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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]] diff --git a/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state/comment_1_87304dfa2caea7e526cdb04917524e8c._comment b/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state/comment_1_87304dfa2caea7e526cdb04917524e8c._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..62bae02b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Blog_posting_times_and_ikiwiki_state/comment_1_87304dfa2caea7e526cdb04917524e8c._comment @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmwYptyV5ptNt8LCbMYsmpcNkk9_DRt-EY" + nickname="Matt" + subject="comment 1" + date="2010-11-04T11:52:53Z" + content=""" +Perhaps I have a different setup from you but on my laptop I don't have ikiwiki installed - only a clone of the git repo. You mean to run --gettime on the post-update git hook? +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/How_to_list_new_pages__44___inline__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/How_to_list_new_pages__44___inline__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f28e8b99b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_to_list_new_pages__44___inline__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Hi, I'd love to include a "New posts" list into my front page, like at <http://danhixon.github.com/> for example. + +It should be different from recent changes in that it shouldn't show modifications of existing pages, and in that it would be inside a page with other content. + +Thanks, Thomas diff --git a/doc/forum/Moving_wiki.git_folder__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/Moving_wiki.git_folder__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..77d1da1ee --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Moving_wiki.git_folder__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Hi folks, I created a simple wiki to keep notes and references for projects, it's worked quite nice so far. I decided to use git as it's what I use daily to manage code, and it's available on all my machines. + +Anyway, I wanted to move all the wiki source stuff into a subfolder so that it stops cluttering up my ~ directory. However, there seems to be a problem with moving wiki.git (I moved wiki, wiki.git and wiki.setup) and I'm not sure where to tell ikiwiki that the git directory has been moved. I changed + + srcdir => '/home/pixel/.notebook/wiki', + git_wrapper => '/home/pixel/.notebook/wiki.git/hooks/post-update', + +and that seems to be fine. However when I go to run ikiwiki --setup things go wrong: + + pixel@tosh: [~ (ruby-1.9.2-p0)] ➔ ikiwiki -setup .notebook/wiki.setup + successfully generated /home/pixel/public_html/wiki/ikiwiki.cgi + successfully generated /home/pixel/.notebook/wiki.git/hooks/post-update + fatal: '/home/pixel/wiki.git' does not appear to be a git repository + fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly + 'git pull origin' failed: at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm line 193. + +I've gone through wiki.setup and nothing has jumped out as the place to set this, have I missed something? diff --git a/doc/forum/Moving_wiki.git_folder__63__/comment_1_05238461520613f4ed1b0d02ece663bd._comment b/doc/forum/Moving_wiki.git_folder__63__/comment_1_05238461520613f4ed1b0d02ece663bd._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d654591c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Moving_wiki.git_folder__63__/comment_1_05238461520613f4ed1b0d02ece663bd._comment @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://users.itk.ppke.hu/~cstamas/openid/" + ip="212.183.140.47" + subject="comment 1" + date="2010-10-27T22:45:28Z" + content=""" +I think you want to edit + + .git/config + +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/Moving_wiki.git_folder__63__/comment_2_72b2b842dfa0cfaf899fe7af12977519._comment b/doc/forum/Moving_wiki.git_folder__63__/comment_2_72b2b842dfa0cfaf899fe7af12977519._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f2e7ece18 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Moving_wiki.git_folder__63__/comment_2_72b2b842dfa0cfaf899fe7af12977519._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://pixel.dreamwidth.org/" + ip="65.29.14.21" + subject="comment 2" + date="2010-10-28T02:54:15Z" + content=""" +That did it thanks! + +Should I make some sort of edit in the setup page? I've used git for a while and for whatever reason it never occurred to me that this was from git, not from ikiwiki itself. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude.mdwn b/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5e8043258 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +When I originally looked at the "exclude" option, I thought it meant that it excluded pages completely, but it apparently doesn't. What I've found in practice is that a file which matches the "exclude" regex is excluded from *processing*, but it is still copied over to the destination directory. Thus, for example, if I have "^Makefile$" as the exclude pattern, and I have a file `src/foo/Makefile`, then that file is copied unaltered into `dest/foo/Makefile`. However, what I want is for `src/foo/Makefile` to be completely ignored: that it is not only not processed, but not even *copied* into the destination directory. + +I'm not sure if the current behaviour is a bug or a feature, but I would like a "totally ignore this file" feature if it's possible to have one. + +-- [[KathrynAndersen]] diff --git a/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude/comment_2_0019cd6b34c8d8678b2532de57a92d15._comment b/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude/comment_2_0019cd6b34c8d8678b2532de57a92d15._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7842caeac --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude/comment_2_0019cd6b34c8d8678b2532de57a92d15._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" + nickname="smcv" + subject="expression anchored too closely?" + date="2010-11-23T10:43:21Z" + content=""" +It looks as though you might only be excluding a top-level Makefile, and not a Makefile in subdirectories. Try excluding `(^|/)Makefile$` instead, for instance? (See `wiki_file_prune_regexps` in `IkiWiki.pm` for hints.) + +The match operation in `&file_pruned` ends up a bit like this: + + \"foo/Makefile\" =~ m{…|…|…|(^|/)Makefile$} +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude/comment_2_f577ab6beb9912471949d8d18c790267._comment b/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude/comment_2_f577ab6beb9912471949d8d18c790267._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bd964d540 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Need_something_more_powerful_than_Exclude/comment_2_f577ab6beb9912471949d8d18c790267._comment @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/" + ip="60.241.8.244" + subject="Missed It By That Much" + date="2010-11-25T02:55:20Z" + content=""" +I discovered that I not only needed to change the regexp, but I also needed to delete .ikiwiki/indexdb because `file_pruned` only gets called for files that aren't in the `%pagesources` hash, and since the file in question was already there because it had been put there before the exclude regex was changed, it wasn't even being checked! + +[[KathrynAndersen]] + +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/PageSpec_results_from_independent_checkout.mdwn b/doc/forum/PageSpec_results_from_independent_checkout.mdwn index 6b2fd6df0..693287d2b 100644 --- a/doc/forum/PageSpec_results_from_independent_checkout.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/PageSpec_results_from_independent_checkout.mdwn @@ -3,3 +3,6 @@ I'd like to be able to do PageSpec matches independent of the Ikiwiki checkout, perl -MIkiWiki -le '$config{wikistatedir}=".ikiwiki"; IkiWiki::loadindex(); print foreach pagespec_match_list("", shift)' "bugs/*" I get the impression there's a way to build up enough state to run pagespec matches without doing any rendering, but I don't know how. Any ideas? -- JoeRayhawk + +> It's not possible to build up enough state without at a minimum +> performing the scan pass of rendering on every page. --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/forum/cutpaste.pm_not_only_file-local.mdwn b/doc/forum/cutpaste.pm_not_only_file-local.mdwn index 3563e3e01..0c5221cc9 100644 --- a/doc/forum/cutpaste.pm_not_only_file-local.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/cutpaste.pm_not_only_file-local.mdwn @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ has \[[!cut id=foo text="foo"]], and fileB does \[[!absorb pagenames=fileA]], and can then use \[[!paste id=foo]]. Therefore, I've written an [*absorb* directive / -plugin](http://www.thomas.schwinge.homeip.net/tmp/absorb.pm), which is meant to +plugin](http://schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/absorb.pm), which is meant to absorb pages in order to get hold of their *cut* and *copy* directives' contents. This does work as expected. But it also absorbs page fileA's *meta* values, like a *meta title*, etc. How to avoid / solve this? diff --git a/doc/forum/field_and_forms/comment_1_a0e976cb79f03dcff5e9a4511b90d160._comment b/doc/forum/field_and_forms/comment_1_a0e976cb79f03dcff5e9a4511b90d160._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3e10dbbd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/field_and_forms/comment_1_a0e976cb79f03dcff5e9a4511b90d160._comment @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/" + ip="60.241.8.244" + subject="Limitations" + date="2010-11-23T02:18:52Z" + content=""" +I'd already had a look at this idea before you posted this suggestion, and I ran into difficulties. +So far as I can see, it makes most sense to use the mechanisms already in place for editing pages, and enhance them. +Unfortunately, the whole edit-page setup expects a template file (by default, when editing pages, editpage.tmpl) +and anything apart from \"submit\" buttons must have a placeholder in the template file, or it doesn't get displayed at all in the form. +At least, that's what I've found - I could be mistaken. + +But if it's true, that rather puts the kybosh on dynamically generated forms, so far as I can see. +I mean, if you knew beforehand what all your fields were going to be, you could make a copy of editpage.tmpl, add in your fields where you want, and then make a plugin that uses that template instead of editpage.tmpl, but that's very limited. + +If someone could come up with a way of making dynamic forms, that would solve the problem, but I've come up against a brick wall myself. Joey? Anyone? + +-- [[KathrynAndersen]] +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_+_mathjax.mdwn b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_+_mathjax.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1279a2c80 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_+_mathjax.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Is it possible to use [mathjax](http://www.mathjax.org/) in ikiwiki to typeset math formulas? If so, is this compatible with the [wmd](http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/wmd/) plugin? |