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authorhttp://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ <smcv@web>2010-11-04 10:58:53 +0000
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2010-11-04 10:58:53 +0000
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@@ -17,3 +17,12 @@ What can I do?
Is it a spectacularly bad idea to include the ikiwiki state file in my cloned repo (I suspect it is). What else could be done? Can I disable pagestate somehow or force ikiwiki to always use git commit times for Posted times?
+> Have you tried running ikiwiki with the `--gettime` option on your laptop,
+> to force it to retrieve initial commit times from git? You should only
+> need to do that once, and it'll be cached in the pagestate thereafter.
+>
+> Because that functionality is slow on every supported VCS except git,
+> ikiwiki tries to avoid using it unless it's really needed. [[rcs]]
+> lists it as "fast" for git, though, so depending how fast it really is
+> and how large your wiki is, you might be able to get away with running
+> ikiwiki with `--gettime` all the time? --[[smcv]]