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diff --git a/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state.mdwn b/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0c1da5b97 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +What I wanted +------------- + +I thought to myself it would be nice to see from the console the dates that my ikiwiki blog posts were published. Especially as I would like to know the order of my todo list without having to view the webpage. + +What I discovered +----------------- + +Looked at the code and saw the functions for grabbing the ctime from git but couldn't reconcile them to the "Posted" date in the RSS feed. Some more reading and I figured out that the Posted time is taken from the UNIX ctime when first uploaded into the repository and this information is stored in the page state via a Perl storable database - indexdb. (I'm sure most know this but to be clear in UNIX ctime is *not* the actual creation time of a file. UNIX has no facility for recording the actual creation time - however on first upload to the wiki it's good enough). + +Wrote a Perl script to query and sort indexdb. Now I can list my todos or blog posts in the order they appear on the web. Handy. + +However the ikiwiki state is specifically excluded via '.gitignore'. I work a lot on trains and not having this file in my cloned wiki means I can't list published posts or my todos in the proper order. I can get an approximation from git logs but, dam it, I want it the same! + +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]] |