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diff --git a/doc/forum/navigation_of_wiki_pages_on_local_filesystem_with_vim/discussion.mdwn b/doc/forum/navigation_of_wiki_pages_on_local_filesystem_with_vim/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..183a8ef55 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/navigation_of_wiki_pages_on_local_filesystem_with_vim/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ + " NOTE: the root of the wiki is considered the first directory that contains a + " .ikiwiki folder, except $HOME/.ikiwiki (the usual ikiwiki libdir) + +That's not going to work in all situations; for example, with an ikiwiki which uses git as the backend, the normal setup is that one has + +* a bare git repository +* a git repository which ikiwiki builds the wiki from (which has a .ikiwiki directory in it) +* an *additional* git repository cloned from the bare repository, which is used for making changes from the command-line rather than the web. It is this repository in which one would be editing files with vim, and *this* repository does not have a .ikiwiki directory in it. It does have a .git directory in the root, however, so I suppose you could use that as a method of detection of a root directory, but of course that would only work for git repositories. + +-- [[KathrynAndersen]] |