiki) and now I am trying to edit it with emacs and push from command line. I have some questions about this: 1. Is the following workflow correct: cd ~/mywiki edit and save ~/mypage.mdwm with emacs git add ~/mypage.mdwm git commit -m "mypage edit" git push Since I also sometimes want to edit it from the web interface, I tested it and noticed that it doesn't seem that I have to pull before editing. If I save an edit from the web interface the directory ~/mywiki is updated magically without using git pull. Is this correct so far or is there a better workflow? 2. After editing and saving the page from the web interface it is saved with root permissions in ~/mywiki how can I make ikiwiki to save everything with my username as group and owner?