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| author | joey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071> | 2006-12-23 05:58:15 +0000 |
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| committer | joey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071> | 2006-12-23 05:58:15 +0000 |
| commit | be81a25cc525680706a37d73cbe115e11d8a7a9a (patch) | |
| tree | 7c95fcd380a6d559ccea2b4ae5c58db66391ebf0 /doc | |
| parent | 61b85443d1d8ec051597260a7b511db7ec66f6ca (diff) | |
responses and doc improvement
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/HTML_is_not_update_nor_created_when_editing_markdown_via_CGI.mdwn | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/cgi_wrapper_always_regenerated.mdwn | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/usage.mdwn | 6 |
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/HTML_is_not_update_nor_created_when_editing_markdown_via_CGI.mdwn b/doc/bugs/HTML_is_not_update_nor_created_when_editing_markdown_via_CGI.mdwn index e95166518..b1a63361e 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/HTML_is_not_update_nor_created_when_editing_markdown_via_CGI.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/HTML_is_not_update_nor_created_when_editing_markdown_via_CGI.mdwn @@ -5,4 +5,15 @@ so when have new page it has a "?Page". (So CGI is working that much.) I edit (" How to get that file generated automatically on save (via edit)? -If this is documented, sorry I missed it.
\ No newline at end of file +If this is documented, sorry I missed it. + +> If a revision control system is configured, ikiwiki relies on a hook +> being triggered by its commit to the RCS, which then runs ikiwiki again +> to do the build, same as happens when a commit is made to the RCS +> directly. If the appropriate hook is not uncommented and configured in +> the setup file, you could see the behavior you describe. +> +> If no revision control system is used, ikiwiki handles the build after +> writing the file. +> +> --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/bugs/cgi_wrapper_always_regenerated.mdwn b/doc/bugs/cgi_wrapper_always_regenerated.mdwn index 142a24db2..76819422b 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/cgi_wrapper_always_regenerated.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/cgi_wrapper_always_regenerated.mdwn @@ -5,3 +5,12 @@ Whenever I run ikiwiki with --setup with this same configuration, then each time Should I use a different config? This is confusing because if I use a config without my cgi wrapper defined, I still have my left-over ikiwiki.cgi still in place (so CGI is enabled). It seems wasteful to update each time when my goal is just to create the HTML pges (since the CGI didn't generate them) as noted in my other bug report. + +> If ikiwiki is run in refresh mode, it won't regnerate the wrapper. You +> want to run it in refresh mode, because it's also wastful to rebuild all +> the unchanged pages, which is done by default when setting up a wiki with +> --setup. +> +> Example of refresh mode: `ikiwiki -setup ikiwiki.setup --refresh` +> +> Improved the docs slightly, so I'll call this [[bugs/done]] --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index ce60d91a4..4440660f6 100644 --- a/doc/usage.mdwn +++ b/doc/usage.mdwn @@ -56,10 +56,12 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in. In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl program that can call ikiwiki internal functions. + [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file. + The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki. - - [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file. + If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with + --setup. * --wrappers |